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

Reading and thinking The night the earth didn't sleep Unit 4 Natural Disasters 1 What do you see? What's your feeling ? Video / words How can we make our words an vivid or powerful description? 1. To catch the key information and draw a ///mind map. 2. To appreciate the language for description ///and apply it to practice. Learning Objectives Pre-reading What happened at that night? What does “the Earth didn't sleep” mean? Skimming Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. Note: The topic sentence is usually the first sentence of each paragraph, sometimes the middle or the last sentence. Skimming time/place Skimming Before After During Time order detail information support General structure Signs before the earthquake What strange things happened before the earthquake? Underline the strange things. Part 1(Paragraph 1) water well walls chickens&pigs mice Part 1 (Paragraph 1） fish sky rose and fell,rose and fell deep cracks too nervous to eat dogs refused to go inside buildings ran out of the fields looking for places to hide jumped out of the water bright lights abnormal animals Part 1 (Paragraph 1) water well walls chickens&pigs mice Part 1 (Paragraph 1) fish sky rose and fell,rose and fell deep cracks too nervous to eat dogs refused to go inside buildings ran out of the fields looking for places to hide jumped out of the water bright lights abnormal animals smell smelly gas hear loud noises Part 1 (Paragraph 1) unusual usual natural human but the city's one milion people were asleep as usual that night Happening and damage of the earthquake Try to find information about damage to city and people and fill in the blanks. Part 2 (Paragraph 2-3) * 1/3 of the nation felt the earthquake. * A huge crack that was 8 Kilometres long and 30 metres wide cut across houses. * In less than 1 minute a large city lay in ruins. * 2/3 of people were dead or injured during the earthquake. * The number of people who were killed or badly inj