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

Reading & Thinking Unit 2 The Night The Earth Didn’t Sleep Pre-reading Have you heard of any natural disasters? Can you recognize what disasters these are? flood hurricane volcano earthquake tsunami 2 Pre-reading In the 1970s, one of the largest natural disaster of the 20th century happened in Hebei Province (省), China. Let’s skim the text to learn more about it. 3 Skim the text and match the main idea of each paragraph with the paragraph number. Skimming A. The immediate effects of the earthquake. C. The happening of the big earthquake. D. The rescue work. E. The revival of the city. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 B. Warning signs before the earthquake. For several days, the water in the wells ________________, There were deep __________ that appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some ______________ coming out of it. Read the text again and answer the following questions: Q. 1: What strange things happened before the earthquake? Are they warning signs? Why or why not? rose and fell cracks smelly gas While-reading Chickens and even pigs were ____________________, and dogs __________ to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields ______________ places to hide, and fish ___________ out of the water. too nervous to eat refused looking for jumped While-reading strange things happened before the earthquake At about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July 1976, ________________ were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud __________ were heard. bright lights noises strange things happened before the earthquake While-reading strange things happened before the earthquake While-reading Yes! These are all warning signs because a terrible earthquake happened soon. Warning signs! It happened at 3:42 a.m., on 28 July 1976. Two thirds of the people who lived there were dead or injured. While-reading Q. 2: When did the earthquake happen and how many people died or got injured in the earthquake? Q. 3: What does the writer mean by “Slowly, the city began to breathe again?” Survivors were provided with medical care, shelters, water and food, so the city came back to life. While-reading Q. 4: What do you think people who have suffered an earthquake need most? rescue medical care shleters medical supplies food water Group Work Work in groups and discuss the questions below. 1. What do you think helped Tangshan to revive? Work in groups and discuss the questions below. 1. What do you think helped Tangshan to revive? Group Work The crucial (至关重要的) leadership and decisions made by the CPC (中国共产党) and the government. The unity and dedication (奉献精神) of the whole nation. 2. Wenchuan earthquake also caused lots of deaths and injury as well as great damage to the cities, so what lessons can learn from these events? We need to learn some survival knowledge and we must unify in times of disaster. Group Work Let’s learn some survival knowledge through this video clip, just in case. Post-reading Review Please try to bear these key sentences in mind. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. The number of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than 400, 000. Water, food and electricity were hard to get. Soon after the earthquake, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. $$