Unit4 Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking Learning Objectives In this class, you will read a text about Tangshan earthquake and gather information reflect on the lessons that we can learn from the earthquake analyze the language features of the text What can happen to a city during an earthquake? Lead in Many houses and the street were damaged Pre-reading Look at the title and photo below and guess what the text is about. Careful-reading 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. gas n.气体，煤气，天然气 refuse v.拒绝;拒绝给(所需之物);回绝;推却 refuse to do sth 拒绝做某事 Careful-reading Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. ruin意为“破坏;毁坏”,是名词。ruin还可以作及物动词,意为“破坏;毁坏”， lie/be in ruins成为废墟 ruin sth/sb/oneself毁坏某物/毁掉某人/毁掉自己 be ruined by... 被……毁坏/破坏 ruin one’s health/fame/future 毁掉某人的健康/名声/未来 shock n.震惊，令人震惊的事 v.使震惊，使惊愕 in shock震惊 People were in shock— and then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan again Careful-reading Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. trap n.圈套;陷阱;困境　v.设圈套;陷入(困境) fall into a trap落入陷阱 be trapped/stuck/caught in被困在……中 trap sb into doing sth 陷害/诱骗某人做某事 bury sth 埋葬…… be buried in=bury oneself in沉浸于……;埋头于…… Careful-reading Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again. breath n.　呼吸 breathe a sigh of relief 松了一口气 hold one’s breath 屏住呼吸 out of breath 气喘吁吁地,上气不接下气地 catch one’s breath 喘口气 take a deep breath=breathe deeply 深呼吸 With strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city’s people, a new Tangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins. make an effort to do sth 努力做某事 spare no effort to do sth 不遗余力地做某事 Paragraph 2 Careful-reading Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 Write down the main idea of each paragraph The happening of the big earthqu