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

Unit 4 UNIT 4 NATURAL DISASTERS Describe a natural disaster To read news report about Tangshan earthquake. To use context to understand new words and expressions, predicting before reading, summarizing the main idea of each paragraph. To describe and talk about a natural disaster. List the natural disasters you know. earthquake tornado wildfire drought landslide tsunami flood volcanic eruption Lead-in What can happen to a city during a big earthquake? Buildings will _____________ People will be _____________ The city will be _____________ fall down/be destroyed dead or badly injured in ruins The bridge will be _____________ collapsed Pre-reading: Make a Prediction THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP Why“the earth didn’t sleep”? What happened to the earth? Look at the title and the photo below and guess what the text is about. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP Pre-reading: Make a Prediction Watch a video and talk about how you feel. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP The passage mainly talks about a/an___________(what) that happened in ___________ (where) at____________________ _(when). earthquake Tangshan 3:42 a.m. on 28 July 1976 1. What’s the main idea of the text? While reading---Task 1 Skimming for main idea 2. What kind of text is it? a news report B. a literary journalism(报告文学) C. a novel D. a story a news report 真实性+客观直接(语言) a literary journalism 真实性(historical events历史事件)+ 文学性(语言) the earth didn’t sleep lay in ruins rivers of dirt brick ...like red autumn leaves .... Find out the writing order of this text Time order Fast reading several days ago at 3:00am at 3:42am later that afternoon after the quakes before earthquake during earthquake after earthquake damages signs rescue Skim and find out the topic sentences. Paragraph Topic sentence 1 2 3 4 5 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. There was