Unit 4 2nd Period Earthquakes Hongling Middle School Liu Xiaohua

Revision Reading Comprehending Practice

Check homework

Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? Discussion Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?

Reading Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP? Why were so many people killed or injured? What does the sentence “ Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?

1. What natural signs of a coming disaster were there? 2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed? 3. What events probably made the disaster worse? 4. What situations probably made the disaster 5. How were the survivors helped?

Comprehending

Part 1 Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Part 2 Paragraph 3 Part 3 Paragraph 4 Look at the each part and write down its main idea. Part 1 Paragraph 1 Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them. Paragraph 2 Part 2 Paragraph 3 The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much. Part 3 Paragraph 4 The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.

Language points

Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. imagine: form a mental picture imagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl. imagine sb. to be shake : cause to move to and fro right away : at once ; in no time ; immediately right now : at this very moment Make up your mind___________. I’ll return the book___________. right now right away

The walls had deep _______ in it. 2. The water in the village well ______ ______ _______. rose and fell cracks The walls had deep _______ in it.

Compare: rise & raise He ______from his chair when the door bell rang. Her job is _________chickens. Her temperature is still________. He ______________in rank recently. rose raising rising has risen

3. A ______ gas came ____ ____ the cracks smelly out of smelly : having a noticeable, usually unpleasant odor smell+ y = adj. smell n./v (smelt/ smelled) They were all hungry and the food ______good. I can ______something burning in the kitchen. Please throw the _______fish away. The house _______of paint. smelt smell smelly smells

Compare: cracked burst 4. water pipes in some buildings________and _______. cracked burst burst : to come open or fly apart suddenly The balloon suddenly burst. burst into + n. Some robbers burst into that house. burst out burst out + doing They burst out laughing. Compare:

burst into+ n. burst out + doing…… He burst into laughter. = He burst out laughing He burst into tears. = He burst out crying.

5 . But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed as usual that night. ( Non- Defining Attributive Clauses ) Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to like your deepest….. (Unit 1 ) ……because those who ruled England at that time spoke French. ( Unit 2 ) The plains where rice grows. ( Unit 3 ) ( Defining Attributive Clause )

at an end 6. It seemed that the world was __ ____ _____. Compare: at the end of , by the end of , in the end 1. His father will return home ______________ this year. 2. He will be a scientist ____________. 3. How many English words had you learned ______________ last term? at the end of in the end by the end of

dirt Hard hills of rock became rivers of ______. cracks A large number of buildings were_____ burnt Hard hills of rock became rivers of ______. dirt cracks A huge _______ that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut ______houses and roads across

ruins Compare: ruin ; destroy ; damage 8. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in_______. ruins lie (lay, lain ): to be, remain or be kept in a certain state in ruins : severely damaged or destroyed Compare: ruin ; destroy ; damage The village _____in ruins after the war. These machines have _____idle since the factory closed. An earthquake left the whole town_________. His career is__________. lay lain in ruins in ruins

Everywhere they looked nearly everything was _________. destroyed He __________ his girl friend’s prospects ruined Soft wood ________easily. damages

two-thirds= two thirds 9. Two-thirds of the people died or were ________ during the earthquake. injured two-thirds= two thirds More than 61% of the surface of the surface of the earth ____covered by water. Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ______young. is are injure: to hurt oneself / sb / sth. physically

Compare: injure ; hurt ; wound Their criticisms _________him deeply. Smoking will _________his health. He was slightly ________in the car accident. He got ___________in the fighting. What you said ________my feeling. have hurt injured injured wounded hurt

Bricks shocked ________covered the ground like autumn leaves. People were _________. shocked

10. The number of people who were killed or injured _______ more than 400,000. reached reach : to achieve of obtain sth. 11. Some of the ________workers and doctors were _______under the ruins. rescue trapped rescue : (n) an act of rescuing or being rescued rescue : (v) to save or set free from harm, danger, or loss trap : (v) in a place form which one wants to escape but cannot

12.People began to ________how long the disaster would last. wonder wonder : v. A. to have a feeling of surprise. B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt. n. one that arouses astonishment, surprise ; admiration It is no wonder (that )= No wonder (that) ---Tom often works deep into the night every day. ---No wonder he always gets first in the examinations.

13. All hope was not lost. all…not … = not all….: some but not all Not all the children are left. (= Only some of them left early.) Not all the children are noisy. (= Some of the children are not noisy.)  none of ….. None of us were allowed to go there. None of these reports is very helpful.

The railway tracks were_______pieces of ______. useless steel The army _________ teams to ______ _______ those were trapped and to_____ the dead organized dig out bury

14. … bury the dead. bury : A. to place in the ground: B. to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb: The dog buried the bone in the ground. I buried myself in my studies. bury oneself in = be buried in devote oneself to = be devoted to

People became__________ as a ______of the earthquake People became__________ as a ______of the earthquake. They had to look for ______ from the earthquake with their__________ things. homeless result shelters necessary

Some of the _______ workers and doctors were __________under the ______. rescue ruins trapped

To the north of the city,most of the100,000 miners were _____ _____ the ____ ____. rescued from coal mines

Workers built ________ for _______ whose homes had been destroyed. shelters survivors

Practice

Do you know? the water in the village wells rise and fall a deep crack come out of in the farmyard too nervous to eat look for place to hide bright lights in the sky the water pipes one million people of the city think little of Do you know?

rivers of dirt in ruins reach more than be destroyed as usual begin to shake at an end directly below the city one -third of the nation eight km long thirty km wide cut across houses steam burst from holes on/in the ground hard hills of rock

bricks covered the ground red autumn leaves be not safe for traveling tens of thousands half a million instead of be shocked rescue workers and doctors be trapped under the ruins begin to wonder all hope dig out the people who were trapped bury the death coal mines build shelters begin to breathe again

Farmers’ wives noticed that the well had deep cracks in them. 2. It seemed that the world was at an end. 3. Bricks covered the ground like read autumn leaves. 4. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. 5.. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. P 26

Homework Do exercises on page 27—28. Do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( Learning about language) Do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( Using words and expressions)