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Unit 4 Natural Disasters
Reading and Thinking
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1. summarize the main idea of each paragraph and collect detailed information about Tangshan earthquake.
2. use the context to understand new words.
3. analyze the language features of the text.
Learning Objectives
In this class, you will
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What can happen to a city during a big earthquake?
Lead-in
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Look at the title and photo below to guess what the text is about.
Pre-reading
The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
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Look at the title and photo below to guess
what the text is about.
Pre-reading
The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
What does the title mean?
The title is a figurative (比喻的) way of saying that an earthquake happened at night.
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Look at the title and photo below to guess what the text is about.
Pre-reading
The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep
A big earthquake that happened at night and caused great damage.
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Activity 1 Read and check if you are right.
The passage talks about the terrible earthquake
that nearly destroyed Tangshan city in Hebei Province in 1976.
While-reading
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Activity 2 Read the text carefully and write down the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph Main Idea
Paragraph 1 Warning signs before the the earthquake.
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
The immediate effects of the earthquake.
The revival of the city.
The happening of the big earthquake.
The rescue work.
While-reading
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Activity 3 The organization of the text.
The Night
the Earth Didn't Sleep
Para.1
Para.2&3
Para.4&5
Before the earthquake
During the earthquake
After the earthquake
While-reading
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Activity 4 Read the text again and answer the questions .
Listen and read the first paragraph and answer the two questions.
1. What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake?
2. How did people react to the strange things? Why?
Before Earthquake
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1. What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake?
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●Water in the village wells rose and fell.