Unit4 Section II Reading and Thinking-【大单元教学】高一英语同步备课系列（人教版2019必修第一册）

Reading and Thinking 高中英语必修Book 1 Unit 4 Natural Disasters The Night the Earth didn’t sleep 向华蓉 To read news report about Tangshan earthquake 请在此单击输入标题 To describe and talk about a natural disaster To reflect on the lessons what we can learn from the earthquake To analyze the structure of the text Learning objectives List the natural disasters you know. earthquake tornado wildfire drought landslide tsunami flood volcanic eruption 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Step II Pre-reading Look at the title and photos on page 50, guess what the text is about. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP What do we know from the photos? What does the title mean? Does the earth sleep as you do? Who are these people? What are they doing? What might happen on the night? What do you think the text is mainly about? Step III Prediction Guess what the text is mainly about. It’s a story about a disaster.                      B. It’s a story about great changes. C. It’s a story about a sleepless night.          D. It’s a story about the building of a new city. Watch the video and describe what can happen to a city during an earthquake. Pre-- reading enter The first thing is the destruction of buildings, which makes people lose their living space and also destroys the economic development of this place. The second is the destruction of people themselves, which makes people lose their relatives and suffer psychological damage. 首先是对建筑的摧毁，使人们失去居住场所，也催毁了这个地方的经济发展，再一个是对人本身的摧毁，使人们失去亲人，在心理上受到伤害。 1976年7月28日凌晨3时42分53秒，中国河北省唐山、丰南一带发生7.8级地震。强震产生的能量相当于400颗广岛原子弹爆炸。23秒内，百年唐山被夷为平地，242769人丧生，164851人伤残。 At 3:42:53 am on July 28, 1976, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tangshan and Fengnan in Hebei province. The powerful earthquake generated the energy of 400 Hiroshima atomic bombs. In 23 seconds, the century-old Tangshan was leveled, 242,769 people were killed and 164,851 were injured. Let's look at the whole process and learn how to describe a natural disaster . First learn