(
课件网) Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking tornado drought landslide tsunami flood volcanic eruption typhoon hurricane slide What natural disasters do you know Free talk What can happen to a city during a big earthquake Free talk P50 Buildings fall down. Roads crack. v 开裂, 破裂 Many people are killed or badly injured. The town lies in ruins. What can happen to a city during a big earthquake Look at the title and the pictures, and guess what the text is about. P50 Pre-reading The NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP When Where What It talked about a severe earthquake which happened at night in Tangshan. Skim the passage and think about these questions. News report Novel literary journalism (报告文学) P50 3. What kind of text is it Skimming 2. In what order is the passage written 1. How many parts will you divide the passage into 顺序 Skimming the text quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph. Para1: Para2: Para3: Para4: Para5: Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. But hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back on its feet. Warning signs before the earthquake. The terrible effect during the earthquake. Rescue and revival after the earthquake. in chronological (时间） order Topic sentence 2. In what order is the passage written 1. How many parts will you divide the passage into Skim the passage and think about these questions. P50 3. What kind of text is it Skimming Literary journalism usually describes real historical events and real characters. The usage of the figures of speech（修辞手法） can stimulate（激励） readers' feelings and thus touch the readers. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP 拟人 News report Novel literary journalism (报告文学) Read the part 1 carefully and answer: What happened before, the earthquake What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. Scanning P50 Before the earthquake （para1） The well water rose and fell, well walls 1. _____, and some smelly gas came out. Chicken and pigs were too 2. _____ to eat, and dogs refused to go 3. _____ buildings. Mice ran out of the 4. _____ and fish jumped out of the water. 5. _____ were seen in the sky and loud noises were heard. cracked nervous inside fields Bright lights But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. People were unconcerned about the strange things. P50 太…以至于（不能） 像往常一样 Language points P50 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. 表示过去某个时间段正在发生的事情 (系动词)smell smelly adj. 难闻的 现在分词作状语，表主动 Read the part 2 (para 2-3) carefully and answer: What happened during the earthquake W ... ...
