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Unit 4 Earthquakes Period 2 Reading ( Ⅰ ) A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Teaching aims 1. Learn some reading skills. 2. Learn some detailed information about an earthquake. 3. Improve the students’ reading ability. Teaching Important Points: 1. Learn some reading skills. 2. The understanding and comprehension of the passage. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. Improve the students’ reading ability. 2. Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while reading Teaching Methods: 1. Talking speaking 2. Individual or pair work Teaching Aids: The tape recorder the blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Pre-reading 1.Get the Ss to discuss the following question: What kind of disasters do you know? 2. Learn something about the strongest earthquake in China’s history, which happened in Wenchuan county of China’s Sichuan Province on 12 May ,2008. Step2 While-reading Skimming Ask the Ss to skim the passage and learn the structure of the passage. (1) Clue of the story: time order (2) Divide the passage into some parts: Part Events Before the earthquake (Paragraph _______) _____________ were happening both in the countryside and in the city of Tangshan but ______________ them. During the earthquake (Paragraph _______) The earthquake ________ the city and _______ the people. After the earthquake (Paragraph _______) The army came to help the__________, bringing hope for a new life. 2. Scanning Get the Ss to scan the passage and pay attention to some numbers, then fill in the chart. What’s the population of Tangshan in 1976? About _________ What time did the earthquake happen? At about ____________________. How long did the earthquake last? _______ seconds. What’s the number of people killed or injured in the quake? Over _______. How serious was the earthquake? _______ of the factories and buildings and _______ of the homes were gone; ___________________ cows would never give milk again; ___________ pigs and _______ ____ chickens were dead. Detailed R