to Mr Xue’s class Unit4 Earthquakes A Night The Earth Didn’t Sleep

Step I :Lead-in Have you ever experienced any natural disaster? Look at the pictures. Can you guess what they are?

fire

mudflow

volcano

Flood

Earthquake

sandstorm

Natural disasters Fire Volcano Mudflow Sandstorm Flood Earthquake

Wenchuan Earthquake Can you describe how terrible the earthquake was?

The city lay in ruins. 破败不堪

Unit4 Earthquake

learning Aims : 1. Read this passage and get the main idea of it. 2. Find out the topic sentence of eachparagraph and try to divide the passage into three parts. 3. Retell this passage

Step II: Reading Where ： _____________ When ： ______________ How many people were killed or injured: ______________ Tangshan At 3:42 am on July 28,1976 More than 400,000 Fast reading: Earthquake happened

Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and try to divide the passage into three parts. Careful reading

Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: signsdamagerescue choose one word to describe each part para 1 para 2&3 para 4

before the earthquake Part 1 ( signs )

Signs of an earthquake: 1) Bright lights flash in the sky. 3) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas. 4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc. 5) Mice run out to look for places to hide. 6) Fish jump out of the ponds. 2) The water in the well rise and fall.

During the earthquake Part 2 (damage)

Data ( 数据 )  ______ of the nation felt the earthquake.  A huge crack that was __ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses.  In ___ terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.  ____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.  The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than ________.  All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _____ of its homes were gone. 1/ /3 400,000 75% 90%

After the earthquake Part 3 (rescue)

Answer the following questions according to paragraph Who came to help the rescue workers? -Soldiers 2.What did the army do? -The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.

3.What did the workers do? ---Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Step III: Retell the story.

____________ happened in Tangshan. 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 fellcracks smelly gas nervous shake at an endOne-third feltA huge crack in ruins

Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tangshan. 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 lost Soldiers breathe again survivors

Discuss Discuss Team work How can we protect ourselves ( 自我保护 ) in an earthquake? Step IV:

Hide under the hard furniture ( 家具 ). Put out the fire and turn off the gas.

Use something hard ( 硬的 ) to protect your head. Never try to use the lift.

Life is so beautiful, We must love our lives. In an earthquake, SPEED IS LIFE. Learn to help each other Step V: Summarise

1.Read the text again, and try to retell it. 2.Find out the difficult sentences in the passage. Step IV: Homework