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Module 3 The Violence of Nature
Lesson 2
Reading and vocabulary
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Warming Up
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Task Presentation

• Task of Period 2

Describe some true facts about Wenchuan
earthquake from such aspects the Richter Scale,
casualty figures, people missing, rescue work,
donation and so on.
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Read the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the
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Reading and Vocabulary

• 1. What is a current?
• A. kind of electricity B. A movement of
  water
• C. kind of wind
• 2. What kind of things flow?
• A. Water B. Time C. Money
• 3. If two places are on the same latitude, they
  are on the same line______.
• A. east/west B. north/south

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A rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to
the ground.
What is a tornado?
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What is a hurricane?
A violent storm with extremely strong winds and
heavy rain.
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Reading and Vocabulary

• Find the words and expressions in the passages
  and according to the context, match them with the
  definitions in Activity 3, P22 .
• feathers    fur  occur   tropical   violent  
  wave 
• equator pick up  take off

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Reading and Vocabulary

• The suggested answers to Activity 3, P22
• To bury means to place in the ground or tomb.
• A disaster is a terrible event.
• Feathers are something that you can see on a
  bird.
• To occur means to happen.
• Tropical is a word to describe the hottest parts
  of the equator.

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Fast Reading

• Read the passage, and then finish the exercise in
  Activity 2, P22.
• 1. More than 400 km/h.
• 2. It stays where it was.
• 3. About 800.
• 4. More than 700.
• 5. It has huge waves.
• 6. 8th September,1900.
• 7. No, he wasnt.
• 8. His coffin was dropped in the sea by a
  hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf
  Stream.

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Detailed reading
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Detailed Reading

• 1 All tornadoes have winds of more than 400
  kilometers per hour.
• 2 There are more tornadoes occurring in the US
  than in other parts of the world.
• 3 Tornadoes cant destroy furniture because they
  are not violent enough.
• 4 In the US, there are usually about 80 people
  killed in tornadoes every year.
• 5 The worst tornado in history killed at least
  700 people.

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Detailed Reading

• 1 All tornadoes have winds of more than 400
  kilometers per hour.
• 2 There are more tornadoes occurring in the US
  than in other parts of the world.
• 3 Tornadoes cant destroy furniture because they
  are not violent enough.
• 4 In the US, there are usually about 80 people
  killed in tornadoes every year.
• 5 The worst tornado in history killed at least
  700 people.

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Reading for Information
Whats a tornado?
1. What is a tornado?
A tornado is a rotating column of air from a
thunderstorm to the ground.
2. What can happen to furniture when a house is
destroyed by a tornado?
Furniture can be inside exactly where it was.
3. What can tornadoes do?
They can pick up, put down, take off...,
destroy, leave.
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Reading for Information
Whats a hurricane?

• 1. Winds of _____ kilometers per hour and
  five-meter high waves hit the city.
• (a) 120.     (b) 200.       (c)  400.
• 2. Which statement is right?
• (a) Every year there are five Atlantic
  hurricanes. 
• (b) The worst hurricane of all time killed about
  one-sixth of the population in the US. 
• (c) The hurricanes usually happened in the
  southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and
  the Gulf of Mexico.

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Reading for Information
An Extraordinary Event

• 1. Winds of _____ kilometers per hour and
  five-meter high waves hit the city.
• (a) 120.      (b) 200.      (c) 400.
• 2. Which statement is right?
• (a) Every year there are five Atlantic
  hurricanes. 
• (b) The worst hurricane of all time killed about
  one-sixth of the population in the US. 
• (c) The hurricanes usually happened in the
  southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and
  the Gulf of Mexico.

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Reading for Information
An Extraordinary Event

• Read the story and fill in the blank.
• Charles Coghlan died in ______, a year before the
  ______struck. Coghlans coffin disappeared in the
  sea because of the hurricane. ____ years later,
  the coffin was found in the east of ____. It was
  the ______ stream that made him travel back to
  Canada after he died.

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Language Focus

• 1 Tonadoes can pick up cars, trains and even
  houses and put them down in the next street
• pick up 1)??,?? The monkey picked up a stone.
• 2)???,????? Wait at the gate after school and
  Ill pick you up.
• 2 Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area
  from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in
  the north.
• occur??happen He told me how the accident
  occurred.
• occur to(?????)??,??
• An excellent idea occurred to me when I woke up
  this morning.

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Language Focus

• 3 On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US
  each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500
  injuries.
• on average???? The price of the egg is eight
  yuan per kg on average.
• 4 The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was
  destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlans coffin
  ended up in the sea.
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• Without your help, the experiment will end up
  with failure.

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Language Focus

• 5 The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometers
  up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.
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• Pay attention to
• rotating
• destroy
• cemetery ,bury , coffin , disaster
• cause cause sb to do
• manage to do
• put out a fire be on fire
• current the current of a river
• hit
• takeoff
• furniture

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Post Reading
Fill in the form.
Strong tropical storms
Rotating, column of air
Over 400km/h
120km/h or more
US
Sea Gulf
Pickput takecause
Cause kill
1900 Galveston
1925 US
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Preparation for the Task

• Which words or phrases do you think might be
  useful to describe natural disasters?
• List them and then compare with your partner to
  make a new list.

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Preparation for the Task
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natural disasters rescue workers hundreds of
thousands of think little of in ruins fall
down right away
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Preparation for the Task

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too to crack and burst shelters fill sth with
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thousands of the dead
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Task Fulfillment

• 1 Collect useful words and expressions to
  describe Wenchuan earthquake.
• 2 Describe Wenchuan earthquake vividly.

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Homework

• 1. Do Vocabulary Exx. 5-8 on P74, Reading Exx.
  9-11 on P75-76 in the workbook.
• 2. Search for more information and analyze the
  causes of hurricane and tornado.

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