How many Nature Disasters do you know? typhoon tornado, tornado, hurricane hurricane seismic sea wave / tsunami

fire Natural Disasters

flood

typhoon

snow slide ( 雪崩 )

volcano ( 火山 )

mudflow

sandstorm

earthquake

volcanic eruption sand storm thunderstorm

1) Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? 2) What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?

Bright lights flash in the sky

Animals are too nervous, such as cows, dogs, horses, and snakes, etc.

Predictions of an earthquake: 1) Bright lights flash in the sky; 3) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas; 4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc; 5) Mice run out to look for places to hide; 6) Fish jump out of the ponds. 2) The water in the well rise and fall;

An Earthquake

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Paragraph 4 Pacific plate North South West East American plate Earthquake Happens

Unit 4

Reading

1.What is the text mainly about ? 2.How does the writer organize the text? According to place, importance or time? 3.How will you divide the text into 3 parts? Fast reading

1.What is the text mainly about? A.Soldiers in Tangshan B.An earthquake in Tangshan C.People in Tangshan D.Love in Tangshan

2. The text is organized in the order of _______. A. Place B. Time C. Importance D. Character

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2&3 Paragraph 4 Part1Part2 Part3 Strange things happened before the earthquake. The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan. The army came to help the rescue work. Main idea of the text

What things are strange before the earthquake?

ThingsWhat happened water in the well well walls chickens and pigs mice fish sky sound water pipes rose and fell deep cracks, smelly gas ran out of, looking for places to hide too nervous to eat jumped out bright lights sound of planes heard even no planes cracked and burst What strange things happened to them?

Part 2 Read and answer the following questions

What time did the earthquake happen? At about ___________ Where did the earthquake begin? _____________directly below the city How long did the earthquake last? _______ seconds. 15 3:42 am 11 kilometers Please listen to Part 2 and then answer the following questions.

What things are in ruins? houses roads canals ground hills people hospitals factories buildings bricks dams bridges In ruins

What damage did the earthquake cause?

A huge crack that was 8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.

The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.

All of the city’s hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone.

Two dams and most of the bridges fell or were not safe for travelling.

Railway tracks are now useless pieces of steel.

chickens/pigs Wells Rescue workers/doctors Water,food, electricity More damage caused by the quake It seemed as if the world was at an end!!! die filled with sand trapped hard to get

1 help the rescue workers 2 dig out the people who were trapped 3 bury the dead 4 save the coal miners 5 build shelters for survivors 6 transport the water Who went into the city? rescue workers, army, soldiers, doctors, nurses, volunteers …… What did the soldiers and rescue workers do for the city? All hope was not lost.

Practice Choose a paragraph and act out an interview between a reporter and a survivor from the Tangshan Earthquake. I ’ m a reporter from CCTV. May I ask you some questions?

Homework 1. Retell the story according to the text. strange things damage rescue ———| ——————— |————|———→ before… during… after…