unit four : earthquake
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Unit Four : Earthquake. Period Two: Reading. What has happened?. 2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Unit Four : Earthquake
Period Two: Reading
What has happened?
2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?
Before an quake, animals will become nervous. Cows, pigs, horses and dogs will be upset. Mice will run about and fish will jump out of water. In winter, people can even see snakes. So earthquake is predictable.
1.move quickly from side to side or up and down
2.a deep place to store water to drink
3.structure built to give protection from rain
wind or attack
4.save or bring away from danger
5.cause to break violently open or apart
6.the part of a building left after the rest has
been damaged
7.damage so badly that it no longer exits or works
8.event that causes great harm or damage
9.channel cut through land or boats or ships to
Travel along,or carry water for irrigation
shake
well
shelter
rescue
break
ruins
destroy
disaster
canal
10.sudden violent movement of the earth’s surface
11.gas that hot water gives out
12.violent blow or shake;worried or frightened
13.new or different;newly made,produced
14.source of pride and pleasure
15.a special wall that keeps water behind it
16.black material found underground used
for burning to supply heat
17.baked or dried clay used for building
18.having a bad smell
earthquakesteam
shock
fresh
honour
dam
coal
brick
smelly
3. Read the text and pay special attention to the first
sentence of each paragraph p27 ex 3(1) The main idea of the first paragraph is:
Before the quake. strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.
(2) The main idea of the second and third paragraphs is:
During the earthquake, the city was destroyed and people were killed or injured. Shortly after the quake, the disaster lasted.
(3)the main ides of the last paragraph is:After the quake, the army came to help, bringing hope for a new life.
Detail reading
What strange events happened before the earthquake in Tang Shan?
In the well
In the farmyard
In the sky
In the city
well water, cracks ,smelly gas
chickens, pigs , mice , fish
bright light ,the sound of planes
water pipes
nervous to eat, run out to hide ,jump
cracked and burst
rose and fell, came out ofrose and fell, came out of
What do all the numbers referred to in the 2nd passage? What do you feel?
3:4211 kilometres 20th century100 kilometres 1/3 8 kilometres 30 metres 15 seconds thousands of 400,000
began to shakebelow the city, under ground
the greatest earthquake of …heard away from Beijing
1/3 nation felt this earthquake the crack was this long the crack was this wide
the earthquake only last so shortfamilies killed ,left without…people were killed or injured
The numbers in passage 3 75%
90%
two
tens of thousands of
half a million
millions of Chickens died
The factories and buildings were gone.
The homes were gone.
Dams fell .
Pigs died
The cows never give milk again.
1.From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?
• Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what had happened?
3. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN”T SLEEP?
He uses third-person to describe the quake. For example, “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.”
Although thewriter was not there, he felt sad for the people of Tangshan. With some feeling, he will make the reading more interesting.
Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safeand quiet. But That night everything changed. It was a terrible and unusual night.
Read again and try to appreciate the language of the passage:
For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.
It seemed that the world was at an end!
Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
Slowly, very slowly, the city began to breathe again.
Repetition: to make a deeper impression on the reader
Exaggeration: to draw people’s attention to the seriousness of the disaster.
Simile: to create a vivid image.
Personification: to form a vivid image.
4.What was Tangshan like after the earthquake?
Filling the blacks with the first given letter:
Several days before July 28,1976,many s______things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_______. But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think m_______of these. At 3:42am that day,the earth began to s________,which d_________the city. Many people,including workers and doctors,came to r_______those t_________under the ruins. Later that afternoon,another big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings f________down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. T________were organized to dig out the trapped and b________the dead.
trangearthquake
uchhake estroyed
escue rapped
elleams
ury
Homework:
Find the sentences with attributive
clauses and put them into Chinese.