Unit4 Earthquakes
Period 1 Vocabulary
Step 1-A.Fill in the blanks with right words. N. nation dirt well V. injure frighten judge suffer smell shock Adj. extreme useless Adv. Step 1-B.Read the sentences, fill in the blanks with the words above.
1. He refused to make a___________about the situation and insisted the reporter
cancel the words which are__________ on the news.
2. The child felt _________ when he saw the big fire on the bus and the
________passengers were rushed to the hospital.
3. I feel that that period in my life was________ valuable and I want to know does
it take you to happiness or __________?
4. I don’t want to sleep on the bed because it is too ________
5. We were___________by the ___________news that his wife is dead and he lives with
three ________cats that he loves.
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6. Thank you for looking after us so ________on October 1 the____________ Day. Step 2. Explore some useful words and feel their usages. 1. smelly, smell, taste, look, seem, sound, feel 1）My nose smells well.
The flower smells sweet.
2）Please taste this to see if you like it. The soup tastes delicious.
3）He looked his friend in the face. The picture looks beautiful.
4）However, I do not want to sound like a Hollywood actor accepting an award. Your story sounds interesting.
5）He felt his way across the room when the lights went out. I feel good today because I got an A today. 6）She seems better today.
Summary_____________________________________________________________________ Correction
1)I know it's nothing serious and I feel quite unemotionally about it 2)Your proposal(提议) sounds greatly.
2.burst
1)She burst the balloon.
2)When she heard the news about the death of Michael Jackson , she burst out crying. 3)She was so shocked at the news that she burst into tears. Summary :burst __________ _________ burst into+____________
burst out+_____________ meaning_______________ Translation. 他们俩人都大笑起来。
_______________________________________________________________________________ 3.ruin
1)If you choose the wrong love, can you save your life from ruin? _____ 2)Don't ruin the mood with these unnecessary outside forces. _________ 3)The city lay in ruins after the earthquake. ______________
Practice: Fill in the blanks with ruin, destroy, damage and break. 1) Hundreds of houses in the area were____________ by the storm.
2) The ________ to his car was slight; therefore, he could repair it himself. 3) Insomnia(失眠症) even manages to________ my life.
4 )He fell through the window and __________ the glass 4. congratulation
1)We congratulated him on his success.
2)Please accept my congratulations on your birthday. Practice
We offered him our congratulations_____him passing the college entrance exams. A. at B. on C. for D. of 5.bury
1) After the earthquake, the rescue workers buried the dead.
2) I'm buried in reading books these days since the finals are coming. 3) She buried herself in writing for a local newspaper.
Summary _____________________________________________________________________ Translate the sentence. 他专心读小说，没发现妈妈进来。
_____________________________________________________________________________ 6.as if
1)She looked at me as if I were the wicked stepmother. 2)It looks as if they are workaholics.
Translate the sentence. 看起来你好像不高兴。
_____________________________________________________________________________ 7.express
1). We took an express bus home..
2) The writer expresses her sorrow in her music.
3) A determined expression crossed her face when the news came to her. 4) EMS is the short form of Express Mail Service.
Summary _____________________________________________________________________
Step 3. Fill in the blanks with the phrases given below. right away suffer from as if be proud of in ruins even if dig out at an end be buried in a great number of 1 She _________________her son. He did well at university and now is a doctor. 2 The house began to shake , so all the students must leave the house __________. 3 In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay _____________. 4 He acted_________ he was a doctor.
5 Since she left, he is ____________ his work.
6 My father has _____________ his heart illness for about 20 years.
7 The Year of the Horse ____________________ and the Year of the Goat is coming. 8 _______________people died because the quake happened while they were sleeping. 9 The soldiers organized teams to ________ those persons who were__________ the danger.
Exercise
I. Fill in the blanks with the words in this unit.
1 It is an area where natural __________（灾难）often happen. 2 The firemen ___________(营救) the boy from the burning house.
3 Teachers have ___________ (表达) concern about the emphasis on testing. 4 The hurricane left the whole city in __________(严重受损)
5 A great many houses were _________(破坏)in the earthquakes and many people became homeless.
6 The machine is driven by e_______________.
7 We b_______ into laughter when we heard the funny story.
8 Many men were b_______ underground when the accident at the mine happened. 9 The sun r_______ in the east every day.
10 When food goes bad, it becomes s___________.
11 They o__________ the youths to form a group to protect the environment. 12 The soldiers t__________ their enemies and forced them to give in. II. Translation.
1看起来好像要下雨了（as if）
_______________________________________________________________________________ 2 那位科学家对此事一无所知，因为他一直在做他的研究工作。(bury in)
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3 地震之后，那座城市成了废墟。(in ruins)
_______________________________________________________________________________ 4 他在田里挖出了一箱的钱。 ( dig out)
_______________________________________________________________________________ 5 我被那个惊人的消息震惊了。（shock）
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Period 2. Warming up and reading
Learning objectives:
A. To learn vocabulary about describing the earthquake.
B. To train the students’ ability to grasp key information while reading. C. To learn lessons from the earthquake to face the reality and rebuild the city. Step1.Pre-reading
See a video,then describe what happened by using the words in this unit. Step2.Fast reading(设计意图：培养学生的归纳总结能力) Task 1.Find the main idea of each paragraph.
Task 2.Summarize the structure of the passage and find the key words of each part. Part1( ):__________: ___________the earthquake Part2( ):__________:___________the earthquake Part3( ):__________:___________the earthquake
Step 3.Careful reading（设计意图：培养学生对文章细节归纳和总结的能力。） Task 1.Read part 1 more carefully and fill in the form. Things Water in the well Well walls A smelly gas Chickens and pigs Mice and fish In the sky The water pipe Why did people think little of these events?
_____________________________________________________________________ Task2. Read part 2 and find out what happened during the earthquake.
Things House,roads and canals What happened What happened
