1、Unit4 Earthquake How many natural disasters do you know? typhoontornado fireflooddroughtSandstorm mudflowearthquakeDiscussionDo you know anything about earthquake?Do you know some earthquakes happened in China? What do you think will happen before an earthquake?What is the result after an earthquake

2、? Unit4 EarthquakeA night the earth didnt sleepA terrible earthquake happened in Tangshan.Fast ReadingWhich night? Where? What?Time: Place: Disaster: July 28, 1976Tangshan, HebeiA big earthquakeRead the text silently and quickly and try to get the information.Strange things were happening in thecoun

3、tryside of northeast Hebei.Everything began to shake. It seemedas if the world was at an end.Everywhere they looked nearlyeverything was destroyed.All hope was not lost. Divide the passage into three parts and find out the main idea of each part.Part 1( )Part 2( )Part 3( )Para.1Para.2-3Para.4Signs b

4、efore the earthquake.What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake.The rescue work after the earthquake.Structure of the whole passage order of the passagepart 1. （Para.1）(Para.2,3)(Para.4)part 2.part 3.signs ruin Recovery time order(before)(during)(after)careful reading Para.1 S

5、igns before the earthquake Listen to the tape and then answerWhat strange things happened before the earthquake?The water in the village wells _ _.The well walls had_ rose and fell, rose and fell deep cracks in them.A _ gas came out of the cracks.smellyThe chickens and even the pigs were too_to eat.

6、 nervousupset, worriedMice ran out of the fields_places to hide.Fish _out of bowls and ponds.looking forjumpedPeople could see _lights in the sky.bright The _ of planes could be heard even when no planes were in the sky. sound The water _ in some buildings _ and _.pipescrackedburstbreakPara.2,3 The

7、damages caused during the earthquake.Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks. 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 num

8、ber of people who were killed or injured reached more than .All of the citys hospitals, of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.1/3830152/3400,00075%90%Data (數據)Para.4 Rescue work after the earthquake.The army:Workers:_ soldiers to Tangshan to rescue workers;_ teams to _ those who

9、were trapped and to bury the dead._shelters for _ whose homes had been destroyed.sentorganizeddig outbuiltsurvivorsWhat does the last sentence“ Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean?A. The animals began to breathe.B. The city returned to normal gradually.C. People who were trapped(陷入困境的) ca

10、me to life. Several days before July 28, 1976, many s_ things happened in Tangshan. Well walls c_, water pipes brokeand b_, and animals were too nervous to eat. They were signs for the e_. But people in the city of Tangshan thought little of these. At 3:42 a.m. that day, the earth began to shake, which d_ the city. Later that afternoon, another big earthquake shook Tangshan. More people were killed or i_ and more buildings f_ down. The whole city lay in r_. Soldiers were sent to help the r_ workers. Teams were organized to dig out those who were t_ and b_ the dead.trangerackedurstarthquakee