高考英语必修1：Earthquakes reading学案

1、A Night the Earth Didnt Sleep.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didnt sleep”as the title?_. Fast reading. What does the passage mainly talk about? When and where did the earthquake happen? _.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.ParagraphTopic sentencePosition i

2、n paragraph1234.How many parts can this passage be divided into? PartparagraphMain idea1.Careful reading. Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.Data(数据)v _of the nation felt the earthquake .v A huge crack that was kilometers long and meters wide cut across houses. v In terrib

3、le seconds a large city lay in ruins.v of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. v The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than .v All of the citys hospitals, _ of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.Translate the following sentences into Chine

4、se.1.But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.2. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.3. Then, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan.4. The army organized te

5、ams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.语言点：1.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right awayimagine:imagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl.imagine sb. to be shake : cause to move to and froright away : at once ; in no time ; immediatelyright now : at this very momentMake

6、up your mind_. Ill return the book_. 2.burst : to come open or fly apart suddenlyThe balloon suddenly burst.burst into + n. Some robbers burst into that house.burst outburst out + doing They burst out laughing.burst into+ n. burst out + doingHe burst into laughter. = He burst out laughingHe burst in

7、to tears. = He burst out crying.3 . But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed as usual that night. ( Non- Defining Attributive Clauses )Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to like your deepest(Unit 1 )because those who ruled England at th

8、at time spoke French. ( Unit 2 )The plains where rice grows. ( Unit 3 ) ( Defining Attributive Clause )4. Two-thirds of the people died or were _injured_during the earthquake.(1)two-thirds= two thirds More than 61% of the surface of the surface of the earth _covered by water. Seventy percent of the

9、workers in this factory _young. (2)injure: to hurt oneself/ sb / sth. physicallyCompare: injure/ hurt/wound Their criticisms _him deeply. have hurt Smoking will _his health. He was slightly _in the car accident. He got _in the fighting. What you said _my feeling. 5. People began to wonder how long t

10、he disaster would last.wonder : v. A. to have a feeling of surprise. B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt. n. one that arouses astonishment, surprise ; admirationIt is no wonder (that )= No wonder (that)-Tom often works deep into the night every day.-No wonder he always gets first in the examinat

11、ions.6. All hope was not lost.allnot = not all.: some but not all Not all the children are left. (= Only some of them left early.)Not all the children are noisy.(= Some of the children are not noisy.)& none of . None of us were allowed to go there.None of these reports is very helpful.Homework1.Find

12、 out the difficult sentences in the passage .2.Do exercises on page 2728. Ex. 1,2 & 3 ( Learning about language)3.Do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( Using words and expressions)4.Review Attributive Clause5.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only o

13、ne thing. What will you take? Why ?答案A Night the Earth Didnt Sleep.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didnt sleep”as the title?Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. The writer uses it as title to show how terrible and unusual that

14、night was. Fast reading. An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.Paragraph Topic sentence Position in paragraph1Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. beginning 2Everything began to shake. It seemed a

15、s if the world was at an end. beginning 3Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. beginning 4All hope was not lost. beginning .How many parts can this passage be divided into? PartparagraphMain idea1Paragraph 1Strange things happened before the earthquake.2Paragraph 2/3The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan3Paragrap