Welcome to the unit
To get a general idea about
natural disasters
To learn to talk about natural
disasters
Objectives
disaster
mop
up
earthquake
thousands of
accident
coach
n. 灾难;不幸,祸患vt. 用拖把擦干净adv. 完全地n. 地震成千上万的n. 事故,意外的事n. 长途汽车
Words review
crashflood
wash awayvillage
lightningstorm
thundercatch fire
vi. & vt. 猛撞 ; 碰撞n. 洪水,水灾冲走n. 村庄n. 闪电n. 风暴,暴 ( 风 ) 雨n. 雷;雷声着火
Words review
What’s the weather like today?
What’s happened to Hobo?
Let’s have a look.
Lead-in
Listen and answer the questions.
1. What’s the weather like?
2. What’s happened to Hobo?
3. What was Hobo doing when it started to rain?
4. When did Hobo hear the rain?
5. Why does Hobo want Eddie to go home with him?
It’s raining.
His house is all wet.
He was sleeping.
When he woke up, he heard.
He wants Eddie to mop up the water.
What words do we use to talk about natural disasters?
What words do we use to talk about accidents?
rainstorm, snowstorm, typhoon …
Natural disasters and accidents
car accident, plane crash, fire...
All these natural disasters are caused by natural force. They are different from accidents. Accidents are usually caused by people.
Can you tell the difference between natural disasters and accidents now? Here are some newspaper headlines. Please find out which ones are natural disasters.
1. School football team loses final
2. Earthquake kills thousands of people
3. Car accident kills three men
4. Coach crashes into tree
Natural disasters and accidents
5. Flood washes away village
6. Lightning starts big fire in
classroom building
7. Young boy falls from tree and
hurts legs
8. Big storm kills 20 people
Please distinguish ( 区别 )
the following natural
disasters
floods
forest fires
hurricanes
landslides
tsunamis
typhoons
volcanic eruptions
droughts
2008——China——snow havoc
2009——China——earthquake
2010——China——rainstorm
2013——China—— earthquake
Complete the following sentences.
1. 1998 年的特大洪水冲走了许多房屋和 大树。 The big flood in 1998 ______________ ________________________________2. 在唐山大地震中,成千上万人遇难。 The Tangshan Earthquake _________ ________________________________
washed a lot of houses and trees away.
killed thousands of people.
3. 昨天一个年轻人从 2 楼摔下来,竟然安然无 恙。 Yesterday a young man ________________, but he didn’t get hurt.4. 上个星期五两个小学生在教室里玩火, 将整幢大楼烧了起来。 Two pupils played with fire in their classroom last Friday and ______________ _________________.5. 在昨晚的事故中,一辆大客车撞到了树上。 A coach crashed into a tree _____________
last night.
fell from 2nd floor
started a big fire in the building
in the accident
Write an article around 70 w
ords on the topic of ‘natural d
isasters’. Collect enough infor
mation before you write.
1. To read the text on Pages 94-95.
Try to get the basic information of
the Taiwan earthquake
2. To read the new words of unit 8