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Period 1&2 Warming up and Reading
Unit 4 Earthquake
what natural disasters have you heard of?
earthquake
fire
typhoon
mudflow
volcano sandstorm
tornado
flood
snow slide
firefire typhoontyphoon
floodflood
tsunamitsunamivolcano eruption
avalanche
droughtearthquake
Natural Disasters
mudflowmudflowSandstormSandstorm
tornadotornado
What happened?
What happened?
What’s the result of a bad earthquake?
Tall buildings were destroyed.
Roads were cracked.
People were injured/killed.
The city was in ruins.
Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?
The well wall have …. deep cracks
The farm animals will . . .too nervous to eat
The rats might …run out of the field
The fish will …jump out of ponds
…can be see in the sky.Bright lights
The water will …rise and fall.
… will come out.A smelly gas
… can be heard.Noise sound
Water pipes will …crack and burst
A Night A Night the Earth Didn’t the Earth Didn’t SleepSleep
1.Why does the writer use “A night the earth didn’t sleep” as the title?
1.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 night was.
Fast reading
How many parts can this passage be divided into? When and where did the earthquake happen?
An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976
Strange things happened before the earthquake.
Main idea of the text
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.
The army came to help the survivors.
Paragraph
Paragraph 2&3
Paragraph 4
Part1
Part2
Part3
Step 5 Intensive readingStep 5 Intensive reading
to get the main idea, you should pay special attention to the beginning and ending sentences in each paragraph
1
Main Idea Details
________ things were happening in the
countryside in northeast Hebei.The water in the wells ____ and ______. A _______ gas came out of the cracks.The chickens and pigs were too ________
to _____. Fish ________out of the bowls and ponds.Mice _____ out of the fields.At ______ am on July 28, 1976, people saw ________ _______ in the sky.
signs before Earthquake
Para.1
Fill in the blanks
Strange
rose fellsmelly
nervouseat
jumpedran
3:00bright lights
Main Idea Details
At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the 20th century began ._______ burst from holes in the ground.Hard hills of rock became rivers of ____.________ covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Two _______ and most of the bridges fell. The railway tracks were now _________pieces of _______.______ now filled the wells instead of water.Water, food and ______________ were hard to get.
Damage caused byearthquake
Para. 2-3
Fill in the blanks
3:42
greatest
Steamdirt
Bricks
damsuseless
steelSand
electricity
3:42
11 kilometres
20th century
100 kilometres
1/3
8 kilometres
30 metres
15 seconds
thousands of
400,000
began to shake
below the city, under ground
the greatest earthquake of …heard away from Beijing
1/3 nation felt this earthquake
the crack was this long the crack was this wide
the earthquake only last so shortfamilies killed ,left without…people were killed or injured
Para. 2Data(数据 )
75%
90%
two
tens of thousands of
half a million
millions of Chickens died
The factories and buildings were gone.
The homes were gone.
Dams fell .
Pigs died
The cows never give milk again.
Data(数据 )Para. 3
True or False questions:True or False questions:
1.The chickens didn’t eat because they were full.
2.One third of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
3.Such a great number of people died because the quake happened while they were working.
4.Rescue workers built brick houses for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
5.Water was needed because dams and wells were useless.
F
F
F
F
T
Retell the storyRetell the story
____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________cut across the city. The city lay _______.
Strange things
rose and fellcracks smelly gas
nervous
shakeat an end One-third felt
A huge crackin ruins
Two-thirds of the people _____ or
___________. Then later that afternoon,
another big quake ______ Tang Shan.
People began to wonder
___________________________. But all
hope ____________. _______ came to
help those ________. Slowly, the city
began to _____________.
died
were injured
shook
how long the disaster would last
was not lost Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
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.
Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for
traveling.
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 had died.
Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shocked Tangshan.
Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins.
Tangshan’s new look
What shall we do if an earthquake happens?
Escape in the school Escape in the public places
In the classroom
On the sports ground
At theaters and gyms
In department stores
On buses
1.Don’t be nervous and keep calm.2.Don’t try to run out of the classroom.3. Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.4.Squat or sit down under your desk.5.Leave the classroom after the earthquake.
1. Crouch on the spot and protect your heads with hands;
2. Be sure to keep away with high buildings and dangerous objects;
ddonon 3.Don’t go back to the
classroom.
Can we stop earthquakes?
We can’t stop earthquakes, but we can try to reduce the losses caused by earthquakes.
What can we do after earthquakes?
To build houses as strong as possible;
To build houses on rock rather than on sand.
Try to rescue people;
Try to rebuild families;
Try to forget sad experiences and live with strong belief.
Homework
Review the textFinish exercises on page 28