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课件网) Unit 4 Natural Disasters --Reading and thinking THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP Live to Tell: Raising Awareness, Reducing Mortality. 用生命呼吁：增强减灾意识，减少人员伤亡。 Learning Objectives:1. Identify the main idea and structure of the text by finding out the topic sentence.2. Apply skimming and scanning to know about the basic information of the Tangshan earthquake.3. Appreciate the rhetorical devices(修辞) and writing skills used in the text.Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual capability. what may happen if the earth didn’t sleep at night Predict the main idea by looking at the title and the picture The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Ⅰ skimming Read the passage quickly to find the topic sentence of each paragraph and analyze how many parts the passage can be divided into. Skimming 1 2 3 4 5 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. At 3.42, everthing began to shake. Everywhere survivors looked,there was nothing but ruins . But hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet Skim the text and find the topic sentence of each paragraph. How many parts can the text be divided into : warning signs before the earthquake. : damage during the earthquake : rescue and survival after the earthquake. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Skimming Ⅱ scanning 1.Describe the strange things before the earthquake . 2.What was people’s reaction to these strange things Why Before the earthquake(para1) Scanning 1. Strange things before the earthquake . Srange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Heibei. 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 am., on 28th July 1976 bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. but the city’s one million pepole were alseep as ususal that night. water deep cracks smelly gas pigs dogs Mice fish bright lights loud noises 2.What was people’s raction to these strange things Why The city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. Because they were unconscious/unaware of the earthquake. unconcious Scanning 1. Find the figures that are used in this part.Why does the writer use these figures 2. Find the rhetorical devices that are used in this part. Why does the writer use these rhetorical devices 3. How do you think the people feel Scanning during the earthquake At 3.42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused ... ...
