Warming up and Reading
How many Nature Disasters do you know?
typhoon
tornado,
hurricane
seismic sea wave / tsunami
volcanic eruption
sand storm
thunderstorm
drought
flood
fire
hurricane
earthquake
我国地震分布
Natural disasters
volcano
sandstorm
drought
flood
fire
hurricane
earthquake
1) Do you know what would happen
before an earthquake?
2) What can we do to keep ourselves
safe from an earthquake?
Discussion
Bright lights flash in the sky
Animals are too nervous, such as cows, dogs, horses, and snakes, etc.
Predictions of an earthquake:
1) Bright lights flash in the sky;
3) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas;
4) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc;
5) Mice run out to look for places to hide;
6) Fish jump out of the ponds.
2) The water in the well rise and fall;
Wenchuan Earthquake
Can you describe
how terrible the
earthquake was?
2008.5.12
The city lay in ruins.
破败不堪
The buildings fell down.
倒塌
Roads might crack.

开裂
Many people were killed or injured.
受伤的
A great number of people lost their homes.
许多，大量
A terrible earthquake happened in India.
Tangshan, Hebei
July 28th, 1976
I. 英汉互译。
1. 暴风雨前总是很平静。_____________________________
2. 给你的同伴描述一次地震（情景） ___________________________________
___________________________________
3. have a class discussion ________________
4. leave it right away ________________
进行课堂讨论
Describe to your partner what happened in an earthquake.
It is always calm before a storm.
立刻离开
II. 根据括号内的提示完成句子。
Can you imagine
_______________________
（她可能出什么事了）?
2. Don’t worry. ________________（你
有时间）to take your book back.
You have time
what might happen to her
THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP
A NIGHT
Reading
Join the correct parts of the sentences.
Do a fast reading of the passage.
2 The people didn’t
worry because
1 The chickens didn’t eat because
C they were
nervous.
E they didn’t
know what the
strange events
meant.
3 Such a great
number of people died because

4 Water was needed
because
5 The people did not lose hope because
D dams and wells
were useless.
B the quake
happened while
they were
sleeping.
A the army
came to help
them.
Second reading: Structure of the text
shocked
destroyed
2-3
no one noticed
Strange things
1
fresh water
shelters
to bury
4
Details of each part
Third reading:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
rose and fell
deep cracks, smelly gas
ran out of, looking for places to hide
too nervous to eat
jumped out
bright lights
sound of planes heard even no planes
cracked and burst
Part1
Data (数据)
______ 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 killed or injured reached more than ________.
All of the city’s hospitals, _____ of its factories and buildings and _____ of its homes were gone.
1/3
8
30
15
2/3
400,000
75%
90%
Para. 2-3
These numbers show the destructive effects of earthquake directly to students which can help student gain more information about the earthquake.
How the army helped the people in Tangshan?
Part3
:After the earthquake
Post-reading: Retell the story
____________ happened in Tang Shan. For a few days, water in the wells _____________. From the ______ of wells __________come out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ________. At 3:00 am, everything began to ______. It seemed that the world was _________. _________ of the nation ____ it. ___________ cut across the city. The city lay _______.
Strange things
rose and fell
cracks
smelly gas
nervous
shake
at an end
One-third
felt
A huge crack
in ruins
Two-thirds of the people _____ or ___________. Then later that afternoon, another big quake ______ Tang Shan. People began to wonder ___________________________. But all hope ____________. _______ came to help those ________. Slowly, the city began to _____________.
died
were injured
shook
how long the disaster would last
was not lost
Soldiers
breathe again
survivors
What should we do to
protect ourselves if an
earthquake happened?
Discussions
Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away.
imagine: form a mental picture
imagine + n. /pron.
imagine sb. to be
shake: cause to move to and fro
Language points
right away: at once; in no time; immediately
right now: at this very moment
Make up your mind ___________.
I’ll return the book ___________.
right now
right away
He _____ from his chair when the door
bell rang.
Her job is _______ chickens.
Her temperature is still ______.
He ________ in rank recently.
2. rise vi. rose, risen
上升; 升起; 上涨; 升高; 增加
raise vt. raised, raised
举起, 抬起，喂养
rose
raising
rising
has risen
smelly: smell+ y = adj.
smell n./v (smelt/ smelled)
They were all hungry and the food ______ good.
I can ______ something burning in the kitchen.
Please throw the _______ fish away.
smelt
smell
smelly
3. A ______ gas came ___ __ the cracks.
smelly
out
of
4. … the water pipes in some buildings cracked and _____.
burst
burst可以作动词，意为：使爆炸;使破裂 ；突然发生，突然出现。常构成短语burst into sth. 或burst out doing sth.，表示“突然开始（做某事）”，如：burst into tears = burst out crying（表示“突然哭起来”）。也可以作名词，意为： 爆炸。例如：
1. The dam burst after heavy rains.
2. In the game, children try to burst
balloons by sitting on them.
