Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

UNIT 4　NATURAL DISASTERS 　Reading and thinking I What happened during a big earthquake? Buildings fell down People were trapped or buried The water pipes cracked and burst The city was destroyed and lay in ruins 2 learning aims: 1)To translate para 1-2 freely and fluently 2)To analyze long & complex sentences 3) To build up vocabularies and remember them Self-learning guidance I (4’) 1.Read para1 and translate them by yourselves loudly and fluently. 2. Mark the phrases and long &complex sentences you didn't understand. 3.Get the main idea of para1. 1.Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. 2.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. 3.Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. 4.Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. 5.At about 3：00 a.m., on 28 July 1976，bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. 1.Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. 2.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. 3.Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. 4.Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. 5.At about 3：00 a.m., on 28 July 1976，bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. 河北省东北部的农村地区怪事连连：一连几天，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏，井壁上出现了深深的裂缝。至少有一口水井的裂缝冒出臭气。鸡甚至猪都焦虑不安，不愿进食；狗拒绝进入屋内。老鼠跑到田外，寻找藏身之所，鱼儿也跳出水面。1976年7月28日凌晨3: 00左右，唐山城外的