Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking 导学案-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4 Natural Disasters The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Worksheet 岑巩县第一中学 李小玲 Learning objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to: 1.learn about the basic information of the Tangshan earthquake; 2.grasp and use some words and phrases to describe a natural disaster. 3.reflect on the lessons that we can learn from the earthquake; 4.adopt a more positive attitude towards natural disasters. Step 1 Pre-reading Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following question: Q: What can happen to a city during a big earthquake? Activity 2 Look at the title and photo and guess what the text is about. Step 2 While-reading Activity 3 Read the text and get the main idea. 1. What’s the main idea of the text? · Time: · Place: · Disaster: Main idea: 2. Read the text and underline each paragraph’s topic sentence in the text. (Pay attention to the first and second as well as the last sentence of each paragraph.) 3. Match the main ideas with each paragraph. Para 1 A.The immediate effects of the earthquake Para 2 B.Warning signs before the earthquake Para 3 C.The revival of the city Para 4 D.The rescue work Para 5 E.The happening of the big earthquake 4. In what order did the writer write the passage? In order. Divide the passage into three parts. Part 1: Para ( ) Part 2: Para ( ) Part 3: Para ( ) Activity 4 Find some detailed information in each period. Read paragraph 1 and sort out some detailed information. （1）Water in the village wells and . . （2） appeared in the well walls. （3）Some came out of it. （4）Match the animals with the strange things. animals the strange things chickens and pigs A.too nervous to eat mice B.refused to go inside buildings fish C.ran out of the fields , looking for places to hides dogs D.jumped out of the water （5） were seen in the sky. （6） were heard. Read paragraph 2 and answer the following questions. 1. When did the earthquake happen? 2.Why does the author mention so many numbers? 1). A quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometers away in Beijing. 2). 1/3 of the whole nation felt the earthquake. 3). A huge crack, 8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide, cut across houses, roads and waterways. 4). In less than 1 minute, a large city lay in ruins. 5). 2/3 of the people who lived there were dead or injured. 6). The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400,000. Because numbers can Read para. 3 quickly and answer the following questions. 1. What happened later that afternoon ? 2. How did people feel ? They felt Read Para. 4&5 1.fill in the blanks. Details The army sent soldiers to ___ ____those who were_______and to______ the dead. Doctors and Nurses came to _______medical care. Workers built _______for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. government With strong ____________ from the government and the tireless_______of the city's people, a new Tangshan was built. 2.What do “trap” and “bury” mean ? is used to describe those who are not dead, but they cannot move because they are stuck somewhere. is used to describe what happens to the dead bodies. They are often put into the ground and covered. Read Para 5 carefully and think about : 1.What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city ? It was the that helped the revival of Tangshan city. Activity 5 Analyze the language features of the text. What kind of figure of speech do the following sentences use ? Fill in the blanks. Personification拟人 Exaggeration夸张 metaphor暗喻 simile明喻 1.The night the earth didn't sleep. 2.Slowly，the city began to breathe again. 3.It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! 4.Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. 5.Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Step 3 Post-reading Activity 6 Think and share (Work in groups) The city of Tangshan has now taken on a new look. Let’s enjoy Tangshan’s new look. 1.What lessons can we learn from these events? Faced with natural disasters, people must 2.If you have a chance to be a volunteer to help the survivors of an earthquake area，what will you do？ Step 4 Summary and Homework Summary Summarize what we have learned . Homework Compulsory Homework: 1. Read the text and finish Step 5 on Page 51; Optional Homework: 2. Prepare a speech introducing the information of Tangshan earthquake. Self-evaluation Items Yes No 1. Have you got the main idea of the text？ 2. Have you sorted out the detailed information from the passage by using reading skills？ 3. Can you analyze the structure and language features of the text ? 4. Have you reflected on the lessons that we can learn from the earthquake ? 5. Have you formed a positive attitude of “Disasters have no emotion, but people do”？ 第 1 页 共 4 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$