Unit 4 Natural Disasters

---Reading and thinking

THE NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP
Learning Aims

Language
Capacity Know about the elements and features of literary journalism.

Learning
Grasp the strategies of guessing the meanings of the words in
Capacity the text.

Cultural capacity Know more about the disasters that occur in the text; raise
awareness of how to protect ourselves from disasters.

Thinking Quality
Learn more information about earthquake,and know how to deal
with it. Improve the ability to solve the problem.
 lead-in
Brainstorm: Look at the pictures and think out some new words relating to the
natural disasters.

tornado
drought

landslide
tsunami
flood
volcano
wildfire
Lead-in

The night the earth didn't sleep

ToReading
get theformain idea, pay attention to the beginning
main ideas

sentence in each
Read the passage paragraph.
quickly and match the main idea with each paragraph.

Para.1 A.The earthquake caused unbelievable destruction

to Tangshan.

B.The earthquake happened and caused deaths and

Para.2
injuries in Tangshan.

Para.3
　 C.Help came soon after the quakes.

Para.4 D.Warning signs before the earthquake.

Para.5 E.Tangshan came back to life again.

What is the main idea of the text?
A
A. A terrible earthquake of Tangshan.

B. Strange signs before the earthquake of Tangshan.

C. Rescue work after the earthquake of Tangshan.

D. Damages of the earthquake of Tangshan.

Fast-reading Time order
Use one word to summarize each part.

Part1 Part2 Part3

Para1 Para2.3 Para4.5

before the during the after the

earthquake earthquake earthquake

signs destroy rescue

Reading for details

Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text.
Details about Para.1 ---- the signs before the earthquake.

What happened Strange things

wells Water, rose and fell, cracks

Chickens and pigs didn’t eat ; Mice ran out; Fish

animals
jumped out.

Light and sound Could be seen and heard

 Reading for details

Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text.
Details about Para. 2-3 —— the ruins during the earthquake
a huge crack cut across
Hard hills of rock rivers of dirt
A large city in ruins
Factories and buildings gone
Bricks covered the ground like the red autumn leaves
Bridges fell down/not safe to cross
The railway tracks useless
Cows,pigs and chickens dead
Water,food,electricity hard to get
The suffering of people extreme
 Fill in the Data( 数据 ) in para 2-3

1) _________of
One third the nation felt the earthquake .
2) A huge crack that was____kilometres
8 long and _____
30 metres wide
cut across houses.
3) In less than ____1 minute, a large city lay in ruins.
Two thirds
4)__________of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
5) The number of people who were killed or injured reached more
than__________
400,000 .
6) _____of
75% its factories and buildings, _____
90% of its homes and all of the
city's hospitals were gone.
 Reading for details

Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text.
Details aboutPara.4-5 --- rescue and revival after the earthquake
Who came to the city ？
How did the city begin  The army.....
to breathe?  Doctors and nurses...
 Workers...
 Water and food...

Hope was not lost.

 Tang shan’s new look
With strong support from the government and the tireless
efforts of people, Tangshan started to revive itself and get
back up on its feet.
What has Tangshan City proved to China and the rest of the
world?
D
A. In times of disaster, people must not go to sleep so early.

B. In times of disaster, people must try their best to stay awake during the night.

C. In times of disaster, people must begin to breathe again quickly.

D. In times of disaster, people must unify and show the wisdom to stay positive
and rebuild for a brighter future.
 Summary

P1 Before the earthquake abnormal signs unprepared

The night
During the earthquake deadly damage hopeless
the earth P2-3
didn't sleep

P4-5 After the earthquake rescue and revival hopeful

Summary

Timely
Styles of
documentary Documentary
literature
Literary
 Explore the figure of speech （修辞格 ) in the following sentences.

1. The night the earth didn’t sleep.

Personification( 拟
(title)
人)
2. For three days the water in the
village wells rose and fell, rose and
Simile( 明喻 )
fell. (L2)
3. It seemed as if the world were
Exaggeration( 夸
coming to an end!(L13)
张)
4. Bricks covered the ground like red
autumn leaves.(L20)
Repetition ( 反复 )
5. Slowly, the city began to breathe
again.(L37)
Discussion and role play
Suppose you are a student surviving from Tangshan
earthquake, and your partner is a reporter.
• How can we protect ourselves in an
earthquake at school?
• What can you do after an earthquake?

A: Hello, I am … , a reporter from CCTV 9.

B: Hello, I am …. Nice to meet you.

※ Don’t be nervous and keep calm.
※ Don’t try to run out of the classroom.
※ Sit down under your desk.
※ Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.
※ Don’t use lift.
※ If possible, run to the schoolyard.
 Thinking

What can we learn from the passage?

power sign damage unify wise

Disasters are powerful .We should take notice of the

warning signs or the damage would be extreme. In front of
unified
disaster ， life is weak ， but if we are wisdom
and show
to stay positive ， we’ll have a brighter future.
 Do you know other earthquakes
happened in China?
Yushu ， Tangshan,
April 14th, 2010 July 28th, 1976
2200 7.1 7.8 240,000
河北
青 唐山
海 Wenchuan,
Ya’an ， 玉
树 雅 汶
May12th, 2008
安 川
April 20th, 2013 70,000
196 7.0
8.0
Where there is life, there is hope.
Homework

1. Make a poster about the earthquake

2. Finish the exercises on Page 51.
THANKS~