课件21张PPT。 Unit4
Earthquakevolcano eruptionearthquaketornadofloodWarming-upWhen and where did the biggest
earthquake happen in China?July28, 1976; TangshanBefore the earthquake: a prosperous city after the earthquake: in ruins Unit 4 Earthquakes A Night
the Earth Didn’t SleepWhat can you guess from the title
A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep ?
PredictionNight is the time to sleep, and night
should be safe and quiet.
But that night everything changed.
It was a terrible and unusual night.
----- a strong earthquake happened…Time:
Place:
What disaster:
Before the disaster:
Damage:
Rescue:
On July 28, 1976Tangshan, Hebei Province A big earthquake__________________happened Many strange thingsThe city lay______.
More than _____________people were killed or injuredin ruins400,000___________soldiers were sent to help.
Most of the _______miners were rescued.150,00010,000The main idea of each partPart 1(para.1)
signsdamagerescuePart 2(para.2-3)Part 3(para.4)Topic ST:
strange things were happening in northeast Hebei.Topic ST:
para2: everything began to shake. It seemed
that the world was at an end.
Para3: everywhere they looked nearly
everything was destroyed.Topic ST: All hope was not lostrose and fell had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out were too nervous to eatran out of the fields , looking for places to hide.jumped out of bowls and ponds Part1Before the earthquake Read para.2-3 carefully and then do the true or false questions.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city was completely destroyed. ( )
Then, later that afternoon, another small quake shook Tangshan. ( )
The number of people who were killed reached more than 400,000. ( )
Although it seemed that the world was at an end to the people in Tangshan, the people in Beijing and other cities nearby slept well on the night of July 28, 1976. ( )T F F F Part25. All of the city’s hospitals, three-fourths of its factories and buildings and nine-tenths of its homes were gone. ( )
7. Two quakes shook Tangshan within one day. Everybody in other cities was afraid to go there. ( )F T Read para.4 carefully and then answer the following question:Did the survivors give up the sad city and go to live in other places? If no, what did they do then?No. They did the rescue work with the help of 150,000 soldiers sent by the army.Part3Such a great number of people died or were injured in the earthquake because___.A. people thought little of strange events before the earthquake.
B. the earthquake happened suddenly in the early morning and most people were still asleep during the earthquake.
C. many people were killed later that afternoon when another big quake shook Tangshan unexpectedly.
D. all of the above.overall reading Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what has happened?A. The writer just wanted to make the passage vivid
B. Although the writer was not there, he felt sad for the people of Tangshan. With some feelings, he will make the reading more interesting.
C. Because the writer was not there, he could only write about the quake with his imagination rather than report the exact situations.
D. The writer only wanted to catch readers’ eyes.
If you are the survivors of Tangshan earthquake, will you want to leave the sad place or rebuild the city? Why?consideration:Tangshan todayDiscussion: What can you learn from the great changes that have taken place in Tangshan in the past thirty years?No matter how great the difficulty is, if we don’t give up, work hard and help each other, we can overcome it. The people in Tangshan have shown that we human beings can make something impossible possible and can create wonders. God helps those who help themselves!never give up, never give in, never say never!Thank you!!