Unit4 Earthquakes第一课时 阅读课（语篇分析）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-in1.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 readingI. 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 earthquakePart 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 ...
