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Period 1 Introduction Reading Vocabulary
Period 2 Grammar 1 Grammar 2
Period 3 Listening and Vocabulary Everyday English
Period 4 Culture corner Speaking Function Writing
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Period 1

• Module 3 The Violence of Nature
• Introduction
• Reading Vocabulary

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Introduction-1. Matching (5m) Do you know the
names of the nature disasters?
flood lighting thunderstorm tornado
hurricane
flood
thunderstorm
tornado
hurricane
lighting
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Introduction-2.Speaking (6m)
Student A reporter from one of the
newspapers. Student B interviewee. Now you
are working on a special report about disasters,
you need to interview some people.
questions like these 1. Have you ever
experienced (a flood , a tornado a
thunderstorm, a hurricane )? 2. Do you know
anyone who has experienced one of the
events. 3. Have you ever read a news of story
about one of the events? Can you describe
it? 4. Do you know anything about the events?
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ReadingVocabulary-1.Answering (5m) Read the Gulf
Stream and check the meaning of the words.
B
1. What is a current? A. A kind of
electricity B. A movement of water
C. A 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
A
A
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ReadingVocabulary-2. Fast-reading(5m) read the
passage ,then finish the exercise at Activity 2,
page 22.
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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ReadingVocabulary-3. Detailed-reading.(5m) True
or False.

1. All tornadoes have winds of more than 400
   kilometres 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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1. Every year there are six Atlantic hurricanes.
2. Both the worst tornado and the worst hurricane
   occurred in the US.
3. The worst hurricane of all time killed about
   one-sixth of the population in the US.
4. Charles Coghlan didn't become famous until he
   moved to New York.
5. Coghlans coffin was destroyed by the 1900
   Galveston hurricane.
6. It was only because of the hurricane that
   Coghlans body could travel back to Canada.

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ReadingVocabulary-3. Vocabulary (5m)Finish the
exercise at Activity 3, Page 22.

• Answers
• ______
• ______
• ______
• ______
• ______
• ______

fur tropical disaster feathers bury occur
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Reading Vocabulary 4.Filling (9m)
Tornado Hurricane
Definition
Place
Phenomena
Bad results
The worst example
rotating column of air
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Homework
Collect more information on Internet about one of
the disasters. Examples hurricane tornado
thunderstorm volcanic eruption earthquake
tsunami flood
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Period 2

• Module 3 The Violence of Nature
• Grammar 1
• Grammar 2

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Grammar 1-1. Observation (3m) what can you see
from the following sentences?.

• 1.By the time the tornado ended, more than 700
  people had been killed.
• 2.Coghlan traveled back to Canada after he had
  been buried in Texas.
• 3.My computer had been all right till last week.

???????????????,? ????????????????????? ????by,
before, until, when???? ?????
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Grammar 1 - 2.Exercise (4m) Finish the exercise
at Activity 2, Page 24.

• Answers
• 1. saw, had disappeared
• 2. returned, found, had been buried
• 3. arrived, had taken
• 4. left, had finished
• 5. tried, passed

????after, before, when?as soon
as???, ???????????????
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Grammar 1 - 3.Exercise (4m) Finish the exercise
at Activity 3, Page 24.

• Answers
• 1. had been killed / had died
• 2. had been destroyed / had fallen down
• 3. had been flooded / destroyed
• 4. had been destroyed
• 5. had died / had been killed

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Grammar 2 -1. Observation (4m)
I am a beautiful girl.
????????????,???????. (direct speech) ??????????
????? (indirect speech)
She said that she was a beautiful girl.
What did the girl say?
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Grammar 2 -2. Observation (4m) What are the tense
changes in indirect speech?
Im still working because there is a lot to do.
he said.
He said that he was still working because there
was a lot to do.
was
was
present simple becomes past simple
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Grammar 2 -2. Observation (4m) What are the tense
changes in indirect speech?
He said, Eleven thousand people live here and
six thousand left last week.
He said that eleven thousand people lived there
and six thousand had left a week before.
lived
there
had left
a week before
present simple becomes past simple past simple
becomes past perfect time phrase
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Grammar 2 -2. Observation (4m) What are the tense
changes in indirect speech?
Does this mean that the danger is over? he
asked.
He asked if this meant that the danger was over.
if
meant
was
present simple becomes past simple if
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Grammar 2 -3.Rules(8m) Read following sentences
,then draw a conclusion of them.

• He often says, China is great.
• He often says (that) China is great.
• I dont want to play football. he said.
• He said (that) he didnt want to play football.

1.?????????,??that????,???????
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Grammar 2 -3.Rules(8m) Read following sentences
,then draw a conclusion of them.

• He says,Is Tom an Englishman?
• He asked whether/if Tom was an Englishman.
• He asked me Do you want to go?
• He asked me if/whether I wanted to go.

2.???????????,????if/whether??,??????????????????
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Grammar 2 -3.Rules(8m) Read following sentences
,then draw a conclusion of them.

