1、READING TASKSA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEPPre-reading activitiesTask I. Tell your group members what damage an earthquake can cause. List as many things as possible.Task II. Imagine you are having a class when an earthquake happens. What should you do?Task III. Do you think an earthquake can be pred
2、icted?While-reading activitiesTask I. Read paragraph 1 and match the events with the agents. Try to talk about the strange things to your partners. 1. the water in the well A. ran out of the fields to hide2. the well walls B. saw bright lights in the sky3. the chickens and pigs C. rose and fell agai
3、n and again4. mice D. jumped out of the bowls and ponds5. fish E. cracked and burst6. some people F. had deep cracks in them7. the sound of planes G. did not eat food 8. the water pipes H. could be heard even though there were no planesPossible versionsTask I. Read Paragraph 1 and choose the correct
4、 agent for each of the events that happened in the countryside of northeast Hebei. A. The chickens and pigs B. The sound of planesC. FishD. The water in the wellE. The water pipesF. Some peopleG. MiceH. The well wallsTask I. Read Paragraph 1 and fill in the chart. Try to tell your partners the stran
5、gest things that happened in the countryside of Hebei Province.Task II. Read Paragraph 2. Put the numbers in the box into the blanks and try to understand how serious the earthquake was. A. 11 kilometres B. 30 metres C. 3:42 am D. 1/3 E. 15 seconds F. 2 / 3 G. 400 thousand1. Everything began to shak
6、e at _.2. One of the strongest earthquakes of the 20th century had begun _ below the city. 3. _ of the nation felt the earthquake.4. A huge crack of 8 kilometres long and _ wide appeared. 5. A large city was destroyed in _.6. During the earthquakes, _ of the people in Tangshan were killed or injured
7、. 7. More than _ people were killed or injured. Task III. Read Paragraph 3 and fill in the blanks in the chart. Try to tell your partners about the damage the earthquake caused. Task IV. Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks. Try to understand what people did after the earthquake happened.150, 000
8、 1. _ were sent to Tangshan. The army teams dug out the trapped and buried the 2. _.Most of the 3. _ were rescued.Workers built 4._ for the homeless people.The rescueFresh 5._ was sent to the city. Task V. Below is the summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words from the box and ma
9、ke the summary complete.strange crack pipes shelters earthquakes afraid lights quake soldiers ruinedIn the city of Tangshan, Hebei in 1976, water in wells rose and fell, water 1. _ burst and fish jumped out of ponds. People heard 2. _ noises and saw bright 3. _ in the sky and animals were 4. _. Then
10、, in the early hours of the morning of July 28, the earth shook. A third of China felt one of the biggest 5. _ in the twentieth century that made a (n) 6. _ 8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide across the city. In 15 seconds Tangshan was 7. _ and 400,000 people were killed or injured. In the afterno
11、on another 8. _ made the work of rescuers impossible. But then the army sent 150,000 9. _ to help. They rescued trapped people, brought water for the survivors and built 10. _ for them. Slowly, Tangshan began to recover.Post-reading activities Task I. Suppose you are a survivor of Tangshan earthquak
12、e. Try to tell your partner the strangest things that happened before the earthquake. You can refer to Task I of while-reading activities. Task II. Suppose you are a volunteer in the Tangshan earthquake rescue team. Describe to your partners what you saw and heard. You can refer to Task IV of while-
13、reading activities. Task III. What will you do to help the students who could not go to school because of some natural disasters? 参考答案Pre-reading activitiesTask I. 略Task II略Task III略While-reading activitiesTask I. I. 1. C 2. F 3. G 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. H 8. E possible versionsTask I. 1. D 2. H 3. A 4.
14、G 5. C 6. F 7. B 8. ETask I. 1. burst 2. rose 3. cracks 4. food 5. field 6. ponds 7. sky 8. planesTask II. 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. E 6. F 7. GTask III. 1. leaves 2. safe 3. steel 4. milk 5. dead 6. wells 7. ruinsTask IV. 1. soldiers 2. dead 3. (10, 000) miners 4. shelters 5. waterTask V. 1. pipes 2. strange 3. lights 4. afraid 5. earthquakes 6. crack 7. ruined 8. quake 9. soldiers 10. sheltersPost-reading activitiesTask I. 略Task II略Task III略
