【正文】 ut one, what will it be?S3: I’ll take all my can’t live without : I will take as much water as it is said that people can keep alive for nearly 7 days by drinking without any foodS5: In that case, I’d rather take some apples, so that besides drinking, I can also : I will carry my is my most loved person in this brought me : What a dutiful child you are!I’m very glad to hear down please!It seems that all of you know what you should do during an ’s read our text, and see what it tells In this part, teacher should ask the students to read the passage quickly for the first time to get the general idea of the them to pay attention to the first sentence of each can help them finish exercise3 in is about the main idea of each ask them to read the text again carefully to obtain some reading for the second time, show some questions on the screen, and let the students read the questions questions can guide them to have a good understanding about the can also make preparations for Exs12,which are about T: At first I’d like to read the text quickly to get the general idea of the reading, you should pay attention to the sentence of each : Have you got the general idea of the text?Ss: : What is it?S1: There is no quick answer to this you suggesting us that the general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph?T: :’s main idea of the passage is some signs of the earthquake, and what would happen during the : Good, sit down fact, while we are answering the questions, we have involved the sequence, the functional item for this unit.(Teacher writes the word on the blackboard)Do you understand the meaning of the word?Ss: : Sequence means the order of the can tell us which event happens first, and which happens you know the sequence that is used in our text?S3: first, the text tells us something that happened before the quake, then it tells us the things that happened during the quake and at last it tells us the things that happened after the : Quite right!Now please look at the screen, these are the first sentences of each them and think if they are the main idea of the necessary, you may make some changes to make more shows the screen and gives a little time to think it things were happening in the countryside in the northeast disaster happened and caused a lot of hope was not readingT: Now, it’s time for us to read the text before reading, you should read some questions questions may help you get some information quickly and look at the screen, and read the on the screen natural signs of a ing disaster were there? you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed? events probably made the disaster worse? situations probably made the disaster worse? were the survivors held?Step Show the questions on the whose point of view are events described? How do you know? is the mood of this passage? How is it created? do you think the writer chooses to express his feelings about the quake rather than simply reporting what had happened? is the title A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP? does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean?Answers: uses thirdperson to describe the description is very example, the second sentence in the third writer says: “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.” The writer uses they instead of mood is serious and a bit is created by giving details of how many people and animals were killed or injured, and how many buildings were the writer was not there, he felt sad for the people of knows that some personal feelings will make the reading more think the reason is that, as usual, night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and that night everything writer uses A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP as a title to show how terrible and how unusual the night we can see that the writer pared the city to a person who suffered a lot in the felt her pain, and he worried about when he said that people came to help her, we can feel his feelings to the city will not die, she has hope and she can recover from the VI ComprehendingAnswers to Exx1 walls of the villages wells had cracks in them..Roads got huge cracks buildings were army helped the were put up for those with no things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.. disaster happened and caused a lot of hope was not VII Homework課后反思：總體感覺上，本節(jié)課上得比較成功，心情愉快?；旧贤瓿闪私虒W(xué)任務(wù)。學(xué)生們不但對地震有了一定的了解，而且能用英語進(jìn)行簡單的描述。但是同學(xué)們在討論、匯報(bào)、回答問題時(shí)詞匯單一，句式多是中國方的英語。在今后的教學(xué)中要加強(qiáng)語句表達(dá)方面的訓(xùn)練。