课件15张PPT。Unit 4 EarthquakeLanguage points1.Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away.shake shook shakenshake hands with
shake one’s head
shake with anger / fear / laughter
John____ Henry when they met at the airport.
Shake hand with B. shakes hands with
C. Shook hand with D. shook hands withDright away : at once ; in no time ; immediately
right now : at this very moment ; 2.For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.roserisenrise-- -- vi.上升，升起，上涨raise --- --- vt.raisedraisedThey’ve _____ up to 20,000 yuan for the “Hope Project”.
A. rose B. rised C. raised D. risenC1.Everyone knows the sun _____in the east.
2.The people’s living standard has greatly been_______.
3.They can _________ rice here.
4.Her temperature is still__________.
5.He ______a family in that village.
6.The builders _____the ceiling by six inches.
建筑工人把天花板升高了六英寸
7.The price of bread has________.Fill the blank with “raise” or “rise”risesraisedraiserisingraisesrisen raised 3. It seemed as if the world was __ ___ ___.at an endat an end (=finished)结束，终结 The war was at an end.
at the end of 在……尽头，在……末
by the end of 到…末为止, 主句一般用完成时
in the end 最后、终于1. His father will return home _____________ this year.
2. He tried various jobs and________ became a teacher.
3. How many English words had you learned ____________ last term?
4. I must warn you that my patience is almost _________. at the end ofin the endby the end ofat an end4. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city _____________.lay in ruinslie lie layThe next morning she found the man ______ in bed, dead.
A .lying B. lie C. lay D. layingA7. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.think little / nothing / poorly of 轻视,不放在心上
think highly / well of 对…评价很高
think badly / ill of 对…评价很糟
think much / a lot / a great deal of 对…印象很好5. Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
everywhere = wherever, no matter where,引导让步状语从句。
Everywhere he goes, he contacts with his friends.无论他走到哪儿,他都和朋友保持联系。
Everywhere I go , I find the same thing.everywhere作副词时,一般情况下都用在句尾。
I find everywhere, but I can’t find it.
everywhere 有时作名词
Everywhere seems quiet. 6.Two-thirds of the people died or were _________during the earthquake.分数表达法分子用基数词表示，分母用序数词表示
1/3 1/5分子超过1，分母用复数形式
2/3 3/5injured百分数表达法数词+percent (%) 表示 “百分之…”
75%seventy five percent分数或百分数作主语时, 谓语动词取决于of 后面的名词80% of the trees were cut down.50% of the water in the bottle has gone.More than 61% of the surface of the earth ____covered by water.
Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ____ young.isare[词义辨析] harm,injure,hurt,wound
harm 的含义侧重于“损害，伤害”，可指精神或肉体的伤害，程度较轻
Don't harm your eyes by reading in dim light.
injure指由于意外或事故而造成的伤害：
She was injured badly in the accident. hurt指“伤害；刺痛”，尤指在精神或肉体上的伤害，含有强烈的疼痛感
No feelings were hurt though the criticism was sharp. 批评虽然尖锐，却未伤感情。
wound指外伤，如枪伤,刀伤,剑伤,尤指在战斗中受伤。Their criticisms _________him deeply.
Smoking will ________his health.
He was slightly ________in the car accident.
He got _________in the fighting.
What you said _____my feeling.hurtharminjuredwoundedhurt7. People were shockedshock astonish surpriseIt was a _______ story, and we all got _____.
shocking, shocking B. shocked, shocked
C. shocking , shocked D. shocked, shockingC8. All hope was not lost.表示”全体”意义的代词,形容词,副词,如:all, both, every, everything, everybody 等,和否定副词not 连用可构成部分否定Not all the girls left. (=Only some of them left.)Not all glitter is gold. = All glitter is not gold.Not all the birds can fly.=All the birds can not fly.Both of the boys aren’t good at EnglishEverybody doesn’t know it.= Not everybody knows it.10 .Not all the girls left. (=Only some of them left.)
2.Not all the children are noisy.(= Some of the children are not noisy.)
3.闪光的并不都是金子。
4.并不是人人都在。Not all glitter is gold.Not all people are here.11. To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal minesThe xiaming Lake is about 50 kilometers to the west of the city.Japan lies to the east of China.Japan lies in the east of Asia.China faces the Pacific on the east.The town sits on the Changjiang River.Zhe jiang lies on / to the north of Fu Jian.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 smellearthquakesteamshockfreshhonourdamcoalbricksmelly课件13张PPT。San FranciscoUnit 4 reading taskThe background of the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906It happened on the early morning of April 18 at 5:15. Although the quake lasted only one minute ,it caused the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history. It registered 8.2 on the Richter scale.
