人教高中必修一 Unit 4 Earthquake 阅读课（语篇分析）学案

高一英语必修一 Unit4 Earthquakes
阅读课（语篇分析）教案

学习目标：
1. Get the students to know basic knowledge about natural disasters.
2. Get the students to learn about Tangshan Earthquake and understand the text.
3. Get the students to learn different reading skills.
Step1.语篇导读Lead-in
1.What natural disasters have you heard of?
2. Which disaster may cause the worst damage? Have you ever experienced an earthquake?
3. Discussion：How much do you know about an earthquake?
Step2. Pre-reading----Talk about the title “A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”
Step3. Fast reading
I. 用一句话概括 What does the passage mainly talk about?
The passage mainly talks about a terrible________(回答what?) that happened in ________( where?) in _______( when? ) and caused great damage to people. (What result?)
II. Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Para.1 _____________________________________________________________
Para.2 ____________________________________________________________
Para.3 ______________________________________________________________
Para.4 ___________________________________________________________
III. Match the sentences. Divide the passage into three parts and find out the main idea of each part.
Part 1 (Para.1 ) What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake.

Part 2 ( ) The rescue work after the earthquake

Part 3 ( ) Signs before the earthquake.
☆点拨：Structure of the whole passage
How is the passage organized? (In what order is the passage written?) →
IV. Choose the best answers.
1) The title “A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep” means “_________”
A. The earth was wide awake all night long.
B. People on the earth couldn’t fall asleep that night.
C. The earth shook like crazy and wouldn’t stop that night, causing great damage to people.
D. Animals on the earth would not sleep that night.
2) What can be inferred from the passage?
A. If mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide, there must be an earthquake.
B. If the earthquake had happened in the daytime, all the people in Tangshan city might have had a chance to survive.
C. There wouldn’t have been such a great earthquake, if people had paid enough attention to some natural signs.
D. If some natural signs had not been ignored, more people might have had a chance to survive.
3）According to the author’s description, which of the following statements about the earthquake is not right? ____________________.
A. The whole nation felt it. B. Buildings were badly destroyed during it.
C. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt
D. A large number of people lost their lives.
4) Which of the following statements can not be part of the main reasons for the heavy loss of life in Tangshan Earthquake?
A. The earthquake happened in the deep night and people were sleeping in bed at the very moment.
B. There weren’t enough rescue workers.
C. The buildings were poorly constructed and most of them were destroyed in the earthquake.
D. People were not careful enough to notice some natural signs before the earthquake.
5) What is the mood of this passage?
A. Sad. 　B. Serious. 　C. Serious and a bit sad. 　D. Calm.
Step4. Careful reading
I.完成下列表格
Main idea Details
Signs before the earthquake (Para.1) (1)______ things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. The water in the wells (2)_______ and (3)________.A (4)________ gas came out of the cracks. The chickens and even the pigs were too (5)______ to (6)___. Mice (7)____ out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish (8)_______ out of their bowls and ponds. At about (9)_____ a.m. on July 28,1976，people saw (10)________ in the sky.
Damage caused by[来源:Zxxk.Com] earthquake (Paras.2～3) At 3:42 a.m.the (11)________earthquake of the 20th century had begun (12)___kilometres directly below the city.(13)________ burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of (14)______.. (15)________ covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Two (16)_______ and most of the bridges fell. The railway tracks were now (17)______ pieces of (18)_____. (19)_______ now filled the wells instead of water. Water，food，and (20)_________ were hard to get.
II..填入正确的数据 （→The data show how _______ the earthquake was. ）
(1)_______ of the nation felt the earthquake.
(2) In ____ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.
(3)_____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
(4)The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than ________.
(5)All of the city’s hospitals, ____ of its factories and buildings and _____of its homes were gone.
III. Discussion
How did the army and rescue workers help the people in Tangshan?
Why did so mangy people die in the earthquake according to the text?
What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?
Step5. Deal with long difficult sentences
与同桌讨论、理解下列长难句并尝试翻译成汉语。
1.原句：“Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.”
句子结构分析：这是一个复杂的简单句。现在分词短语looking for places to hide在句中表______，作_________状语。
翻译：_____________________________________________________.
2. 原句：“But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.”
分析：这是一个_______(简单句/ 并列句/主从复合句)，该主句的主语为____________, 谓语为_______, asleep在句中作_______, 中间跟一个由who引导的________从句：“who thought little of these events”, who 在从句中充当______, 修饰的先行词为___________ .
翻译：_________________________________________________________.
3. 原句：“A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty metres wide cut across houses, roads and canals.”
分析：这是一个_______(简单句/ 并列句/主从复合句)，该主句的主语为_________,谓语为___________, cut across在这里意为: “__________”, 中间跟一个由that引导的________从句：“that was eight kilometers long and thirty metres wide”, that 在从句中充当______, 修饰的先行词为___________ .
翻译：_____________________________________________________.
4． 原句：“The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.” (Page 26, Para 4)
译：______________________________________________________________。
从结构上看，这是一个___________句 (简单句/并列句/复合句)。______________________________是定语从句，修饰先行词those；“and”起连接作用，连接____________和___________。
5. 原句：“Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
分析：这是一个_______(简单句/ 并列句/主从复合句)，该主句的主语为_________,谓语为___________, 句尾由一个whose引导的________从句： “whose homes had been destroyed”, 其中whose在从句中充当_______, survivors跟homes存在一种_______关系；从句修饰的先行词为__________ 。
翻译：_________________________________________________________.
Step6. 高级写作训练Write a summary of the passage within 30 words.
On July 28,1976, the greatest earthquake of the 20th century _______ Tangshan, Hebei Province, ________(从句的引导词) destroyed almost everything. Soon many soldiers __________, _________( bring的非谓语形式 ) hope for a new life.
Step7. 课文回顾
Go through the Reading again and then fill in the blanks with the books closed according to the given capital letter.
Several days before July 28, 1976, many s_________ things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_________. But people in the city of Tang Shan thought l________ of these. At 3:42 am everything began to s_______, which d_______ everything of the city. People were s________. Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tang Shan. Some of the r_________ workers and doctors were t________ under the r________. More buildings fell down. Water, food, and e________ were hard to get. People began to wonder how long the d_________ would last. Soon after the quakes, soldiers were sent to help the people in Tangshan. Slowly, the city began to b________ again.

















