Module 1 Unit 4 EarthquakeReading A night the earth didn’t sleep第一课时Lesson Style: Reading Lesson一、教学分析（一）教学内容分析与初中阶段主要重视英语知识和语法的学习有所不同，高中阶段侧重培养阅读能力，需要学生能把学到的知识灵活运用到对语言、文章的理解中，不断提高分析判断能力、逻辑思维能力和语言运用能力。
本单元的话题是“地震基础知识(basic knowledge about earthquakes)”和“遇到灾难时如何自救以及帮助别人(how to protect oneself and help others in disasters)”。
具体涉及地震的成因、预兆、地震造成的损失、地震时的应急救生以及震后的救援等内容。
本课是本单元的阅读部分，这是是一篇新闻报道，详细介绍了1976年唐山大地震前的预兆、地震造成的城市建筑和人畜损失以及震后人们勇敢面对现实并及时实施抢救和重建工作的情况，从而了解学习到唐山人民勇敢面对自然灾害，积极进行灾后重建的精神。
其次，通过对文章的学习，了解新闻的特点，为后面的写作做准备。
二．学生分析本人所教班级是高一（1），属于比较优秀的学生，由52名同学组成。
虽具备了一定的听说读写能力，但掌握的词汇量较少，阅读能力还有待提高。
因此，本单元侧重训练学生的阅读技巧：略读、细读、总结归纳内容的能力、猜测词义的能力。
三、教学目标1. Make the students know the things about Tangshan Earthquake: Strangesigns before the earthquake, the destruction the earthquake caused and the aid and the rescue from the whole nation.2. Training the students’reading ability: Fast Reading, Close Reading,Summarizing and word-guessing skills.3. Make the students understand: If you can know about the signs beforean earthquake, we will make good preparations before it happens to reduce the loss.四、教学重点：1. Train the students’reading ability2. How to summarize the general idea according to the lines to the passage. 【重点突破】采用任务型语言教学方法，把学生作为教学的主体，以任务为主线，通过听、说、读、写等活动用所学的语言完成所规定的任务。
五、教学难点：How to choose a proper title for a passage.【难点突破】采用探究式的教学方法，引导学生通过观察、分析文章标题，总结出标题的特征。
然后，根据标题的特征为所学文章建议一个恰当的标题。
六、教学方法：Task-based teaching and learning; Inquiry teaching method；Cooperating learning七、教学设备Muti-classroom八、教学过程：I. Warming upPresent two pictures to the students and make them answer some questions. Play the song The Heaven is Your Home《天堂就是你的家》 to rendering the environment.（渲染） the atmosphere.Tangshan Wenchuan1.Can you tell me the names of the two places in the pictures above?2. Where are they?3. What happened to them?Play the video of Tangshan Earthquake and Wenchuan Earthquake.July 28th, 1976 Tangshan, Hebei ProvinceMay 12th, 2008 Wenchuan Area, Sichuan【设计说明】通过展示唐山和汶川的两幅图画，引出关键词“地震”；通过让学生观看唐山地震和汶川地震的有关视频，让学生感知、理解地震是一种可怕的自然灾害，它给我们造成了身体上、心灵上的双重伤害，如果我们能了解并认识地震前的预兆，就能提前做好准备。
）II. Pre-readingPresent a group of pictures to the students which refer to the earthquake. Guess: What may happen before an earthquake?【设计说明】通过展示一组图片，让学生通过观察、讨论预测地震发生前会出现什么样的征兆，培养学生的预测能力，并为阅读做好准备。
III. ReadingWe are going to have an earthquake? Are you ready?(I) Fast ReadingPlease read fast the passage at Page26 and find out the general idea of each paragraph and sum up the general idea of the passage in one sentence. Para1: Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one paid attention to them.Para2: The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.Para3: The people were very shocked at the destruction.Para4: The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life. General idea:The passage is mainly about the terrible earthquake which happened in Tangshan, Hebei province.【设计说明】让学生快速浏览文章A Night The Earth Didn’t Sleep,找出每一段的中心句或用自己的语言概括段意，然后用一句话概括全文的中心大意，旨在培养学生通过略读获取大意的能力以及用自己的语言聚合信息的能力，使他们从整体上来理解这篇文章。
(II) Close readingPlease read the passage again and find out what happened according to the timetable below.Keys: rose, fell, cracks, smelly, gas, ran, jumped, appeared, planes, burst shake, roads, Steam ,turned, gone, killed, injured, second, damage, army, Shelters, supplies【设计说明】要求学生结合文章的内容按照时间顺序列出唐山地震前后所发生的事情，主要培养学生来获取文章细节的能力，加深对文章的理解。
IV. RetellingPlease listen to the tape and fill in the blanks with proper words from the passage, the first letter of each blank given.several days before July28, 1976 many s_____ things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for an e_________ . But people w_____ lived there didn’t think m______ of that. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to s_____ , which made a large city in r_____ in fifteen terrible minutes. Many people, including workers and doctors, came to r______ those who were t______ under the rubble(废墟). Later that afternoon another big earthquake s______ the city. More people were killed or i______ and more buildings f___ down. Very soon the army sent a lot of soldiers to help, and teams were o_______ to dug out the trapped and b______ the dead. By and by things improved and the city began to b_______ again.Keys: strange, earthquake, who, much, shake, ruins, rescue, trapped, struck, injured, fell, organized, bury, breathe【设计说明】在学生对课文有了整体与细节的理解之后，让他们再听录音，体会文章里表达贴切、内涵丰富的词句，然后根据文章内容及小短文所给的单词的首字母，来复述这篇文章，旨在培养学生用文中的重点词汇归纳文章大意的能力。
V. Further Comprehension1.Read the text carefully again and choose the best answer.1. The title “A night the earth didn’t sleep” means _______.A. the earth was awake all night longB. people on the earth couldn’t fall asleep that nightC. the earth shook like crazy that nightD. animals on the earth would not sleep that night2. Do you think what the characteristics of the title for a passage are____ ?A. GeneralB. TargetedC. Eye-catching3. Please discuss in pairs and suggest another title for the text:________.A. Tangshan’s great challengeB. A night that the earthquake lost its temperC. How Tangshan’s citizens overcome the city’s greatest disasterD. July 28, 1976 saw Tangshan great earthquake【设计说明】标题是文章的“眼睛”，为了让学生全面深刻的领会整篇文章，让他们仔细阅读标题，并紧扣文章内容用英语解释标题所蕴含的意义，旨在培养学生猜测词义的能力以及如何给文章选择一个恰当的标题。