The greatest destruction came from the fires after the quake. These fires lasted for three days destroying 490 city blocks and 25,000 buildings, which made over 250,000 homeless and killed between 450 and 700.Demage estimates topped $ 350,000,000.这是1906年4月18日拍摄的大地震后数小时的旧金山全景。 被扭曲的电车轨道。 靠近旧金山第六街的布鲁克桑姆街路面出现了深深的断痕 大地震后的旧金山市政厅大楼。 Jack London, the famous author of “The Call of the Wild”(《野性的呼唤》)and many other well known books. He never went to high school until he was nineteen years old and he died when he was forty. Yet he left behind him fifty-one books and many short storiesIntroduction of the writer---- Jack LondonJack London, who was most popular write in America, just happened to be living near San Francisco when the earthquake happened. His account of the disaster is both factual and literary. That is, he tried to write not only for the readers of that time but for readers yet to come.signs that showed an earthquake was comingDescription of the damages caused by the earthquakeBuild up of tension by description of signs
events described in time orderemotive description of the destruction
use of repetition to build tensionsomething very bad about to happenworst earthquake ever
use of exaggeration to add tensionunaware of implications of the signs---- in ignoranceLanguage points:
1. Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.=A city has never been so completely destroyed before in history.Never in all San Francisco’s history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.2. Amazing as it may seem, Wednesday night was a quiet night.= Though it may seem amazing, … …Though he is young, he knows a lot.Young as he is, he knows a lot.Though he is a child, he knows a lot.Child as he is, he knows a lot.3.Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses.I have nothing but a life.4. Out at sea, it was calm.5. No wind came up.7.A list of the brave men and women would fill a library.
8.A list of those killed will never be_______.
9.
I saw not one man who was exited.
I saw not one woman who cried.课件21张PPT。TangshanLook at the following picture, try to describe (描述) what you have seen in the picture.What would this city be like if there had been a big earthquakeThe earthquake of Tangshan in China in 1976The cracks cut across the roads .The buildings fell down .* fall down: * crack: * cut across:倒下裂缝横断、截断Many things were destroyed, such as …Bridge: be cutRailway: deformedbuildings* destroy: 破坏，摧毁New Tangshan after the earthquake happened 30 years agoThe monument of Tangshan earthquakeStrange things happened before the earthquake but no one paid attention to them.Main idea of the textThe earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.Paragraph 1Paragraph 2&3Paragraph 4Before the earthrose and fell, rose and felltoo nervous to eatran out of the fields looking for the places to hidejumped out of the bowls and pondsbright lights in the sky; The sound of the planes could be heard without the planes in the skycracked and burstDuring the earthAt 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake.In 15 terrible seconds, a large city lay in ruinsLater that afternoon, another big quake shook TangshanDuring the earthAt 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake.One-third of the nation felt it.A huge crack cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground
Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.In 15 terrible seconds, a large city lay in ruinsWere killed or injured75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of homes were gone.Bricks covered the ground like autumn leaves.Fell or were not safe for travelingWere useless pieces of steel.Later that afternoon, another big quake shook TangshanSome of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins.
People had no hope.More buildings fell down;
Water, food, and electricity were hard toget.after the earthThe army sent 150,000 soldiers to help the rescue workers.
The army organized teams to dig out the trapped people and to bury the dead.Built shelters for the homeless survivorsBegan to breathe againTrue or false1.Several days before the earthquake, people in Tangshan noticed some strange things happening.
2.Smoke came out of cracks in the well.
3.The earthquake in Tangshan happened late at night.
4. When the earthquake happened, no one outside Tnagshan could hear it
5.In the earthquake almost all the buildings fell down.
6. The third para. of the reading passage tells us the great damage done to the city.
7. People in Tangshan did not lose their hope completely.
8. People could hear the sound of the plane when the plane was very high in the air.TFTFTTTFComprehension What the mood of the passage?
A. Sad B. Serious C. Serious and a bit sad D. Calm.
2. What can be inferred from the passage?
If mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, there must be an earthquake.
If some natural signs had not been ignored, all the people in Tangshan city might have had a chance to survive.
There wouldn’t have been such a great earthquake, if people had paid enough attention to some natural signs.
If some natural signs had not been ignored, more people might have had a chance to survive.CD3. Which of the following statements can not be part of the main reasons for the heavy loss of life in Tangshan earthquake?
The earthquake happened in the deep night and people were sleeping in bed at the very moment.
There weren’t enough rescue workers
The building were poorly constructed and most of them were destroyed in the earthquake.
People were not careful enough to notice some natural signs before the earthquake.B4. How do you understand the real meaning of the idiom “ It is always calm before a storm.”
A. It is unusually quiet before a thunderstorm or hurricane hit.
B. One should not trust situations that seem peaceful since bad things may happen.
C. The weather is fine before a storm comes
D. You should stay calm before a storm.BSeveral 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 3:42 am 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 shookTangshan. 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. With the help, the city began to b______ again. trangearthquakeuchhakeestroyed escuerappedelleamsreatheuryFill in the blanks.DiscussionIf at school :
If at home:· Hide under a desk or table.?
· Face away from windows.· Hide under a heavy table or bed.
· Sit in a corner, away from doors, windows, ect. Life is beautiful.
We must love our lives.
In an earthquake
SPEED IS LIFE.HomeworkGo over the passage and find out the difficult or important sentences.
P28---1, 2 3 and 4
