课件18张PPT。Module 3
The violence of NatureRead about the Gulf Steam and check the meaning of the words.1. What is a current?
(a) A kind of electricity
(b) A movement of water
(c) A kind of wind B2. 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 / southAARead the first part of the passage carefully. Answer the questions.1. How strong are tornado winds?2. What can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?More than 400 Km/h.It stays where it was.3. How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?4. How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?About 800.More than 700.Read the second and last parts of the passage carefully. Answer the questions.5. What happens at sea during a hurricane?6. When was the worst hurricane of all time?It has huge waves.8th September, 1900.7. Was the actor Charles Coghlan killed in it?8. What happened to him after the hurricane?No, he wasn’t.His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream. True or False 1. All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometers per hour.
2. There are more tornadoes occurring in the US than in other parts of the world.
3. Tornadoes can’t destroy furniture because they are not violent enough.
4. In the US, there are usually about 80 people killed in tornadoes every year.FTFF5. The worst tornado in history killed at least 700 people.
6. Every year there are six Atlantic hurricanes.
7. Both the worst tornado and the worst hurricane occurred in the US.
8. The worst hurricane of all time killed about one-sixth of the population in the US.TFTF9. Charles Coghlan didn't become famous until he moved to New York.
10. Coghlan’s coffin was destroyed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
11. It was only because of the hurricane that Coghlan’s body could travel back to Canada.
TFFSpeaking Talk about natural disasters :thunderstorm
flood
hurricane
tornado
volcanic
earthquake
Eruption
droughtLanguage points
in readingTornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street …
pick up 捡起;拿起;接人;偶然认识
She picked up the telephone and dialed his number.
He picked up the girl at a college disco.
Wait at the gate after school and I’ll pick you up. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1500 injuries.
on average 平均起来
The price of the egg is eight yuan per kg on average. causing about … 作结果状语,表示两个动作之间具有必然的因果关系。
Football is played in more than 80countries, making it the most popular game in the world.
By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2700 ahd been injured.
by the time 到了……的时候
引导时间状语从句,相当于when
By the time he was twelve years old, he had set up a chemistry lab of his own.The cemetery where Coghlan was buries was destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlan’s coffin ended up in the sea.
end up with 以……结束
Without your help, the experiment will end up with failure.
以……开始:begin with; start with The Gulf Steam had carried it 3000 kilometers up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island.
up a place 沿着某个地方,常常是由南向北,由下游至上游。假如方向相反,则用down。