文档介绍:Period 2 Reading
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—福州十五中凌云
Unit4 earthquakes
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2. Watch a video
damages did the earthquake cause?
Houses fell down. Bricks covered the ground . Brick buildings were destroyed.
Bridges and dams fell down or were not safe for travelling.
A Night
the Earth Didn’t Sleep
A Night
the Earth Didn’t Sleep
to the tape and say T or F:
The chickens didn’t eat because they were full.
One third of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.
Such a great number of people died because the quake happened while they were working.
Rescue workers built brick houses for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
Water was needed because dams and wells were useless.
F
F
F
F
T
the correct parts of the sentences:
1 The chickens didn’t eat because
2 Before the earthquake 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
A the army came to help them.
B the quake happened while
they were sleeping
C they were nervous.
D dams and wells were useless.
E they didn’t know the quake
caused the strange events
WorkLook at each paragraph of the reading passage and try to find out the topic sentence:
Para 3
Para 4
Strange things were happening in thecountryside of northeast Hebei.
Houses and roads were destroyed, thousands of families were killed.
Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.
Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan
to help the rescue workers.