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1、 the earth is a little blue planet. there always happen some disasters .what natural disasters do you know?1.what do you think may happen before an earthquake?people can see bright lights in the sky. the sound of planes can be heard outside even when no planes are in the sky.chickens, pigs, dogs, co

2、ws and snakes are nervous. mice run out of the fields. fish jump out of ponds. the well walls have deep cracks in them. the water in the well rises and falls. a smelly gas comes out of the cracks.look carefully at the two pictures. describe what you see in the pictures . but unfortunately ,in 1906 a

3、 big earthquake happened in san francisco. whats worse, a bigger earthquake happened in tangshan in 1976 in china.imagine what might have happened to all the things in the photos. 2.what damages does the earthquake cause?houses fell down. bricks covered the ground . buildings were destroyed.roads go

4、t huge cracks.many buses were caught in them. a huge crack might have cut across houses ,roads and canals.water pipes cracked and burst, so the water supply was cut off. there might be_ all over the city. the electricity was _for several days too.firescut offbridges and dams fell down or were not sa

5、fe for travelling.railway tracks were useless pieces of steel. the transportation was delayed.many people died and were injured. families were killed and many children were left without parents. the survivors became homeless.workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.shelter

6、s for survivors.in a few terrible seconds, a large city lay in ruins. everything was destroyed. it seemed that the world was at an end.3.why do earthquakes happen?pacific plateamerican plateeurasian plate indian plateafrican plateantarctic plate北北american plateamerican plate sometimes these two plat

7、es stop and do not move for years. then suddenly, they jump and an earthquake is felt. as a result of the movement of these plates, west america near the sea has always been a bad place for earthquakes. when the 1906 earthquake happened, the pacific plate jumped 5-6 meters to the north.continentoceanic platehomework:homework:1.preview the passage of page 26, a