Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and thinking课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

--Exploration&Construction Unit4 Natural Disasters Get prepared for： The study sheet The textbook Your passion and concentration storm tornado flood wildfire drought volcanic eruption earthquake tsunami landslide An earthquake happened in Tangshan and caused great . But was not lost, and the city itself. at night damage hope revived What happened at night? Why didn’t the earth sleep? What did people do? What happened after the night? Find out the topic sentences of each paragraph. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins. But hope was not lost. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Tangshan started revive itself and get back up on its feet. Para 5 Read for the main idea and structure. 段首 段中（第二句） 段首 段首 段首 How many parts can be divided into? Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins. But hope was not lost. Warning signs before the earthquake Demages and effects during the earthquake Time Order Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Tangshan started revive itself and get back up on its feet. Rescue and revival after the earthquake Para 5 Read for the main idea and structure. Read for detailed information. Time Events Before the earthquake 1.What are the “warning signs” of the earthquake? During the earthquake 1.When did the earthquake happen? 2. What were the features of the Tangshan earthquake? (depth, distance, length, width) 3.What damage did the earthquake cause? (people, animal, infrastructure, supplies, etc.) After the earthquake 1.Who came to the rescue? What did they do? 2.What helped the city Tangshan revive? How has it improved? 3.What experience can we learn from Tangshan city? Read the text again and try to get some details of the text by thinking the following questions. Read for detailed information. Before the earthquake: What are the “warning signs” of the earthquake? The water in the wells____and____. Deep ______appear in the well walls. A______gas came out the cracks. rose fell cracks smelly Mice ran out of the fields___________ places to hide. looking for jumped Fish _______ out of bows and ponds. The chickens and even pigs were ______nervous _____eat. too to People could see _______in the sky. lights Read for detailed information. During the earthquake: 1.When did the earthquake happen? 2.What were the features of the Tangshan earthquake? (depth, distance, length, width) 3.What damage did the earthquake cause? (people, animal, infrastructure, supplies) a huge crack cut across Hard hills of rock rivers of dirt A large city in ruins Factories and buildings gone Bricks Bridges The railway tracks Cows,pigs and chickens covered the ground like the red autumn leaves fell down/not safe to cross useless dead Water,food,electricity hard to get The earthquake happened at 3:42 on 28 July, 1976. Depth: 11 km Distance: 150 km Length: 8 km Width: 30 metres Read for detailed information. After the earthquake: 1.Who came to the rescue? What did they do? 2.What helped the city Tangshan revive? The army Doctors and nurses Workers dug out…buried…provided…built… strong support from the government and the timeless efforts of the people Describe the earthquake in Tangshan Read for writing style and language features Function: to make the description _______________________. real and convincing 1 minute 150 kilometres 8 & 30 2/3 75%, 90% 400,000 3:42 am 11 kilometres 3.Find out the numbers described in the passage and think out the function of it. Documentary（纪实的） The night the earth didn’t sleep.(title) For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. (L2) Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.（L12） Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.(L20) Slowly, the city began to breathe again.(L37) Read for writing style and language features 4. Explore the figure of speech（修辞格) in the following sentences. personification(拟人) repetition (反复) simile(明喻) personification(拟人) metaphor(暗喻) Function: to make the description __________________________. more vivid and expressive Literary（文学的） exaggeration(夸张) Documentary Literary The features of language Literary Journalism News Report Timely Documentary 21 Think and discuss. Except for the warning signs, the damage and the rescue work, what else can we learn from the earthquake in Tangshan? Disasters are ___________. Ignorance might be ______. Life is _____. But if people _______, disasters can be ________. powerful deadly weak unify defeated Power of Human Power of nature Prevent Prepare Think and discuss. What can we do to deal with natual disasters? Natural disasters are violent events that are outside the control of humans. Learn Publicize （宣传） Suppose there would be an earthquake. What should we do to keep ourselves safe? Firstly, stay calm !!! 24 Indoors Outdoors If you're trapped Drop down to the floor Cover your head Hold on to the desk Go to an open place away from buildings For help: Call an emergency number Tap on a pipe or wall Thanks! People must unify and show the wisdom to stay positive and rebuild for a bright future in times of disaster. 26 $$