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Unit 4 Natural Disasters
Reading and Thinking
tornado
drought
landslide
tsunami
flood
volcanic eruption
typhoon
hurricane
What natural disasters do you know
Free talk
What can happen to a city during a big earthquake
Free talk
P50
Buildings fall down.
Roads crack. v 开裂, 破裂
Many people are killed or badly injured.
The town lies in ruins.
What can happen to a city during a big earthquake
Look at the title and the pictures, and guess
what the text is about.
P50
Pre-reading
The NIGHT THE EARTH
DIDN’T SLEEP
When
Where
What
It talked about a severe earthquake which happened at night in Tangshan.
Skim the passage and think about these questions.
News report
Novel
literary journalism (报告文学)
P50
3. What kind of text is it
Skimming
2. In what order is the passage written
1. How many parts will you divide the passage into
顺序
Skimming the text quickly and get the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1:
Para2:
Para3:
Para4:
Para5:
Strange things were happening in the
countryside of northeastern Hebei.
It seemed as if the world were coming to an
end.
Nearly everything in the city was destroyed.
But hope was not lost.
Tangshan started to revive itself and get
back on its feet.
Warning signs before the earthquake.
The terrible effect during the earthquake.
Rescue and revival after the earthquake.
in chronological/time (时间）
order
Topic sentence
1. How many parts will you divide the passage into
warning signs before the earthquake
The happening of the earthquake
2. In what order is the passage written
The damage/effect of the earthquake.
The rescue work after the earthquake.
The revival of the city.
Skim the passage and think about these questions.
P50
3. What kind of text is it
Skimming
Literary journalism usually describes real historical events and real characters. The usage of the figures of speech（修辞手法） can stimulate（激励） readers' feelings and thus touch the readers.
THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP
News report
Novel
literary journalism (报告文学)
Which figure of speech(修辞) is used
A. Repetition(重复)
B. Personification（拟人）
C. Metaphor（隐喻）
D. Exaggeration（夸张）
E. Simile（明喻）
Read the part 1 carefully and answer:
What happened before, the earthquake
What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe
Scanning
P50
Before the earthquake （para1）
The well water rose and fell, well walls 1. _______, and some smelly gas came out.
Chicken and pigs were too 2. _______ to eat, and dogs refused to go 3. ______ buildings.
Mice ran out of the 4. ______ and fish jumped out of the water.
5. ___________ were seen in the sky and loud noises were heard.
cracked
nervous
inside
fields
Bright lights
But the city’s one million people were asleep as usual that night.
People were unconcerned about the strange things.
P50
太…以至于（不能）
像往常一样
What were people doing that night
People were asleep as usual
warning signs before the earthquake
unaware / ignorant
Scanning
thought little of
Para.1 before the earthquake
Scanning
Para.1 before the earthquake
Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks that appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July 1976, bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city's one million people were asleep as usual that night.
topic sentence
warning signs
______________ before the earthquake
repetition
To impress readers deeply
sight
smelling
hearing
Which figure of speech(修辞) is used
A. Repetition(重复)
B. Personification（拟人）
C. Metaphor（隐喻）
D. Exaggeration（夸张）
E. Simile（明喻）
Read the part 2 (para 2-3) carefully and answer:
What happened during the earthquake
What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe
Scanning
P50
During the earthquake（para2-3）
Nearly _____of the nation felt the earthquake .
A huge crack that was ____ kilometres long and ____ metres wide cut across houses, roads and waterways.
In less than ___minute a large city lay in ruins.
_____ of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
______________ children were left without parents.
The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than _________.
About _______ of the city’s factories and buildings, ______ of its homes and all of the city’s hospitals were gone.
____________________ cows, ______________ pigs, and _______________ chickens were dead.
1/3
8
30
1
2/3
400,000
75%
90%
Thousands of
Tens of thousands of
hundreds of
millions of
What’s the function of the data
To make the text more credible(可信的) and describe how terrible damage the earthquake brought.
It seemed the world were coming to an end!
Which figure of speech(修辞) is used
A. Repetition(重复)
B. Personification（拟人）
C. Metaphor（隐喻）
D. Exaggeration（夸张）
E. Simile（明喻）
Sentences to appreciate
1. Hard hills of rock became _____________.
2. Bricks covered the ground _____________________, but no wind could blow them away.
rivers of dirt
like red autumn leaves
People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.
People felt ____________
anxious
shocked
helpless
scared/terrified
desperate/hopeless
…
simile
To present vivid pictures
methaphor
Which figure of speech(修辞) is used
A. Repetition(重复)
B. Personification（拟人）
C. Metaphor（隐喻）
D. Exaggeration（夸张）
E. Simile（明喻）
Read the part 3 (para 4-5) carefully and answer:
What happened after the earthquake
What people’s feeling do the following sentence describe
Scanning
P50
After the earthquake（para4-5）
The army sent soldiers to _______those who were _________ and to______ the dead.
Doctors and nurses came to __________medical care.
Workers built __________for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
Government With strong __________ from the government and the tireless _________ of the city's people, a new Tangshan was built.
dig out
trapped
bury
provide
shelters
support
efforts
Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
People felt hopeful.
陷于，困于
埋葬
避难处
Which figure of speech(修辞) is used
A. Repetition(重复)
B. Personification（拟人）
C. Metaphor（隐喻）
D. Exaggeration（夸张）
E. Simile（明喻）
Further-thingking
What makes Tangshan develop so fast
tirelss efforts of the city's people
strong support from the government
various help from the whole nation
unify
What can we learn from this event
Disasters are _____________________.
Life is _____.
But if people ____________,
disasters can be ________.
weak
unify together
defeated
destructive / heartless
Discussion
If one day we come across an earthquake, what should we do to protect ourselves
stay calm
go to an open space
drop down onto...
cover the head with...
stay away from...
hide under…
hold on to...
call... if possible
...
Language features
Simile（明喻）
Exaggeration(夸张)
Repetition (重复)
Personification(拟人)
Metaphor （暗喻）
Data（数据）
Literary journalism
报告文学
Tang shan’s new look

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