Transcript 必修一第四单元 Warming up Reading 课件.ppt

Unit 4 Earthquakes
Warming up & Reading
Lead-in
Look at the pictures,
can you name all the
disasters?
flood
fire
Volcanic eruption
snow storm
mud-rock
earthquake
Let’s enjoy a video and look at
something about the
earthquake .Then think about
what will happen in an
earthquake ?
• The earth will shake;
• The roads will be destroyed;
• The buildings will fall down;
• Many people will be killed
or injured;
• Many children will become
orphans.
The deadly earthquake attacked Wenchuan county of
Sichuan Province
• A major earthquake
measuring 8.0 Richter
Scale attacked
Wenchuan County of
Sichuan province at
14:28:04 on 12 May
2008. The epicenter of
the quake was located
31.0 degrees north
latitude and 103.4
degrees east longitude. It
is believed to be the
largest earthquake since
1949.
Earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai
• The earthquake
caused thousands of
mainly mud brick and
wooden homes to
collapse in the Yushu
region of Qinghai, a
rugged area
populated by ethnic
Tibetans.
An earthquake hit Haiti on January
12th, 2010
Unit 4
Tang shan, Hebei
July 28th, 1976
Tangshan’s new look
Guess:
What may happen before an
earthquake?
There is bright light in the sky
The animals were too nervous
to sleep, such as dog , cows,
pigs, horses, and chickens
Fish jumped out of
bowls and ponds.
Mice ran out of
the fields
There were cracks
on the wells.
The water in the well
rose and fell.
Ⅰ.单词识记
earthquake
1．____________/'əː
θkweIk/n.地震
2．____________/bəː
st/vi.&n.爆裂，爆发
burst
million
3．____________/'mIljən/n.百万
event
4．____________/I'vent/n.事件，大事
nation
5．____________/'neIʃ
ən/n.国家；民族；国民
苦难，痛苦
6．suffering/'sʌ fərIŋ/n.___________________
记者
7．reporter/rI'pɔ ː tə/n.________
轨道，足迹
8．track/træk/n.________________
无用的，无效的
9．useless/'juː slIs/adj.______________
矿，矿井
10．mine/maIn/n.________________
miner
/'maInə/n.________矿工
Fast-reading:
Listen to the tape and answer the
following question.
Was the hope
lost after the
earthquake?
And why?
reading.mp3
Scanning
Ⅰ.Scan the passage and find out the topic
sentence of each paragraph.
Para 1
Strange things were happening in
the countryside of northeast Hebei.
Para 2
Everything began to shake and it
seemed as if the world was at an end.
Everywhere they looked nearly
everything was destroyed.
Para 3
Para 4
All hope was not lost.
Question:
How many parts do you think
this reading text should be
divided into?
The Structure of the text
A night
the earth
didn’t
sleep
Part1:
Part2
Part3
Before the earthquake
During the earthquake
After the earthquake
(Para1)
(Para2-Para3)
(Para4)
Strange things
the water in the
village wells
the well walls
the chickens and
pigs
mice
fish
rose and fell
had deep cracks and a
smelly gas came out
were too nervous to eat
ran out of the fields ,
looking for places to hide.
jumped out of bowls and
ponds
Details
Para.
2-3
greatest earthquake of
1.At 3:42
_____ am, the __________
the 20th century began .
2._______
Steam burst from holes in the ground.
3.Hard hills of the rock became rivers of dirt
____.
Bricks covered the ground like red
4.________
autumn leaves.
dams and most of the bridges fell.
5.Two _______
useless
6.The railway tracks were now ________pieces
steel
of _______.
Sand now filled the wells instead of water.
7.______
8.Water,food,and electricity
__________ were hard to get.
Para. 2-3
Data(数据)
1/3 of the nation felt the earthquake .
_______
 A huge crack that was_____kilometres
long and
8
_____
30 metres wide cut across houses.
In_______terrible
seconds a large city lay in
15
ruins.
_______
2/3 of the people died or were injured
during the earthquake.
Thousands of
________________families
were killed and many
children were left without parents.
 The number of people who were killed or
injured reached more than 400,000 .
All of the city’s hospitals,75%
______of its
factories and buildings and_______
90% of its
homes were gone.
Tens of thousands of cows would
 ________________________
never give milk again.
Half a million pigs and millions
 _______________
_________of
chickens had died.
Para. 4
All hopes were not lost.
Recovery after the earthquake
Daily necessity
The army went to
Tangshan after the were dropped
from the plane.
earthquake.
Miners were
rescued from
the coal mines
there.
1.People in Tangshan were warned of the
earthquake and didn’t go to bed that night.
2.People in Beijing also felt the earthquake.
3.More than 400 000 people were killed in the
quake.
4.Many rescue workers and doctors were
trapped under the ruins during the aftershock.
5.People tried to get fresh water from under
the ground in Tangshan.
Reading test
B
1. This passage is mainly about____.
A. The people in the city didn’t sleep at all
B. An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976
C. The number of people who were killed or injured
in the earthquake
D. The cause of the earthquake
2. What did people see at about 3:00am on July
28?
A. Smelly gas come from the cracks.
B. Fish jump out of their bowls and ponds
C. Mice run to look for places to hide
D. Bright lights in the sky
3. Which is true according to the text?
A
A. Before the earthquake, the chickens didn’t eat because they were
nervous
B. After the quake the people in Tangshan lost hope because no one
helped them
C. The number of people who were killed or injured was 400000
D. No one noticed anything strange happening before the earthquake
c
4. The title A night the earth didn’t sleep means_______
A. The earth was awake all night long
B. People in the earth couldn’t fall asleep that night
C. The earth shook like crazy that night
D. Animals on the earth would not sleep that night.
Post-reading: Retell the story
____________
Strange
things happened in Tang Shan. For
a few days, water in the wells _____________.
rose and fell
From the ______
smelly gas
cracks of wells __________come
out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became
nervous At 3:00 am, everything began to
________.
______.
shake It seemed that the world was
at an end _________
felt it.
_________.
One-third of the nation ____
A___________
huge crack cut across the city. The city lay
_______.
in ruins
Two-thirds of the people _____
died or
___________.
were injured Then later that afternoon,
another big quake ______
shook Tang Shan.
People began to wonder
___________________________.
how long the disaster would last But all
hope ____________.
was not lost _______
Soldiers came to
help those ________.
survivors Slowly, the city
breathe again
began to _____________.
What shall we do if an earthquake happens?
 Don’t
be nervous and
keep calm.
• Don’t try to run out of
the classroom.
• Protect your head by
putting your bag on
your head.
• Sit down under your
desk.
• Leave the classroom
after the earthquake.
Homework:
Finish exercises on page27,28