1、Part 1 Teaching Design第一部分 教学设计Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading(A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP)Introduction In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to share their views about earthquake. Then they will be helped to read a narration（记叙文）entitled A NIGHT THE EARTH D
2、IDNT SLEEP. Its about Tangshan Earthquake which happened in 1976. Summary of the text and analysis of the text organization is offered for teachers reference. Computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning. Objectives To help students learn to read about past experience
3、s To help students better understand “earthquake” To help students use some important words and expressions To help students identify examples of the attributive clause in the textFocusWords burst, ruin, injure, destroy, shock, rescue, trap, burry, damage, frighten, judge, expressExpressions right a
4、way, as if, at an end, in ruins, dig out, a number ofPatterns But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night. It seemed as if the world was at an end! 似乎世界的末日到来了。All hope was not lost. 并非所有的希望都失去了。 Slowly, the city began to breathe again.慢
5、慢地，这个城市又开始呼吸了。AidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedure1. Warming up Warming up by looking and sayingGood morning class. Have you ever experienced any natural disasters? Look at the pictures. Can you name all the disasters?volcano fire sandstorm typhoon hailstone thunderst
6、orm flood hurricane earthquakeHave you ever experienced an earthquake? Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is?(The earth is shaking; all the buildings will fall down; many people will die; many children will become orphans.)Warming up by discussingHello, class. As we all know, earthquakes ar
7、e disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Now lets think and decide what may happen before a big earthquake.WARNING SIGNS WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE IS ABOUT TO HIT Thermal precursor: A few months before the occurrence of an ear
8、thquake the average temperature of the area keeps increasing. Water precursor: There is a sudden rise or fall in water level in the wells. It could be as high as one metre. Seismo-electromagnetic precursor: This is a very reliable precursor. It occurs and is exhibited about 10 to 20 hours before the
9、 quake. Animal precursor: It is seen that 10 to 20 hours before the occurrence of an earthquake, the entire animal kingdom becomes highly disturbed and restless. Human precursor: Doctors and nurses observe that some sensitive patients in hospitals become highly disturbed. The best indicator is the n
10、umber of child deliveries in any hospital. (3) Warming up by talking about Tangshan / California EarthquakeToday we shall start Unit 4 Earthquake. But first Id like you to learn about the two famous earthquakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and The California Earthquake. At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a
11、magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping city of Tangshan, in northeastern China. The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, wiped out the city of Tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century. The California
12、earthquake of April 18, 1906 is one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Deaths: 3,000 Injuries: 225,000 Property Damage: $ 400,000,000 in 1906 $2. Pre-reading by talking and sharingBefore an earthquake comes various signs could be seen. What are they? Cows, pigs and dogs become too nerv
13、ous too eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells will rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks. There will be bright light in the sky.Villagers witness pre-earthquake warning signsVillagers say they saw warning signs before
14、 the earthquake hit Chifeng city last Saturday.Hours before the quake, villagers said they saw water flow over for over two meters from a river that had been dry for years.About 10 hours before the quake occurred, hand phone signals were stopped for quite some time in Linxi county seat, which is 140
15、 kilometers from the center of the earthquake. “Days before the earthquake, two pigs appeared nervous in the pen and tried to run out. “ said Li Xiaohua, a villager in Gubeikou Village.A woman village folk recalled that she happened to see crowds of sparrows and swallows bumping into walls seemed un
16、able to find direction during flight.3. Listening and fast readingNow lets come to the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP” and see what it tells us.Please listen to the text and get the general idea of the passage. You should pay attention to the first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is
17、the text written? (The text is written in a time order. The text tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.)4. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them i
18、n your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEPa smelly gas, in the farmyards, think little of sth., as usual, it seemed that, at an end, thirty meters wide, cut across, in ruins, be injury, the number of, blow away, sth. be not safe for, tens of thousands of,
19、 give milk, half a million, instead of, be shocked, be trapped under the ruins, fall down, allis/was not, dig out, the dead, to the north of, coal mines5. Reading for the organization of the text and retell the textRead the text for the outline of it and retell the story in your own words with the h
20、elp of the outline.Type of writing and summary of the textType of writing This is a piece of descriptive writingMain idea of thepassageThe article describes the cause, the course and the result of Tang Shan earthquake in 1976. It shows us the terrible image of earthquake. At the same time it hits us
21、 that we must realize that we can do something to minimize the damage caused by earthquake.Topic sentenceof 1st paragraphStrange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.Topic sentenceof 2nd paragraphEverything began to shake and it seemed that the world was at an end.Topic senten
22、ceof 3rd paragraphEverywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.Topic sentenceof 4th paragraphAll hope was not lost.A retold version of the text: See II in Part 3 Teaching Assessment6. Making a text structure analysisRead the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP”, and then complete the follo
23、wing chart.Time/ order What happened Result three days before the earthquakeat about 3:00 amsaw: crackswater in the wellsrose and fell,animalstoo nervous , hidefish jumped out of bowls he rushed there and started digging through the ruins.As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived, clutching
24、their hearts, saying: “My son!“ “My daughter!” Other well meaning parents tried to pull him off what was left of the school, saying: “It s too late! They re all dead! You can t help! Go home! Come on, face reality, there s nothing you can do!”To each parent he responded with one line: “Are you going
25、 to help me now?” And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone. The fire chief showed up and tried to pull him off the school s ruins saying, “Fires are breaking out, explosions are happening everywhere. You re in danger. Well take care of it. Go home.” To which this loving, caring Ameri
26、can father asked, “Are you going to help me now?”The police came and said, “You re angry, anxious and it s over. You re endangering others. Go home. Well handle it!” To which he replied, “Are you going to help me now?” No one helped.Courageously he went on alone because he needed to know for himself
27、: “Is my boy alive or is he dead?”He dug for eight hours.12 hours.24 hours.36 hours.then, in the 38th hour, he pulled back a large stone and heard his son s voice. He screamed his son s name, “ARMAND!” He heard back, “Dad!?! It s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told them that if you w
28、ere alive, you d save me and when you saved me, they d be saved. You promised, No matter what happens, Ill always be there for you! You did it, Dad!” “What s going on in there? How is it?” the father asked.“There are 14 of us left out of 33, Dad. We re scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you re here. When the building collapsed, it made a triangle, and it saved us.”“Come out, boy!”“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, because I know youll get me! No matter what happens, I know youll always be there for me!”