1. An Earthquake

2. Pre-reading Discussion
What kind of natural disasters (自然灾害) have you known?

3. Natural disasters
typhoon

4. Natural disasters
flood

5. Natural disasters
drought

6. Natural disasters
forest fire

7. volcano
Tornado
Tsunami
（海啸）

8. Tangshan earthquake and
San Francisco earthquake

9. 5:13 a.m. April 18th,1906, San Francisco

10. Today’s San Francisco
a big city, many tall buildings, large population

11. July 28th, 1976
M8.2 earthquake
Tangshan,

12. Today’s Tangshan
a beautiful city, beautiful gardens, broad roads, tall buildings.

13. It is always calm before a storm ！
（暴风雨前夕总是平静的 ）

14. What can you
learn from
this sentence?

15. 1.Look at the pictures and describe what you see.
2.What do you think may happen before an earthquake?

16. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?

18. Find out the warning signs
before an earthquake

19. Signs before the earthquake:
The water in the wells
____and____. And some
deep ______could be seen
in the well walls. A______
gas came out the cracks.
rose
fell
cracks
smelly

20. Signs before the earthquake: B
Mice ran out the
fields___________
places to hide.
Fish _________out
of bowls and ponds.
looking for
jumped

21. Signs before the earthquake: C
The chickens and
even pigs were______
nervous _____eat.
The dog was________
loudly again and again.
too to
barking

22. Signs before the earthquake:D
bright
People could see _______lights in the sky.

23. Discussion:
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?

24. Possible items for you to take personal washing things
bottle of water
candles
（蜡烛）
money
identity card
（身份证）
bowls and chopsticks
important papers
food and sweets
personal washing things
umbrella
book
torch
(手电筒）
clothes
fruits
pen & paper
shoes
knife
scissors
（剪刀）
radio
blanket
mobile phone
map
computer
pictures of family
medicine

25. Discussion What shall we do if an earthquake happens? nervous
Don’t be _______ and keep calm.
Don’t try to ________
the classroom.
Protect your head by putting your bag________.
Squat （蹲）or sit down_______.
Leave the classroom _____the earthquake.
run out of
on your head
under the desk
after

26. Discussion
How to protect yourself during an earthquake?

27. Ways on self-rescue drop onto the ground keep away from _____________
the power lines

28. keep away from the signs
_____________
the buildings

29. Homework
1. Finish exercise 1 and 3 on P27