Unit4Earthquakes课件

Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc.
Predictions of an earthquake:
1) Bright lights flash in the sky; 2) The water in the well rise and fall; 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.
A the army came to help them.
Listen to the passage and number each of these things happened during the Tangshan earthquake.
___ Brick buildings were destroyed. ___ The walls of the village wells had cracks in them. ___ Shelters were put up for those with no homes. ___ Roads got huge cracks. ___ The army helped the survivors.
Two-thirds of the people _d_i_e_d_ or _w_e_r_e_i_n_j_u_re_d_. Then later that afternoon, another big quake _s_h_o_o_k_ Tang Shan. People began to wonder _h_o_w__lo_n_g__th_e__d_is_a_s_te_r__w_o_u_l_d_l_a_st_. But all hope _w__a_s_n_o_t_l_o_st__. _S_o_ld_i_e_r_s came to help those _s_u_rv_i_v_o_r_s . Slowly, the city began to _b_r_e_a_t_h_e_a_g_a_i_n_.
Retell the story
S_t_r_a_n_g_e_t_h_in_g_s_ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _r_o_s_e_a_n_d__fe_l_l__. From the _c_ra_c_k_s_ of wells _s_m__el_l_y_g_a_s_come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became _n_e_r_v_o_u_s_. At 3:00 am, everything began to _s_h_a_k_e_.It seemed that the world was _a_t_a_n__e_n_d_. _O_n__e-_t_h_ir_d_ of the nation _f_e_lt_ it. A__h_u_g_e_c_r_a_c_k_cut across the city. The city lay _in__r_u_in_s_.
1 The chickens didn’t eat because

C they were
nervous.
2 Before the earthquake E they didn’t
the people they didn’t know the quake
worry because
caused the
strange events.
Part 2
Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.
Part 3 Paragraph 4
The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.
Unit 4 Earthquakes
我国地震分布
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
3 Such a great number of people
4 Water was needed because
5 The people did not lose hope because
B the quake happened while they were sleeping.
D dams and wells were useless.
Look at the each part and write down its
main idea.
Part 1 Paragraph 1
Before the earthquake strange
things began to happen but no one
took any notice of them.
An Earthquake
A terrible earthquake happened in India.
Tangshan, Hebei
July 28th, 1976
Reading
Do a fast-reading of the passage. Join the correct parts of the sentences.