【正文】 ted the calendar to bring it into line with the seasons. In 132 Zhang Heng invented the first seismograph(地震儀 ) for measuring earthquakes. His device 9 was in the shape of a cylinder(圓柱體 ) with eight dragon heads around the top, each with a ball in its mouth. Around the bottom were eight frogs, each directly under a dragon head. When an earthquake occurred, a ball fell out of the dragon’s mouth into a frog’s mouth, making a noise. He also invented the odometer(里程表 ) Zhang Heng was the first person in China to construct a rotating celestial globe. In one of his publications he also proposed π= 730/232 (or about ) . II. Earthquake Survival Tips Would you know what to do during a really big earthquake? Experts have looked into matter carefully. It may be worth you while to look over the following tips they have for us. If the ground begins shaking while you are driving, pull over and stay in your car. If you are in a building, try to get near a strong wall. The corner of the room or the space under a big doorway is the safest. As soon as the quake is over, check the gas pipe in the building. Gas fires often result from earthquakes. These tips may prove to be lifesavers. We should, therefore, keep them in mind. Remember to always hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Escape in the School If it has an? earthquake when having classes, the students should listen to the teacher’s instruction, protect their heads and hide under the desks. If it has an? earthquake when the students are in the sports ground, they can crouch on the spot and protect their heads with hands. Be sure to keep away with high building and dangerous objects. Don’t go back to the classroom.? Retreat in? order after the earthquake. Escape in Public Places Listen to the mand of the site workers. Don’t be scared and don’t rush towards the exits. Try to avoid crowds. Avoid to be squeezed to the wall or barriers. At? theaters and gyms: crouch down or slip under the chairs。 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。 a list of main ideas。 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。 (7) where to put information for survivors and their families。 (5) where to find people to help build a new city。 (3) how to repair buildings that survived the earthquake。 large population.) What will happen if there has been a big earthquake in these two cities? As we all know, earthquakes are disasters to everyone. But can we avoid or at least reduce the loss caused by earthquakes? Can we foretell earthquakes? Now let’s e to Prereading and decide what may happen before an earthquake es. II. Prereading and sharing What are the signs of an earthquake? (. Cows, pigs and dogs bee too nervous too eat. The mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells will rise and fall. Walls of the wells in village will have deep cracks. There will be bright light in the sky….) 2. Imaging and sharing Imagine there is an earthquake now, your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why? III. Reading 1. Listening and fast reading Now let’s e to the text “A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP” and see what it tells us. Please listen to the text and get the general idea of the passage. You should pay attention to the 2 first sentences of each paragraph. In what order is the text written? (The text is written in time order. The general idea is the mixture of the first sentences of each paragraph, that is, the text tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.) 2. Reading and underlining Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP a smelly gas, e out of, in the farmyards, too nervous to eat, run out of, look for place to hide, water pipes, think little 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 som