Unit 4 Natural disasters Reading and thinking 课件-2025-2026学年人教版 高中英语必修第一册

Unit 4 Reading and Thinking Learning Aims: 1.Find out the paragraphy topic sentences. 2.Underline the basic infomation about Tangshan earthquake through skimming and other reading skills. 3. Understand the strange things before the Tangshan earthquake. A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep When he is cheerful Mr. Nature Natural Disasters When he gets angry mangosteen Natural Disasters flood drought sandstorm typhoon volcano tsunami earthquake Natural Disasters fire Pre-reading 1.Look at the title and photo and predict what the text is about. The passage is mainly about a terrible earthquake in Tangshan. 2.What's the main idea of the text ? Time : July 28,1976 Place : Tangshan,Hebei Disaster : A big earthquake Main idea :An earthquake happened in Tangshan on July 28, 1976. Let's watch a video about a terrible earthquake in Tangshan. 3. Reading skills Scanning 1.Read the text quickly find out each paragraph's topic sentence. Pay attention to the first and second sentences of each paragraph. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeasten Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end! Nearly everything in the city was destoryed. But hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revival itself and get back up on its feet. Part 1: para. ___ Part 2: para ___ Part 3: para ___ signs damage recovery the earthquake ________the earthquake _______the earthquake before during after 1 2&3 4 &5 (during, before, after) Fast reading Choose one word to describe each part damage recovery signs breathe bury Part1: signs before an earthquake careful reading careful reading Water in wells __________ Deep cracks Smelly gas ______ ____ Part1: signs before an earthquake rose and fell came out of wells The chickens and even pigs dogs were too nervous to eat careful reading appeared refuse to go inside buidings _____ ____ were heard loud noises Mice . Fish . jumped out of the bowls & pounds ran out of the field People saw ____ ______in the sky. bright lights Part2: damages during the earthquake (para.2-3) Careful reading 60 ____ of its factories and buildings and ____ of its hospitals . 75% 90% were gone Bricks like red autumn leaves , but no wind could blow them away . covered the ground Railway tracks were now____________________ useless pieces of metal. Most bridges or were not safe to cross . had fallen cows, pigs,and chickens were dead. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of millions of Sand now the wells instead of water. filled Details Main idea Soldiers More than 1000 doctors and nurses Workers Water and food Governments City's people were sent to dig out came to provide medical care built shelters were brought All hope was not lost. Slowly, the city began to breathe again. Careful Reading—Paragraph 4&5 strong support tireless efforts Read para.5 carefully and think about : What do you think helped the city? It was the strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city's people that helped the revival of Tangshan city. Post reading The city of Tangshan has now taken on a new look. Let's enjoy Tangshan's new look. Tangshan's change Faced with nature disasters ,people must and show the to stay and for a brighter future. unify wisdom positive rebuilt 1.Don’t be nervous and keep calm. 2.Don’t try to run out of the classroom. 3.Protect your head by putting your bag on your head. 4.Sit down under your desk. 5.Leave the classroom after the earthquake one by one. What have you learnt from the passage? Self –protection Never give up The love of the world Live with nature harmoniously Free Talk Where there is life, there is hope . Let's love our life! Let's live wonderfully! damage v. 损害;破坏 n. 损坏;损失 damage one's health 损害某人的健康 do/cause damage to… 对……造成损害 众所周知，吸烟会损害我们的健康。 It is well-known that smoking can damage our health. (damage vt.) As we all know, smoking can do damage to our health. (damage n.) destroy v. 摧毁，毁灭 (destroying, destroyed) destruction n. 破坏 destructive adj. 破坏性的 这栋建筑物被大火彻底摧毁了。 The building was completely destroyed by a big fire. 失败渐渐地把他毁了。 Failure was slowly destroying him. death n. 死亡 dead adj. 死的；过时的 dying adj. 临终的 deadly adj. 致死的 adv. 非常 die v. 死亡，消失 (dying, died, died) affect v. 影响；(疾病)侵袭；深深打动 be affected with 患病；被...感染 be affected by 打动/影响 shelter n. 避难所,庇护 v. 保护,躲避 under the shelter of… 在……的庇护下 shelter from… 躲避…… shelter/protect… from… 保护……免受…… 我们在一处门廊里躲雨。We sheltered from the rain in a doorway. Rescue workers put up many tents in the open air to shelter (shelter) survivors of the earthquake. We sat in the shade, sheltering (shelter) from the sun. 我们累了，在一棵大树下休息。 Tried, we had a rest under the shelter of a big tree. ruin n. & v. 破坏，毁坏 in ruins 严重受损，破败不堪 ruin one's future/plan/hope/health 毁掉某人的前途/计划/希望/健康 He returned home only to find that his house ________________ (ruin) by the flood. Heavy smoking ________(ruin) your health, so you should give up smoking. 地震之后整个城市成了一片废墟，这让我们彻夜难眠。 __________________________ after the earthquake, which made us awake all night. had been ruined ruins The whole city lay in ruins shock n. 震惊;休克 v. (使)震惊 in shock 震惊地；吃惊地 to one's shock 令某人吃惊的是 shocked shocking The news of his sudden death is so shocking that everyone is very much shocked at it. (shock) Hearing the story her mom told her, she wore a shocked (shock) expression. 令我吃惊的是，当我重游体育馆时，会议涌上了心头。 To my shock, memory flooded back when I visited the stadium once again. Homework : 1.Memorize new words. 2.Find out the new words and phrases and sentence structures in the passage. Lavf57.56.100 $$