1. Teach students to find out the paragraph topic sentences, understand the basic information of the Tangshan earthquake through skimming, searching and other reading skills.2. Enable students to sort out the details of the paragraph, to understand the strange things before the Tangshan earthquake, the tremendous destructive force caused by the earthquake, and the rapid and selfless rescue and reconstruction after the disaster.3. Discuss the thinking brought by earthquake and sublimate the theme significance.【教學(xué)重難點(diǎn)】1. Develop students’ reading ability such as skimming, scanning and summarizing.2. Let students talk about the precursor before the earthquake, the damage caused by the earthquake, the rescue after the earthquake and the reconstruction after the earthquake.【教學(xué)過程】Step 1 Activity 1 Activating background informationT: Today we are going to learn a passage with the title “The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep”. So why didn’t the earth sleep on that night? What happened to the earth? Actually there is a movie directed by Feng Xiaogang focuses on the same earthquake. Now, I’d like to show you a short clip of the movie.1. Talk about the earthquakeQ1. What do you learn from the video?2. Talk about Tangshan earthquake.Q1. What do you know about Tangshan earthquake?Q2. What do you want to know about it? Step 2 Activity 2 Reading to get some basic information about earthquake1. Read quickly to find the answers to the students’ own questions.2. Read for the topic sentences and work out the organization of the text.Q1 What’s the topic sentence in each paragraph?Q2 In what order does the author describe the earthquake?Step 3 Activity 3 Reading for detailed information1. Read to get detailed information about Paragraph 1.Q1: What were the strange things?Q2: What was people’s reaction to these strange things?Q3. Why didn’t people pay attention to these strange things/the signs before the earthquake?T: People had little knowledge of earthquake at that time.Q4 When does this paragraph mainly talk about?T: Abnormal signs before the earthquake.2. Read to get detailed information about Paragraph 2.Q1 How strong was the earthquake?Q2 How did the people feel when the earthquake happened?Q3 What does this paragraph mainly talk about?3. Read to get detailed information about Para. 3.