课件19张PPT。Unit Four :
Earthquake
Period Three: reading Part 2 Reading:
The story of an eyewitness
--- By Jack London
1.Write an adjective to describe how the author feels about the earth quake and
what it did?_________.
Why?______________________________Would you please watch part of video about earthquakes?
What has happened to this building? ( shake, fall down, destroy ,brick, lie in ruin )What has happened to this building? ( shake, fall down, destroy ,brick, lie in ruin )injured lose one’s life What’s the matter? (bury, organize, dig out, rescue, injure ,trap, survivor, disaster shock) (steel, damage, crack, cut across, useless) Part 2 Reading:
The story of an eyewitness
--- By Jack London
1.Write an adjective to describe how the author feels about the earth quake and
what it did?_________.
Why?______________________________ShockedHe was surprised and frightened by what
he saw.Language tips:
1.A city has never been so completely
destroyed before in history.
Never has a city been so completely destroyed before in history. ( electricity, cut off,shock, scare, shelter)Language tips:
1.A city has never been so completely
destroyed before in history.
Never has a city been so completely destroyed before in history. e.g.
Never in all San Francisco’s history were her
people so kind as on that night.
Her people__________________________. 2.
Though it may seem amazing…
Amazing as it may seem…
though
Though he is young, he knows a lot.
Young as he is, he knows a lot.
though e.g.
Though he is a child, he knows a lot.
Child as he is, he knows a lot.
though
3.
Nothing is left of it but memories and some
houses.
only
e.g.
I have nothing but a life. 4.
The smoke could be seen from a 160 kms ..
6.
Out at sea, it was calm.
7.
No wind came up. 8.
A list of the brave men and women would fill
a library.
9.
A list of those killed will never be_______.
10.
I saw not one man who was exited.
I saw not one woman who cried.
课件13张PPT。Unit Four :
Earthquake
Period Four: Writing Step one
How to read News articles
1.What is a News Article?
2.What are the elements of a News Article?
3.How to read a News Article. Writing
You are going to write an article for a
newspaper about a special event that
happened in your hometown. Before you
write a newspaper story, you should write
an outline. An outline will prepare you to
write a better story. It helps you to. 1. Choose a topic
2.Decide what you want to say about the topic
3.Organize your ideas and write clearly. A newspaper outline should have:
1.a headline
2.A list of main ideas
3.a list of important details Attention!
When you write a newspaper story you
want the readers to notice it. So you give
the reader a headline which is an
interesting title that tells the reader what
your topic is. Then you organize your
ideas into paragraphs. Each para has a different main idea or purpose. Next put some details into each para. These details help the reader to better understand the main idea. One other thing to remember: a newspaper story gives the most important first and the least important news last.
A newspaper story needs a headline to
attract the reader’s attention since the
reader may not have bought the
newspaper before they read the headline. Newspaper stories and short stories are organized very differently.
Usually a short story begins with small details and includes details later.
A newspaper does the opposite.
Both kinds of stories use para with the main idea.
Point of view
In a good newspaper story it is objective.
In a short story it is subjective.
Ex.
P31 1
Read the example of a newspaper story
and find the headline, main ideas and
details of each paragraph.假如你是一名记者,20多年前7月28日凌晨3点钟, 当你由于写稿子在熬夜,经历了那场唐山
大地震.请用英语写一篇报道,写出你当时的感受.提示:
1. what you heard 2. what you saw 3.what you felt 4.the result/loss 5. the rescue It was early in the morning, at about 3 o’clock. As I had to finish a report for the newspaper, I stayed up. I was about to sleep when there was a terrible earthquake. At first I heard a strange noise. It sounded like a train going under the house. Then I realized it was an earthquake. I was trying to wake up my families when I felt the floor move. I saw glasses on the table fall off onto the floor. I felt like being on a boat and I couldn’t stand firm. It lasted about 10 minutes or so. Luckily, the government came to our rescue immediately. Because of the earthquake, a great number of people lost their lives. I was a lucky one. The moment the earthquake ended, the people in Tangshan were determined to rebuild their hometown. Now Tangshan takes on a new look. Check the answers on Page 32
Homework:
Now prepare the outline for a short
newspaper story for China Daily, Use
the example to help you organize your
outline课件9张PPT。Unit Four :
Earthquake
Period One: Warming upWhat has happened?I. Warming-up1.Say something about these two cities.
What will happen before an earthquake?Tangshan is a beautiful city with gardens, wide roads.San Francisco is a city with tall buildings thickly standing on the earth.These two cities are famous for their earthquakes during a period of calm.
