2. Earthquake －－ by Stella

3. How many Nature Disasters do you know? typhoon tornado, tornado, hurricane hurricane seismic sea wave / tsunami

4. volcanic eruption sand storm thunderstorm

5. floods drought mud-rock flow

6. earthquake

7. What do you know about earthquake? When some plates of the earth move suddenly, an earthquake happens. When an earthquake happens, great damage will be made and many people will be killed. Generally speaking, something strange will happen before an earthquake happens.

8. What do you think will happen before an earthquake?

9. Bright lights flash in the sky

10. The water in the well rise and fall The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas

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

12. Predictions 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;

13. A terrible earthquake happened in India.

14. Tangshan

15. Tangshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976

16. Reading

17. 1.How many parts can this text be divided into? And what is the main idea of each part? 2. Which is true according to the text? A. Before the earthquake, the chickens didn’t eat because they were nervous. B. After the earthquake the people in Tangshan lost hope because no one help them. C. The number of people who were killed or injured was 400,000 D.No one noticed anything strange happening before the earthquake. 3. Exercise 1 on page 27 ☆ Fast reading

18. 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.

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

20. 2. Which is true according to the text? A. Before the earthquake, the chickens didn’t eat because they were nervous. B. After the earthquake the people in Tangshan lost hope because no one help them. C. The number of people who were killed or injured was 400,000 D. No one noticed anything strange happening before the earthquake.

21. Join the correct parts of the sentences. 2 The people didn’t worry because 1 The chickens didn’t eat because C they were nervous. E they didn’t know what the strange events meant.

22. 3 Such a great number of people died because 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.

23. ★ Careful reading: Fill in the form Information about Tangshan Earthquake the time and the place 1. It happened on ______ 28, in Tangshan in ______ Province. something before the earthquake 2. The water in the _____ rose and fell over and over. 3. The well wall had deep _______ in them and a smelly _______ came out. 4. Some ________ became abnormal ( 异常 ). 5. The sound of planes could be heard and water pipes cracked and ________ July Hebei wells cracks gas animals burst

24. the damages of the earthquake 6. The number of people killed or injured in the earthquake reached over _________. 7. Many people died or were ________ and many children became orphans. Nearly everything was_________. 400000 injured destroyed

25. 1. What lessons should we learn from Tangshan Earthquake? 2. What would you do if an earthquake happened? ★ Discussion

26. We should make more people knowledge about earthquake. Although we cannot stop earthquakes, we can do things to make sure they do not destroy whole cities. First, don’t build houses along the lines where two of the earth’s plates join together. Second, build houses on rock not on sand. Third, make the houses as strong as possible. Key to question 1

27. ★ Homework 1.Retell the text in your own words. 1.Exercises 1-4 on page 28