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

Period 2: Reading and Thinking Describe a Natural Disaster Natural Disasters Teaching Obejectives 1. Know the warning signs before the earthquake; 2. Know the happening of Tangshan earthquake; 3. Retell the text with the help of the mind map. 4. Remember the history of Tangshan earthquake and raise awareness of disaster resistence. Lead-in Watch a video of Tangshan earthquake. Pre-reading 1. What figure of speech is used in the title? What does the title mean? 2. Look at the title and photo and predict what the text is about. earthquake severe damages time: at night personification In what situation can a person not sleep? people on the earth extremely sad, nervous or frightened An earthquake happened at night and had badly affected people's lives. Skim the text and match the main idea of each paragraph. Fast reading Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 A. The earthquake caused serious damage and death in Tangshan. B. The earthquake happened in Tangshan. C. The help came soon after the earthquake. D. Warning signs before the earthquake. E. Tangshan came back to life again. How many parts can this text be divided into? Fast reading Para. 1 Warning signs before the earthquake. Para. 2 The earthquake happened in Tangshan. Para. 3 The earthquake caused serious damage and death in Tangshan. Para. 4 The help came soon after the earthquake. Para. 5 Tangshan came back to life again. Before the earthquake During the earthquake After the earthquake 1.The text is developed in the order of _____. A. Place B. Time C. Development of events 2. Where is this text probably taken from? A. Literary journalism B. Science book C. Travel brochure D. Wellness book Careful reading Read paragraph 1 carefully and complete the chart. rose and fell Deep cracks Some smelly gas go inside buildings Ran out of looked for Jumped out of nervous Bright lights Loud noises Careful reading Read paragraph 2-3 carefully and find data (数据) to fill in the blanks. 1) _________ of the nation felt the earthquake. 2) A huge crack that was ____ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses. 3) In less than ____ minute, a large city lay in ruins. 4) __________of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. 5) The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than__________ . 6) _____of its factories and buildings, _____ of its homes and all of the city's hospitals were gone. 7) _______________ of cows, ___________________ pigs and _______ of chicken were dead. One third 8 30 1 Two thirds 400,000 75% 90% Tens of thousands hundreds of thousands millions Careful reading Read paragraph 2-3 carefully and complete the table. During Earthquake Inanimate things What happened? A huge ______________ _________________ houses, roads, and waterways Hard hills of rock ____________________________ A large city _____________ __________________________________________________ gone ____________ covered the ground like the red autumn leaves ___________ fell/not safe to cross _____________________ useless pieces of _________ __________________________________________________ hard to get crack cut across rivers of dirt in ruins factories, buildings homes, hospitals bricks bridges metal railway tracks water, food, electricity Careful reading Read paragraph 2-3 carefully and complete the table. During Earthquake Living things What happened? people ______________ and _______________ ________________ left without parents _________________________ dead dead cows, pigs, chicken injured children Question: Why using so much data? Why describing those inanimate and living things? To show how severe the damage caused by the earthquake was. Careful reading Read paragraph 4-5 carefully and answer the questions. 2: Who came to help? What did they do? 150,000 soldiers Sent to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. 10,000 doctors and nurses Came to provide medical care Workers Built shelters for survivors 1. What does "But hope was not lost" mean? Careful reading Read paragraph 4-5 carefully and answer the questions. Question: What does the writer mean by "Slowly, the city began to breathe again"? The writer means that the city began to function again, because the earthquake had stopped people and supplies moving about, and so it was like the city couldn't breathe. Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck and plane. Careful reading Read paragraph 4-5 carefully and answer the questions. Q1: What contributes to the revival of Tangshan? Q2: What has Tangshan become after being rebuilt? A new Tangshan Strong support from the government tireless efforts of the city's people A home to more than seven million people Improvements in transportation, industry, and environment The night the earth didn’t sleep.(title) For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. (L2) It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!(L13) Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.(L20) Slowly, the city began to breathe again.(L37) Post-reading Explore the figure of speech in the following sentences. personification 拟人 simile 比喻 exaggeration 夸张 repetition 反复 Post-reading Enjoy a video of Tangshan. What can we learn from Tangshan's change? Tangshan’s change Faced with natural disasters, people must ____ and show the______ to stay________ and _______ for a brighter future. unify positive rebuild wisdom God help those who help themselves. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. 自助者，天助之。 一个人可以被摧毁，但绝不能被打败 Lavf55.33.100 $$