内蒙古准格尔旗世纪中学高一英语人教版必修1课件：U4Reading.ppt

2 Work in pairs. Explain in your words what the writer means by the title “A night the earth didn’t sleep” to your partners. 3 Suppose you are a survivor of Tangshan earthquake. Try to tell your partner the strangest things that happened before the earthquake. 4 Suppose you are a volunteer in the Tangshan earthquake rescue team. Describe to your partners what you saw and heard. Think about the question “What should we do to protect ourselves if an earthquake happened?” after class. Unit 4 Earthquakes How many Nature Disasters do you know? typhoon seismic sea wave / tsunami tornado, hurricane thunderstorm sand storm volcanic eruption drought flood hurricane fire earthquake Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? Bright lights flash in the sky. Animals are too nervous. They run around a lot. The water in the well rise and fall. Mice run out to look for places to hide. Fish jump out of the ponds. Tangshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976 2008. 5. 12 Wenchuan Earthquake 2010. 4. 14 Yushu Earthquake Can you describe how terrible the earthquake was? The town lay in ruins. 破败不堪 The buildings fell down. 倒塌 Roads cracked. v. 开裂 Many people were killed or injured. adj. 受伤的 A great number of people lost their homes. 许多，大量 Work in pairs. 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? personal washing things a bottle of water money torch mobile phone food and sweets blanket medicine You will take Read the passage and finish the sentences. 1 The chickens didn’t eat because ___________________. 2 The people didn’t worry because ___________________________________ ____________. 3 Such a great number of people died because _____________________________ ___________________________. they were nervous they didn’t know what the strange events meant the quake happened while they were sleeping. 4 Water was needed