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A Night the Earth didn’t Sleep

Yinzhannaxi Senior High School Zhou Chao

Knowledge aims: 1. Understand the whole text generally. 2. Know the signs before the earthquake, damage during the earthquake and rescue after the earthquake. Ability aims: Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.

Train the students’ speaking ability. Emotional aims: Get students to face terrible disasters, treat them in a proper way, and never get discouraged because we are in a great country. Important points: 1. Know basic knowledge about earthquake. 2. Grasp the structure and main idea of each part. Difficult points: Collect and integrate useful information. Teaching methods: 1. Task-based approach

2. Cooperative method

3. Discussion Teaching aids:

Computer, video and blackboard Teaching process: StepⅠ

Greeting and Lead-in

To show a video about natural disasters.

There are several disasters in this video. What are they?

Today we will learn something about an earthquake.

What do you think will happen before an earthquake? Which earthquake impressed you the most in Chinese history? StepⅡ

Reading 1. Skimming

Listening to the tape and get the main idea of the passage.

Time: July 28, 1976

Place: Tangshan, Hebei

Event: A big earthquake

An earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. 2. Intensive Reading

How many parts are there in the passage?

Part 1

para1

signs before the earthquake

Part 2

para2&3

damage during the earthquake

Part 3

para4

rescue after the earthquake Analyze each part step by step. 1. Let one student read the first part loudly and others get key words, and then retell this part. 2. When the earthquake came, it caused great damage. Let’s see what damage it caused.

How can we know that the damage was great? If you were a

reporter, what would you do to prove it to your readers?

By data. Now fill in the blanks with data. 3. There was so much damage. What should we Chinese do? –

help them by what means. Now let’s see the third part. How did the Chinese help them?

StepⅢ

Activity

Now that we’ve learnt the basic knowledge about earthquake, let’s play a game to see if you can survive an earthquake.

What shall we do if an earthquake happens when we are in school? StepⅣ

Summary

Signs before , damage during, and recovery after the earthquake.

When disaster struck, help came from all sides.一方有难，八方支援。

StepⅤ

Homework

In pairs, act out an interview between a reporter and a survivor from the Tangshan earthquake. Blackboard Design A night the earth didn’t sleep An earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. Part 1 signs before the earthquake→

Part 2 damage during the earthquake→

Part 3 rescue after the earthquake→

Now, read the whole passage quickly and choose the main idea for each

paragraph. Please pay attention to the first and the last sentence of each paragraph. They may be the topic sentence. You will have 3 minutes to do it.