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Moral objects There‘s love, although earthquake’s severe！ 地震无情人有情！ Disasters have no mercy, but humans do. 灾害无情人有情. When disasters struck, help came from all sides. 一方有难八方支援. 金太阳新课标资源网 Unit 4 Period 1 Warming up and Reading on April 14th,2010 on May 12th,2008 more than 80,000 nearly 3,000 Earthquakes What can you see in this picture? Tangshan beautiful city; broad roads; tall buildings; large population 1.Where does the city of Tangshan lie? 2.Do you know when the earthquake happened? 3.The Tangshan earthquake is really a great disaster to the human being and it almost destroyed the whole city. Do you know how many people were injured or died in this accident? 4.What happened to this city after the earthquake? In Hebei province. On July 28,1976. More than 400,000. Do you know? Discussion: What do you think will happen before an earthquake? bright light too nervous to eat run out of the fields looking for places to hide jump out of the ponds deep cracks rise and fall smelly gas Walls of wells will have deep cracks and a smelly gas will come out of the cracks. There will be bright light in the sky. Cows, dogs and pigs will become too nervous to eat. Mice will run out of the fields looking for places to hide. The water in the wells will rise and fall. Fish will jump out of their bowls and ponds. Signs of an earthquake Reading A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN’T SLEEP 5. The people did not lose hope because 4. Water was needed because 3. Such a great number of people died because 2. The people didn’t worry because 1. The chickens didn’t eat because E. they didn’t know what the strange events meant. D. dams and wells were useless. C. they were nervous. B. the quake happened while they were sleeping. A. the army came to help them. Comprehending Match Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. All hope was not lost. 4 Everywher