A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep

smoking will _________his health.          

he was slightly ________in the car accident.   

he got ___________in the fighting.           what you said ________my feeling.      

5. people began to wonder how long the disaster would last.

wonder : v.  a.  to have a feeling of surprise.               b.  to be filled with curiosity or doubt.            n.   one that arouses astonishment, surprise ; admirationit is no wonder (that )= no wonder (that)

---tom often works deep into the night every day.---no wonder he always gets first in the examinations.

6. all hope was not lost.all…not … = not all….: some but not all not all the children are left. (= only some of them left early.)not all the children are noisy.(= some of the children are not noisy.)& none of ….. none of us were allowed to go there.none of these reports is very helpful.homework

1.find out the difficult sentences in the passage .2.do exercises on page 27—28. ex. 1,2 & 3 ( learning about language)3.do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( using words and expressions)4.review attributive clause

5.imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. you have time to take only one thing. what will you take? why ?答案

a night the earth didn’t sleepⅰ.why does the writer use “a night the earth didn’t sleep”as the title?night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. but that night everything changed. the writer uses it as title to show how terrible and unusual that night was.ⅱ. fast reading. an earthquake happened in tangshan in 1976ⅲ.scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

paragraph

topic sentence position in paragraph1

strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast hebei.

  beginning 2

everything began to shake. it seemed as if the world was at an end.

  beginning 3

everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

  beginning 4

all hope was not lost.

  beginning ⅳ.how many parts can this passage be divided into?  

part

paragraph

main idea

1

paragraph 1

strange things happened before the earthquake.

2

paragraph 2/3

the earthquake destroyed the city of tangshan

3

paragraph 4

the army came to help the survivors.