课件23张PPT。Reading and Vocabulary 1. It is a sign of a disaster from weather forecastsLead-in: A guessing game2. Now the disaster is getting worse and we are starting many campaigns to prevent it.Lead-in: A guessing game3. It results from desertification.Lead-in: A guessing game4. This disaster always occurs when strong winds carry away dunes ( small hills of sand)Lead-in: A guessing gamePre-reading:As a citizen of Chengdu, have you ever experienced
a sandstorm?sandstorms Pre-reading: What do you know about sandstorm?sandstorms While-reading: Task 1 Scan for aspects mentioned in this passage.While-reading: Task 2 Read for details(the basic information). Sandstorms are strong, dry winds that carry sand.
What are sandstorms?
Where do sandstorms mainly take place?
Why do sandstorms happen?
Sandstorms?are?strong,?dry?winds?that?carry?sand. It is a result of “desertification” which results from human's improper activitiesThe four main places in the world where there are sandstorms are...Task2: Find the basic information: Where?four main placesSandstorms are strong, dry winds that carry sand.
The four main places where there are sandstorms are Central Asia, North America, Central Africa and Australia.Sandstorms happen as a result of desertification which is a process that happens because of climate changes and because people cut down trees and dig up grass.
climate changes and human's improper activities.
While-reading: Read for details. Task3: Find out the basic information of sandstorms. Task3: How do sandstorms affect us? Find out the sentences that describe how sandstorms affect us.While-reading: You can't see the sun and the wind is sometimes strong enough to move sand dunes.Citizens wake up to an orange sky.
strong winds that cover the city in a thick, brown-yellow dust
Traffic moves slowly because the thick dust makes it difficult to see.It's difficult to breathe and the dust makes me ill. If you want to go out, you'd better wear a mask.Task3:How do sandstorms affect us (which aspects)?environmenttransporthealthaspectssentences (evidence证据)the
governmentcitizensWhile-reading:
Task4 Find the measures mentioned and figure out more.start campaigns to call for people to protect the environmentmake laws to protect the environmenttake part in the environmental protection movementplant treesaviod wasting resourcesreturn farmland to forestsTask5: According to the passage, how do people feel about the sandstorms?While-reading: Read for details.two examplesInner MongoliaBeijingtwo examplesInner MongoliaBeijingterriblefrighteningTo have been caught in a sandstorm was a terrible experience.To be cycling in a sandstorms is frightening.To have been caught in a sandstorm was a terrible experience.To be cycling in a sandstorms is frightening.After Ren Jianbo ________________(catch), he ______(feel)terrible.had been caughtfeltWhen Huang Xiaomei __________(cycle)in the sandstorm,
she ________(feel) frightened.is cycling feelsthe experience happens before feelingsthe experience and feelings happen at the same timePost-reading: Read for infinitive.Scientists have tried many ways to solve this problem in China.
A mass campaign has been started to help solve it.
The wind is so strong enough to move sand and dunes.
To have been caught in a sandstorm was a terrible experience.
There was nothing to be done.
Sandstorms in China appear to have increased in recent years.
The thick dust makes it difficult to see.
Weather expert advises people not to go out.
To be cycling in a sandstorms is frightening.
It's difficult to breathe and the dust makes me ill.
If you want to go out, you'd better wear a mask.
To prevent it coming nearer, the government is planting trees.
The government plans to continue planting for the next five years.
To love nature is to love ourselves.