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Unit 4
Natural Disasters
Reading and Thinking
Live to Tell: Raising Awareness, Reducing Mortality
用生命呼吁:增强减灾意识,减少人员伤亡
Part 01 Listening
Watch the video Natural Disasters and look at the photos.
1. _________________
3. _________________
2. _________________
4. ___________
5. ____________
Do you know what these disasters are. Write down their names.
tornado
tsunami
earthquake
wildfire
flood
earthquake
volcanic eruption
drought
wildfire
tsunami
landslide
tornado
flood
Listen to the news reports and tick the disasters that you hear.
Circle the key word(s) in the questions below and write the kind of information they refer to.
Question Type of Information
1. What was the magnitude of the earthquake in Ecuador?
2. How many people were killed and injured in Ecuador?
3. Where are the floods?
4. What are the rescue workers and soldiers doing in the flood-hit area?
5. When did people see the tornado in Memphis?
6. Which buildings were damaged in Seoul?
7. What caused landslide in Seoul?
number
place
activities
time
places
reasons
number
Question Type of Information Answer
1. What was the magnitude of the earthquake in Ecuador? number
2. How many people were killed and injured in Ecuador? number
3. Where are the floods? place
4. What are the rescue workers and soldiers doing in the flood-hit area? activities
5. When did people see the tornado in Memphis? date
6. Which buildings were damaged in Seoul? places
7. What caused landslide in Seoul? reasons
7.8
230/ more than 1500 people.
In central China.
Making sure of people's safety; Bring food and water to homeless people.
Saturday 12 August.
A library and a supermarket.
The heavy rain.
Listen again and answer the questions.
Part 02 Lead-in
Have you seen the news related to these disasters?
tornado
Have you seen the news related to these disasters?
wildfire
Have you seen the news related to these disasters?
tsunami
Have you seen the news related to these disasters?
earthquake
Have you seen the news related to these disasters?
volcanic eruption
Buildings _____________.
People were _____________.
The city lay
_____________.
How can we protect ourselves during an earthquake?
fell down
trapped and injured
in ruins
Work in pairs. Discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake.
Part 03
Pre-reading
Prediction
Look at the title and photo below and guess what the text is about.
The text is about _______________________.
personification(拟人)
A terrible earthquake
Part 04
While-reading
skimming
What's the text mainly about?
The passage mainly talks about a/an __________ (what) that happened in __________ (where) in ________ (when).
Read and Think:
What does the writer mean by the title?
earthquake
Tangshan
1976
What’s the genre (体裁) of this article?
News report
Novel
Read the text and get the main idea of each paragraph.
Warning signs before the earthquake.
①
The happening of the big earthquake.
②
The immediate effects of the earthquake.
③
④
⑤
The rescue work.
The revival of the city.
read for details
What's the topic sentence of Paragraph 1?
Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei.
What was the attitude of the people in the city towards those strange things?
But the city's one million people ignored all the signs and were asleep as usual that night.
n. 气体
Draw a mind map to show your answers.
What were some of the strange things happening before the earthquake?
Strange things were happening.
In the village wells
the water rose and fell
deep cracks appeared
smelly gas came out of it
In the farmyard
chickens and pigs were too nervous to eat
dogs refused to go in side buildings
In the field
mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide
fish jumped out of the water
In the sky
bright lights were seen
loud noises were heard
read for details
n. 毁坏,毁灭
What's the topic sentence of Paragraph 1?
It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!
Guess what the word “ruin” means from the context.
This word describes the city straight after the earthquake. In a short time, a lot of damage was done, so it must describe a place that has been badly damaged.
read for details
read for details
What about the supporting details?
At _____________ everything began to shake.
_____________ below the city, one of the greatest earthquakes of the _____________ had begun.
It was felt in Beijing, which is ____________________________ away.
Nearly _________ of the whole nation felt it.
A huge crack that was _____________ long and _____________ wide cut across houses, roads and waterways.
In ________________________ a large city lay in ruins.
_____________ of the people who lived there were dead or injured.
______________________ children were left without parents.
______________________ of people were killed or badly injured.
3:42 a. m.
11 kilometres
20th century
more than 150 kilometres
1/3
8 kilometres
30 metres
less than one minute
2/3
Thousands of
More than 400, 000
What's the topic sentence of this paragraph?
Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins.
read for details
n. 百分比
n. 砖块
n. 金属
n.震惊
n. 电, 电流
Supporting details
factories, buildings and homes, hospitals, bricks
bridges, railway tracks
cows, pigs, chickens
water, food, electricity
What's the topic sentence of this paragraph?
But hope was not lost.
What about the supporting details?
read for details
vt. 困住,使陷入绝境
vt. 掩埋
vt. 呼吸
who what result
soldiers
doctors and nurses
workers
dig out those who were trapped and bury the dead
came to provide medical care
built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed
the city began to breathe again
Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.
What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city?
I think the revival of Tangshan was helped by the strong support of the government and the people who all worked in unity to rebuild the city even better than before.
read for details
n. 明智, 智慧
n. 努力
What's the topic sentence of this paragraph?
Part 05
language points
shock
n.震惊;令人震惊的事;休克
v.(使)震惊
be in (a state of) shock 震惊;休克
a great shock to sb.
对某人来说是个极大的震撼
electric shock 触电;电休克
emotional/culture shock
情感上的打击/文化冲击
练习:It shocked me _________ (hear) that the hospital was closing down.
to hear
trap
v.使落入险境;使陷入圈套
n.险境;陷阱
be trapped in
困在……中;陷入……中
be trapped by 被……困住
trap sb. into doing sth.
诱骗某人做某事
fall/walk in to a trap 落入圈套
练习: She was trapped into _________ (say) something she did not mean.
saying
bury
vt. 埋葬;安葬
burial n.埋葬,葬礼
bury one’s face/head in one's hands
双手掩面/双手抱头
bury one’s feelings
隐藏感情,感情不外露
bury oneself in = be buried in
埋头于,专心于
练习:He buried his face ______ his hands and burst into tears.
in
breathe
vi.& vt. 呼吸
breathe in 吸气
breathe out 呼气
breathe (new) life into
(给某事物)带来起色,注入活力
breathe deeply 深呼吸
breathe regularly 均匀呼吸
breathe hard 呼吸困难
breathe a sigh of relief 舒了一口气
练习:The doctor told me to breathe ______ deeply and then breathe ______ slowly.
in
out
breath
n. 呼吸
out of breath
气喘吁吁,上气不接下气
hold one's breath 屏住呼吸
take a deep breath 深吸一口气
lose one's breath 喘不上气来
take one's breath away
令人惊叹;让人叹绝
练习:Fred entered without knocking and, out ______ breath, sank into a chair.
of
effort
练习:You just walk along that path, and it will get you there ______ effort.
n. 努力;艰难的尝试; 尽力
make an effort /efforts (to do sth.)
尽力(做某事 );努力(做某事 )
It takes effort to do sth.
花费精力去做某事。
put effort into
对……付出很大努力
spare no effort (to do sth.)
不遗余力(做某事)
in an effort to do sth. 努力做某事
be worth the effort 值得努力
without
suffer
练习:Mary is suffering ______ ill health at the moment.
vt. 遭受;蒙受
vi. (因疾病、痛苦、悲伤等)受苦
suffer pain/hardships 经历痛苦/苦难
suffer losses/damage 遭受损失/损害
suffer a defeat 遭受失败
suffer punishment 遭受惩罚
suffer from 因……而遭受损失(痛苦等)
suffer from ill health 身体不好
suffer for 为……而吃苦头
from
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