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人教版必修第一册
Period 4 Reading For Writing
Unit4 Natural Disasters
Lead in
What is a tsunami?
What causes it?
Will it cause great damage to humans? Watch the video and express your ideas.
Read to discover details
1.what is kind of text type is?
A news report.
2.when and where did the tsunami happen?
3.What caused the tsunami?
4.Why would it be difficult to deliver food and supplies?
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2.When and where did the tsunami happen?
Around 7:00 a.m. Sunday, the tsunami happened off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.
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3.what caused the tsunami?
A most powerful earthquake
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4.Why would it be difficult to deliver food and supplies?
Dangerous conditions and damaged roads will make it difficult to deliver food and supplies.
Figure out the summary of the news report.
Check the main points it includes.
On 26 December 2004, a tsunami killed more than 6,500 tourists,fishermen and many other locals in Southeast Asia. Thousands of people are missing and the number of deaths is expected to grow. The damage caused by the tsunami is making it difficult for rescue workers to help the survivors.
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Learning tip: A summary is a short statement of main points. A summary paragraph tells the main ideas and the most important information of a longer passage.
Read to sum up
Write a summary for the first text called “the night the earth didn’t sleep.
1. Read the text and write a list of the main details.
●Strange things happened in the countryside before the earthquake.
●An earthquake hit____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
China on 28 July 1976.
summary
For several days, strange things occurred in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. Then, on 28 July 1976, an e