Unit 4 Earthquakes第二課時
reading
第一步：預讀，教師事先設計導讀性問題，要求學生通過解讀標題和插圖，閱讀文章的開頭和結尾，在最短的時間內作答，然后用三兩句話概括大意。
question 1 (can refer to p67 speaking task )
you are to choose eight things to put into your personal earthquake bag. what are they?
question 2 (the sign before an earthquake)
can you describe the pictures in pre-reading in details?
question 3 do you know anything about tangshan earthquake?
第二步：略讀，要求學生全文通讀，忽略不懂的生詞，但是要求分辨出各個段落的大概意思。然后完成課后的第三題。
main ideas
1. what happened before the earthquake.
2. the earthquake destroyed the city of tangshan and shocked the people.
3. the damages of the earthquake
4. the army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.
第三步：在詳細閱讀之前提示關于唐山大地震的背景：struck at 3.42am. on july 28, 1976；7.8 magnitude；epicenter was 11km below the city of tangshan；242419 people killed；economic damage of those buried in the rubble were rescued；injuries from the earthquake caused 2.200 people to become paraplegics.
第四步：要求學生邊讀邊完成課后的第一題,第二題。其中，第一題連接句子不但是對課文內容的考察，也是對英語句子邏輯性和語法的一個聯系，在學生回答的事情應該引導他們注意這兩點。
另外，教師可以設計一些需要查找的信息和具體事實的問題或任務：
（參考）
1. why the title is a night the earth didnt sleep?
suggested answer: night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. but that night everything changed. the writer use this title to show how terrible and how usual the night was.
2. what does the sentence“slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?
suggested answer: the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster. he felt her pain. so when people came to help her, he feel the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the pain.
要求學生帶著問題快速瀏覽文章，從閱讀材料中,迅速查找這些特定的信息和具體的事實。
第五步：要求學生運用語境猜測詞的意思,把不認識的單詞用簡單的語句表述出來，分組討論學習黑體字單詞及詞組的意思和用法。
homework
小組活動，分工整理和講解重點句型和難點。