【正文】 e of sth., as usual, it seemed that, at an end, one hundred kilometers away, onethird, eight kilometers long, thirty meters wide, cut across, in ruins, be injury, the number of, reach more than 400, 000, everywhere, everything was destroyed, be gone, blow away, sth. be not safe for, tens of thousands of, give milk, half a million, instead of, be shocked, later that afternoon, be trapped under the ruins, fall down, all…is/was not…,hundreds of thousands of, dig out, the dead, to the north of, coal mines, built shelters, fresh water 3. Reading aloud and translating Next we are going to read aloud the text and translate it into Chinese. 4. Reading and transforming information Read the text again and answer the following questions. 1. What natural signs of ing disaster were there? 2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed? 3. Can you describe the disaster caused by the earthquake? 4. What events and situations probably made the disaster worse? 5. How were the survivors helped? 6. Could anything more have been done to help the survivors? Why or why not? Answers: 1, 3, 4, 5 are easy to answer. 2. Maybe at that time people didn’t have knowledge of an earthquake. 6. The students have their own answers. 4. Discussing writing style As you have understood the general idea of the text, I still put more questions to you. 1. From whose point of view are events described? How do you know? (A writer who didn’t see the quake uses the third person “they” when he writes.) do you think the writer chose to express her feelings about the quake rather than simply report what happened? (Although the writer was not there he felt sad for the people of Tang Shan. He knows that giving some feelings will make the reading more interesting.) is the title “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP”? (As usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be quiet and safe. But that night everything changed. The writer used it as a title to show how terrible and how unusual that night is.) 5. Reading and understanding difficult sentences. If you have some difficult sentences to understand, e to me for help. IV. Closing down Closing down by doing exercises Now please do the prehending Exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 27. Closing down by discussing 3 By now you’ve known that earthquakes are terrible natural disasters and that China is unlucky enough to have a lot of them. Now imagine that your group lives in the city that has a lot of earthquakes, what should you do during an earthquake? Look at the given situation and discuss in pairs. (1) If you are OUTDOORS, … (2) If you are in a HIGH BUILDING, … (3) If you are DRIVING, … (4) If you are HAVING CLASS, … (5) If you are in a CINEMA, … What should you do during the earthquake? Situation: (1) how to rescue those still trapped in the ruins。 (5) where to find people to help build a new city。 when they are used as an object, they can be omitted: The plane is a machine that/which can fly. The school (that/which) he visited last week is to the south of the city. 2. that/ who/whom: referring to a person, can be used as subject or object in the attributive clause。 it can also attract the readers’ attention) 4) How can you finish a newspaper story? (First, you should write a headline, then anize your 6 main ideas into paragraphs, and then put some details into each paragraph.) 5) Have you found out the difference between a newspaper story and a short story? (Usually a short story begins with small details and includes big details later. A newspaper story does just the opposite. Both kinds of stories use paragraphs with main ideas. In a good newspaper story, the pointofview is objective (. it has no pointofview) while a short story is subjective (. it has a pointofview). A newspaper story has no conclusion。 protect the head with schoolbags。 keep away from advertisement boards and other suspending objects. On buses? or trolley buses: Grasp the handles to avoid being injured。賓語為名詞、代詞、動(dòng)名詞、從句。 cf. imagine, guess, suppose imagine 意為 “想象，幻想 ”，指在腦海中形成一個(gè)清晰明確的印象，或認(rèn)為某事物可能發(fā)生 10 或存在 。 think: “想象，推測(cè) ”，意指 “假定或假設(shè)中的情形 ”。在表示 “使受震撼，使（信念等）動(dòng)搖 ”，常用于 be shaken by/with/at中。 The host shook hands with all the 。 He has risen in 。 2． grow or produce (crops)。 break out into。 make useless。 ruin: sth. which has decayed, been destroyed, etc.:敗壞，毀壞，崩潰的狀態(tài)。一般指對(duì)物體或生命的局部損壞： Their houses were damaged by the enemy’s 火擊毀了。一般用語，即可指肉體上的傷害，也可指精神上的 傷害，還可用作不及物動(dòng)詞，意為 “疼痛、惹起痛苦 ”: What he said hurt me 。一般指由于意外或事故而受傷。He was shocked to know his son playing all 。 surprise vt./n: (feeling caused by) sth. sudden or unexpected: 最普通用詞，意為 “使驚訝，使吃驚 ”，含有 “意想不到 ”之意。 3） congratulate v. (with on.) to speak to ( a person) with praise and admiration for a happy event or sth. successfully done: 意為 “向某人表示祝賀，向某人道賀 ”，構(gòu)成短語 congratulate sb. on sth. /dong…. congratulate oneself that 結(jié)構(gòu)中： We congratulated him on having passed the 。 She likes the country, especially in ，尤其是春天。 The city is known for its long 。 everywhere 用作連詞，等于 wherever, no matter where，引起讓步狀語從句。 是過去分詞作表語，意為 “不在 ”“走了 ”“丟了 ”“用完了 ”，或指人 “死了 ”。 He’ll be gone for quite a little while.他要離開很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間。 those who 相當(dāng)于意為 “凡 …… 的人 ”，表示的是兩者以上的不定數(shù)量， who 引導(dǎo)的定語從句用復(fù)數(shù)，不能用 that代替。如：Those who want to see the film write your names on the 這張紙上。 5. To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines. 在城市的北部，一萬礦工中的大多數(shù)從礦井中被救出。（指在中國(guó)境外） China faces the Pacific on the 。如： China lies in the east of 。 He who laughs last laughs ，誰笑的最好。） the dead意為 “死難者 ”。Twothirds of the earth surface is covered with 。如： His job was 。 You see it everywhere