The beautiful view of Tangshan

惠州市实验中学英语科组谢映映

惠州市实验中学英语科组谢映映

The night of Tangshan

It is always calm before a storm

_____downFall

Lie in _____ruins

Everything was_________destroyed

The dead and the______injured

______ workers Rescue

• Type of writing

• Topic sentence of para.1

• Topic sentence of para.2

• Topic sentence of para.3

• Topic sentence of para.4

• General idea of the passage

• This is a news report

• Strange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei.

• Everything began to shake and it seemed that the world was at an end.

• Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.

• All hope was not lost.

• The passage tells us something that happened before the earthquake during the earthquake and after the earthquake.

Bright lights ________ in the sky

The water in the well

and

The well wallshave deep________ with smelly gas

Animalsare too________ , such as pigs, and chickens

run out to_______________ to hide

Fish the ponds

Events before the earthquake:

flash

rise

cracks

nervous

look for places

jump out of

Mice

fall

Join the correct parts of the sentences

The people don’t worry because

Such a great number of people died because

Water was needed because

The people did not lose hope because

a. the army came to help them.

b. the earthquake happened while they were sleeping.

c. dams and wells were useless.

d. they didn’t know what the strange events meant.

(d)

(b)

(c)

(a)

Fill the blank Strange things happened in Tang Shan. F

or a few days, water in the wells rose and fell. From the wall of wells a _____ (smell) gas came out. Mice, chicken, pigs and even fish became ______. At 3:00 am, everything began to shake. ___seemed that the world was at ___ end . One third of the nation felt it. A huge crack cut_____ the city. The city ____ (lie) in ruins.

smelly

nervous

an

across lay

it

Two-thirds of the people died or were_______

(injure). Then later that afternoon, another

big quake _______(shake) Tang Shan.

People began to wonder how long the

disaster would last. But all hope was not

lost. The army came to dig out those

____were_______ (trap) and to bury the

dead. Slowly, the city began to breathe

again.

injured

shook

trappedwho

Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave right away. Among the following items, which would be the first three you may take along? Rank them and tell us why. ID card money phone radio battery （电池）

bottles of water and some food blanket （毛毯） flashlight match first-aid box tent （帐篷）

• Read the text again

• Finish the Exercise1,2,3 on Page 28