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

The night the earth didn’t sleep 1 Predicting: Imagine what would happen if the Earth couldn’t sleep at night? Do you know the example in China? Volcanic, flood, tsunami, typhoon, earthquake 2 Earthquake: How do earthquakes happen? Let’s take a show! 3 Read and think the following questions. Skimming: 1. What’s the type of this passage？ 2. In what order is the passage organized? How did you get this conclusion? 3. What happened that night? (when, where, what) 4 Read and think the following questions: Skimming: What’s the type of this passage？ short story\event report\science guide In what order is the passage organized? How did you get this conclusion? What happened that night? (when, where, what) The passage mainly talks about an ________________（what）that happened in__________（where）in _________（when). earthquake Tangshan 1976 5 Para 1: What are the signs before the earthquake? 6 Para 1: Did you notice any signs before the earthquake? Signs before the earthquake animals environment chickens & pigs dogs mice fish water cracks bright lights loud noise smelly gas 7 Para 2: What impress you most after reading para 2 and watching this video? What similarities do they have in describing the earthquake? They use figures 8 Can you list the figures that the author uses to describe the earthquake? How do you feel about these figure? Para 2: eleven kilometres directly below the city caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing A huge crack, eight kilometres long and 30 metres wide two thirds of the people who lived there were dead and injured nearly one third of the whole nation felt it thousands of children were left without parents The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400,000 In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins Why does the author uses so many figures to describe the earthquake? 9 Para 3: How does the author reflect the earthquake effect? figures object image 75 percent of ..., 90 percent of ..