1、,Unit 4,Earthquakes,What do you think of Mr. Nature?,Mr. Nature,emotional （情绪化的）,When he is cheerful,Natural Disasters,When he gets angry,How many Nature Disasters do you know?,typhoon,seismic sea wave / tsunami,tornado, hurricane,thunderstorm,sand storm,volcanic eruption,drought,flood,hurricane,fir
2、e,earthquake,Natural Disasters,fire,earthquake,tsunami 海啸,typhoon (hurricane),drought,tornado龙卷风,volcano eruption,landslide 山体滑坡,flood,avalanche雪崩,mudflow 泥石流,sandstorm,What happened?,Can you describe how terrible the earthquake was?,2008. 5. 12,Wenchuan Earthquake,The buildings fell down.,倒塌,Roads
3、cracked.,裂开,The town lay in ruins.,破败不堪,Many people were killed or injured.,受伤的,A great number of people lost their homes.,许多，大量,Tangshan, Hebei,July 28th, 1976,Pre-reading,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,The water in the wells _a
4、nd_. And some deep _could be seen in the well walls. A_ gas came out the cracks.,A,rose,fell,cracks,smelly,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,B,Mice ran out of the fields_ places to hide. Fish _out of bows and ponds.,looking for,jumped,What do you think may happen before an earthquak
5、e?,C,The chickens and even pigs were_ nervous _eat.The dog was_ loudly again and again.,too,to,barking,D,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,People could see _lights in the sky.,bright,Bright lights flash in the sky,震前动物有预兆，群测群防很重要。 牛羊骡马不进圈，猪不吃食狗乱咬。 鸭不下水岸上闹，鸡乱上树高声叫。 冰天雪地蛇出洞，大猫携着小猫跑。 兔
6、子竖耳蹦又撞，鱼跃水面惶惶跳。 蜜峰群迁闹轰轰，鸽子惊飞不回巢。 家家户户都观察，综合异常作预报。,THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP,A NIGHT,Reading,Time: Place: Disaster:,July 28, 1976,Tangshan, Hebei,A big earthquake,Main idea:,An earthquake happenedin Tangshan on July 28, 1976,Paragraph 1,Paragraph 2&3,Paragraph 4,Strange things happened before the earthqu
7、ake.,The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan.,The army came to help the rescue work.,Main idea of the text,Part 1,What things are strange before the earthquake?,well,deep cracks, smelly gas,too nervous to eat,ran out , looking for places to hide,bright lights,jumped out,sound of planes heard e
8、ven no planes,rose and fell,The one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.,Part 2 Damage caused by the earthquake.What damage did the earthquake cause?Find out sentences from the text to match the following pictures.,A huge crack that was 8 k
9、ilometers long and 30 meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.,All of the citys hospitals ,75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone.,Two dams and most of the bridges fell or were not safe for travelling.,The number of people who were killed or injured reached more th
10、an 400,000.,The suffering of the people was extreme. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.,suffering,extreme.,Railway tracks are now useless pieces of steel.,chickens/pigs Wells Rescue workers/doctors Water ,food,electricity,More damage caused by the quake,It see
11、med as if the world was at an end!,died,filled with sand,trapped,hard to get,1 help the rescue workers 2 the people who were trapped 3 the dead 4 the coal miners 5 build shelters for 6 the water,Who went into the city?,What did the soldiers and rescue workers do for the city?,All hope was not lost.,
12、Part3,dig out,bury,save,survivors,transport,Slowly the city began to breathe again,Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one paid attention to them. The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan. The people were very shocked at the destruction. The army came to help the survivo
13、rs, bringing hope for a new life.,Summary of each part,Retelling,An _ happened in Tangshan in 1976. For a few days, water in the wells _. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became _. And the water pipes in the buildings cracked and _. But the people in Tangshan _ these events. At 3:42 am, everything
14、began to _. It seemed that the world was _.,rose and fell,earthquake,nervous,burst,thought little of,shake,at an end,Retelling,A huge _ cut across the houses and roads, then the city lay _. Two-thirds of the people _or were _. Then later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan. People began to wonder how long _. But _ was not lost. Soldiers came to help Tangshan people. Slowly, the city began to _again.,crack,in ruins,died,injured,the disaster would last,all hope,breathe,Life is beautiful. We must love our lives. In an earthquake , SPEED IS LIFE.,
