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人教版高中英语
第一册第四课
《A night the earth didn’t sleep》
辽源市市东丰县第三中学李杨
Unit 4 Earthquakes
A night the earth didn’t sleep
did the earthquake begin?
many people were killed or injured in the earthquake?
helped to rescue the people?
Fast reading
It began at 3:42 am, July 28, 1976
More than 400,000
The soldiers
Divide the whole passage into three parts according to the changes of time.
Careful reading
Part 1:
List the strange things that happened
before the earthquake.
The wells
The animals
In the sky
What happened to the wells?
1)The Water rose and
fell, rose and fell. 2)The well walls had
deep cracks.
3)A smelly gas came
out of the cracks.
What about the animals?
1)The Chickens and pigs were too nervous to eat.
2)Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.
3)Fish jumped out of the bowls and ponds.
What happened in the sky?
1)Bright lights appeared in the sky.
2)The sound of planes could be heard without any planes in the sky.
What’s the main idea of part 1?
Part 1: paragraph 1
Before the earthquake strange things began to
happen but no one paid attention to them.