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The night the earth didn’t sleep
Background information
Topic Unit 4 Earthquakes Reading-The night the earth didn’t sleep
Lesson Length 40 minutes
Lesson Type Reading
Target Students Senior 1
Analysis of teaching material
This is the fourth unit of New Senior English for China’s Students Book 1 (by PEP) ---Earthquakes. The thematic context of this unit is “Man and nature”. The night the earth didn’t sleep is the reading part of this unit. Task of the part is describing a natural disaster. It describes the strange scenes before the quakes, damage during the quakes and recovery after the quakes. It is a news report in the third person narrative, of which general characters are factual, important and timely. Rhetorical devices such as personification are used, which make the reading authentic and vivid. Many verbs are used to describe how the army helped the victims. The illustration shows a disaster environment, leading students to understand the destructiveness of earthquake as well as unity and kindness of people. Through reading, students can realize a human being is infinitely small under the power of nature but humans are great with love, unity and courage.
Analysis of target students
The target student are Senior 1 students with a lower level of language proficiency.
Language ability
Students have learned the new words in this text, which lays foundation for reading comprehension.
Students feel difficult in seizing key information in a complicated long text.
Thinking capacity
Students can obtain superficial information from the material, but they tend to judge on the superficial information without further contemplation and they are not capable to intake and reorganize the information by themselves. They need a further push on the habit of inquiry, organization, analysis, critical thinking and reflection.
Learning ability
As for reading strategy, most of students can grasp meaning of the passage by means of skimming and are basically capable of finding basic information by scanning with teacher’s guidance. But the ability to analyze the passage should be further developed.
Most of students tend to learn from both the ready-made materials and other various sources learning tools (e.g. Internet) to facilitate their learning. So, students have learned something about earthquakes. But where they live, Guilin is tranquil. Accordingly, they have curiosity about this topic.
Cultural awareness
Students have some basic knowledge about earthquakes and have the understanding of “a human being is infinitely small under the power of nature but humans are great with love, unity and courage” through some disasters like Covid 19.
Teaching objectives
By the end of the class, students will be able to:
Identify the main idea and structure of the text (linguistic competence)
Describe natural disasters according to pictures (linguistic competence)
Analyze the change of people’s mood
Explore how to protect themselves and others in disasters; (linguistic competence, quality of thinking, ability of learning)
Teaching Aids: Computer, Textbook, Handouts, PPT and Blackboard
Teaching Strategies
ZPD
The Communicative Approach
Situational Teaching Approach
Activity-based Approach to English learning
Teaching procedures
Pre-reading
Step 1 Warming up (3mins) Comprehension
T shows Ss pictures about earthquake and raises two questions. (IW)
What kind of disaster is shown in the pictures
Do you know some signs before the earthquake
[Purpose]Based on the concept of ZPD, the activity is designed to activate Ss’ background knowledge and arouse their interest, which belongs to the level of comprehension according to Activity-based Approach to English Learning.
Step 2 Prediction (2mins) Comprehension
T guides Ss to predict the main idea of the text according to the title and illustration. (IW)
When is the night
Why the earth can’t sleep in the night
[Purpose]This activity aims at raising Ss’ reading expectation and enhance their skill of “viewing”.
While-reading
Step 3 Skimming (5mins) Comprehension
T asks Ss to read the text quickly and find out the main idea and structure of the text.(IW)
What’ the text about
What’s the main idea of each part
[Purpose]This activity helps Ss identify the main idea and structure of the text by skimming and shows a model of describing natural disasters in the following post-reading stage.

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