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

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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.

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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