人教版高中英语必修一 Unit 4 Earthquakes reading 课件（共34张PPT）

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Unit 4 Earthquakes
汶川大地震
2008.5.12
69227人遇难，374643人受伤，失踪1792
1) What kind of signs can you tell that
there will be a quake?
Animals are too nervous, such as cows, dogs, horses, and snakes, etc.
Predictions of an earthquake:
1) Bright lights flash in the sky;
3) The well walls have deep cracks with
smelly gas;
4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows,
pigs, horses, and snakes, etc;
5) Mice run out to look for places to hide;
6) Fish jump out of the ponds.
2) The water in the well rise and fall;
town lie in ruins.
破败不堪
What kind of damage can an earthquake cause?
buildings fall down.
倒塌
Roads crack.
开裂
The railway tracks become useless pieces of steel.
Many people were killed or injured.
受伤的
A great number of people lost their homes.
许多，大量
Pre-reading
Question 1:In what order was the passage written?

Question 2:What is the general idea of the passage?
The text is written in time order.
The text tells us something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Look at the each part and write
down its main idea.
Part 1
Part 2
Signs before the earthquake
What happened during the earthquake ?
Paragraph 4
Part3
The rescue work after the earthquake.
Sum up the main idea of each part of the passage.
Part 1: Para 1
Part 2: Para 2&3
Part 3: Para 4
signs
damage
rescue
Join the correct parts of the sentences.
2 The people didn’t
worry because
1 The chickens didn’t eat because
C they were
nervous.
E they didn’t
know what the
strange events
meant.
3 Such a great
number of people died because

4 Water was needed
because
5 The people did not lose hope because
D dams and wells
were useless.
B the quake
happened while
they were
sleeping.
A the army
came to help
them.


Choose the best answer.

(1)What is the mood of this passage?
A. Sad. 　
B. Serious. 　
C. Serious and a bit sad. 　
D. Calm.
C
2. How do you understand the real meaning
of the idiom “It is always calm before a
storm”?
It is unusually quiet before a thunderstorm
(暴风雨 )or hurricane(暴风) 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.
A
3. What can be inferred from the passage?
If the pigs were too nervous to eat, there
must be an earthquake.
B. If some natural signs had not been ignored,
all the people in Tangshan city might have
had a chance to survive.
C. There wouldn’t have been such a great
quake if people had paid enough attention
to some natural signs.
D. If some natural signs had not been ignored,
people might have had a chance to survive.
D
4. Which of the following is the main reason
for the heavy loss of life in the quake?
A. The earthquake happened in the deep night
when people were sleeping deeply.
B. There weren’t enough rescue workers.
C. The building were poorly constructed and
most of them were destroyed in the quake.
D. People were not careful enough to notice
some natural signs before the earthquake.
A
rose and fell
deep cracks, smelly gas
too nervous to eat
Things What happened
water in the well
well walls
chickens and pigs
ran out of, looking for places to hide
jumped out
bright lights
sound of planes heard even no planes
cracked and burst
Things What happened
mice

fish
sky
sound

water pipes
Data (数据)
_____ of the nation felt the earthquake.
A huge crack that was __ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses.
In ___ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.
____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than ________.
All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _____ of its homes were gone.
1/3
8
30
15
2/3
400,000
75%
90%
Para. 2-3
These numbers show the destructive effects of earthquake directly to students which can help student gain more information about the earthquake.
How the army helped the people in Tangshan?
After the earthquake
Retell the story
____________ happened in Tangshan. 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
Strange things
rose and fell
cracks
smelly gas
nervous
began to ______. It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ____________ cut across the city. The city lay _______.
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 ______ Tangshan. People began to wonder
died
were injured
shook
___________________________. But all hope ___________. _______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________.
how long the disaster would last
was not lost
Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
Writing a summary of a passage means looking for the main idea of each part and putting it down in a sentence. Look at each paragraph of the reading passage and write down its main idea.
_________________________________
_________________________________
_________________________________
2. _________________________________
_________________________________
3. _________________________________
_________________________________
4. _________________________________
_________________________________
Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one paid attention to them.
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.
The people were very shocked .
The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.

Discussion
What should we do to protect ourselves if an earthquake happens?
Don’t be nervous and keep calm.
Don’t try to run out of the classroom.
Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.
Squat?(蹲) or sit down under your desk.
Leave the classroom after the earthquake.