Unit 4 Earthquake

Warming up Reading学案

Aims

1. 了解唐山大地震的有关情况;地震前发生的一些异常现象，地震发生后对整个城市造成的毁灭性破坏，以及随之而来的全国军民大救援等。

2. 认识到这个道理：如果我们能够了解并认识地震前的预兆，就能提前做好准备，让更多的人获得求生的机会，减少或避免不必要的损失。

3. 进一步练习阅读方法与技能，如细读﹝close reading﹞,总结、归纳内容的能力﹝summarizing﹞,猜测词义的能力﹝word-guessing skills﹞

4. 学习使用谈论过去经历的句子。

5. 学习并掌握本课的词语、表达方式、语法结构。

WARMING UP

一.Translate the following

1. It is always calm before a storm._______________________________________.

2. Now, imagine there has been a big earthquake._______________________________.

这里imagine的意思是____________________.其后可跟名词，代词，动词的ing形式和宾语从句。例如：我想象不出他长的什么样儿。_______________________________________.

I can hardly imagine two of them______ the enemies.

A.defeat B.to defeat C.defeating D.to have defeated

3.Describe to your parter what might happen to all the things in the photos.

Translate:_____________________________________________________.

在这里happen to sb/sth的意思是_________________________.例如：

你知道大卫昨天晚上发生什么事了吗？__________________________________________?

另外，happen to do sth 的意思____________________________ 例如：

他来访时，我恰巧出去了。______________________________________________.

Answers: 暴风雨来临之前总是很平静的。 现在设想已经发生了一场大地震。 设想，想象 I can't imgaine what he looks like. C. 给你的同伴表述一下照片里的东西都发生了什么事情。 某人或某物发生什么事情 Do you know what happened to David last night?

碰巧做某事 I happened to be out when he called.

A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP

一．Read the text quickly and join the correct parts of the sentences.

1. The chickens didn't eat because

2. The people didn't worry because

3. Such a great number of people

died because

4. Water was needed because

5. The people did not lose hope because

Answers: CEBDA

二．Read the text again and answer the following questions.