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私家英语

Unit4(period2)ReadingandThinking

TheNightTheEarthDidntSleep

Learningobjectives:

developthereadingability,appreciatethefiguresofspeechandwritingskillsusedinthetext.

collectandmastersomewordsandphrasestodescribeanaturaldisaster.

identifythelanguagefeaturesofliteraryjournalismandthestructuresofthetext.

knowtheevents,damage,lossandrescuemeasuresofanaturaldisaster,andholdastrongbeliefthatdisastershavenomercy,buthumansdo.

Lead-in:

Collectsomewordsrelatedtothenaturaldisasters.

Whatcanhappentoacityduringabigearthquake?

What’sthemeaningofthetitle?

Whilereading:Readformainidea

Thepassagemainlytalksaboutaterrible____________(what?)thathappenedin__________(where?)in_______(when?)andcausedgreat_________topeople.(Whatresult?)

What’sthemainideaofeachparagraph?

Tips:

Readthepassagequickly.Findthetopicsentenceofeachparagraph.Thensummarizeeachparagraphinonephrasebasedonitstopicsentence.

Topicsentence

Mainidea

Para.1

Para.2

Para.3

Para.4

Para.5

Whilereading:Readfordetails

Part1:thesignsbeforetheearthquake

Whatwerethestrangethingsthatwerehappeningbeforetheearthquake?

Howdidpeoplefeel?

Part2:AhugeearthquakestruckTangshan.

Whydidthewriterusesomanynumbersinthetext?

Howdidpeoplefeel?

Guessthemeaningofthenewwords.

Part3:Therescueandtherecoveryaftertheearthquake.

Whocametotherescue?Whatdidtheydo?

“Slowly,thecitybegantobreatheagain.”Whatdoesthissentencemean?

Howdidpeoplefeel?

mindmap

Whilereading:Readforwritingstyleandlanguagefeatures

1).Explorethefigureofspeech（修辞格)inthefollowingsentences.

Thenighttheearthdidn’tsleep.(title)

Forthreedaysthewaterinthevillagewellsroseandfell,roseandfell.(L2)

Hardhillsofrockbecameriversofdirt.（L12）

Brickscoveredthegroundlikeredautumnleaves.(L20)

Slowly,thecitybeg