1. Unit 4
2nd Period
Earthquakes
Hongling Middle School Liu Xiaohua

2. Revision
Reading
Comprehending
Practice

3. Check homework

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Comprehending

8. 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.

9. Language points

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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:

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

16. 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 )

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

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

21. 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

22. 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

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

24. 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

25. 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.

26. 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.

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

28. 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

29. 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

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

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

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

33. Practice

34. 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?

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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)