Warming up & Pre-reading Unit 4 EarthquakesA Night the Earth Didn’t Sleep (n) (n) sudden violent movesudden violent movement of the earth’s surfment of the earth’s surface.ace.Do you know earthquake?Earthquake:Earthquake: Have you ever experienced any natural disasters? Can you tell some kinds of natural disasters?Free talk: floodflood水灾 tornadotornado龙卷风 typhoontyphoon台风 tsunamitsunami海啸 firefire火灾 snow slidesnow slide雪崩 mudflowmudflow泥流 volcano eruptionvolcano eruption火山爆发 sandstormsandstorm沙尘暴 earthquakeearthquake地震 How much do you know about an earthquake?Can you describe how terrible an earthquake is? Do you know what natural disaster happened in South Asia early on July? •Roads, railways and buildings were destroyed.What happened?•Everything was in ruins.•A quake shook Tangshan.•The army was sent to rescue the people.On July 28th,1976,a terrible disasterhappened in Tangshan, China. Let’s see what happened.Warming up What do you think may happen after an earthquake? What can you see in the pictures? great fireAfter the earthquake… destroy fall down/ ontobreak gaps bury, hurt, die homeless Earthquakefall down/ onto gapsbreakhurt homelessdiedestroy Describe the damage by the earthquake.bury Look at the pictures of Tangshan and San Francisco, describe what you see in the pictures. Qs: What will happen if there has been a big earthquake in these two cities? Today’s Tanshana beautiful city, beautiful gardens, broad roads, tall buildings,large population Today’s San Franciscoa big city, many tall buildings, large population After the earthquake … Tangshan July 28th, 1976 After earthquake San Francisco in 1906 1 、 Imagine your home begins to shake and you must leave it right away. You have ...
