1、Mr Guos class,to,May 12th 2008,earthquake,natural disaster,(自然灾害),At 14:28 pm,More than 80,000 people died,frog,Thousands of frogs went across the streets,A Night the Earth Didnt Sleep,Unit4 earthquake,Aims :,1. Read this passage and get the main idea of it.,2. Find out the topic sentence of each pa
2、ragraph.,3. Retell this passage,Scanning,Where ：_ When ：_ How many people were killed or injured: _,Tangshan,At 3:42 am on July 28,1976,More than 400,000,Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and try to divide the passage into three parts.,skimming,Have you found them?,Strange things were ha
3、ppening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.,Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end.,Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.,All hope was not lost.,beginning,beginning,beginning,beginning,Divide this passage into three parts,Part 1: para 1,Part 2: para 2
4、&3,Part 3: para 4,signs,damage,rescue,choose one word to describe each part,Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.,Careful reading,before the earthquake,1,2,3,4,Part 1,(signs),1) Bright lights flashed in the sky. 2) The well had deep cracks in it. 3) Chickens were flying and
5、dogs were barking, and pigs and cows were too nervous to eat. 4) Fish jumped out of the pond, and mice ran out of the fields.,Signs before an earthquake:,During the earthquake,Part 2,(damage),Fill in the blanks according to paragraph 2 and 3:,1.At 3:42am everything began to _. 2.One third of the nat
6、ion _ it. 3.A huge crack_ houses,roads and canals. 4.Steam _ from holes in the ground. 5.Hard hills of rock became rivers of _. 6.Two thirds of the people died or _.,happening,1.Hospitals, factories and buildings were _. 2.Two dams and most of the bridges _. 3.The railway tracks were _ pieces of ste
7、el. 4.Cows would never give _again. 5.Pigs and chickens were _. 6.Sand_ the wells instead of water.,damage,shake,felt,cut across,burst,injured,gone,fell,useless,milk,dead,Part 2,filled,dirt,(Para 2),(Para 3),After the earthquake,Part 3,(rescue),Answer the following questions according to paragraph 4
8、:,1. Who came to help the rescue workers?,2.What did the army do?,Soldiers,The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.,Part 3,3.What did the workers do?,Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed .,Did you get it ?,The main idea of the pa
9、ssage,Something that happened before the earthquake, during the earthquake and after the earthquake,summary,Tang shans new look,Team work,Task1 : If an earthquake happens now, What shall we do ?,Task2 : If you have time to take one thing before an earthquake ,what would you want to take, why?,Discuss in your team,Homework,1.Read the text again, and try to retell it. 2.Find out the difficult sentences in the passage .,Thank you,
