Unit 4 Earthquakes 2/21/2018 Reading A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP 2/21/2018 It’s Tangshan Earthquake happened in 1976. 2/21/2018 How much do you know about Tangshan earthquake? Many people died…… People lost their homes…. Many things were destroyed….. 2/21/2018 Teaching aims Understand the passage. Develop the reading skill of how to use data to finish exercises. Learn to protect ourselves if an earthquake happened. 2/21/2018 Sum up the main idea of each part of the passage. Part 1: Para 1 Part 2: Para 2&3 Part 3: Para 4 signs damage rescue Fast reading 2/21/2018 Careful reading Task1. Read Part1 carefully and find out the proper information. Task2. Read Para2 to Para3 carefully first make a timeline and then fill in the blanks. Task3. Read Part3 carefully and choose the best answer. 2/21/2018 The chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. Task1 Signs before Earthquake In the village wells In the farmyard In the sky In the city Water rose and fell; the well walls had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out of the cracks. Some people saw some bright lights and heard the sound of planes even when no planes were in the sky. The water pipes in the buildings cracked and burst. 2/21/2018 Task 2 Timeline July 28,1976 At about 3:00 am At 3:42 am In fifteen seconds Later that afternoon Soon after the quakes Some people saw bright light in the sky. Everything began to shake. A large city lay in ruins. Another big quake shook Tangshan. The army sent 150,000soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers. 2/21/2018 of the nation felt the earthquake . A huge crack that was kilometers long and meters wide cut across houses. In terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. of the people died or were injured during the earthquake. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than . All of the city’s hospitals,