《Unit4Earthquakes》.ppt

1.Do you like sleeping? 2.What makes you not sleep well at night? A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP Fast reading What does the passage mainly talk about? An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976 Match the main idea of each part of the passage. paragrah Main idea para1 The world was at an end.The earthquake hit the city. para2 The damage of city in the earthquake. para3 The rescue to the city. para4 Some strange things happened before the earthquake. Carefulreading Main Idea Details ________ things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei. The water in the wells ____ and ______. A _______ gas came out of the cracks. The chickens and pigs were too ________ to _____. Fish ________out of the bowls and ponds. Mice _____ out of the fields. At ______ am on July 28, 1976, people saw ________ _______ in the sky. signs before Earthquake Para.1 Fill in the blanks Strange rose fell smelly nervous eat jumped ran 3:00 bright lights Main Idea Details At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the 20th century began . _______ burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of the rock became rivers of ____. ________ covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Two _______ and most of the bridges fell. The railway tracks were now _________pieces of _______. ______ now filled the wells instead of water. Water,food,and ______________ were hard to get. Damage caused by earthquake Para. 2-3 Fill in the blanks 3:42 greatest Steam dirt Bricks dams useless steel Sand electricity 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