Unit 4
——Presented by Xiaodong Yuan
鄞 州 区 姜 山 中 学
Content of the Class
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Dictation
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Listen to Letter of Invitation
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Short Speech Making
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Listening
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Summarize the Text
 Read the letter and answer the following questions 
 What is the speech competition about?
The speech is about new Tangshan
 How many judges are there in the group?
5
 Why the park is opened?
To honor those who died in the earthquake and
those who helped the survivors
 Why the student is invited to have a speech in the park?
He won the first prize in the speech competition
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Make a Speech
 Work in pairs, and prepare a short speech 
 Thank those who worked
hard to rescue survivors
and list some of the things
workers did for them;
 Thank those who worked
hard to built a new city;
 Thank the visitors for
listening to your speech
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 I would like to express my
thanks to/for…
 I also like to thank…
 No words are strong
enough to express our…
 It was terrible when…
 I remember that…
 Luckily, …
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Sample Speech
Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the park. The park is opened to
honor those who died in the terrible disaster and
those who helped the survivors. Here, I would like
to express my thanks to……
……
……
……
That’s all for my speech. Thanks for listening.
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鄞 州 区 姜 山 中 学
Listening
Listen to the tape, and judge whether the statements
 are true or false 
The man was sleeping downstairs when the
earthquake happened. F
Many buildings are shaking and bricks are falling.
Many of people were buried under the ruins. T
Some cows were killed in the fires. F
He felt safer because he got away easily. F
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T
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Answer the questions
 When did the earthquake begin?
The earthquake began at 5 o’clock in the morning
 What did the speaker do after he woke up?
He rushed downstairs
 What did he see and hear outside?
People were crying, shouting and running everywhere; Bricks
fell down from some buildings; People were buried; Great fires
 What happened to the man next to him?
He was killed by a falling down bricks
 Which adjectives can describe the man’s feelings most
closely
Shocked; bad; frightened
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Fill in the Blanks
The earthquake happened at about 5 o’clock in
the morning. I was_______
thrown out of the bed and
woke up, and then I_______
rushed downstairs. In the
street, I saw and hear many terrible things. I asked
the next to me what happened, but he was killed
by _______
down bricks. Luckily, I escaped from
falling
the city by______,boat
but it was not easy. There are
deep cracks in the street. Some frightening cows
fell into one of them and______broke_
their legs. Finally,
the soldiers saved us. They brought us_____ and
_______.thanks
to them.
water
food
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October 13th, 2007