• He said, Where is she going?
• He asked where she was going.
• He asked me what did you do?
• He asked me what I had done.

3.???????????,??????????,????????????.
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Grammar 2 -3.Rules(8m) Read following sentences
,then draw a conclusion of them.

• Tom, he said to him, come here, please.
• He asked Tom to go there.
• Father said to me ,Dont do that.
• Father told me not to do that.

4.??????????,?ask / tell / order sb. to/not to do
sth. ???
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Grammar 2 4.Exercise(5m) Finish the exercise at
Activity 2, Page 26.
Answers

1. volcanic eruptions didnt happen very often on
   the island.
2. no one was/had been on the island during the
   volcanic eruption.
3. the thunderstorm would put out the fires.
4. the residents could go back to their homes.
5. several eruptions had taken place in the previous
   20 years ago.
6. the residents would travel back to the island
   when the danger was over.

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Grammar 2 5.Exercise(5m) Change the following
sentences into indirect speech.

1. He asked me,You are a student, arent you?
2. Where is the station? said Tom.
3. Why dont you stay here over the weekend? she
   said.

He asked me if I was a student.
Tom asked where the station was.
She suggested I should stay here over the weekend.
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Homework

• Exchange your idea about the grammar with your
  classmates.

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Period 3

• Module 3 The Violence of Nature
• Listening and Vocabulary
• Everyday English

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Listening Vocabulary1. Speaking (6m) Read the
passage at Activity 1, Page 25,then fill the map
and explain the process of eruption.
sea
lava
tidal wave
erupt
ash
volcano
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Listening Vocabulary2. Answering (6m) Finish
the exercise at Activity 3, Page 25.

• Answers
• A
• B
• B
• B

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Listening Vocabulary 3.Answering (8m) Listen
and answer the following questions at Activity
4,Page 25.

• Answers
• In the center of Plymouth, capital of Monserrat.
• A reporter and Frank Savage , Governor of the
• island.
• No, it isnt.
• About 6,000.
• None.
• They dont know.

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Listening Vocabulary - 4.Extra-exercise (10m)
listen to the tape and fill the blank.
Reporter Im standing in the center of Plymouth,
the capital of Montserrat,
where just one week ago, a
______ _________ took
place.With me is Frank Savage,
the_________ of the island. Mr Savage, thank
you for talking to us. Savage
Youre welcome. Reporter What exactly _________
last week? Savage Well, the volcano
________, and ____ and
_____ poured down the mountain towards
the sea. ___________, there are several
villages in its path.
volcanic eruption
governor
happened
erupted
ash
lava
Unfortunately
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Listening Vocabulary - 4.Extra-exercise listen
to the tape and fill the blank.
Reporter Thats _________. Was anybody
hurt? Savage No. _________, we had plenty of
________ and I told people who
lived in the path of the ash and
lava to leave the island. We ______
______ get half the population to another
island before the eruption took place.
Reporter Why are you still here? Savage Well,
Im still working because theres a lot to
do.
terrible
warning
Luckily
managed
to
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Listening Vocabulary - 4.Extra-exercise listen
to the tape and fill the blank.
Reporter How many people live on the
island? Savage Eleven thousand people live here
and about six thousand people have
left. Reporter Which areas are the
most__________? Savage Well, the most dangerous
places are between the ______ and
the sea. There are a lot of
villages there. And it was very dangerous.
_________, hundreds of houses ______
________ when the lava reached
them. Reporter Oh, Im very sorry to hear
that. Savage _____________, no one was killed.
dangerous
volcano
Sadly
caught
fire
Thankfully
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Listening Vocabulary - 4.Extra-exercise listen
to the tape and fill the blank.
Reporter Are the houses still _____
_______? Savage No. Fortunately, we _____ all
the fires _____ quite
quickly. Reporter Thats very good news. Well,
its a beautiful sunny day
here in Plymouth. Does this
mean that the danger _____
________? Savage No! The volcano could erupt
again! People must understand that
it is still very dangerous and
they cant ________to their houses.
on fire
put
out
is
over
go back
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Listening Vocabulary - 4.Extra-exercise listen
to the tape and fill the blank.
Reporter OK-So thats the message from the
governor__________________________.
When will people be able to
return home? Savage We dont
know at the moment. ____________,
it wont be too long. Reporter Thank you for
your time, Mr Savage. Savage Thank you.
dont go back to you houses
Hopefully
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Everyday English 1.Matching (7m)
bad news
sadly luckily hopefully thankfully fortunately unf
ortunately
good news
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Everyday English 2.Exercises (8m) Finish the
exercises at Activity 2, Page 28.

• Answers
• Fortunately/ Thankfully/ Luckily
• Unfortunately/ Sadly
• Fortunately/ Thankfully/ Luckily
• Hopefully/ Fortunately/ Thankfully/
• Luckily
• 5. Unfortunately/ Sadly
• 6. Fortunately/ Thankfully/ Luckily

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Homework

• Go to the library or surf the Internet to
• find some information about the volcanic
  eruption, the do a presentation tomorrow.

