Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking 课件 2025-2026学年高中英语人教版必修第一册

Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading and Thinking tornado drought landslide tsunami flood volcanic eruption typhoon hurricane slide What natural disasters do you know? Free talk What can happen to a city during a big earthquake? Free talk P50 Buildings fall down. Roads crack. v 开裂, 破裂 Many people are killed or badly injured. The town lies in ruins. What can happen to a city during a big earthquake? Look at the title and the pictures, and guess what the text is about. P50 Pre-reading The NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP When? Where? What? It talked about a severe earthquake which happened at night in Tangshan. Skim the passage and think about these questions. News report Novel literary journalism (报告文学) P50 3. What kind of text is it? Skimming 2. In what order is the passage written? 1. How many parts will you divide the passage into? 顺序 Skimming the text quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph. Para1: Para2: Para3: Para4: Para5: Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. But hope was not lost. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back on its feet. Warning signs before the earthquake. The terrible effect during the earthquake. Rescue and revival after the earthquake. in chronological (时间） order Topic sentence 2. In what order is the passage written? 1. How many parts will you divide the passage into? Skim the passage and think about these questions. P50 3. What kind of text is it? Skimming Literary journalism usually describes real historical events and real characters. The usage of the figures of speech（修辞手法） can stimulate（激励） readers' feelings and thus touch the readers. THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP 拟人 News report Novel literary journalism (报告文学) Read the part 1 carefully and answer: What happened before, the earthquake? What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe? But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. Scanning P50 Before the earthquake （para1） The well water rose and fell,  well walls 1. _______, and some smelly gas came out. Chicken and pigs were too 2. _______ to eat, and dogs refused to go 3. ______ buildings. Mice ran out of the 4. ______ and fish jumped out of the water. 5. ___________ were seen in the sky and loud noises were heard. cracked nervous inside fields Bright lights But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night. People were unconcerned about the strange things. P50 太…以至于（不能） 像往常一样 Language points P50 Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. 表示过去某个时间段正在发生的事情 (系动词)smell smelly adj. 难闻的 现在分词作状语，表主动 Read the part 2 (para 2-3) carefully and answer: What happened during the earthquake? What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe? People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. Scanning P50 During the earthquake（para2-3） Nearly _____of the nation felt the earthquake . A huge crack that was ____ kilometres long and ____ metres wide cut across houses, roads and waterways. In less than ___minute a large city lay in ruins. _____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. ______________ children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than _________. About _______ of the city’s factories and buildings, ______ of its homes and all of the city’s hospitals were gone. ____________________ cows, ______________ pigs, and _______________ chickens were dead. 1/3 8 30 1 2/3 400,000 75% 90% Thousands of Tens of thousands of hundreds of millions of What’s the function of the data? To make the text more credible(可信的) and describe how terrible damage the earthquake brought. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. People felt hopeless because of the terrible effect caused. Language points P50 It seemed as if the world were coming to an end. One of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometres away in Beijing. In less than one minute, a large city lay in ruins. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away. 仿佛 that引导定语从句，修饰a quake. “甚至给150公里外的北京带来了破坏”的一场地震。 过去完成时（过去的过去） as if 引导的虚拟语气, 从句与事实相反， be动词一般用were。 猜词：结合上下文 成为废墟 砖，砖块 Read the part 3 (para 4-5) carefully and answer: What happened after the earthquake? What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe? Slowly, the city began to breath again. Scanning P50 After the earthquake（para4-5） The army sent soldiers to _______those who were _________ and to______ the dead. Doctors and nurses came to __________medical care. Workers built __________for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Government With strong __________ from the government and the tireless _________ of the city's people, a new Tangshan was built. dig out trapped bury provide shelters support efforts Slowly, the city began to breathe again. People felt hopeful. 陷于，困于 埋葬 避难处 What made the revival（复活，复兴） possible? People must unify and show the wisdom to stay positive and rebuild for a brighter future. Language features Simile（明喻） Exaggeration(夸张) Repetition (重复) Personification(拟人) Metaphor （暗喻） Data（数据） Literary journalism 报告文学 Tang shan’s new look What can we learn from this event? Disasters are _____________________. Life is _____. But if people ____________, disasters can be ________. weak unify together defeated destructive / heartless domp4电影 Lavf58.12.100 www.domp4.com $