Unit4 Earthquakes,Lead in Warming up Pre-reading Discussion,Period1: warming up and pre-reading,Lead in,earthquake,Talk about the following questions with your desk mate：,2. Do you know any other natural disasters?,1. What happened in the video?,drought,volcano eruption,fire,hurricane,flood,drought,hurricane,volcanic eruptions,fire,floods,sand storms,earthquakes,snow storms,thunderstorms,land slides,Natural disasters,earthquake,Warming up,Describe what happened during the earthquake?,What happened?,Tall buildings were destroyed.,The car was smashed.,What happened?,Roads were cracked.,What happened?,People were injured.,The city was in ruins.,What happened?,became useless pieces of steel.,The railway tracks,What happened?,Do you know what an earthquake is ?,The earthquake is a disaster, which can cause great damages.,Can we foretell an earthquake so that we can reduce the damages?,What can we see before an earthquake?,It is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earths crust. Earthquakes may result in disease, lack of basic necessities, loss of life, general property damage, road and bridge damage and sometimes landslides, fires, flood and even tsunamis.,What do you think may happen before an earthquake?,Bright lights in the sky may appear.,Fish may jump out of their bowl and ponds.,Mice may run out of fields looking for places to hide.,Animals may be too nervous to eat.,Well walls may have deep cracks.,Pre-reading 1,Task: Image the room begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have time to take only one thing. What will you take? Why?,Pre-reading 2,If there were an earthquake coming, what should you do to save ourselves?,If you were sleeping in your bedroom, you should get up and ran out of the house with your family.,If you were outside, you should keep away from power lines, trees, cars and buildings.,Discussion,We should drop to the floor and cover our head and neck with our arms.,We should hide under something like a table to protect ourselves from things falling on top of us.,Summary,Have learned about some natural disasters.,Have known some knowledge to protect ourself from the earthquake.,Have known some damages from the earthquake, and something happening before an earthquake to guard against it.,Make a poster about earthquake in groups Find some information about the earthquake happening in Tangshan in 1976.,Homework:,