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Period 4

• Module 3 The Violence of Nature
• Culture corner
• Speaking
• Function
• Writing

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Cultural Corner -1. Fast-reading(5m)

• Read the article and answer the questions.
• 1. Where was the worst Chinese earthquake?
• 2. What was the most dangerous thing about the
  California Earthquake of 1906?
• 3. Is it possible there could be another
  earthquake there?

It was in Hua County in Shanxi Province.
The fires that started.
Yes, there is.
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Cultural Corner - 2. Finding (8m) Find the useful
words and phrases used to describe the earthquakes
Hua County California

the worst earthquake the fires burn destroy be
killed be made homeless causedeaths
terrible earthquakes occur affect cover be
killed in all lose ones life
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Speaking - 1. Role-play (5m)
Student A You are a television reporter. You are
reporting on a natural
disaster. 1. Make a list of questions to ask.

• Student B You are local residents in the area of
  the
• violent natural event.
• Decide which kind of violent natural event you
• saw.
• Think of things that happened to you or things
• that you saw.
• 3. Tell the reporter where you are and what you
  saw.

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Writing - 1. Answering (5m) Read the passage and
answer the questions.

• 1. Where did this happen?
• 2. What happened to the trees?
• 3. Where did the person have to stay?
• 4. For how long?

Near the beach.
Begin to move from side to side.
In their rooms.
About two days.
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Writing - 2.Filling (7ms) Fill the blank first ,
thenreorganize all information into a passage.
Violent natural event
When
Where
Why
How strong
Damage
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Writing -3. Peer checking and rewriting (15m)
Read your writing to your partner. Check and
rewrite your writing according to the following.
Then share it with the whole class.

• Are you clear what happen(4Wand H)?
• Do you know the writers attitude and emotion?
• Are there any good connecting words or phrases?
• Are there any good phrases or sentences?
• Are there any spelling mistakes?

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Howe work
Working in group, try to make a postcard about
one of the natural disasters we have learnt this
module. More photos are welcome.
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Language Date Bank

• Language points for Reading

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Language Date Bank

• 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.

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Language Date Bank

• 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.
• ???????????.
• It occurred to me that I would travel to Europe.

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Language Date Bank

• 3. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US
  each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500
  injuries.
• on average????
• ??????????8?.
• The price of the egg is eight yuan per kg on
  average

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Language Date Bank

• 4. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US
  each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500
  injuries.
• Causing????????, ?????????????????,??????.
• 80????????,??????????????.
• Football is played in more than 80countries,
  making it the most popular game in the world.

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Language Date Bank

• 6. The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was
  destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlans coffin
  ended up in the sea.
• end up with ???
• begin with ????
• start with ? ???
• ??????, ?????????.
• Without your help, the experiment will end up
  with failure.

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Language Date Bank

• 8. The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometres
  up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.
• Up to a place ??????,???????,????.??????, ??down.

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Language Date Bank- Practice

• ????,??????????????
• Yesterday afternoon, father told me about
  his
• _____________ as a young man.
• 2. ?????????????????
• Our country __________________ great
  changes in the last thirty years.
• 3. Before we moved into the new house, we bought
  many ______.
• furnitures B. furniture
• C. Pieces of furniture D. pieces of furnitures

experiences
has experienced
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Language Date Bank
4. --Gennys mother died last night. --No
wonder her spirits has been ______ greatly.
A. effected B. affected C. caused 5.???????????
???? The sudden change of weather _______ his
health. 6. ????????????????? I want to know
when this event_________.
affected
occurred
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Language Date Bank

• 7. ?????????????
• The idea ___________ him in a dream.
• 8. ?????400????????
• 400 people a year die of this
  disease__________.
• 9.????????????
• The bus _______passengers outside the
• airport.

occurred to
on average
picks up
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Language Date Bank(???)

• I ____ you not to move my dictionarynow I cant
• find it.(04 ??)
• A. asked B. ask
• C. was taking D. had
  asked
• According to the art dealer, the painting ____ to
  go
• for at least a million dollars.(04 ??)
• A. is expected B. expects
• C. expected D. is
  expecting

A
A
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3. --- The window is dirty. --- I know. It
____ for weeks.(04 ??) A. hasnt cleaned
B. didnt clean C. wasnt
cleaned D. hasnt been
cleaned 4. More patients ____ in hospital this
year than last year.(04 ??) A. treated
B. have treated C.
had been treated D. have been treated
D
D
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• 5. The first use of atomic weapons was in 1945,
  and
• their power ____ increased enormously ever
  since.
• (04 ??)
• A. is B. was
• C. has been D. had been
• --- How long ____ at this job?
• --- Since 1990.
• A. were you employed B. have you been
  employed
• C. had you been employed D. will you employed

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B