Module 3 The Violence of Nature Reading and vocabulary 课件（21张PPT）

课件21张PPT。Module 3 The Violence of NatureTornadoHurricaneReading and vocabularyWhat is a tornado? What is a hurricane?Read the passage(part one and part two) on page 23 quickly and fill in the blanks and discuss you answers in groups.a rotating column of airstrong tropical stormsover 400km/h120km/h or morein the US, from Texas to South Dakota. in the southern Atlantic Ocean ,the Caribbean Sea,the Gulf of MexicoTask 1 Fill in the blanks.on average 800 tornadoes every yearon average
six Atlantic hurricanes per yearpick up…, put… down, take … off …, destroy …leavecause huge waves, heavy rain, floodsin 1925in 1900 Galvestonaffect 3 US states
700 people killed,
2700 injuredkilled 6000 people, destroyed 3600 buildings
Let’s read the story, An Extraordinary Event, and see what did the 1900 hurricane do to a dead person, and then fill in the blanks.
An extraordinary eventCharacter:CoghlanTime
At first:
Then:
By the late 1890s:
In :
In 1900:
Eight years later: EventHe went to live in Canada.He moved to New York.He had moved to Galveston.He died.His cemetery was destroyed by
His coffin ended up .He travelled back to 1899the hurricane.in the seaCanada.A question for you:
What is the purpose of telling the story?To stress again that the natural disaster is very violent.Task 2 Role play(summary):
Make an interview to introduce a tornado and hurricanes to the public.
One student is the host, and the other is an expert in natural disaster.Task 2 Pair work:
Some useful words or sentences for you:
A(Host): Welcome to our Talk. Today our topic is tornadoes and hurricanes. First, would you tell us what a tornado is? (where, how often, occur, damage, kill, cause, the worst tornado,destroy,violent…)
B(Expert): A tornado is...The rate of a tornado will be higher and higher.If we continue to destroy our environment, What should we do?What should we do to protect the environment to reduce the rate of natural disasters? Discussion:Homework:

Write a short passage to introduce a kind of natural disaster, and tell the public what we should do to protect our environment.3. They can _______ cars, trains and houses.
They can _______ houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.
4. The worst one occurred in 1925, affecting ______________. More than __________ had been killed and _____ had been injured.pick up destroythree US states700 people 2,700 What happened?2.Can you imagine how terrible
the disaster was?龙卷风.mpeg1. Hurricanes are ____________________.
2. They occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the _______________.
3. The worst one occurred on the ___________________ in Galveston, Texas. It killed ____________ and destroyed ______________. A hurricane strong tropical stormsGulf of Mexico8th September 19006,000 people 3,600 buildings1. A tornado is _____________________
from a thunderstorm to the ground.

2. They occur in the area from ____________________ to
_______________________.A tornado a rotating column of airTexas in the southeastSouth Dakota in the northCoghlan went to live in Canada. →He
then moved to _________died in 1899→a hurrican happened in Galveston→(his coffin) →New York What happened to him after the
hurricane?An extraordinary event1900His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream.