Unit 4,Reading,Earthquakes,Teaching aims: 1. Learn some detailed information about an earthquake. 2. Improve the students reading ability. 3. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening. 4. Train the students speaking ability.,Important points: 1. The new words and expressions. 2. Learn some detailed information about an earthquake. 3. Train the students ability to cooperate with others. 4. Train the students speaking ability.,Difficult points: 1. Words: shake, burst, rise, destroy, shock, fresh, injure 2. Phrases: right away, at an end 3. Sentence patterns: (1) It seemed/ seems that (2) The number of sb./sth. Reached/reaches (3)All hope was not lost. 4. Improve the students reading ability. 5. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening,Tangshan is a beautiful city with gardens, wide roads.,San Francisco is a city with tall buildings thickly standing on the earth.,The two cities are both famous for their earthquakes.,Say something about these two cities.,Where does the city of Tangshan lie? Where does the city of San Francisco lie? 3. If your home begins to shake one day, what will you take with? Why?,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,People can see bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes can be heard outside even when no planes are in the sky.,Mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish will jump out of the bowls or ponds.,Chickens are flying and dogs are barking.and pigs and cows are too nervous to eat.,Farmers wives will notice that the well has deep cracks in it. And the water in it rises and falls.,井水是个宝，前兆来的早。无雨泉水浑，天早井水冒。 水位升降大，翻花冒汽泡。有的变颜色，有的变味道。 天变雨要到，水变地要闹。建立宏观网，异常快报告。,地 震 的 前 兆,Imagine there has been a big earthquake, what will happen to the things around us?,cracks, cut across houses, roads and canals, fall down, lie in ruins, destroy, damage,Listen and read after it. (words of this unit),Read the passage through and try to get the main idea of each part.,Sum up the main idea of each part of the passage. (try to use one word to describe first),Part 1: para 1,Part 2: para 2&3,Part 3: para 4,signs,damage,recovery,Before the earthquake, many strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.,PART 1: para 1,During the earthquake, the city was destroyed and people were killed or injured. Shortly after the quake, the disaster lasted.,PART 2: para 2&3,After the earthquake, the army came to help, bringing hope for a new life. And the city began to recover.,PART 3: para 4,Listen and read the passage carefully again. Pay attention to the new words and the numbers in it.,The writer uses third-person to describe the earthquake. For example, “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.”,1. From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?,After reading the passage, answer the questions below.,Although the writer was not there, he felt sad for the people of Tangshan. With some feeling, he will make the reading more interesting.,2. Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what had happened?,Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safe and quiet. But that night everything changed. It was a terrible and unusual night.,3. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP?,4. How were the people helped? The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. Miners were rescued from the coal mines. Shelters were built for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city.,What strange events happened before the earthquake in Tangshan?,well water, cracks, smelly gas,chickens, pigs, mice, fish,bright light, the sound of planes,water pipes,nervous to eat, run out to hide, jump,cracked and burst,rose and fell, came out of,Detail reading,What do the numbers referred to in the 2nd para?,began to shake,below the city, under ground,the greatest earthquake of ,heard away from Beijing,1/3 nation felt this earthquake,the crack was this long,the crack was this wide,the earthquake only last so short,families killed, left without,people were killed or injured,The numbers in para 3,Chickens died.,The factories and buildings were gone.,The homes were gone.,Dams fell.,Pigs died.,The cows never give milk again.,Several days before July 28, 1976, many s_things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_. But people in the city of Tangshan didnt think m_of these. At 3:42am that day, the earth began to s_, which d_the city.,Filling the blacks with the first given letter,trange,arthquake,uch,hake,estroyed,Many people, including workers and doctors, came to r_those t_ under the ruins. Later that afternoon, another big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings f_down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. T_were organized to dig out the trapped and b_ the de