(共25张PPT)
Book 1 Unit 4 Natural Disasters
The night the earth didn't sleep
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Lead in
What do you see
How do you feel
What do you see How do you feel
shocked
crack
burst
scared
feel
destory
see
injure
frightened
fall down
Pre-reading
Look at the title and guess its meaning.
"The night the earth didn't sleep
Does the earth need sleep
Personification(拟人)
Turn things into having human behaviors
and emotions like people.
Eg.The sun kissed the flowers.
Why the earth didn't sleep
What happened in that night
Skimming
Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Para
Note:The topic sentence is usually the
Para
first sentence of each paragraph,
Para
sometimes the middle or last sentence.
Para.4
Para.5
Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei.For several days,the
water in the village wells rose and fell,rose and fell.There were deep cracks that appeared in
the well walls.At last one well had some smelly gas coming out of it.Chickens and even pigs
were too nervous to eat,and dogs refused to go inside buildings.Mice ran out of the fields
looking for places to hide,and fish jumped out of the water.At about 3:00 am.,on 28 July
1976 bright lights were seen in the sky outside of the city of Tangshan and loud noises were
heard.But the city's one million people were asleep as usual that night.
At 3:42 a.m.,everything began to shake.It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!
Eleven kilometres directly below the city,one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th
century had begun,a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in
Beijing.Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it!A huge crack,eight kilometres long and
30 metres wide,cut across houses,roads and waterways.Hard hills of rock became rivers of
dirt.In less than one minute,a large city lay in ruins.Two thirds of the people who lived there
were dead or injured.Thousands of children were left without parents.The number of people
who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400.000.
Everywhere survivors looked,there was nothing but ruins.Nearly everything in the city was
destroyed.About 75 percent of the city's factories and buildings,90 percent of its homes,and
all of its hospitals were gone.Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves,but no wind