设计任务：请阅读下面学生信息和语言素材．设计一节英语阅读课的教学方案。 教案没有固定格式，但须

设计任务：请阅读下面学生信息和语言素材．设计一节英语阅读课的教学方案。

教案没有固定格式，但须包含下列要点：

~ teaching objectives

~ teaching contents

~ key and difficult points

~ major steps and time allocation

~ activities and justifications

教学时间：45分钟

学生概况：某城镇普通中学高中一年级第二学期学生，班级人数40人，多数学生已经达到

《普通高中英语课程标准（实验）》五级水平。学生课堂参与积极性一般。

语言素材：

A Night the Earth Didn‘t Sleep

Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water

in the village wells rose and fell， rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks

in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards， the chickens and even the pigs

were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of

their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28，1976， some people saw bright lights in the

sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in

the sky. In the city， the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. But one million people of

the city， who thought little of these events， were asleep as usual that night.

At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven

kilometres directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun. It was felt

in Beijing， which is more than two hundred kilometres away. One-third of the nation felt it. A huge

crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses， roads and canals.

Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible

seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of them died

or were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than

400，000.

But how could the survivors believe it was natural？ Everywhere they looked nearly everything

was destroyed. All of the city‘s hospitals，75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes

were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind， however， could blow them

away. Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for travelling. The railway

tracks were now useless pieces of steel. Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk again.

Half a million pigs and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water.

People were shocked. Then， later that afternoon， another big quake which was almost as strong as

the first one shook Tangshan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins.

More buildings fell down. Water， food and electricity were hard to get. People began to wonder

how long the disaster would last.

All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes， the army sent 150，000 soldiers to Tangshan to

help the rescue workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. The army organized teams

to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. To the north of the city， most of the

10，000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there. Workers built shelters for survivors whose

homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city by train， truck and plane. Slowly， the

city began to breathe again.