英语人教版七年级上册earthquake.ppt

1、Welcome to our class!,课题：必修一Unit 4 Reading (1),May 12, 2008,Watch a video and guess what natural disaster happened in the video.,Earthquake,Step 1:,Lead-in,Wenchuan,Miserable pictures of Wenchuan earthquake.,Comparing,Before,After,Tall buildings,fell down,Roads were,cracked,The crack cut across the

2、road,The railway tracks were,destroyed,People were,injured/died,Tangshan,A Night the Earth didnt Sleep,Reading,Time: Place: Disaster:,July 28, 1976,Tangshan, Hebei,A big earthquake,Which night? Where? What?,Fast reading,1. Skim the passage and answer: (1 min),Step 2:,Strange things were happening in

3、 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.,All hope was not lost.,2. Read the passage quickly and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. (2 mins),3.Read the text quickly, and

4、 divide the whole passage into three parts, according to the three words.(2 mins),rescue,sign,damage,征兆，前兆,Part 1 (Para _),Part 2 (Para_),Part 3 (Para _),The rescue work after the earthquake,Signs before the earthquake.,What happened during the quake and the damage caused by the quake.,Matching,1,2&

5、3,4,Signs before the earthquake.,Part 1,Step 3:,Careful reading,Read Para 1 carefully and find out the signs before the earthquake.(3 mins),Signs before the earthquake,rose and fell, rose and fell,1,The well walls had_,deep cracks in them.,2,8:00am,10:00am,The water in the village wells _ _.,A smell

6、y gas _.,came out of the cracks.,3,The chickens and even the pigs were _.,4,too nervous to eat,Mice _ looking for places to hide. Fish _ their bowls and ponds.,5,ran out of the fields,jumped out of,6,7. People saw _in the sky. 8. The water pipes in some buildings _.,bright lights,cracked and burst,p

7、ipe,Part 2,The damages caused during the earthquake.,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 kil

8、led or injured reached more than . All of the citys hospitals, of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.,1/3,8,30,15,2/3,400,000,75%,90%,Read Para2&3 carefully and fill the blanks with data(数据) (3 mins),Whats your feelings towards these terrible data?,Natural disaster causes terribl

9、e damage, we should try our best to protect the earth and make the world a better place.,Rescue work after the earthquake.,Part 3,(1)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. Many soldiers helped to rescue the people who were trapped under the ruins. B. Most of the twenty thous

10、and miners were rescued from the coal mines. C. Workers built shelters for homeless survivors.,Read Para4 carefully and choose the best answer.(3 mins),(2)What does the last sentence“ Slowly, the city began to breathe again.” mean? A. The animals began to breathe. B. The city returned to normal grad

11、ually. C. People who were trapped came to life.,Fill in the blanks to finish the summary of this passage, and the first letter of the word is already given. (3 mins),Step 4:,Summary,Several days before July 28, 1976, many s_ things happened in Tangshan. Well walls c_, water pipes brokeand b_, and an

12、imals were too nervous to eat. They were signs for the e_. But people in the city of Tangshan thought little of these. At 3:42 a.m. that day, the earth began to shake, which d_ the city. Later that afternoon, another big earthquake shook Tangshan. More people were killed or i_ and more buildings f_

13、down. The whole city lay in r_. Soldiers were sent to help the r_ workers. Teams were organized to dig out those who were t_ and b_ the dead. The city began to b_ again.,Summary,trange,racked,urst,arthquake,estroyed,njured,ell,uins,escue,rapped,ury,reathe,Tangshans new look,God help those who help t

14、hemselves.,Life is priceless, so we should learn to protect ourselves when we face natural disasters.,Suppose there would be an earthquake, in the following situations, what should we do to keep ourselves safe? (3 mins),(Group work),Post-reading,Step 5:,If we are,I think we must, ,1.At school,2.At home,3.On the road,4.In a building,at school,at home,If on a road: 1.Use something hard (硬的) to protect your head. 2.Avoid the buildings and bridges.,2. Dont rush out