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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
shake
2.a deep place to store water to drink
well
3.structure built to give protection from rain
shelter
wind or attack
4.save or bring away from danger
rescue
5.cause to break violently open or apart
break
6.the part of a building left after the rest has
ruins
been damaged
7.damage so badly that it no longer exits or works
destroy
8.event that causes great harm or damage
disaster
9.channel cut through land or boats or ships to
Travel along,or carry water for irrigation
canal
10.sudden violent movement of the earth’s surface
11.gas that hot water gives out
earthquake
steam
12.violent blow or shake;worried or frightened
shock
13.new or different;newly made,produced
fresh
14.source of pride and pleasure
honour
15.a special wall that keeps water behind it
dam
16.black material found underground used
coal
for burning to supply heat
17.baked or dried clay used for building
brick
18.having a bad smell
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
well water, cracks ,smelly gas
rose and fell, came out of
chickens, pigs , mice , fish
nervous to eat, run out to hide ,jump
In the sky
In the city
bright light ,the sound of planes
water pipes
cracked and burst
What do all the numbers referred to in the
2nd passage? What do you feel?
3:42
11 kilometres
20th century
100 kilometres
1/3
8 kilometres
30 metres
15 seconds
thousands of
400,000
began to shake
below 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 short
families killed ,left without…
people were killed or injured
The numbers in passage 3
75%
The factories and buildings were gone.
90%
The homes were gone.
two
Dams fell .
tens of
thousands of
half a million
Pigs died
millions of
Chickens died
The cows never give milk again.
1.From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?
He uses third-person to describe the quake. For example,
“Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.”
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Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about
the quake rather than report what had happened?
Although thewriter was not there, he felt sad for the people of
Tangshan. With some feeling, he will make the reading more
interesting.
3. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN”T SLEEP?
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.
Repetition: to make a deeper impression on the reader
It seemed that the world was at an end!
Exaggeration: to draw people’s attention to the seriousness of the
disaster.
Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
Simile: to create a vivid image.
Slowly, very slowly, the city began to breathe again.
Personification: to form a vivid image.
4.What was Tangshan like after the earthquake?
Filling the blacks with the first given letter:
trange
Several days before July 28,1976,many s______things
arthquake
happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_______.
But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think
uch
m_______of
these. At 3:42am that day,the earth began to
hake
estroyed
s________,which
d_________the
city. Many
people,including workers and doctors,came to
escue
rapped
r_______those
t_________under
the ruins. Later that
afternoon,another big earthquake struck Tangshan. More
people were killed or injured and more buildings
ell
f________down.
Soldiers were called in to help the rescue
eams
workers. T________were
organized to dig out the trapped
ury
and b________the
dead.
Homework:
Find the sentences with attributive
clauses and put them into Chinese.