Unit 8 Natural disasters Welcome to the unit 课件（24张PPT）

A: What’s …?
B: It’s…
windy
sunny
rainy
cloudy
foggy
snowy
What kind of weather
do you like/dislike?
Why ?
……
Welcome to the unit
1. What’s the weather like?
3. What was Hobo doing when it started to
rain?
4. What did Hobo see when he woke up?

5. Why doesn’t he want to go home alone?
It’s raining.
He was sleeping.
He saw water everywhere.
He needs Eddie to mop up the water.
1. Use different tones.
2. Add your own actions to make the dialogue more interesting.
flood
earthquake
thunder and lightning
rainstorm
snowstorm
natural disasters
A flood will wash the village away.
Lightning can start a big fire in a house.
The snowstorm can stop the traffic.
What will the bad weather cause?

They are all caused by the force of nature (自然力), just like the bad weather.
It usually causes great damage(损坏) or loss of life. Natural disasters may happen around us.
What are natural disasters?
Can you tell the differences between natural disasters and accident?
Natural disasters are all caused by the force of nature (自然力).
Accidents are usually caused by people.
School football team loses final
2. Earthquake kills thousands of people
3. Car accident kills three men
4. Coach crashes into tree
A
Sandy is reading some newspaper headlines. Look at them. Which are about natural disasters? (P 93)
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
What happened to Vivien’s school last week?




2. What caused the fire in Vivien’s school?



3. Was anyone hurt?
There was a heavy storm with thunder and lightning, and a classroom building at Vivien’s school caught fire.
Lightning hit a classroom building and it caused fire.
No. It happened at night.
Sandy and Millie are chatting online about natural disasters and accidents.
Listen and answer the questions.
B
1. Role play the conversation in groups;
2. Role play the conversation in front of the class
Let’s see which group does the best.
Work in pairs and discuss the natural disasters and accidents with your partner.
Use Sandy and Millie’s conversation as a model.
Sample conversation:
A: Did you hear about the flood in Wuhan last
month?
B: No. What happened?
A: My friend told me about it. There was heavy
rain for several days.
B: Oh, really?
A: Yes, it was terrible. There was water all
around his house. His furniture and all his
books got wet.
B: Did your friend leave his house?
A: Yes. He and his family moved to his uncle’s
house, as his uncle lived far away and there
was no flood there.
How can we prevent the natural disasters from happening?
Stop cutting down the trees.
Plant more trees .
Protect our environment and wild animals etc.
thousands of 后接可数名词复数，意为“成千上万的；数以千计的” ，不能和数词连用。
Earthquake kills thousands of people.
在雅安地震中，成千上万的人失去了他们的家园。
Thousands of people lost their homes in the Ya’an earthquake.
【拓展】hundred, million也可用来构成类似的固定搭配：hundreds of “数以百计的”，millions of “数以百万计的”。如：
成百上千的书 hundreds of books
数百万的人 millions of people
_____ trees were planted on the
mountain last year.
A. Thousands of B. Thousand of
C. Five thousand of D. Five thousands
Exercise
1. English-Chinese
disaster, earthquake, accident, coach, flood, village, lightning, storm, thunder,
2. Chinese-English
用拖把完全地擦干净；成千上万的；
猛撞到…；冲走；着火
请点击
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 away a lot of houses and trees.

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
forest fires
hurricanes
landslides
tsunamis
typhoons
volcanic eruptions
droughts
Do you know other natural disasters?