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课件网) Unit 4 Natural disasters Reading and Thinking 1. To read a text about Tangshan earthquake and gather information; 2. To reflect on the lessons that we can learn from the earthquake; 3. To analyze the language features of the text. Learning objectives Look at the pictures and collect words related to natural disasters. tornado drought landslide tsunami flood volcano wildfire Lead-in Buildings_____. fell down People were_____. trapped or buried The water pipes _____. cracked and burst The city was_____and lay_____. destroyed in ruins Do you know what happened during the big earthquakes Pre-reading When Where What The passage mainly talks about a terrible _____ (what ) that happened in _____( where ) in_____ (when ) and caused great _____ to people. (What result ) earthquake Tangshan 1976 damage What happened While-reading Para 1 A. The immediate effects of the earthquake Para 2 B. Warning signs before the earthquake Para 3 C. The revival of the city Para 4 D. The rescue work Para 5 E. The happening of the big earthquake What’s the main idea of each paragraph Read the passage quickly. Find the topic sentence of each paragraph. Then summarise each paragraph in one phrase based on its topic sentence. Tips: While-reading Para1: warning signs before the earthquakes Para 2: the happening of the big earthquake. Para 3: the immediate effects of the earthquake. Para 4: the rescue work Para 5: the revival of the city . during the earthquake after the earthquake before the earthquake The text is organized in _____ order. time signs damage rescue revival While-reading Part 1: the signs before the earthquake Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks that appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July1976, bright lights were seen in the sky outside of the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city's one million people were asleep as usual that night. What were the strange things that were happening before the earthquake rose and fell, rose and fell deep cracks Chickens and even pigs dogs Mice fish bright lights loud noises warning unaware; ignorant; unprepared asleep How did people react to these strange things The ground The animals The other aspects smelly gas While-reading Part 2: A huge earthquake struck Tangshan. At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Eleven kilometres directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing. Nearly one third of the wh ... ...