So one should not trust situations that seem peaceful since bad things may happen. TangshanSan Francisco1.Which of the following may cause people the greatest damage?
A: Earthquake B:Typhoon C:Flood D:Drought
2.Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?----There is often a great sound.
-----Animals too nervous to eat
----There are bright lights in the sky.
----A smelly gas may come out of the well.
----Water pipes may crack or burst.2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?Before an quake, animals will become nervous. Cows, pigs, horses and dogs will be upset. Mice will run about and fish will jump out of water. In winter, people can even see snakes. So earthquake is predictable.Imagine there has been a big earthquake,what will happen to the things around us?cracks, cut across houses, roads and canals, fall down, lie in ruins,
destroy, damage, loss3.What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?4.When an earthquake happens,you are escaping from home,what will you take with you?Why?5.Talk about the great earthquakes that have ever happened in the world?What damages they caused?Natural disasters occur throughout the world, and China has a particular problem with earthquakes. Tangshan earthquake in 1976 is a case in point. So it is especially important to take steps to reduce the damage caused by quakes.Seismology: the study of Quake
recordings
the person who
studies quakes.
the machine to record
seismic waves.
the inventor of the 1st
seismologySeismologist:Seismometer:Zhang Heng in Han Dynasty:Homework:
Talk about a big earthquake that happened in the world with your partner.
List out the measures that people can take when an earthquake happens.课件14张PPT。Unit Four :
Earthquake
Period Two: ReadingWhat has happened?2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?Before an quake, animals will become nervous. Cows, pigs, horses and dogs will be upset. Mice will run about and fish will jump out of water. In winter, people can even see snakes. So earthquake is predictable.1.move quickly from side to side or up and down
2.a deep place to store water to drink
3.structure built to give protection from rain
wind or attack
4.save or bring away from danger
5.cause to break violently open or apart
6.the part of a building left after the rest has
been damaged
7.damage so badly that it no longer exits or works
8.event that causes great harm or damage
9.channel cut through land or boats or ships to
Travel along,or carry water for irrigation shakewellshelterrescuebreakruinsdestroydisastercanal10.sudden violent movement of the earth’s surface
11.gas that hot water gives out
12.violent blow or shake;worried or frightened
13.new or different;newly made,produced
14.source of pride and pleasure
15.a special wall that keeps water behind it
16.black material found underground used
for burning to supply heat
17.baked or dried clay used for building
18.having a bad smellearthquakesteamshockfreshhonourdamcoalbricksmelly3. Read the text and pay special attention to the first
sentence of each paragraph p27 ex 3(1) The main idea of the first paragraph is: Before the quake. strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.(2) The main idea of the second and third paragraphs is:During the earthquake, the city was destroyed and people were killed or injured. Shortly after the quake, the disaster lasted. (3)the main ides of the last paragraph is:After the quake, the army came to help, bringing hope for a new life. Detail reading What strange events happened before the earthquake in Tang Shan? well water, cracks ,smelly gas chickens, pigs , mice , fish bright light ,the sound of planeswater pipes nervous to eat, run out to hide ,jump cracked and burst rose and fell, came out ofWhat do all the numbers referred to in the 2nd passage? What do you feel? began to shakebelow the city, under groundthe greatest earthquake of …heard away from Beijing1/3 nation felt this earthquake the crack was this long the crack was this widethe earthquake only last so shortfamilies killed ,left without…people were killed or injuredThe numbers in passage 3Chickens diedThe factories and buildings were gone.The homes were gone.Dams fell . Pigs died
The cows never give milk again.1.From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?
Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what had happened?
3. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN”T SLEEP?He uses third-person to describe the quake. For example, “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.”Although thewriter was not there, he felt sad for the people of
Tangshan. With some feeling, he will make the reading more
interesting.Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safeand quiet. But
That night everything changed. It was a terrible and unusual night.Read again and try to appreciate the language of the passage:For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.
It seemed that the world was at an end!
Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
Slowly, very slowly, the city began to breathe again.
Repetition: to make a deeper impression on the readerExaggeration: to draw people’s attention to the seriousness of the
disaster.Simile: to create a vivid image.Personification: to form a vivid image.4.What was Tangshan like after the earthquake? Filling the blacks with the first given letter:Several days before July 28,1976,many s______things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_______. But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think m_______of these. At 3:42am that day,the earth began to s________,which d_________the city. Many people,including workers and doctors,came to r_______those t_________under the ruins. Later that afternoon,another big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings f________down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. T________were organized to dig out the trapped and b________the dead.trangearthquakeuchhakeestroyedescuerappedelleamsury
Homework:
Find the sentences with attributive
clauses and put them into Chinese.
