Unit4ReadingandThinking课件-高中英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

1、THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP地球的不眠之夜Work in pairs.Discuss what can happen to a city during a big earthquake.How do you understand the title?Does the earth sleep as you do ?PersonificationThe night the earth didnt sleepRead the text carefully and then write down the main idea of each paragraph.Para

2、graph 1:_Paragraph 2:_Paragraph 3:_Paragraph 4:_Paragraph 5:_Warning signs before the earthquake.The happening of the big erathquake.The immediate effects of the earthquake.The rescue work.The revival of the city.Imagine you are a journalist, you enter Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Hall. When you loo

3、k at those pictures taken at that time, what happened to the city and people? How did the people feel?12345678Everywhere survivors looked, there are nothing but ruins.Citys factories, buildings, homes, hospitals were gone. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross. A huge crack cut across ho

4、uses, roads and water ways.The railway tracks were now useless pieces of mental.53412The army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. More than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes ha

5、d been destroyed.Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane.786Try to find as many words and phrases you have read in the text as possible to describe the earthquake.carelesshopelessconfusedpositivecity in ruinsroads destroyedpeople killed orinjuredchildren lost parentsstra

6、nge things happenedearthquake beganeverything ruined another big quakesoldiers were sentworkers helpedsupport from governmentefforts of peopledoctors and nurses cameWhat does the writer mean by “Slowly, the city began to breathe again”?A. The city bagan to function again.B. The army snet 150,000 sol

7、diers to Tangshan to help people.C. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.D. Most of the 10,000 miners were rescued.What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city?I think the strong support from government and people around are very important. We should act quickly and in unity is the best way to get over such disaters. What s more, we shouldnt lose