(共25张PPT)
UNIT 4
Earthquakes The second period
Lead-in
1.Talk about the natural disaster earthquake in Wenchuan (its prediction and damage)
Prediction
Damage
Up to 12,000 people are killed and as many as 26,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province, state media say.
Crack
A NIGHT
THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP
burst: hurt
shake: save, help
shocked: move
injure: break
rescue: frightened
destroy: damage
New Words:
electricity: A. invisible gas which
water change into by boiling
steam: B. form of energy for lighting,
heating, driving machines.
ruin: C. person who continues to
live in spite of nearly being killed
survivor: D. state of being collapsed
or destroyed
Task 1:
Read the text and get the information .
When:
Where:
What:
countryside in northeast Hebei
on July 28, 1976
The earthquake happened
and destroyed the city.
The main idea : The earthquake happened and destroyed the city in northeast Hebei on July28,1976.
Fast reading
Part. the earthquake:
Part2. the earthquake:
Part3. the earthquake:
Task 2:
The Sequence of This Text is
Time Order
Paragraph 1
Paragraphs2&3
Paragraph4
Before
During
After
Divide the text and find the topic sentence of each part.
*Please choose the proper key words to summarize the main idea of each part.
Part 1. A. funny things B. signs C.animals
Part 2. A. destruction B. death
C. earthquake happened
Part 3. A. army B. survivors C. help
B. signs
A. destruction
C. help
Task 3:
signs
strange phenomena
water
water pipes
chickens
smelly gas
well walls
rose and fell
have deep cracks
cracked and burst
too nervous to eat
came out of the cracks
Paragraph1
Detail reading
Read paragraph 2 and find out the figures (数字)
to match the following information.
1. How many people felt the earthquake?
2. How long and how wide was the crack?
3. How long did it take to make a large city lie in ruins?
4. What was the number of people who were killed or injured ?
---One-third of the nation felt it.
---8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide.
---In 15 terrible seconds.
---More than 400,000.
1. It seemed that the world was at an end.
A. in the end B. finished C. loose
2. But how could the survivors believe it was
natural? ( paragraph3,line1)
3. Everywhere they looked nearly everything
was destroyed. (paragraph3, line1)
Q: Read it out and find the structure.
ruined
B. finished
Q: What does it refer to?
Find a word in paragraph2 to replace
“destroyed”.
Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. People in Tangshan helped with the rescue work.
B. Soldiers helped to rescue the people.
C. People from other countries came to give help.
D. People from other parts of the country came
to give help.
(C)
2. What do you think the text may talk about
in the next paragraph?
A. Life before the earthquake
B. Life after the earthquake
C. The young generation of Tangshan
D. Life of Tangshan people after the
earthquake
(D)
Paragraph4
Today’s Tangshan
Moral education
In the earthquake, the city was destroyed, but now it has become a beautiful city. What have you learned from this text?
1.We should try our best to protect
the earth. We should know about the earthquake.
2. Be brave when facing difficulties.
Life is full of hope.
3. Hand-in-hand, we can beat any difficulty.
Interview
Divide the class into three groups and each group choose a paragraph and act out an interview between a reporter and a survivor from the Tangshan earthquake.
Example: (paragraph1)
R: I am a reporter from China Daily.
Can I ask you some questions?
S: Yes.
R: Was there anything strange before
the earthquake?
S: There were some strange things
happening…
… …
R: Thank you .
S: That’s all right.
Retell the story
____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________cut across the city. The city lay _______.
Strange things
rose and fell
cracks
smelly gas
nervous
shake
at an end
One-third
felt
A huge crack
in ruins
Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ___________________________. But all hope ____________. _______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________.
died
were injured
shook
how long the disaster would last
was not lost
Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
ASSIGNMENT
(1) P28 Learning about language
Exercise1,Exercise2 ,Exercise3
(2) P63 Exercise1