Unit4定语从句课件.ppt

,Discussion:What do you think will happen before an earthquake?,1)Bright light flash in the sky.2)The well has deep cracks in it,and the water in it rises and falls.3)Chickens are flying and dogs are barking,and pigs and cows are too nervous to eat.4)Fish jump out of the pond,and mice run wildly out of the fields.,Signs before an earthquake:,Reading,A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP,Fast reading,What does the passage mainly talk about?,An earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976,Scanning:Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.,Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.,beginning,Everything began to shake.It seemed as if the world was at an end.,beginning,Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.,beginning,beginning,All hope was not lost.,rose and fell,had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out,were too nervous to eat,ran out of the fields,looking for places to hide.,jumped out of bowls and ponds,Part1,Para.2-3,3:42,greatest,Steam,dirt,Bricks,dams,useless,steel,Sand,electricity,Data(数据),of the nation felt the earthquake.A huge crack that was kilometres long and metres 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 citys hospitals,_ of its factories and buildings and of its homes were gone.,1/3,8,30,15,2/3,400,000,75%,90%,Para.2-3,How the army helped the people in Tangshan?,The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury those who were trapped.,Miners were rescued from the coal mines.,Shelters were built for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.,Fresh water was taken to the city.,Part3,Attributive clause P29,(para.1)(strange,happen,attention)(para.2-3)(destroy,cause,shock)(para.4)(help,hope),Strange things were happening before the earthquake but nobody paid attention to them.,The disaster destroyed the city,caused a lot of loss and shocked the people.,The army came to help and brought hope to the city.,Just do it!,choose the best answer.1.The title“A night the earth didnt sleep”means _.A.the earth was awake all night longB.people on the earth couldnt fall asleep that nightC.the earth shook like crazy that nightD.animals on the earth would not sleep that night,C,2.All the following unusual things happened in the countryside before the earthquake except that _.A.the water in the village wells rose and fellB.the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eatC.tens of thousands of cows would never give milk againD.fish jumped out of bowls and ponds,C,3.What does“them”in the sentence“No wind,however,could blow them away.”(in Paragraph 3)refer to?Red autumn leaves.B.Bricks on the ground.C.Bodies of dead animals.D.Sand in the wells.,B,Discussion,Why the title is“A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP?”What does the sentence“Slowly,the city began to breathe again”mean?,night is the time to sleep,and night should be safe and quiet.But that night everything changed.The writer use this title to show how terrible and how unusual the night was.,the writer compare the city to a person who suffered a lot in the disaster.He felt her pain.So when people came to help her,he feel the city will not die,she has hope and she can recover from the pain.,Tang shans new look,Discuss:,What do you think of the people in Tangshan?,No matter how great the difficulty is,if we dont give up,work hard and help each other,we can overcome it.The people in Tangshan have shown that we human beings can make something impossible possible and can create wonders.,