高一英语必修一 Unit4 Earthquakes
阅读课（语篇分析）教案 答案

Step1 Lead-in （略）
Step2. Talk about the title-----.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didn’t sleep”as the title?
→Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses it as title to show how terrible and unusual that night was.
Step3. Fast reading
I. 1) earthquake; 2) Tangshan; 3) 1976
II. Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph
Para.1 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.
Para.2 Everything began to shake and it seemed that the world was at an end.
Para.3 Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
Para.4 All hope was not lost.[来源:学。科。网]
III. Match the sentences or phrases
Part 1( Para.1 )→Signs before the earthquake
Part2(Para.2—3)→What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake.
Part3(Para.4)→The rescue work after the earthquake
→The passage is organized in time order.
IV. Choose the best answers
1----5 CDABC
Step4. Careful reading
I. Fill in the table
1) Strange 2）rose 3) fell 4) smelly 5) nervous 6) eat 7)ran 8) jumped
9) 3:00 10) bright lights 11) greatest 12)eleven 13) Steam 14）dirt
15) Bricks 16) dams 17) useless 18) steel 19) Sand 20) electricity
II. Fill in the numbers.
1) 1/3 2) 15 3) 2/3 4) 400,000 5) 75%; 90%
→The data show how terrible/ strong the earthquake was.
III. Discussion （略）
Step5. Deal with long difficult sentences
1. 表伴随；作伴随状语
2. 主从复合句； the one million people; were; 作表语；定语从句；充当主语； people.
3. 主从复合句；A huge crack; cut(across); 横过，穿过； 定语从句；充当主语； crack.
4. 复合句; who were trapped; 连接to dig out 和 to bury the dead.
5. 主从复合句；workers; built; 定语从句；充当定语； 所属关系； survivors
Step6. 1）shook/ hit; 2) which; 3) arrived / came to help; 4) bringing
Step7. 1. strange 2. earthquake 3. little 4. shake 5. destroyed 6. shocked
7. rescue 8. trapped 9. ruins 10. electricity 11.disaster 12. breathe