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Unit 4 Natural Disasters
Reading and Thinking
Look and discuss
Watch the video and discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake
Discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake.
Building
electricity
injury
people
Discussion
Look at the pictures and guess what the text is about .
earthquake
Prediction
Read the text quickly and then write down the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragrah1:________________________________________
Paragrah2:________________________________________
Paragrah3:________________________________________
Paragrah4:________________________________________
Help from all over the country.
Destruction of the earthquake
Suffering of the people and the city after the earthquake.
Warning signs before the earthquake.
Read for main ideas
According to the topic sentence and the four words, divide the whole passage into four parts.
sign
damage
rescue
revival
Read for the structure
Part 1 (Para __)
Part 2 (Para____)
Part 3 (Para __)
1
2&3
4
Part 4 (Para __)
5
Read paragraph 1 carefully and try to find the signs before the earthquake.
What happened
wells
animals
Light and sound
Strange things
Water, rose and fell, cracks
Chickens and pigs didn’t eat ;Mice ran out; Fish jumped out.
Could be seen and heard
Read for details
of the nation felt the earthquake .
A huge crack that was kilometres long and
metres wide cut across houses.
In _________ _______ , a large city lay in ruins.
of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than .
All of the city’s hospitals, of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.
1/3
8
30
less than one minute
2/3
400,000
75%
90%
Read the ruins of the earthquake in para2&3 carefully and fill in the blanks with data(数据) .
Read for details
Read and think
What are your feelings towards these terrible data
Natural disasters will cause terrible damages, so we should learn some knowledge about how to protect ourselves during the earthquake.
Read para. 4&5 carefully and understand the rescue and revival after the earthquake .
The army.....
Doctors and nurses...
Workers...
Water and food...
How did the city begin to breathe
Who came to the city?
Read for details
Tang shan’s new look
With strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of people, Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.
Read for details
1.A huge crack,eight kilometers long
and 30 meters 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.
badly damaged
Guess what they mean from the context.
ruin trap bury breathe
Use context to understand
new words
When you See a word you do not know , do not stop and look it up in a dictionary. If you continue reading . th context will probably help you understand what it means.
Understand new words
2.Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.Water and food were brought into the city by train,truck,and plane.
3.Slowly the city began to breathe.
keep sb in a dangerous place
come to life
Understand new words
put a dead body into the ground
during:What happened?Feeling?
shake/fall down ruins/ hopeless
after:thinking and attitude
thankful/ unify positive /hopeful
before : What were you doing?Feeling?
unprepared
Summary
Suppose you’re a survivor from Tangshan, please talk about your feeling after the earthquake and what lessons we learn from these events
.
Work in pairs
There is no love in disaster, but we have love in human heart.
Cultural awareness
Homework
Make a poster about the earthquake
Finish the exercises on Page 79.