课件11张PPT。What words will you think of when you see the pictures?SARSepidemicsLook at the Key Words. Which of these diseases can be epidemics?
AIDS
cancer
headache
flu
heart disease
stomachache
AIDS
flu
Epidemics
throughout history Epidemics
throughout historyRead the text quickly and find out all the epidemics.Justinian’s Plague (cause the fall of the Roman Empire)
Bird Flu
Spanish Flu
The Black Death
SARS
(the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918) Reading strategies:
Sequencing of information
1.Read the text with gaps to get the general idea and see how it develops.
2.Read the sentences before and after the gaps to give you an idea of what the beginning or end of the missing paragraph might refer to.
3. Read the missing paragraphs and look for these references.
4. If a paragraph doesn’t seem to fit , you may have made a mistake, so carefully reread each paragraph.
Match the five paragraphs (A-E) with gaps 2,4, 7, 9 and 11 in the text. A
B
C
D
E
Paragraph 3
Paragraph5
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 12
Roman Empire
The Black Deaththe Spanish Flu
SARS SARS , reason SARS , ended, a cureRead the text again and finish the information for each epidemic.Justinian’s
Plague
happenedNorth Africa
The Mid East
Europe50 percent
of the population
died In the
1330’sAsia -
worldwideone half
was lostIn 1918The Great Flu
Epidemic struckkilled 50 millionIn1997Bird Flu
appearedChina -
worldwideThe Black
Death
returned
worldwidehas taken more than100SARS
beganChina -
worldwide774 diedTry to retell two or three epidemics according to the table.It's time to speak!HomeworkWrite a short passage about one of the epidemics learnt today.