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Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?

What can we do to keep ourselves safe from an earthquake?

Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP? Why were so many people killed or injured?

What does the sentence “ Slowly, the city began to breathe again” mean?

1. What natural signs of a coming disaster were there?2. Can you think of some reasons why these signs weren’t noticed?3. What events probably made the disaster worse?4. What situations probably made the disaster worse?5. How were the survivors helped?

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Look at the each part and write down its main idea.

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Before the earthquake strange things began to happen but no one took any notice of them.

The earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshanand shocked the people very much.

The army came to help the survivors, bringing hope for a new life.

Language points

1. Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away.imagine: form a mental pictureimagine + n. /pron./ G./ cl.imagine sb. to be shake : cause to move to and froright away : at once ; in no time ; immediatelyright now : at this very momentMake up your mind___________.I’ll return the book___________.

right nowright away

The walls had deep _______ in it.The walls had deep _______ in it.crackscracks

2. The water in the village well ______ ______ _______.rose rose andand fellfell

He ______from his chair when the door bell rang.

Her job is _________chickens.

Her temperature is still________.

He ______________in rank recently.

Compare: rise & raise

rose

raising

rising

has risen

smelly : having a noticeable,

usually unpleasant odor

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.

The house _______of paint.

smelt

smell

smellysmells

3. A ______ gas came ____ ____ the crackssmelly out of

4. water pipes in some buildings________and_______.burst

cracked

burst : to come open or fly apart suddenlyThe balloon suddenly burst.burst into + n. Some robbers burst into that house.burst outburst out + doing They burst out laughing. Compare:

He burst into laughter.= He burst out laughingHe burst into tears.= He burst out crying.

burst into+ n.burst out + doing……

5 . But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed as usual that night. ( Non- Defining Attributive Clauses )Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to like your deepest….. (Unit 1 )……because those who ruled England at that time spoke French. ( Unit 2 )The plains where rice grows. ( Unit 3 ) ( Defining Attributive Clause )

6. It seemed that the world was __ ____ _____.6. It seemed that the world was __ ____ _____.at an end

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

A large number of A large number of

buildings were_____buildings were_____burntburnt

A huge _______ that was eight kilometers

long and thirty meters wide

cut ______houses and roads

cracks

across

Hard hills of rock became rivers of ______.dirt

8. In fifteen terrible seconds8. In fifteen terrible secondsa large city a large city laylay in_______. in_______.ruinsruins

lie (lay, lain ): to be, remain or be kept in a certain statein ruins : severely damaged or destroyed

The village _____in ruins after the war.

These machines have _____idle since the factory closed.

An earthquake left the whole town_________.

His career is__________.

laylain

in ruinsin ruins

Compare: ruin ; destroy ; damage

Everywhere they looked nearly everything was_________. destroyed

He __________ his girl friend’s prospectsruined

Soft wood ________easily.damages

injure: to hurt oneself / sb / sth. physically

9.9. Two-thirds Two-thirds of the people died or were ________ of the people died or were ________ during the earthquake. during the earthquake.

injured

two-thirds= two thirds

More than 61% of the surface of the surface of the earth ____covered by water.Seventy percent of the workers in this factory ______young.

is

are

Compare: injure ;

hurt ;

wound

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

________covered the

ground like autumn

leaves.People were_________.

Bricks

shocked

10. The number of people who were killed or injured _______ more than 400,000.reached

reach : to achieve of obtain sth.

11. Some of the ________workers and doctors were

_______under the ruins.

rescuetrapped

rescue : (n) an act of rescuing or being rescued

rescue : (v) to save or set free from harm,

danger, or loss

trap : (v) in a place form which one wants to

escape but cannot

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)

wonder12.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.

13. 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.

The railway tracks were_______pieces of ______.

uselesssteel

The army _________ teams to ______ _______ those were trapped and to_____ the dead

organized dig out

bury

14. … 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

People became__________ as a ______of the earthquake. They had to look for ______

from the earthquake with their__________

things.

homeless resultshelters

necessary

Some of the _______ workers and doctors were__________under the ______.

rescue

trapped ruins

To the north of the city,most of the100,000

miners were _____ _____ the ____ ____.rescued from coal mines

Workers built ________ for _______ whose homes had been destroyed.

shelters survivors

the water in the village wells rise and fall a deep crack come out of in the farmyard too nervous to eat look for place to hide bright lights in the sky the water pipes one million people of the city think little of

as usual begin to shake at an end directly below the city one -third of the nation

eight km long thirty km wide

cut across houses

steam burst from holes on/in the ground

hard hills of rock

rivers of dirt

in ruins

reach

more than

be destroyed

bricks covered the ground

red autumn leaves

be not safe for traveling

tens of thousands

half a million

instead of

be shocked

rescue workers and doctors

be trapped

under the ruins

begin to wonder

all hope

dig out

the people who were trapped

bury the death

coal mines

build shelters

begin to breathe again

1. Farmers’ wives noticed that the well had deep cracks

in them.

2. It seemed that the world was at an end.

3. Bricks covered the ground like read autumn leaves.

4. The army organized teams to dig out those who were

trapped and to bury the dead.

5.. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes

had been destroyed. P 26

Homework Do exercises on page 27—28.

Ex. 1,2 & 3 ( Learning about language)

Do exercises 1 & 2 on page 63. ( Using words and expressions)