UnitTheStoryofanEyewitness[最新].pptVIP

The story of an eyewitness by Jack London * San Francisco after earthquake * San Francisco after earthquake * San Francisco after earthquake * Para. 1 1. Find powerful but negative words used by the writer to describe the result of the earthquake. 2. Find the repetition of a word to describe the result of the earthquake. 3. What did the writer want to tell us by using these words? 4. What were in the city before the earthquake? What kind of a city it was before the earthquake? * Powerful but negative words are: never and nothing 1. Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed. A city has never before been so completely destroyed in history. 2. Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city. Nothing of the city but … and … is left. * The repetition of the word is gone 1. San Francisco is gone. 2. Its businesses are gone. 3. The factories, hotels and palaces are gone too. 4. All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the 30 seconds the city moved. Man had made ways to keep the city safe. The city moved in that 30 seconds. * 2. What did the writer want to tell us by using these words? The writer wanted to make it clear that the earthquake had completely destroyed the city of San Francisco, which gives readers an impression (印象) of entire hopelessness. * 3. What were in the city before the earthquake? What kind of a city it was before the earthquake? Before the earthquake there were businesses, factories, hotels, palaces, railways and great pipes for carrying water. It was a busy, rich, convenient, comfortable and safe city. But now everything is gone. * Para. 2 Find parallel sentences in this paragraph and try to understand the sentences. 1. A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few addresses. 2. A list of the brave men and women would fill a library. 3. A list of all those killed wil