SBI Unit 4 EarthquakePeriod OneReading（1）Type ReadingTopic SB1 Unit 4 Reading A Night The Earth Didnt SleepTeaching aims1 Knowledge and ability aims:（） Get the students to know about basic knowledge about natural disasters. Students should learn about the signs before the Tanshan earthquake ,the damage of the earthquake and the recovery after it. Know how to protect oneself and help others in disasters （） Students can find the main idea of the passage and each paragraph and find detailed information by skimming and scanning to improve their reading strategies such as close reading, summarizing and sentences guessing .（） Students can learn to analyse long and difficult sentences in the passage.（） Students can retell the passage based on the given information and design an interview of the survivors.2.Learning procedures: 1) Task-based Language Teaching Approach 2) the Community Learning3）the Communicative and cooperative Approach4）discussion3.Emotional aims： Students should be aware of the terrible disasters ,meanwhile get them to face it ,treat it in a proper way, and have confidence in fighting natural disasters and never get discouraged.Teaching important points and difficult points1 Important points：（） Students should learn to find useful information by skimming and scanning（） Students can analyse long and difficult sentences.Difficult points：Students can retell the passage and express themselves freely after reading。Teaching Procedures Before class (课前自主学习，合作探究)1.Try to remember the new words as quickly as possible. _ n. 地震 _ 立刻；马上 _ vi. 爆裂；爆发 n .突然破裂 _ 仿佛；好像 _ vt. 损害；伤害 _ 结束；终结 _ vt.破坏；消灭 _ 严重受损；破败不堪 _ n.& vt. 援救；营救_ 掘出；发现 _ vt. 埋葬；掩埋 _许多；大量的2. The students should find some words about natural disasters through all kinds of learning resources.3.Find some famous land earthquakes from the Internet.(1)Pakistan Earthquake：On October 8th,2005，a terrible earthquake which measured 7.6 on (2)San Francisco：On October 17,1989，an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the (3)The Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008.Step 1：LeadinTask 1：Show some pictures about natural disasters and ask them name the disasters.tornadoes；typhoons/hurricanes；volcano eruption；drought；floods； etc.Task 2:What happened in Yushu，in Qinghai Province in the year 2010?Task 3: Lead-in Watch a video about earthquake. What do you think may happen before an earthquake? (Imagine and sharing).Lead in the new lesson.Step 2：Fast readingTask 1: Fast reading1What happened? Where did it happen? How long did it last? Who helped to rescue the trapped people?_2.sum up the main idea of each part of the passage.Structure of the news report :Clue ( 线索 ) of the story: _ orderPart 1(Para._)_. Part 2(Para _)_Part 3(Para _)_3.True or false?(1)People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didnt go to bed that night.(F) (2)People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.(T)(3)More than 400,000 people were killed in the earthquake.(F)(4)Many rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the aftershock.(T)(5)People tried to get fresh water from under the ground in Tangshan.(F)Step 3：careful readingTask 3：Careful reading. 1. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?Mice ran out of the fields _Fish _The chickens and even pigs were _The dog_People could see _in the sky.2. 完成下列表格Main idea DetailsSigns beforethe earthquake(1)Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.(Para.1) The water in the wells (2)rose and (3)fell.A (4)smelly gas came out of the cracks.The chickens and even the pigs were too (5)nervous to (6)eat.Mice (7)ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.Fish about (8)jumped out of their bowls and ponds.At about (9)300 a.m. on July 28,1976，people saw (10)bright lights in the sky.Damage caused byearthquake(Paras.23)At (11)342 a.m.，the (12)greatest earthquake of the 20th century began.(13)Steam burst from holes in the ground.Hard hills of rock became rivers of (14)dirt.(15)Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.Two (16)dams and most of the bridges fell.The railway tracks were now (17)useless pieces of (18)steel.(19)Sand now filled the wells instead of water.Water，food，and (20)electricity were hard to get.3. fill in the right data.(1)_ of the nation felt the earthquake. (2)A huge crack that was _ kilometres long and _ metres wide cut across houses，roads and canals.(3)In _terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.(4)_of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.(5)The number of people who were killed or in