Earthquakes课件17.ppt

* * Reading Fast reading What does the passage mainly talk about? An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976 Sum up the main idea of each part of the passage. (use one word to describe) Part 1: para 1 Part 2: para 23 Part 3: para 4 signs damage recovery Para 1 Signs before the earthquake Strange things No one noticed them. The water in the well rose and fell. The well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas The pigs and the chickens mice and fish In the sky The water pipe came out of the cracks. were too nervous to eat. mice came out of fields; fish jumped out of bowls and ponds. people saw bright lights. cracked and burst. Para2-3 Damage caused by the earthquake. The city The people It seemed as if the world was at an end. At _____ am, the __________ earthquake of the 20th century began . A huge crack _________ houses, roads and canals. Steam ________ 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. 3:42 greatest cut across burst from dirt Bricks dams useless steel Sand electricity The suffering of the people was_______. _______ of families were killed and many children were _________. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were _______ under the ruins. extreme Thousands without parents trapped 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 of its homes were gone.