Unit 4 Natural Disasters Discovering Useful Structures 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Discovering Useful Structures There was an earthquake in Japan in 2011. The following pictures show the harm caused by this earthquake. Please describe the following pictures. The tsunami and earthquake led to the nuclear leak. The earthquake caused tsunami. The cars and planes were damaged. There was an earthquake in Japan in 2011 in which the cars and planes are damaged. …… Here we use the restrictive relative clauses to form a new sentence. How to combine two sentences into one sentence? There was an earthquake in Japan in 2011 caused tsunami. The tsunami which was caused by the earthquake led to the nuclear leak. Now read the article The Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep（in P50）and find out the sentences that include restrictive relative clauses. VENUS JUPITER MARS 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 out of the water. 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. At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Eleven kilometres directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing. Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it! A huge crack, eight kilometres long and 30 metres wide, cut across houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. Two thirds of the people who lived there were dead or injured. Thousands