必修一 Unit 4 Earthquakes Language points Teaching goals Knowledge goals 1.Important words and phrases: extreme, destroy, brick, dam, track, useless, shock, rescue, trap, electricity, disaster, bury, mine, miner, shelter 2.Important sentences： （1）. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. P26 （2）. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. P26 Ability goals Enable the Ss to learn some important patterns. Emotional goals Enable the Ss to know more about earthquakes Teaching difficult and important points Teaching methods Learn the language points through situations given and practice， cooperative learning and speaking Class-exercise Language points Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. imagine: form a mental picture imagine + n. /pron. imagine sb. to be eg. Imagine yourself to be on a desert island. 2. right away: at once; in no time; immediately right now: at this very moment eg. Make up your mind right now. I’ll return the book right away. 3.A smelly gas came out of the cracks. smelly: smell + y = adj. smell n. / v. (smelt / smelled) 4. . … the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. 【寓词于境】 阅读下列句子，并试着 总结burst在句中的词性、含义及用法。 (1). The pipes had burst and the house was under two feet of water. (2). The police burst into the room and took the young man away. (3). Hearing the news, the woman burst into laughter. (4). She burst out crying for no reason, which surprised us. (5). There was a burst of laughter in the next room. burst作 ___ 词，意思是 _____（句1）；常用于短语 burst into + a room, building, etc. 闯入，突然破门而入（句2）；burst into + n. 突然爆发，突然……起来（句3）；burst out doing突然……（句4）。burst作 ___ 词，意思是 _____（句5），还可指“爆裂；破裂之处，裂口”。 5. It seemed as if the world was at an end! (1) as if 似乎，好像 = as though She spoke to me as if she knew me. 她和我说话的神情，好像她早就认识我似的。 (2) as if 在表语从句中相当于that: It seemed as if the meeting would never end. 看起来会议没完没了。 本文中as if 的用法就是第二种。 It seemed as if the world was at an end! = It seemed that the world was at an end! 辨析at the end of ；by the end of ；in the end at the end of 用于表示具体事物或场所的场合，它也可以用来表示比喻意; by the end of 用于表示时间的场合，到……结束的时候，用于过去完成时态; in the end 意思“最后、终于”。 6. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. lie (lay, lain): to be, remain or be kept in a certain state in ruins: severely damaged or destroyed 辨析ruin；destroy；damage ① damage 指部分“损坏”、“损害”、“破坏”或指使用价值有所降低。它可以用作动词, 也可以用作名词, 用作名词时常与to something连用。 eg. The accident did a lot of damage to his car. ② destroy 只能用作动词, 指彻底破坏, 以致不可能修复, 常作“破坏”、“毁灭”解, 也可以指希望、计划等打破。 eg. The earthquake destroyed almost the whole town. ③ ruin指对物体或生命彻底的破坏，但往往是非暴力 ... ...
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