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(共28张PPT)
（n.）
buildings
roads
water pipes
electricity
people and animals
the city
(v.)
fall down / collapse / be damaged or destroyed
burst
be cut off
panic / feel shocked / get injured / be trapped or buried / be homeless / die
lie in ruins
Pre-reading
1. Discuss what may happen to a city during a big earthquake.
THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP
time
place
activity/event
2. Look at the title and picture on the right side and guess what the text is about.
3:42 am, July 28, 1976
Tangshan, Hebei
an earthquake struck the city
Combine the key information into a sentence.
1. Skim and find out the topic sentences for each paragraph.
Para. Topic sentence
1
2
3
4
5
Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei.
At 3:42 am, everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to end.
Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
Hope was not lost.
Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.
While-reading
_______ the earthquake
_______ the earthquake
______ the earthquake
Warning signs
The effects of...
The revival ...
The happening of...
before
during
after
The rescue work...
___________
in the sky
Chickens&pigs were
________________________.
Mice ran out
________________
bright lights
________
in the well walls
deep cracks
too nervous to eat
looking for places to hide.
________
from it
smelly gas
2. Read for details
Para 1
1. What were some of the strange things happening before the quake Do you think they were warning signs Why or why not
1. What are they
2. Why did the writer use so many numbers
Para 2-3
1 minute
150
kilometres
8 & 30
2/3
75%, 90%
400,000
3:42 am
11
kilometres
What does the last sentence in Para 4 “Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean
What do you think helped in the revival of Tangshan city
It means that the city began to function again.
Para 4-5
The strong support from the government.
The tireless efforts of the city's people.
Unity and wisdom and a positive attitude.
changes of people's feelings
01
02
03
04
05
The city's one million people were asleep as usual that night. (Para 1)
unaware
Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins...People were in shock. (Para 3)
shocked
People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.(Para 3)
hopeless
But hope was not lost. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
positive
....a new Tangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins. (Para 5)
hopeful
Figure of speech（修辞格)
The night the earth didn’t sleep.(title)
For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. (L2)
It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!(L13)
Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.(L20)
Slowly, the city began to breathe again.(L37)
Personification(拟人)
Simile(明喻)
Exaggeration(夸张)
Repetition (反复)
Text type
Written in time order
Documentary纪实的
Literary文学的
Styles of documentary literature
纪实文学
Read the sentences describing what happened after a huge plete the sentences with the correct forms of the new words and phrases from the text
The huge earthquake left nearly the whole city
__________.
2. Everyone was __________, thinking the world
must be coming to an end.
3. Millions of people were left without water, food
or _________.
in ruins
in shock
electricity
4. Soldiers and volunteers worked as hard as they could to pull away ________ and rocks, and rescue those who were _________ under the ruins.
5. Some were found alive, though they were suffering from terrible injures, but others had already stopped ________ when they
were discovered.
6. A few buildings were still standing, but people were afraid to use them as shelters, worrying they would be ________ if the buildings fell.
breathing
buried
bricks
trapped
Language points
Para 1
1. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings.
survivor, shock, believe, happen
Suvivors were too shocked to believe what had happened.
frightened
too + adj. / adv. to + v.
太……以至于不能……
2. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.
动词-ing形式作伴随状语(accompanying adverbial)
1）What's adverbial
(什么是状语？)
2）What's accompanying adverbial
(什么是伴随状语？)
3）How to use it
(怎么用？)
Mice ran out of the field and looked for places to hide.
1) Fish felt nervous and jumped out of the water.
Fish felt nervious, jumping out of the water.
2) The survivors were shocked and they wondered how long the disaster would last.
The survivors were shocked, wondering how long...
2. Mice ran out of the fields, looking for places to hide.
Para 2
3. Everything began to shake.
shake--________--__________
4. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end.
It seem / look / sound / taste / feel as if + sentence
降温了。似乎是冷空气在宣告它的到来。
The temperture fell sharply. It seemed as if the cold air announced its coming.
Our head teacher treats us as if we were her own children.
sb do sth as if ...
5. sentence analysis（长难句分析）
Eleven kilometers directly below the city, one of the most deadly eqrthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150 kilometer away in Beijing.
1. ____________(五分之一) of people were injured in the earthquake.
2. _____________ (三分之二) of the students in our class are girls.
3. ________________(四分之三) of the land __________ (cover) with grass.
Two thirds
One fifth
three fourths
6. Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it!
分数的表示法：
分子用基数词，one, two, three…
分母用序数词，first, second, third…
分子超过1，分母加s
is
covered
躺：__________--lay--___________
ruin
7. 一座大城市沦为废墟。
A large city lay in ruins.
destroyed
ruin
damaged
damaged
ruin one's dream / health / holiday / trip / the pleasure / oneself
Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins.
表示量大而不具体的数目时，就可以用ten，hundred，thousand，million等词加s + of + n.
① tens of thousands of
② hundreds of thousands of
③ millions of
8. Thousands of children were left without parents. The number of people who ______ (be) killled or badly injured _______ (be) more than 400,000.
thousands of
成千上万的；数以千计的
数以万计
几十万
数百万的
There was nothing but ruins.
Nearly everything was destroyed.
...factories and buildings ...were gone.
Brick covered the ground like red autumn leaves.
Most bridges had fallen.
The railways tracks were now useless pieces of metal.
Para 3
How did the author describe the city after the quake
9. 破坏，损毁（一词多义）
People were in shock.
in shock
震惊；吃惊
in puzzlement / confusion
in / with delight = delightedly
in / with excitement = excitedly
in amazement / surprise / astonishment
in panic
in fear / horror / terror
in frustration / depression
in relief
处于……当中
困惑
高兴
兴奋
吃惊
恐慌
害怕
沮丧
如释重负
The football player shouted in excitement / yell with ~.
The woman beamed in delight.
The woman screamed in horror.
The girl with a pair of thick glasses is in confusion.
10. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.
The helicopter to rescue the villagers ________(trap) in the storm was canceled due to the terrible weather.
The old man laid /set _______ trap under the building.
He is buried in thought.
I was buried in reading the novel Dracula when Mrs. Chen called my name.
be buried in = be absorbed in = be occupied in 全神贯注于
Para 4
11. Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet.
The timely rain revived the drought-stricken crops.
12. tireless efforts
Para 5
1. Preview Grammar--the Relative Clause（定语从句）on P52.
2. Find and take down the sentences with restrictive relative clauses（限制性定语从句）on P50.
3. Finish the exercise on P52, P90-91

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