Earthquake Safety: Know Before, Stay Safe After

1. Unit 4 Earthquake Warming up & reading 厦大附中 朱丽影

2. Warming up

3. How many Nature Disastersdo you know? tornado, hurricane typhoon seismic sea wave / tsunami

4. sand storm thunderstorm volcanic eruption

5. drought flood

6. fire hurricane

7. earthquake

8. 我国地震分布

9. Natural disasters volcano sandstorm drought flood fire hurricane tsunami earthquake

10. Discussion 1)Do you know what would happen before an earthquake? 2) What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?

11. Bright lights flash in the sky

12. Animals are too nervous, such as cows, dogs, horses, and snakes, etc.

13. Predictions of an earthquake: 1) Bright lights flash in the sky; 2)The water in the well rise and fall; 3) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas; 4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc; 5)Mice run out to look for places to hide; 6) Fish jump out of the ponds.

14. 2008.5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake Can you describe how terrible the earthquake was?

15. 破败不堪 The city lay in ruins.

16. The buildings fell down. 倒塌

17. Roads might crack. 开裂

18. Many people were killed or injured. 受伤的

19. A great number of people lost their homes. 许多，大量

20. A terrible earthquake happened in India.

21. Tangshan, Hebei July 28th, 1976

22. Reading A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP

24. Second reading:Structure of the text Strange things 1 no one noticed destroyed shocked 2-3

25. to bury shelters 4 fresh water

26. Do a fast reading of the passage. Join the correct parts of the sentences. 1 The chickens didn’t eat because C they were nervous. 2 Thepeople didn’t worry because E they didn’t know what the strange events meant.

27. 3 Such a great number of people died because 4 Water was needed because 5 The people did not lose hope because B the quake happened while they were sleeping. D dams and wells were useless. A the army came to help them.

28. Third reading: Details of each part Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

29. Part1 rose and fell deep cracks, smelly gas too nervous to eat ran out of, looking for places to hide jumped out bright lights sound of planes heard even no planes cracked and burst

30. Para. 2-3 Data (数据) 1/3 • ______ of the nation felt the earthquake. • A huge crack that was __ kilometres long and _____ metres wide cut across houses. • In ___ terrible seconds 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. 8 These numbers show the destructive effects of earthquake directly to students which can help student gain more information about the earthquake. 30 15 2/3 400,000 75% 90%

31. ☆ The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury those who were trapped. ☆ Miners were rescued from the coal mines. ☆ Shelters were built for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. ☆ Fresh water was taken to the city. Part3 :After the earthquake How the army helped the people in Tangshan?

32. Language points • Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. • imagine: form a mental picture • imagine + n. /pron. • imagine sb. to be • imagine doing • imagine + 从句 P57

33. 2. rise vi. rose, risen 上升; 升起; 上涨; 升高; 增加 raise vt.raised, raised 举起, 抬起，喂养 He _____ from his chair when the door bell rang. Her job is _______ chickens. Her temperature is still ______. He ________in study recently. rose raising rising has risen

34. out of 3. A ______ gas came ___ __ the cracks. smelly smelly:smell+ y = adj. smell n./v (smelt/ smelled) They were all hungry and the food ______ good. I can ______ something burning in the kitchen. Please throw the _______ fish away. smelt smell smelly

35. 4. … the water pipes in some buildings cracked and _____. burst burst可以作动词，意为：使爆炸;使破裂 ；突然发生，突然出现。常构成短语burst into sth. 或burst out doing sth.，表示“突然开始（做某事）”，如：burst into tears = burst out crying（表示“突然哭起来”）。也可以作名词，意为： 爆炸。例如：

36. 1. The dam burst after heavy rains. 2. In the game, children try to burst balloons by sitting on them. 3. Claire looked as if she were about to burst into tears. 4. Joan didn’t say anything at first and then she burst out crying. 5. There is a burst in the water pipe. P57

37. 5. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night. [考点] 定语从句中引导词who的用法。 [考例] Women ____ drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than those ____ don’t. (北京 2006) A. who; 不填 B. 不填; who C. who; who D. 不填;不填

38. 思念，想念 think of Will you think of me after I've left? You're very quiet; what are you thinking of? We are thinking of going to Spain for our holiday this year. We think of him as representing modern writers. We think highly /much of him. 考虑，思考 评价，看法

39. at end It seemed as if the world was __ ___ ___. an P58

40. 7. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in _____. ruins lie(lay, lain): in ruins: Compare: ruin; destroy; damage

41. The village ___ in ruins after the war. These machines have ____ idle since the factory closed. An earthquake left the whole town _______. His career is ________. lay lain in ruins in ruins

42. Everywhere they looked nearly everything was _________. destroyed He ______ his girl friend’s prospects ruined Soft wood ________easily. damages

43. 8. Two-thirdsof the people died or were _______ during the earthquake. injured More than 61% of the surface of the earth ____ covered by water. Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ____young. 以百分数作为主语的，谓语动词是单数还是负数取决于百分数后面跟的名词是可数还是不可数的。 is are

44. 请根据提示完成下列句子。 1. ________ (三分之一) of the students in our class ____ (be) girls. 2. __________ (五分之三) of the soil __________ (wash) away by the flood last night. 3. ______ (一半) of the desks in this school ________ (make) in his company. 4. ______ (大部分的) of the lecture he made yesterday ______ (be) interesting. One-third are Three-fifths was washed Half are made Most was

45. 5. _________________ (数万) people _____________ (dance) in the big square now. 6. There were ____________ (一万) students taking part in the exam yesterday. 7. _________________ (百分之九十) of the mountain __________ (cover) by trees. Tens of thousands of are dancing ten thousand 90% / 90 percent is covered

46. injure: to hurt oneself/ sb. / sth. physically Compare: injure; hurt; wound burn cut

47. Their words _________ him deeply. Smoking will ________ his health. He was slightly ________ in the car accident. He got _________ in the fighting. What you said _____ my feeling. P59 have hurt injured injured wounded hurt

48. 9. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without parents. [分析] a. 这是一个由and连接的并列复合句。 b. 本句的结构是：第一个分句（Thousands of families were killed） + and + 第二个分句（many children were left without parents）。 c. 第二个分句的结构为：主语（many children） + 谓语（were left） + 主语补足语（without parents）。

49. 12.People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. [考点] last在此句中意为“持续，延续”。可单独使用，也可后接for +一段时间（for可以省略）。

50. [考例] The evening news comes on at seven o’clock and ______ only thirty minutes. (2004全国卷II) A. keeps B. continues C. finishes D. lasts [点拨] 根据句意“……只持续30分钟”，排除C； keep意为“维持，保持”时，后接形容词作表语，排除A; continue指继续做某事；last指某事持续了多长时间。