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课件网) Unit 4 Natural Disasters ——— Reading and thinking Describe a natural disaster Contents Before Reading While Reading After Reading Assignments 01 02 03 04 01 Before Reading Look at the picture and guess what had happened What can happen to a city during a big earthquake An earthquake struck that area. A city can be damaged in an earthquake. People can get severely injured. Look at the title and photo below and guess what the text is about. The passage talks about an earthquake that broke out at night. What ’s the style of the passage A. a brochure B. a novel C. a literary journalism A literary journalism usually describes real historical events and real characters. The usage of the numbers and the figures of speech can inspire readers’ feelings and thus touch the readers. 02 While Reading Read through the text and write down the main idea of each paragraph. Paragraph 1:_____ Paragraph 2:_____ Paragraph 3:_____ Paragraph 4:_____ Paragraph 5:_____ Warning signs before the earthquake. The happening of the big earthquake. The immediate effects of the earthquake. The rescue work. The revival of the city. To get the main idea, you can pay attention to the beginning sentence of each paragraph. What's the writing order of the text before earthquake during earthquake after earthquake In Time order 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 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 people were asleep as usual that night. What were the strange things water in wells — rose and fell well walls — deep cracks from the wells — smelly gas bright lights in the sky loud noises were heard animals chickens and pigs — too nervous to eat dogs—refused to go inside mice— run out to look for places to hide fish—jumped out of the water What were the people doing then They were asleep as usual. People were ignorant of all the warning signs 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 whole nation felt it! A huge crack, eight kilometres long and 30 metres wide, cut across houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. Two thirds of the people who lived t ... ...
