Unit 4 Earthquakes模仿写作学案学习目标：观察，提炼范文中的文体特征，有用表达（短语，句型）并经过笔头口头训练后能准确运用在写作任务中。

课前背一背：.熟读课文A night the earth didn’t sleep 并背诵课文第二段挑一挑：请判断以下句子是否准确并指出哪句会更好。

1.Judge which sentence is correctA: On April 14th, 2010, a big earthquake happened in Yushu, Qinghai!B. Yushu happened an earthquake on April 14th, 2010.C. There was an earthquake struck Yushu On April 14th, 2010.2.Choose the better oneA.The people who died or were injured reached more than 14,000.B. More than 14,000 people were died or injured.3.Choose the better oneA. After the quake, many rescue workers and doctors were sent to help those who were injured.B. After the quake, many rescue workers and doctors came to help those injured people.4. Choose the better oneA. After the quake, people raised much money to help the survivors.B. After the quake, people all gave money to help the survivors.课中第一关Listen and fill in the blanksAt 3:42 am, July, 28th, 1976, the greatest earthquake of the 20th century 1_____ Tangshan. It seemed as if the world was 2________. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city 3________. As a result, two-thirds of the city people died or 4__________ and many children 5_______ without parents during the earthquake. Nearly everything was 6_______. What’s worse, later that afternoon another big earthquake 7_______ the city again. Some of the 8___________ and doctors were trapped under the ruins. Luckily, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help.They helped to dig out those who 9___________ and built 10__________ for survivors. So the city began to breathe again slowly.第二关Fill in the blanks新闻文体特征第三关Fill in the mind map, using nouns, verbs or phrases第四关Judge and choose（check）1.Judge which sentence is correctPicture 1A: On April 14th, 2010, a big earthquake happened in Yushu, Qinghai!B. Yushu happened an earthquake on April 14th, 2010.C. There was an earthquake struck Yushu On April 14th, 2010.Picture 2A.The people who died or were injured reached more than 14,000.B. More than 14,000 people were died or injured.2.Choose the better onePicture 3A. After the quake, many rescue workers and doctors were sent to help those who were injured.B. After the quake, many rescue workers and doctors came to help those injured people.Picture 4A. After the quake, people raised much money to help the survivors.B. After the quake, people all gave money to help the survivors.V Make an interviewSuppose you’re a reporter of our school and your partner was a survivor of Wenchuan earthquake, make an interview about the earthquake and you can use the following words expressions to help you.Useful words and phrases1. 变成一片废墟lie in ruins2. 成千上万thousands of3. 无家可归be homeless4. 官兵officers and soldiers5. 参与take part in/join in6. 约，左右about…/… or so7. 捐款raise/donate money 8. 十亿billionAn interviewR(reporter): Hello! I heard that you’re a survivor. May I ask you some questions?S(survivor): Sure.R: __________________________________ (地震是什么时候发生的?)S: __________________________________R: __________________________________（在地震中，有多少人受伤和死亡?）S: __________________________________R: __________________________________（震后有多少官兵参与救援工作?）S: __________________________________R: __________________________________（全国人民共捐了多少钱?）S: __________________________________R: Thank you very much!第五关写作任务【写作情景】2008年5月12日，我国发生了中国历史上最严重的地震。

假设你是校报的一名记者，请根据下列写作内容用英语写一篇关于汶川地震的情况介绍，并在校英文广播站投稿。

【写作内容】：【写作要求】1.包括以上表格内容2. 字数不限2）写作_______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________第六关Peer-assessmentSwap your writing with your partner and assess and mark the sentences using different shapes.1. 结构不完整 _______2. 时态语态错误3. 4. 好词好句课后2.背一背（请背诵写作范文）It was on May 12th, 2008 that a terrible earthquake hit/struck Wenchuan city in Sichuan province. In a few terrible minutes, nearly the whole city lay in ruins. Sadly, about 374,000 people were badly injured. What’s worse, the number of people who were killed reached 88,000 or so and thousands of people became homeless. Soon after the quake, more than 100,000 officers and soldiers were sent to do the rescue work, saving many lives. To our delight, as much as 39.9 billion Yuan was donated to help.3. 改一改（请根据写作范文进一步润色自己的作品）。