必修一第四单元A night the earth didn't sleep reading课件

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Unit 4

Reading

skimming1.What is the text mainly about ?A.Soldiers in Tangshan B. Tangshan earthquake C. Love in Tangshan D. People in Tangshan

2. The text is organized in the order of___.A. places B. time C. events D. importance

3.How will you pide the text into 3 parts?

Main idea of the textPart1Paragraph 1

The army came to help the rescue work. The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan. Strange things happened before the earthquake.

Part2Paragraph 2&3

Part3Paragraph 4

What things are strange before the earthquake?sound of planes heard The one million people of the city, even no planes bright lights

who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that well night.jumped out deep cracks, smelly gas too nervous to eat ran out , looking for rose and fell places to hide

Part 2Read and answer the following questions

Read Part 2 and then answer the following questions.

3:42 am What time did the At about _________ earthquake happen?Where did the earthquake begin? How long did the earthquake last?

11 kilometers _____________directlybelow the city

15 seconds. _______

bridges dams bricks buildings factories

housesroads

canals

In ruins

ground hills

peoplehospitals

What damage did the earthquake cause?

A huge crack that was 8 kilometers long and 30 meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.

extreme. The suffering of the people was extreme. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.

All of the city’s hospitals ,75% of its factories and be gone. gone buildings and 90% of its homes were were gone

Two dams and most of the bridges fell or were not safe for travelling.

Railway tracks are now uselesspieces of steel.