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 Period 3 Reading and Thinking(2) 1 学习目标 本课结束时，你将能够： 1. 能根据关键词复述课文； 2. 能体会标题特点：概括与新颖； 3. 能学习写作技巧——明喻，体会其功能，并练习使用as if 句型，并能对长难句进行分析； 4. 通过进一步阅读，分析作者写作手法，深入探讨地震带来的危害以及人们可以采取哪些措施来减少地震的影响。 Retell the story according to the key words. strange things the water in the village wells deep cracks and a smelly gas the chickens and pigs too nervous to eat 1/3 of the nation In 15 terrible seconds 400,000 Tens of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of pigs come to an end 150,000 soldiers dig out bury build shelters water and food revive itself a new Tangshan Retell Think and talk Explain in your own words what the writer means by the title "The night the earth didn't sleep". In pairs suggest another title for the text. (Put the idea on the board and the class can then vote for the one they like best ) "The night the earth didn't sleep" is a poetic way of saying that an earthquake happened. Another title might be "Tangshan's great challenge" or " How Tangshan's citizens overcame the city's great disaster". 标题既要具有高度概括性又要具备新颖性，才能吸引读者注意力，“地球不眠之夜”作者用拟人的手法更加生动的概述了地震之夜。 I. Read the sentence "It seemed as if the world was at an end." Was the world really at an end? Think what purpose does it serve to exaggerate here? Of course not. It is used to show us that the earthquake then was so serious that the next minute the world would be totally destroyed. This is an example of simile. eg. When the dam broke, it looked as if the sea had arrived suddenly on our doorstep. When the coal mines fell, the ground above looked as if it would crack. Watch and think II. Work in groups. Complete the sentence with "as if " and then choose the best to read to the class. ·When the houses fell down, it was as if ___________________________________________________. ·When the bricks covered the ground, they looked as if ______________________________________________. ·When the nation turned to help us in our need,