Unit4 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 THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP Teaching aims： Identify the language features of literary journalism and the structure of the text; 01 02 03 Appreciate the figures of speech and writing skills used in the text; Learn about the basic information of the Tangshan earthquake; Activate students’ own knowledge about natural disasters and what they might do if they were caught up in an earthquake. 04 1. Look at the title and photo and predict what the text is about. Pre-reading personification 拟人 1. What is the text mainly about? Pre-reading The passage mainly talks about : An_________________(what) that happened in ____________ (where) in ____________(when). earthquake Tangshan 1976 What: When: Where: July 28, 1976 Tangshan, Hebei A big earthquake Para Topic sentence 1 2 3 4 5 (2 mins) 2. Read the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. Everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end. Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet. Hope was not lost. 1.Read the text carefully and then match the main idea of each paragraph. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 Paragraph 5 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 1 ___________________________________________________ A. Warning signs before the earthquake. Paragraph 3 ___________________________________________________ C. Destruction of the earthquake. E.Suffering of the people and the city after the earthquake. B. Help from all over the country. D.Revival of the city. Fast-reading ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 Paragraph 5 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 1 ___________________________________________________ Warning signs before the earthquake. Paragraph 3 ___________________________________________________ Destruction of the earthquake. Suffering of the people and the city after the earthquake. Help from all over the country. Revival of the city. 2. What is the structure of the text? the earthquake the earthquake During the earthquake After Before damage The text is organised in a time/ chronological order. While-Reading Before the earthquake Part 1 Read Para 1 carefully and find out the signs before the earthquake.(3 mins) Signs before the earthquake 1 The well walls had __________________ deep cracks in them. 2 8:00am 10:00am The water in the village wells _________ ________. rose and fell, rose and fell Some smelly gas ____________________. came out of the cracks. 3 4 Chickens and even pigs were _________________________. too nervous to eat 6 7 Mice__________________ looking for places to hide. ran out of the fields Fish _____________ the water. jumped out of Dogs refused to __________________. 5 go inside buildings 8 People saw ____________ in the sky. bright lights During the earthquake Part 2 While-Reading of the nation felt the earthquake . A huge crack that was kilometres long and _______ metres wide cut across houses. In less than minute a large city lay in ruins. of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than . All of the city’s hospitals, of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone. Read Para 2&3 carefully and fill the blanks with data(数据) (3 mins) 1/3 8 30 1 2/3 400,000 75% 90% 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 Part 3 While-Reading After the earthquake Read paragraph 4&5 and answer the question. 1) Who came to the rescue? What did they do? 150,000 _________ . They were sent to those who were trapped and to the dead. More than 10,000 _________________. They came to ________________. Workers. They for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. dig out bury provide medical care built shelters 2 mins soldiers doctors and nurses 2) What does the sentence “Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean? A. The animals began to breathe. B. The city returned to normal gradually. C. People who were trapped came to life. D. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. 3) What is the mood of this passage? A. Sad B. Serious C. Serious and sad D. Calm 1) What’s the type of this text? A. a news report B. a literary journalism（报告文学） C. a novel While-Reading What can we learn from the passage? ( ) A. The sooner, the better B. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart C. Many hands make light work. D.No pain, no gain C Faced with natural disasters ,people must and show the to stay and for a brighter future. unify wisdom positive rebuilt Purpose The night the earth didn’t sleep.(title) For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. (L2) 3.Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.（L12） 4.Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.(L20) 5.Slowly, the city began to breathe again.(L37) personification(拟人) repetition (反复) simile(明喻) personification(拟人) metaphor(暗喻) Function: to make the description __________________________. more vivid (生动形象) Sentence Appreciation 句子赏析 Features of a literary journalism （报告文学的特征） journalism（新闻性） literary（文学性） political comment（政论性） Post-reading Hopeless ruins Flourishing city Disasters have no mercy, but humans do. 天灾无情，人有情。 If everyone gives a hand, the world would be full of love. Discussion How can we protect ourselves in an earthquake at school? Don’t be nervous and keep calm. Sit down under your desk. Protect your head by putting your bag on your head. If possible, run to the schoolyard. Homework : 1.Memorize new words. 2.Find out the new words and phrases and sentence structures in the passage. 人民教育电子音像出版社 普通高中教科书 英语 第一册 2019 310749.03 $