Lesson 3(安徽省安庆市)
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Lesson 3: Unnatural Disaster非自然性灾难Hell and high water地狱与洪水
Look at the following pictures and point out what kind of disasters they are?
Are they made worse by people?
Are they natural?图为因干旱而龟裂的河道 droughtfloodearthquakeVolcanic eruptionVolcanic eruptionForest fireshurricane飓风卡特里娜袭击美国 Typhoon 台风Tsunami 海啸Landslide: 山崩, 泥石流Read the text quickly, complete the gaps in the text (1-5) with these sentences (a-g).
(1) a
(2) b
(3) c
(4) d
(5) e
f
gRead the text again and answer these questions:
1. what is the attitude of the journalist towards the future?
2. Who are the most likely to be victims of natural disasters?
3. Why are there now more hurricanes , floods and drought?
4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now?
pessimisticPoor peopleOverpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resourcesBecause half the world’s population lives in cities within range of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.5.What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future?
6. what effects might this threat have?
A volcanic eruptionIt might plunge the planet into winter for years.Paragraph A:
1.In the last decade, floods have become increasingly common.
2.Storms have been getting worse, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US.
3. A number of nations have already been in armed conflict over water.
Paragraph B:
The earthquake that rocked the small Central American country of El Salvador in 2001 came as the people were still rebuilding their houses.Paragraph C
The population of the world is growing at the rate of 10,000 people an hour.
2.People in agricultural areas, unemployed and sometimes undernourished, move to the cities and then set up unstable homes on poor soil which can easily collapse in earthquake, on top of all that, add climate change and the spectre of global warming.
3. Atlantic hurricanes, for instance, are 40% stronger now than they were 30 years ago.Paragraph D
Within the range of
range指“运用心、眼、机器、力量等所能概括的整个范围”, 如:
the range of his knowledge 他的知识面
At risk
In some degree
Paragraph E
It reduced temperatures by 6℃ and the whole planet was plunged into winter for years. And there are about two of these events every 100,000 years
Grammar points:
1. a number of :
2. armed conflict
3. result in
4. wipe out
5. at the rate of
6. set up
7. for instance
8. within the range of;
9. in some degree
10. be plunged intoPrefixes:
1. overpopulation a) again
2. substandard b) wrongs
3. deforestation c) below
4. downhill d) too much
5.undernourished e) many
6. rebuild f) opposite of an
7. unstable g) not enough
8. semi-active h) downwards
9. multination i) opposite of an
10. mismanagement j) partly/ halfactionadjective
Lesson 3: Unnatural Disaster非自然性灾难Hell and high water地狱与洪水
Look at the following pictures and point out what kind of disasters they are?
Are they made worse by people?
Are they natural?图为因干旱而龟裂的河道 droughtfloodearthquakeVolcanic eruptionVolcanic eruptionForest fireshurricane飓风卡特里娜袭击美国 Typhoon 台风Tsunami 海啸Landslide: 山崩, 泥石流Read the text quickly, complete the gaps in the text (1-5) with these sentences (a-g).
(1) a
(2) b
(3) c
(4) d
(5) e
f
gRead the text again and answer these questions:
1. what is the attitude of the journalist towards the future?
2. Who are the most likely to be victims of natural disasters?
3. Why are there now more hurricanes , floods and drought?
4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now?
pessimisticPoor peopleOverpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resourcesBecause half the world’s population lives in cities within range of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.5.What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future?
6. what effects might this threat have?
A volcanic eruptionIt might plunge the planet into winter for years.Paragraph A:
1.In the last decade, floods have become increasingly common.
2.Storms have been getting worse, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US.
3. A number of nations have already been in armed conflict over water.
Paragraph B:
The earthquake that rocked the small Central American country of El Salvador in 2001 came as the people were still rebuilding their houses.Paragraph C
The population of the world is growing at the rate of 10,000 people an hour.
2.People in agricultural areas, unemployed and sometimes undernourished, move to the cities and then set up unstable homes on poor soil which can easily collapse in earthquake, on top of all that, add climate change and the spectre of global warming.
3. Atlantic hurricanes, for instance, are 40% stronger now than they were 30 years ago.Paragraph D
Within the range of
range指“运用心、眼、机器、力量等所能概括的整个范围”, 如:
the range of his knowledge 他的知识面
At risk
In some degree
Paragraph E
It reduced temperatures by 6℃ and the whole planet was plunged into winter for years. And there are about two of these events every 100,000 years
Grammar points:
1. a number of :
2. armed conflict
3. result in
4. wipe out
5. at the rate of
6. set up
7. for instance
8. within the range of;
9. in some degree
10. be plunged intoPrefixes:
1. overpopulation a) again
2. substandard b) wrongs
3. deforestation c) below
4. downhill d) too much
5.undernourished e) many
6. rebuild f) opposite of an
7. unstable g) not enough
8. semi-active h) downwards
9. multination i) opposite of an
10. mismanagement j) partly/ halfactionadjective