3. Claire looked as if she were about to
burst into tears.
4. Joan didn’t say anything at first and
then she burst out crying.
5. There is a burst in the water pipe.
[即学即练] 根据burst的用法，完成下列句子。
1. Everyone in the room burst out
_________ (laugh).
2. She found there were ________
(burst) in the well walls.
laughing
bursts
5. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.
[考点] 定语从句中引导词who的用法。
[考例] Women ____ drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than those ____ don’t. (北京 2006)
A. who; 不填 B. 不填; who
C. who; who D. 不填;不填
6. It seemed as if the world…
1) as if 似乎，好像 = as though
She spoke to me as if she knew me.
她和我说话的神情，好像她早就认识我
似的。
2) as if 在表语从句中相当于that:
It seemed as if the meeting would never end.
看起来会议没完没了。
本文中as if 的用法就是第二种。
It seemed as if the world was at an end!= It seemed that the world was at an end!
It seemed that the world was __ ___ ___.
at
an
end
at the end of 用于表示具体事物或场所的场合，它也可以用来表示比喻意; by the end of 用于表示时间的场合， 到……结束的时候，用于过去完成时态; in the end 意思“最后、终于”。
Compare: at the end of
by the end of
in the end
1) His father will return home
___________ this year.
2) He will be a scientist __________.
3) How many English words had you
learned ____________ last term?
at the end of
in the end
by the end of
7. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city
lay in _____.
ruins
lie (lay, lain): to be, remain or be
kept in a certain state
in ruins: severely damaged or
destroyed
Compare: ruin;
destroy;
damage
①damage指部分“损坏”、“损害”、“破坏”或指使用价值有所降低。它可以用作动词, 也可以用作名词, 用作名词时常与to something 连用。
　The accident did a lot of damage to his car.
　②destroy 只能用作动词, 指彻底破坏, 以致不可能修复, 常作“破坏”、“毁灭”解, 也可以指希望、计划等打破。
　The earthquake destroyed almost the whole town.
③ruin则表示破坏严重, 以致不能修复, 但这种破坏不像destroy那样毁灭某物,而是强调致使该物的使用价值发生了问题。用作动词时,它作 “使毁灭”、 “使崩溃”、 “弄糟”解;用作名词时, 它表示 “毁灭”、 “瓦解”、 “废墟”等抽象概念。ruin也有借喻的用法。
　　The fire ruined the castle.
　　The house has fallen into ruin.
　　The company is facing ruin.
The village ___ in ruins after the war.
These machines have ____ idle since the
factory closed.
An earthquake left the whole town _______.
His career is ________.
lay
lain
in ruins
in ruins
Everywhere they looked nearly everything was _________.
destroyed
He ______ his girl friend’s prospects
ruined
Soft wood ________easily.
damages
8. Two-thirds of the people died or were _______ during the earthquake.
injured
More than 61% of the surface of the earth ____ covered by water.
Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ____ young.
以百分数作为主语的，谓语动词是单数还是负数取决于百分数后面跟的名词是可数还是不可数的。
is
are
请根据提示完成下列句子。
1. ________ (三分之一) of the students in our class ____ (be) girls.
2. __________ (五分之三) of the soil __________ (wash) away by the flood last night.
3. ______ (一半) of the desks in this school ________ (make) in his company.
4. ______ (大部分的) of the lecture he made yesterday ______ (be) interesting.
One-third
are
Three-fifths
was washed
Half
are made
Most
was
5. _________________ (数万) people _____________ (dance) in the big square now.
6. There were ____________ (一万) students taking part in the exam yesterday.
7. _________________ (百分之九十) of the mountain __________ (cover) by trees.
is covered
Tens of thousands of
are dancing
ten thousand
90% / 90 percent
Compare: injure;
hurt;
wound
injure: to hurt oneself/ sb. / sth. physically
三者都可表示受伤，伤害。hurt可指对身体上的伤害，也指对心灵造成的伤害。wound一般指外伤，如刀伤、枪伤等，尤其指在战争中，打斗中受伤。injure 一般是指在事故中受伤，往往意为“外伤”。
Their criticisms _________ him deeply.
Smoking will ________ his health.
He was slightly ________ in the car accident.
He got _________ in the fighting.
What you said _____ my feeling.
have hurt
injured
injured
wounded
hurt
9. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without parents.
[分析]
a. 这是一个由and连接的并列复合句。
b. 本句的结构是：第一个分句（Thousands of families were killed） + and + 第二个分句（many children were left without parents）。
c. 第二个分句的结构为：主语（many children） + 谓语（were left） + 主语补足语（without parents）。
d. 可以充当补足语的还有形容词、分词、不定式、名词或句子等。
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