Unit 4 Warming up

Look at the two photos. What can you see in them ？

What might happen to all these things if there was an earthquake? What might happen to all these things if there was an earthquake?

Buildings will _________________ crack and burst.

The railway tracks will ____________________________________ become useless pieces of steel.

The bridge will ____________________________________ fall and be not safe for traveling.

Roads will____________. crack

There might be________ all over the city. The electricity was ______for several days too. fires cut off

What do you think of the earthquakes ? It is a disaster, and it’s very destructive and terrible. * disaster : 灾难，祸患 * destructive ：破坏性的

Can we foretell （预言） an earthquake so that we can take measures to reduce the damages? How

Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? There is often a great sound. There are bright lights in the sky. Water of the well may rise and fall. A smelly gas may come out of the well. Animals may be too nervous to eat. Water pipes crack and burst.

Bright lights flash in the sky.

Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc.

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Pre-reading: Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why?

我国地震分布

A terrible earthquake happened in India.

Tangshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976

Tangshan’s new look

Join the correct parts of the sentences. Do a fast-reading of the passage. 2 Before the earthquake the people they didn’t worry because 1 The chickens didn’t eat because C they were nervous. E they didn’t know the quake caused the strange events.

3 Such a great number of people 4 Water was needed because 5 The people did not lose hope because D dams and wells were useless. B the quake happened while they were sleeping. A the army came to help them.

___ Brick buildings were destroyed. ___ The walls of the village wells had cracks in them. ___ Shelters were put up for those with no homes. ___ Roads got huge cracks. ___ The army helped the survivors. Listen to the passage and number each of these things happened during the Tangshan earthquake.

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Look at the each part and write down its main idea. Part 1 Part 2 Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them. The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.

Paragraph 4Part 3 The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.

Retell the story according to the text. sign damage rescue ———|————|————|———→ before… during… after…

Retell the story Retell the story ____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______.It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________cut across the city. The city lay _______. Strange things rose and fell cracks smelly gas nervous shake at an end One-third felt A huge crack in ruins

Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ___________________________. But all hope ____________. _______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________. died were injured shook how long the disaster would last was not lostSoldiers breathe again survivors

What should we do to protect ourselves if an earthquake happened? Discussions

A B Hide under the hard furniture ( 家具 ) ． Don ’ t rush out without order ．

C Put out the fire, and turn off the gas. D Use something hard ( 硬的 ) to protect your head ．

E F Open the door when it begins to shake. Never try to use the lift.

What can we do to reduce the damage of earthquakes?

keys 1. Don’t build houses along the lines where two of the earth’s plates join together. 2. Build the houses on rock than on sand. 3. Make the houses as strong as possible, weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake.

1. Retell the whole text. 2. Finish off the exercise. Learning about language.