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Natural disaster

What kind of natural disasters do you know ?

Word study

flood

Drought

typhoon

hurricane

The sandstor

m in Beijing

volcano

earthquake

Tangshan, Hebei July 28, 1976

Do you know when and where the greatest earthquake of the 20th century happened?

How much do you know about an earthquake?

Warming up:

Before the earthquake: a prosperous city

after the earthquake: in ruins

(injured , lost one’s life) (injured , lost one’s life)

(rescue workers, dig out, injured , survivor, bury the dead, sad)

Discussion: Do you know what would happen before an earthquake?

Predictions( 预兆） of an earthquake:

1) Bright lights flash in the sky; 2) Animals are too nervous, such as cows, pigs, horses, and snakes, etc; 3) The water in the well rise and fall;4) The well walls have deep cracks with smelly gas;5) Mice run out to look for places to hide;

A Night A Night the Earth Didn’t Sleepthe Earth Didn’t Sleep

Time:

Place:

What disaster:

Before the disaster:

Damage:

Rescue:

On July 28, 1976

Tangshan, Hebei Province

A big earthquake

__________________happened Many strange things

The city lay______.

More than _____________people were killed or injured

in ruins

400,000

___________soldiers were sent to help.

Most of the _______miners were rescued.

150,000

10,000

The main idea of each part

Part 1(para.1)) signssigns

damage

rescue

Part 2(para.2-3)Part 2(para.2-3)

Part 3(para.4)

Topic ST:strange things were happening in northeast Hebei.

Topic ST: para2: everything began to shake. It seemed that the world was at an end.Para3: everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

Topic ST: All hope was not lost

___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.

Consolidation

3

1

5

2

4

At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, the greatest___________ of the 20th century happened in Tangshan, Hebei Province,

China. In fifteen terrible seconds, a large city lay in ______ . The number of people who

were killed or injured ________ more than 400,000. Nearly everything was __________ , including, _________ factories, building, railway dams tracks, etc.

ruins

reacheddestroyed

earthquake

Fill the blanks and retell the text.

hospitals

Water, food and _________were hard to get. People wondered how long the________ would last. _____ all hope was lost.The army sent 150.000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers. Slowly the city began to _______ again.

disasterNot

breathe

electricity

What should we do if an earthquake happens,especially when we have a class?

Team work

1.Don’t be nervous and keep calm.2.Don’t try to run out of the classroom.3.Protect your head by putting your bag on your head.4.Sit down under your desk.5.Leave the classroom after the earthquake.

If you are the survivors of Tangshan earthquake, will you want to leave the sad place or rebuild the city? Why?

No matter how great the difficulty is, if we don’t give up, work hard and help each other, we can overcome it. The people in Tangshan have shown that we human beings can make something impossible possible and can create wonders.

God helps those who help themselves!

never give up, never give in, never say never!

Thank you

Strange things

the water in the village wells

the well walls

the chickens and pigs

mice

fish

rose and fell

had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out

were too nervous to eat

ran out of the fields , looking for places to

hide.jumped out of bowls

and ponds

Before the earthquake

Read para.2-3 carefully and then do the true or false questions.

1.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city was completely destroyed. ( )

2.Then, later that afternoon, another small quake shook Tangshan. ( )

3.The number of people who were killed reached more than 400,000. ( )

4.Although it seemed that the world was at an end to the people in Tangshan, the people in Beijing and other cities nearby slept well on the night of July 28, 1976. ( )

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5. All of the city’s hospitals, three-fourths of its factories and buildings and nine-tenths of its homes were gone. ( )

7. Two quakes shook Tangshan within one day. Everybody in other cities was afraid to go there. ( )F

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Read para.4 carefully and then answer the following question:

Did the survivors give up the sad city and go to live in other places? If no, what did they do then?

No. They did the rescue work with the help of 150,000 soldiers sent by the army.

The city began to breathe again..