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 THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP 1 Can you guess what happened during the big earthquake? Lead in Thousands of buildings ____________. Many people were trapped or ________________. fell down badly injured The water pipes ____________________. cracked and burst The bridge will be too dangerous to cross. The railway tracks will be ________________________. People was _________. The city was____________and lay_________ useless piece of metal in shock in ruins destroyed 1. What’s the main idea of the passage?--read para.1 The passage mainly talks about a/an___________(what) that happened in _________ (where) in ______(when). earthquake Tangshan 1976 3. In what order is the text written? A. Time B. Space C. Feeling 2. What’s the type of this text? A. a news report B. a literary journal（报告文学） C. a novel 报告文学是散文的一种，介于新闻报道和小说之间，兼有新闻和文学的特点的散文。报告文学是运用文学艺术，真实、及时地反映社会生活事件和人物活动的一种文学体裁。 Task 1 Skimming Scanning Read for main idea for each para. Para 1 A. The immediate effects of the earthquake Para 2 B. Warning signs before the earthquake Para 3 C. The revival of the city Para 4 D. The rescue work Para 5 E. The happening of the big earthquake Read the passage quickly. Find the topic sentence of each paragraph. Then summarise each paragraph in one phrase based on its topic sentence. tips: Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. 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. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped o