Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Unit4 Reading and Thinking The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep Learning Objectives To have an understanding of the Tangshan Earthquake; To identify the strange signs before the happening of an earthquake; To understand the greatness of our country and the unity spirit of Chinese people; To learn how to protect yourself in an earthquake. To learn how to describe a natural disaster. Lead-in Situational exercise. Pre-Reading A brief introduction of earthquake. Earthquake is a natural disaster, which is so powerful to destroy everything. When Where What Time: Place: Disaster: July 28, 1976 Tangshan, Hebei A big earthquake A big earthquake happened in Tangshan, Hebei Province on July 28, 1976. Skim the passage and guess what the text is about. Skimming Scanning Read for main idea for each para. Read the text quickly and then write the main idea of each part.(Page 51, Ex. 3) To get the main idea of each paragraph段, pay attention to the first sentence in each paragraph. Then summarise each paragraph in one phrase based on its topic sentence. tips: Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks that appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July1976, bright lights were seen in the sky outside of the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city's one million people were asleep as usual that night. At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Eleven kilometres directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing. Nearly