(共24张PPT)
Unit 4
Earthquakes
Can you imagine what would the city be like after the earthquake?
Tangshan
The city was_______ 一片废墟.
in ruins
Tall buildings_________
fell down
hospital
factory
home
Hospitals,75% of factories and buildings and 90% of homes were gone.
Roads were____________
cracked/destroyed
What happened to traffic?
bridges fell or were not safe for travelling.
Two dams(16) fell.
died/killed
injured
What happened to people?
Two-thirds of people died or were injured(21)
during the earthquake. The number of people
who were killed or injured reached more than
400,000..
They were shoked(22), their suffering(23) was
extreme(24). Everywhere they looked nearly
everything was destroyed(25). They began to
wonder how long the disaster would last.
极端的
极度的
震动, 震惊
痛苦
破坏, 毁灭
How did the survivors feel ?
cows would never give
milk again.
What about animals, such as cows, pigs, ...?
pigs and millions of chickens
died.
road
house
What happened to something else?
A huge crack cut across houses, roads and canals(17).
canal 运河
Steam(18) burst from holes in the ground.
Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt(19).
hard hills of rock
rivers or dirt
Bricks(20) covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind would blow them away.
.
rescue
救援
.
soldiers to Tangshan to hep the rescue workers.
rescued 10,000 miners(31) from the coal mines(32). .
They organized teams to dig out(28) those who were trapped(29) and buried(30) the dead.
△Which night? ○Where? ◇Why?
Fast reading
Time:
Place:
Disaster:
July 28, 1976
Tangshan, Hebei
A big earthquake
Read the text quickly, and divide the whole passage into three parts, according to the three words.
rescue
sign
damage
征兆,前兆
Part 1 (Para 1)
Part 2 (Para2&3)
Part 3 (Para 4)
Before the earthquake
During the earthquake
After the earthquake
sign
damage
rescue
(1). The water in the village wells(4)
_____ and _____for three days.
水井
What strange things happened
before the earthquake hit Tangshan?
rose
fell
(2). The well walls had deep cracks(5). A smelly(6) gas ____________the cracks.
Fast reading
careful reading
came out of
裂缝
(3). The chickens and the pigs in the famyards(9)
were_______nervous______ eat.
chicken
pig
too
to
(4). Mice _________ the fields looking for places to hide.
ran out of
(5). Fish_____________their bowls and ponds.
pond
bowl
jumped out of
(6) There were bright lights and the sound of planes although there were not any planes in the sky.
bright lights
(7) The water pipes(7) in some buildings cracked and
burst(8)
管, 管子
爆裂
破裂
rose and fell
which
be heard
burst
to eat
Tangshan Earthquake
Before the
earthquake ·The water in the village wells 1. again and again.The well walls had deep cracks in them, of 2. ____a smelly gas came out.
·Animals in the farmyards became too nervous
3. ____ . Even the sound of planes could
4._________and the water pipes cracked and 5. ________.
shake
appeared
dirt
injured
destroyed
Tangshan Earthquake
During the
earthquake At 3:42 am everything began to 6. .A huge crack with eight kilometres long and thirty meters wide 7 _______ in the ground, and hard hills of rock became rivers of 8. .
Damages of the
earthquake Over 400,000 people were killed or 9._______in the earthquake. And many children became orphans. Nearly everything was 10. .
Homework:
Read the text for three times, and try to retell it.
Do Exercise 1 & 2 on P27 Comprehending
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