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Unit4
Earthquake
How many natural disasters do you know
typhoon
tornado
fire
flood
drought
Sandstorm
mudflow
earthquake
Discussion
Do you know anything about earthquake
Do you know some earthquakes happened in China
What do you think will happen before an earthquake
What is the result after an earthquake
Unit4 Earthquake
A night the earth didn’t sleep
A terrible earthquake happened in Tangshan.
Fast Reading
△Which night ○Where ◇What
Time:
Place:
Disaster:
July 28, 1976
Tangshan, Hebei
A big earthquake
Read the text silently and quickly and try to get the information.
Strange things were happening in thecountryside of northeast Hebei.
Everything began to shake. It seemed
as if the world was at an end.
Everywhere they looked nearly
everything was destroyed.
All hope was not lost.
Divide the passage into three parts and find out the main idea of each part.
Part 1( )
Part 2( )
Part 3( )
Para.1
Para.2-3
Para.4
Signs before the earthquake.
What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake.
The rescue work after the earthquake.
Structure of the whole passage
order of the passage
part 1.
(Para.1)
(Para.2,3)
(Para.4)
part 2.
part 3.
signs
ruin
Recovery
time order
(before)
(during)
(after)
careful reading
Para.1 Signs before the earthquake
Listen to the tape and then answer
What strange things happened before the earthquake
The water in the village wells ___________ ____________.
The well walls had____________________
rose and fell,
rose and fell
deep cracks in them.
A ______ gas came out of the cracks.
smelly
The chickens and
even the pigs were too________to eat.
nervous
upset, worried
Mice ran out of the
fields___________
places to hide.
Fish _________out
of bowls and ponds.
looking for
jumped
People could see _______
lights in the sky.
bright
The _____ of planes could be heard even when no planes were in the sky.
sound
The water _____ in some buildings ______ and ______.
pipes
cracked
burst
break
Para.2,3
The damages caused during the earthquake.
Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
of the nation felt the earthquake .
A huge crack that was kilometres long and
metres wide cut across houses.
In terrible seconds 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
15
2/3
400,000
75%
90%
Data (数据)
Para.4
Rescue work after the earthquake.
The army:
Workers:
_____ soldiers to Tangshan to rescue workers;
________ teams to _______ those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
______shelters for _________ whose homes had been destroyed.
sent
organized
dig out
built
survivors
What does the last sentence“ Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean
A. The animals began to breathe.
B. The city returned to normal gradually.
C. People who were trapped(陷入困境的) came to life.
Several days before July 28, 1976, many s______ things happened in Tangshan. Well walls c_______, water pipes broke and b____, and animals were too nervous to eat.
They were signs for the e__________. But people in the city of Tangshan thought little of these. At 3:42 a.m. that day, the earth began to shake, which d________ the city. Later that afternoon, another big earthquake shook Tangshan. More people were killed or i______ and more buildings f___ down. The whole city lay in r____.
Soldiers were sent to help the r_____ workers. Teams were organized to dig out those who were t_______ and b___ the dead.
trange
racked
urst
arthquake
estroyed
njured
ell
uins
escue
rapped
ury
Suppose there would be an earthquake, what should we do to keep ourselves safe
Group Discussion
at school
at home
Hide beside a desk or table.