英语Unit 4 Natural disasters课堂教学课件ppt

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Lk at the pht and title in Activity 2. Then answer the questins.
• What is ging n in this pht? • What is the text abut?
A city was damaged in ruins after an earthquake. Peple were rescuing the sufferers wh were buried in ruins.
The text is mainly abut a terrible earthquake.
Watch a shrt vide frm the film After Shck and answer the questin.
• What happened in Tangshan in the vide?
I saw thusands f buildings fell dwn in the earthquake. Many peple were killed r badly injured.
Lk thrugh the text. Then answer the questin.
• What type f text is it ?
The text is a literary jurnalism, which lies between news reprts and literary wrks.
1. What des the title “The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep” mean? A. The earth was awake all night lng. B. Peple n the earth culdn’t fall asleep that night. C. The earth shk crazily that night. D. Animals n the earth wuld nt sleep that night.2. Find ut the main idea f the text. The text mainly talks abut a terrible ______________ (What?) that happened in ______________(Where?) n ______________(When?) and caused great __________(What result?) t peple.
G thrugh the text quickly and chse the right answers.
Tangshan city
28 July, 1976
Read the text carefully and then write dwn the main idea f each paragraph.
The happening f the big earthquake.
The immediate effects f the earthquake.
The rescue wrk.
The revival f the city.
Answer the questin belw.
The text is rganised in chrnlgical rder.
• In what rder des the writer rganise the text?
Skim Paragraph 1 and find ut sme warning signs befre the earthquake as quickly as pssible. Then cmplete the table.
deep cracks appeared
t nervus t eat
ran ut f the fields lking fr places t hide
refused t g inside buildings
jumped ut f the water
bright lights were seen
rse and fell
Read the text and find the numbers in the text.
Read the text and answer the questin.
T shw the earthquake was very serius and that it caused a lt f damage t peple and the city.
• Why des the writer use s many numbers in the text?
Read the tw sentences and chse their meanings accrding t the cntext.
Read the text and make a mind map.
Imagine and talk abut yur pssible experience.
G thrugh the learning strategy and explain its meaning.
Use cntext t understand new wrdsWhen yu see a wrd yu d nt knw, d nt stp and lk it up in a dictinary. If yu cntinue reading, the cntext will prbably help yu understand what it means.
Scan the text and find the wrds belw. Guess what they mean frm the cntext
1. In less than ne minute, a large city lay in ruins. The wrd ruin is a nun. It describes the city straight after the earthquake. In a shrt time, a lt f damage was dne, s it must describe a place that has been badly damaged.2. Bricks cvered the grund like red autumn leaves, but n wind culd blw them away. The wrd brick is a nun. It is used t describe the buildings that have fallen. They are red like leaves, but als heavy, because the wind cannt mve them. They sund like the red clay blcks cmmnly used t build Sn after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 sldiers t Tangshan t dig ut thse wh were trapped and t bury the dead. The wrd trap is a verb. It is used t describe peple wh are nt dead, but they need help t be dug ut, s it must mean they cannt mve because they are stuck smewhere.The wrd bury is a verb. It is used t describe what happens t the dead bdies. They are ften put int the grund and cvered, s that culd be what this means.
ruin brick trap bury
Read the sentences describing what happened after a huge earthquake. Cmplete the sentences with the crrect frms f the new wrds and phrases frm the text.
electricity
Wrk in grups. Discuss the questins.
• What d yu think helped in the revival f Tangshan city?• What ther cities r twns have gne thrugh similar changes? What lessns can we learn frm these event?
It was the strng supprt frm the gvernment and the tireless effrts f the city’s peple that helped in the revival f Tangshan city.
Wenchuan cunty and sme ther twns near Wenchuan have the similar experiences. These twns were built up frm the ruins. As well as develping better ways t detect and prepare fr these disasters, we have learnt that acting quickly and in unity is the best way t get ver such disasters. The strng supprt frm gvernment and peple arund are als very imprtant.
Discuss the questin and share yur ideas freely.
• Which is mre pwerful, human r nature ?
Use the qute frm President Xi Jinping t cnclude the best relatinship between human and nature.
Write a passage abut the fllwing questin.
• What shuld we d befre/during/after a natural disaster?
Befre a natural disaster: learn mre knwledge abut natural disasters, raise awareness f self-prtectin and get prepared if there are natural disaster warning sings.During a natural disaster: prtect yurself and take part in the rescue wrk if yu are safe.After a natural disaster: encurage and help ther survivrs and actively take part in the recnstructin wrk in the disaster area.