课件20张PPT。 8A Unit8 Natural disasters(Reading)NO.1 What is it?Hint 1: Start from the sea.Hint 2: Trees and houses in the skyHint 3: Huge windGuess what kind of natural disaster it is?typhoonNO.2 What is it?Hint 1: 2008Hint 2: ChinaHint 3: The earth shakesearthquakeNO.3 What is it?Hint 1: Strong windHint 2: Thunder and lightningHint 3: Heavy rain rainstormNO.4 What is it?Hint 1: DryHint 2: Air pollutedHint 3: Dust and sand sandstormNO.5 What is it?Hint 1: 1998Hint 2: The Changjiang RiverHint 3: Water everywherefloodNO.6 What is it?Hint 1: ColdHint 2: Traffic stoppedHint 3: Everything white snowstormsnowstorm
They nearly fell over.
=almost 将近，几乎
A snowstorm hit Beijing this week. Sandy wants to write an article about the storm .
She made some notes before writing. Let's take a look at her notes first.Read the notes on the snowstorm.When was the snowstorm?
Where was Sandy when the snowstorm happened?
What did Sandy see the next morning?On Friday, 5 January.She was at school.She saw many people clearing the snow from the streets .Writing about a natural disasterSandy is writing an article for the school newsletter. Help her complete her article.A snowstorm hit Beijing on Friday, 5 January.
I was doing my __________ in the classroom when Mr. Wu came in and told us to _____________. My parents could not get home that night because of the heavy snow, so Millie asked me to go to her home. I ______ an umbrella with her while we were walking to the bus stop. The weather was really terrible. The ______ kept falling around us. We could hear the _____ blowing.
Suddenly, a strong wind came from behind. I lost my _________ in the wind and I nearly ____ over. We had to walk slowly in the deep snow. When we arrived at the bus stop, we saw many people ________ there. At last, we got on a bus to Millie’s home.
I stayed at Millie’s home that night. I heard the noise of _______ the next morning. People were trying to _____ the snow from the streets.
homework go home earlysharedSnowstorm hit Beijingsnow windumbrellafellwaitingtrafficclearIntroductionWhere did the snowstorm happen?
When did it happen?In Beijing.On Friday ,5th January. Paragraph 1Snowstorm hit BeijingDuring the snowstorm1. Where was Sandy?
2. Did she use the umbrella alone?
3. What happened to them?
4. What did she hear?
5. What did she see? She was at school / in the classroom.She shared an umbrella with Millie.She could only hear the wind.She saw many people at the bus stop and snow continued to fall.They lost the umbrella and had to walk slowly.Paragraphs 2-3After the snowstormWhere was Sandy?
What did she hear?
What did she see?
She was at Millie’s home.She heard the noise of traffic.She saw many people clearing the snow.Paragraph 41. tell sb. (not) to do sth. 告诉某人（不要）做某事
e.g. Mr. Wu told us to go home early. 吴老师告诉我们要早点回家。
2. share sth. with sb. 与某人分享某物
e.g. I share a bedroom with my sister. 我和妹妹共同分享一个卧室
3. keep doing sth. 一直（做）某事
e.g. The snow kept falling. 雪一直在下。
4. hear … doing sth. 听到…...在做某事
e.g. He heard a child crying next door. 他听到隔壁一个孩子在哭。Language points5. hear the noise of 听到... ...的声音
e.g. I heard the noise of traffic last night.
6. get on / off 上/下车
e.g. She got on a bus quickly. 她快速的上了一辆公共汽车。
7. fall over 摔倒、跌倒
e.g. I nearly fell over in the snow. 我几乎在雪中摔倒。
8. clean the snow 清理雪
e.g. She cleaned the snow yesterday. 她昨天清理雪了。 昨天下午暴风雪袭击了我的家乡 ______________________________________________________， 当我们上地理课时，吴老师进了教室，叫我们回家； ______________________________________________________________ 我忘了带伞, Betty和我合用，慢慢走向车站； _________________________________________________________________ 当我们到达车站时，那儿有许多人在等车，最后我们上了车 ____________________________________________________________________；A snowstorm hit my home town yesterday afternoon.We were having the Geography lesson
When Mr. Wu came into the classroom and told us to go homeI forgot to bring my umbrella. Betty shared an umbrella with me
while we were walking to the bus stop.When we arrived at the bus stop,
we could see many people waiting for the bus. At last, we got on a bus. 今天早晨人们努力工作来除去（remove）路上的积雪；
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我们的家乡真美真白啊！
______________________________________________How beautiful our hometown is! This morning people were working hard to remove the snow.Homework:
Review all the new words and language points in this article.
Thank you!
