课件25张PPT。EarthquakesUnit 4ReadingNow let’s have a look at this series of sights, then think about the question “what causes this terrible disaster?"EarthquakesImagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing.
What will you take? Why?
Pre-readingWhat do you think may happen before an earthquake?People can see bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes can be heard outside even when no planes are in the sky.Mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish will jump out of the bowls or ponds.Animals will be too nervous to eat. Farmers’ wives will notice that the well walls have deep cracks in them. The water will rise and fall, rise and fall for a few days. Steam will burst from holes or wells in the ground.If there is an earthquake,
what will happen?Roads get huge cracks.Steam burst from holes or wells in the ground. Water pipes are destroyed.Houses fall down. Bricks cover the ground . Brick building are destroyed.Factories,hospitals,buildings are gone.Dams and bridges fall down. Hard hills of rock become rivers of dirt .
Railway tracks are now useless pieces of steel.People died and injured. Families are killed and many children are left without parents.A few seconds, a large city lies in ruins. Everything is destroyed. It seems the world was at an end.If you want to write an article about earthquake, what will you write?
Reading1. Listen to the tape and then judge the following sentences whether true or false.
FFPeople in Tangshan were warned of the
earthquake and didn’t go to bed that night.2) People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.3) More than 400 000 people were killed in
the earthquake. TTF5) People tried to get fresh water from
under the ground in Tangshan. 4) Many rescue workers and doctors were
trapped under the ruins during the
aftershock.Read the text and answer the following
questions.Careful-readingParagraph 1:What did people in Tangshan see in the sky
before the earthquake?They saw bright lights in the sky.2. What did people hear?They heard the sound of planes outside
Tangshan even…3. What did people notice in the well?People noticed the well walls had deep cracks,
and a smelly gas came out of the cracks.4. Did people pay any attention to these
abnormal phenomena?NoParagraph 21. When did the earthquake begin?At 3:42 in the morning of July 28.2. How many people were killed or
injured in the quake?More than 400,000 people.Paragraph 31. Could the injured people go to hospital?No, they couldn’t. Because all of the
city’s hospitals were gone in the quake.2. Were there any aftershocks?Yes, another big quake shook Tangshan
later that afternoon.Paragraph 4Did the survivors deny the city and
go to live in other places?No. They did the rescue work with the help
of 150,000 soldiers sent by the army. Divide the passage into three parts.Part1 ( paragraph 1)
Phenomena before the earthquake.Part2 ( paragraph 2-3)
What happened during the quake and
the damage.Part3 (paragraph 4)
The rescue work after the earthquake.Thank you