高一英語Earthquakes教案
for place to hide, water pipes, think little of sth., as usual, it seemed that, at an
end, one hundred kilometers away, one-third, eight kilometers long, thirty meters
wide, cut across, in ruins, be injury, the number of, reach more than 400, 000,
everywhere, everything was destroyed, be gone, blow away, sth. be not safe for, tens of thousands of, give milk, half a million, instead of, be shocked, later that afternoon,
be trapped under the ruins, fall down, all…is/was not…,hundreds of thousands of,
dig out, the dead, to the north of, coal mines, built shelters, fresh water
3. reading aloud and translating
next we are going to read aloud the text and translate it into chinese.
4. reading and transforming information
read the text again and answer the following questions.
1. what natural signs of coming disaster were there?
2. can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed?
3. can you describe the disaster caused by the earthquake?
4. what events and situations probably made the disaster worse?
5. how were the survivors helped?
6. could anything more have been done to help the survivors? why or why not?
answers: 1, 3, 4, 5 are easy to answer.
2. maybe at that time people didn’t have knowledge of an earthquake.
6. the students have their own answers.
4. discussing writing style
as you have understood the general idea of the text, i still put more questions to you.
1. from whose point of view are events described? how do you know? (a writer
who didn’t see the quake uses the third person “they” when he writes.)
2.why do you think the writer chose to express her feelings about the quake rather than simply report what happened? (although the writer was not there he felt sad for the people of tang shan. he knows that giving some feelings will make the reading more interesting.)
3.why is the title “a night the earth didn’t sleep”? (as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be quiet and safe. but that night everything changed. the writer used it as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night is.)
5. reading and understanding difficult sentences.
if you have some difficult sentences to understand, come to me for help.
iv. closing down
closing down by doing exercises
now please do the comprehending exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 27.
closing down by discussing
by now you’ve known that earthquakes are terrible natural disasters and that china is unlucky enough to have a lot of them. now imagine that your group lives in the city that has a lot of earthquakes, what should you do during an earthquake? look at the given situation and discuss in pairs.