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Watch a short movie about Tangshan earthquake, and then tell something about it.
Please guess the Chinese `meaning of this sentence
“It is always calm before a storm.”
暴风雨来临前夕总是平静的。
Fast Reading
Read this passage quickly, and then divide this passage into three parts.
Fast Reading
Read this passage quickly, and finish the following tasks:
what
when
where
How is the passage organized?
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Paragraph 4
Sum up the main idea of each part of the passage.
(use one word to describe)
Part 1: para 1
Part 2: para 2&3
Part 3: para 4
signs
damage
recovery
Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them.
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.
The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Match each part with its main idea.
People in Tangshan were warned of the earthquake and didn’t go to bed that night.
People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.
More than 400,000 people were killed in the quake.
Many rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins during the aftershock.
People tried to get fresh water from under the ground in Tangshan.
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Detailed reading: true or false
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Do you know what would happen
before an earthquake?(signs)
Water in wells
rises and falls
warning signs before an earthquake
Smelly(发臭的,有臭味的) gas
comes out
of wells.
warning signs before an earthquake
Animals are
nervous.
warning signs before an earthquake
There’re bright
lights in the sky.
warning signs before an earthquake
Do you know what would happen
during an earthquake?(damage)
The railway tracks might_________________________________________________
The bridge might__________________
fall down
Roads might____________.
crack
There might be________ all over the city. The electricity might be ______ for several days too.
fires
cut off
The Destroyed Tangshan Shengli Bridge
A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses,roads and canals
All the city’s hospitals ,75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone.
Do you know what would happen
after an earthquake?(recovery)
The army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers.
To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines.
Fast Reading
Please read the text again ,then do the multiple choice
Fill in Blanks
Several days before July 28, 1976, many (1)s_______ things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the (2)e_________ . But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think (3)m_____ of these. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to (4)s______ , which (5)d_________ the city. Many people, including workers and doctors, came to (6)r_______ those (7)t_______ under the ruins. Later that afternoon, another big
trange
arthquake
uch
hake
estroyed
escue
rapped
earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more building (8)f____ down. Soldiers called in to help the rescue workers. (9)T_____ were organized to dig out the trapped and (10)b_____ the dead.
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eams
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1.Why the title is A night the earth didn’t sleep?
2. What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?
What should we do to protect ourselves if an earthquake happened?
Let’s have a try!