Unit Four : Earthquake

Period Two: Reading

What has happened?

2. What do you think may happen before an earthquake?

Before an quake, animals will become nervous. Cows, pigs, horses and dogs will be upset. Mice will run about and fish will jump out of water. In winter, people can even see snakes. So earthquake is predictable.

1.move quickly from side to side or up and down

2.a deep place to store water to drink

3.structure built to give protection from rain

wind or attack

4.save or bring away from danger

5.cause to break violently open or apart

6.the part of a building left after the rest has

been damaged

7.damage so badly that it no longer exits or works

8.event that causes great harm or damage

9.channel cut through land or boats or ships to

Travel along,or carry water for irrigation

shake

well

shelter

rescue

break

ruins

destroy

disaster

canal

10.sudden violent movement of the earth’s surface

11.gas that hot water gives out

12.violent blow or shake;worried or frightened

13.new or different;newly made,produced

14.source of pride and pleasure

15.a special wall that keeps water behind it

16.black material found underground used

for burning to supply heat

17.baked or dried clay used for building

18.having a bad smell

earthquakesteam

shock

fresh

honour

dam

coal

brick

smelly

3. Read the text and pay special attention to the first

sentence of each paragraph p27 ex 3(1) The main idea of the first paragraph is:

Before the quake. strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.

(2) The main idea of the second and third paragraphs is:

During the earthquake, the city was destroyed and people were killed or injured. Shortly after the quake, the disaster lasted.

(3)the main ides of the last paragraph is:After the quake, the army came to help, bringing hope for a new life.

Detail reading

What strange events happened before the earthquake in Tang Shan?

In the well

In the farmyard

In the sky

In the city

well water, cracks ,smelly gas

chickens, pigs , mice , fish

bright light ,the sound of planes

water pipes

nervous to eat, run out to hide ,jump

cracked and burst

rose and fell, came out ofrose and fell, came out of

What do all the numbers referred to in the 2nd passage? What do you feel?

3:4211 kilometres 20th century100 kilometres 1/3 8 kilometres 30 metres 15 seconds thousands of 400,000

began to shakebelow the city, under ground

the greatest earthquake of …heard away from Beijing

1/3 nation felt this earthquake the crack was this long the crack was this wide

the earthquake only last so shortfamilies killed ,left without…people were killed or injured

The numbers in passage 3 75%

90%

two

tens of thousands of

half a million

millions of Chickens died

The factories and buildings were gone.

The homes were gone.

Dams fell .

Pigs died

The cows never give milk again.

1.From whose point of view are events described? How do you know?

• Why do you think the writer choose to express his feelings about the quake rather than report what had happened?

3. Why the title is A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN”T SLEEP?

He uses third-person to describe the quake. For example, “Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.”

Although thewriter was not there, he felt sad for the people of Tangshan. With some feeling, he will make the reading more interesting.

Night is the time to sleep, and night should be safeand quiet. But That night everything changed. It was a terrible and unusual night.

Read again and try to appreciate the language of the passage:

For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell.

It seemed that the world was at an end!

Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.

Slowly, very slowly, the city began to breathe again.

Repetition: to make a deeper impression on the reader

Exaggeration: to draw people’s attention to the seriousness of the disaster.

Simile: to create a vivid image.

Personification: to form a vivid image.

4.What was Tangshan like after the earthquake?

Filling the blacks with the first given letter:

Several days before July 28,1976,many s______things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the e_______. But people in the city of Tangshan didn’t think m_______of these. At 3:42am that day,the earth began to s________,which d_________the city. Many people,including workers and doctors,came to r_______those t_________under the ruins. Later that afternoon,another big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings f________down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. T________were organized to dig out the trapped and b________the dead.

trangearthquake

uchhake estroyed

escue rapped

elleams

ury

Homework:

Find the sentences with attributive

clauses and put them into Chinese.