1、 Language Capacity Learning Capacity Cultural capacity Thinking Quality Know about the elements and features of literary journalism. Grasp the strategies of guessing the meanings of the words in the text. Know more about the disasters that occur in the text; raise awareness of how to protect ourselv
2、es from disasters. Learn more information about earthquake,and know how to deal with it. Improve the ability to solve the problem. Learning Aims Review Lead-in Lead-in Prediction Look at the pictures and guess what the text is about . Read the passage quickly and match the main idea with each paragr
3、aph. Reading for main ideas Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text. Reading for details Details about Para.1 - the signs before the earthquake. What happened wells animals Light and sound Strange things Water, rose and fell, cracks Chickens and pigs didnt eat ;Mice ran out; Fi
4、sh jumped out. Could be seen and heard Reading for details Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text. Details about Para. 2-3 the ruins during the earthquake a huge crack cut Hard hills of rock rivers of dirt A large city in ruins Factories and buildings gone Bricks Bridges The r
5、ailway tracks Cows,pigs and chickens Water,food,electricity The suffering of people covered the ground like the red autumn leaves fell down/not safe to cross useless dead hard to get extreme Reading for details Read the text quickly and try to get some details of the text. Details aboutPara.4-5 - re
6、scue and revival after the earthquake The army. Doctors and nurses. Workers. Water and food. Tang shans new look Guessing 1.A huge crack,eight kilometers long and 30 meters wide,cut across houses,roads and waterways.Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.In less than one minutes,a large city lay i
7、n ruins. 2.Soon after the quakes,the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.Waterand food were brought into the city by train,truck,and plane. 3.Slowly the city began to breathe. Use context to understand new words When you See a word you do not
8、 know , do not stop and look it up in a dictionary. If you continue reading . th context will probably help you understand what it means. P1 P2-3 P4-5 The night the earth didnt sleep Before the earthquake During the earthquake After the earthquake Summary abnormal signs unprepared deadly damage hope
9、less rescue and revivalhopeful Summary Explore the figure of speech（修辞格（修辞格) in the following sentences. Discussion Show time during：What happened？Feeling？ shake/fall down ruins/ hopeless after：thinking and attitude thankful/ unify positive /hopeful Thingking What can we learn from the passage? Disasters are .We should take notice of the warning or the would be extreme. In front of disaster ，life is weak，but if we are and show to stay positive， well have a brighter future. power sign damage unify wise powerful signsdamage unified wisdom Homework THANKS
