Unit 4 Earthquakes (Reading)

1. Unit 4 Earthquakes(Reading) 43中高一英语备课组

2. destination 1.情感与态度： (1). Learn about the signs before an earthquake in order to protect ourselves； (2). Take an optimistic attitude after a disaster.

3. 2. 过程与方法： Train our reading strategies: (1) Skimming and scanning (2) understanding the writer’s purpose and tone (3) inferring between the lines (4) analyzing the writing features of a news report (5) retelling the text using the key information

4. 3. 知识与技能： We will be able to write a summary of the news report using the writing features and new expressions describing a disaster.

12. Lead-in • What do the pictures remind you of? • What do you feel about this disaster? • Do you know another famous terrible earthquake which once hit Hebei province? Do you wish to know more about it?

13. A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep

14. skimming and scanning • Read the first 2 sentences of each paragraph, divide it into 3 parts and complete the main idea of each paragraph with one preposition (介词) and one noun.

15. para.1 before ______ the earthquake Part1. Part2. Part3. signs para.2 -para.3 during ______ the earthquake damage after ______ the earthquake para.4 recovery 2. In what sequence (order) is the article organized?

16. Careful-reading • What were the signs of the earthquake? 2. What was people’s attitude towards them?

17. 3. How serious was the damage to the city? ____________of the nation felt the earthquake . A huge crack that was _____kilometres long and _______metres wide cut across houses. In _______ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. ___________of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. ________________ families were killed and many children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reachedmore than . One-third eight thirty fifteen Two-thirds Thousands of 400,000

18. 4. What’s the function of these numbers? 5. What made the situation worse? 6. What were the feelings of the survivors?

19. 7. What does the last sentence mean? 8. If the passage had another paragraph, what do you think it would be about?

20. discussion and presentation • What is the relationship between the first sentence and the following sentences in each paragraph? • What is the tone of the writer? (Is it excited? Serious? Lighthearted?...) • Retell the story according to the timeline and organize your thoughts in three parts.

21. For three days ● At about 3:00 a.m. on July28, 1976 ● At 3:42 ● In 15 seconds ● Later that afternoon ● Soon after the quake ●

22. conclusion The writing features of this news report: • Time sequence/order • 2. Topic sentence and supporting details; • 3. A series of numbers are employed

23. self-evaluation • I have learned about how to predict(预测) an earthquake • I have learned how to skim and scan a text for information. • I have learned how to feel the writer’s tones and how to infer from the text. • I can retell the story according to its key information. • I know how to write a summary according to what I’ve learnt from the reading text.