Unit 4

Earthquakes

人教新课标必修一

Watch a video , and find out what the disaster is and what damage it may cause.

BrainstormBrainstorm

What do you think will happen What do you think will happen before an earthquake?before an earthquake?

Reading

Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.(use one word to describe it)

signs

damages

recovery

Para1

Para 2&3

Para 4

Fast reading

Time: Place: Disaster:

July 28, 1976TangshanA big earthquake

Main idea:

A big earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976

Scanning

Skimming skim the passage and find out the

topic sentence of each paragraph.

Instruction:

Usually we can find the topic sentence by reading the first (or the first two) sentence(s) of each paragraph.

Paragraph Topic sentence

1

2

3

4

Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.

Everything began to shake.

Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

All hope was not lost.

The text is organized in the order of___.

A. places B. timeC. importance

_______ the earthquake

_______ the earthquake

_______ the earthquake

Before

During

After

Divide the text into 3 parts

Paragraph Topic sentence

1

2

3

4

Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.

Everything began to shake.

Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

All hope was not lost.

Before the earthquake

During the earthquake

After the earthquake

Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.(use one word to describe it)

signs

damages

recovery

Para1

Para 2&3

Para 4

Careful reading

Water in wellsrose andfell.The well wall had deep cracks

Smelly gascame out of wells.

Animals werenervous.

There were brightlights in the sky.

Loud soundcould be heard.

Chickens and pigs________________.Mice____________________________.Fish____________________________.

jumped out of the bowls and ponds

too nervous to eatran out of the field

_____ before the earthquakeSigns

Strange

things

No one noticed them.

Details

At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the 20th century began ._______ burst from holes in the ground.Hard hills of the rock became rivers of ____.________ covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Two _______ and most of the ________ fell. The ________________ were now _________ pieces of steel.______ now filled the wells instead of water._______, ______, and ______________ were hard to get.

During theearthquake

Para. 2-3

3:42

greatest

Steamdirt

Bricks dams

useless

SandelectricityWaterfood

bridgesrailway tracks

______ caused by the earthquake.Damage

Who went into the city? soldiers,

rescue workers

Which one is true?

_______ after the earthquakeRecovery

A: Workers rescued most of the 10,000

coal miners to the south of the city.

B: Rescue workers organized the team to dig out

trapped people and to bury the dead.

C: Workers built shelters for survivors.Fresh

water was taken to the city.

D: Only supply of water and electricity were cut off

Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.(use one word to describe it)

signs

damages

recovery

Para1

Para 2&3

Para 4

Intensive reading

”All hope was not lost.”

A None of the hope was

lost.

B There was no hope at all.

C Not all hope was lost.英语中表示“全体”或“完全”意义的总括词，如 all, every( 及 everybody, everything等 ) ， both, always, entirely 等，与 not 连用时表示部分否定。 如： 1.Both (the) windows are not open. =Not both the windows are open. 两扇窗子并不都开着 。 2.All my friends do not know English. =Not all my friends know English. 我的朋友并不是都懂英语。

2. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

3. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.

4. It seemed that the world was at an end!

5. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. (like, as, as…as…, as if)

Repetition ( 反复 )

Exaggeration( 夸张 )

Simile( 明喻 )

Personification( 拟人 )

The employment of figure of speech （修辞）：1. A night the earth didn’t sleep

Personification( 拟人 )

summarysummary

Strange things happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells 1._____and fell. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became 2._____ nervous to live as 3.u_____. 4._______, the people of the city thought 5._____ of these events. At 3:42 am, everything began to shake. It 6.______ that the world was 7._____ an end. Then later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tang Shan, 8.______ trapped many rescue workers and doctors. But all hope was not lost. Soldiers came to help those 9.________( 幸存者 ). Slowly, the city began to10._______again.

rosetoo

at

However

which

little

seemed

survivors

usual

breathe

Discussion

What shall we do if an earthquake happens?

TIPS:Dos Don’ts1.Stay in a small room,suchas kitchen or bathroom

2.Hide under the table or bed , if you haven’t time to escape , you may standclose to the inside wall withsome things covering on the head.

3.If you stay in the open air ,keep off the tall building, and go to the fields without trees .

1. Be close to the window

2.Stay on the balcony

3. Jump out of the tall building

4. Use the lift

Homework

1.Recite the new words of unit4

2. kick out the useful phrases by yourself.

3.Preview p28.

Enjoy yourself every day!