Unit 4 Earthquakes
我国地震分布
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, pigs, 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;
An Earthquake
A terrible earthquake happened in India.
Tangshan, Hebei
July 28th, 1976
THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP
A NIGHT
Reading
Join the correct parts of the sentences.
Do a fast-reading of the passage.
2 Before the earthquake
the people they didn’t
worry because
1 The chickens didn’t eat because
C they were
nervous.
E they didn’t
know the quake
caused the
strange events.
3 Such a great
number of people
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.
___ Brick buildings were destroyed.
___ The walls of the village wells had cracks in them.
___ Shelters were put up for those with no homes.
___ Roads got huge cracks.
___ The army helped the survivors.
Listen to the passage and number each of these things happened during the Tangshan earthquake.
1
2
3
4
5
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Look at the each part and write down its main idea.
Part 1
Part 2
Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them.
The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan and shocked the people very much.
Paragraph 4
Part 3
The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.
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
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. & raise vt.
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 : to come open or fly apart suddenly
The balloon suddenly burst.
burst into + n.
Some robbers burst into that house.
burst out
burst out + doing
They burst out laughing.
He burst into laughter.
= He burst out laughing
He burst into tears.
= He burst out crying.
burst into+ n.
burst out + doing…
5. 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，用语过去完成时态; 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
6. 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
injure: to hurt oneself/ sb. / sth. physically
7. 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.
is
are
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
Compare: injure
hurt
wound
wonder v. A. to have a feeling of surprise.
B. to be filled with curiosity or doubt.
n. one that arouses astonishment,
surprise ; admiration
It is no wonder (that)= No wonder (that)
wonder
8. People began to ________how long the disaster would last.
---Tom often works deep into the night
every day.
---No wonder he always gets first in the
examinations.
9. All hope was not lost.
all…not … = not all…;some… but not all
Not all the children are left.
(= Only some of them left early.)
Not all the children are noisy.
(= Some of the children are not noisy.)
 none of …..
None of us were allowed to go there.
None of these reports is very helpful.
10. … bury the dead.
bury : A. to place in the ground
B. to occupy (oneself) with deep
concentration; absorb
The dog buried the bone in the ground.
I buried myself in my studies.
bury oneself in = be buried in
devote oneself to = be devoted to
Discussion
What can we do to reduce the damage of earthquakes?
How can we protect ourselves and help others in the earthquake?
keys
1. Build houses along the lines where two of the earth’s plates join together;
2. Build the houses on rock than on sand.
3. Make the houses as strong as possible,
weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake.
1. Practice reading the whole text.
2. Finish off the exercise.
Learning about language.