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课件网) Natural Disasters Reading and thinking Describe a natural disaster By the end of this class, you will be able to: 1.To learn about various kinds of natural disasters and the kind of damage these events cause. 2.To find out the main idea of each paragraph and its supporting details. 3.To activate students’ own knowledge about natural disasters and what they might do if they caught up in a natural disaster. Learning Objectives: Lead in What major earthquakes do you know in China Yushu, April 14th, 2010 Wenchuan, May 12th, 2008 Tangshan, July 28th, 1976 What will happen to a city during a big earthquake Discussing and thinking Buildings will fall down such as hospital,school and so on. People will lost their lives or be trapped. Damage to Infrastructure(基础设施) such as roads, bridges Economic Collapse Look at the title and the photo on Page 50, and guess what the text is about. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP A. It’s a story about a disaster. B. It’s a story about great changes. C. It’s a story about a sleepless night. D. It’s a story about the building of a city. Pre-reading personification 拟人 Read the passage and fill in the blanks 1. It is about _____hit _____ at night in _____and caused _____. a big earthquake Tangshan 1976 great damage 2. What’s the type of this article News report Novel Literary journalism A magazine 文学新闻（literary journalism）是一种融合文学叙事技巧与新闻事实的独特文体，既强调对事件真相的忠实记录，又注重通过艺术化表达传递深层意义。其核心在于通过细腻的描写、情感渲染和多维视角的叙事，赋予新闻事件更强的社会洞察力与人文价值。文学新闻在坚持真实原则的同时，需要与新闻报道的简练和文学创作的虚构相区别. Read the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end. Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. Hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet. While-reading Para1 Para2 Para3 Para4 Para5 According to the passage,we can divide the text into three parts. Para 1 Signs before the earthquake. Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 What happened during the earthquake and the damage caused by the earthquake. The rescue work and revival of the city after the earthquake. The passage is organized in the order of _____. time 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 3:00a.m, on 28 July 1976, bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. Bu ... ...
