(
课件网) Unit 4 Reading and Thinking Learning Aims: 1.Find out the paragraphy topic sentences. 2.Underline the basic infomation about Tangshan earthquake through skimming and other reading skills. 3. Understand the strange things before the Tangshan earthquake. A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep When he is cheerful Mr. Nature Natural Disasters When he gets angry mangosteen Natural Disasters flood drought sandstorm typhoon volcano tsunami earthquake Natural Disasters fire Pre-reading 1.Look at the title and photo and predict what the text is about. The passage is mainly about a terrible earthquake in Tangshan. 2.What's the main idea of the text Time : July 28,1976 Place : Tangshan,Hebei Disaster : A big earthquake Main idea :An earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. Let's watch a video about a terrible earthquake in Tangshan. 3. Reading skills Scanning 1.Read the text quickly find out each paragraph's topic sentence. Pay attention to the first and second sentences of each paragraph. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeasten Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Nearly everything in the city was destoryed. But hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revival itself and get back up on its feet. Part 1: para. ___ Part 2: para ___ Part 3: para ___ signs damage recovery the earthquake _____the earthquake _____the earthquake before during after 1 2&3 4 &5 (during, before, after) Fast reading Choose one word to describe each part damage recovery signs breathe bury Part1: signs before an earthquake careful reading careful reading Water in wells _____ Deep cracks Smelly gas _____ ____ Part1: signs before an earthquake rose and fell came out of wells The chickens and even pigs dogs were too nervous to eat careful reading appeared refuse to go inside buidings _____ ____ were heard loud noises Mice . Fish . jumped out of the bowls & pounds ran out of the field People saw ____ _____in the sky. bright lights Part2: damages during the earthquake (para.2-3) Careful reading 60 ____ of its factories and buildings and ____ of its hospitals . 75% 90% were gone Bricks like red autumn leaves , but no wind could blow them away . covered the ground Railway tracks were now_____ useless pieces of metal. Most bridges or were not safe to cross . had fallen cows, pigs,and chickens were dead. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of millions of Sand now the wells instead of water. filled Details Main idea Soldiers More than 1000 doctors and nurses Workers Water and food Governments City's people were sent to dig out came to provide medical care built shelters were brought All hope was not lost. Slowly, the city began to breathe again. Careful Reading—Paragraph 4&5 strong support tireless efforts Read para.5 carefully and think about : What do you think helped the city It was the strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city's people that helped ... ...
