(共24张PPT)
Module 3
The Violence of Nature
reading and vocabulary
Words PK (review)
1.make efforts
2. be connected with
3.be close to
4. vast
5. tropical
6.lightling
7.disaster
8.hurricane
9.thunderstorm
10.tornado
Some natural disasters:
flood
drought
drought
fire
landslide
typhoon
Earthquake
hurricane
In the US
tornado
tornado
In the US
1.3.4.6
Answers:
⑴What caused her to change her mind ? ________
⑵. The child caused his parents a lot of trouble. __________
⑶ The cause of the accident was the fact that he was driving very fast.___________
1.cause
引起
原因
带来
⑴Almost all of them occur in the US , in the area from Texas in the Southeast to South Dakoto in the north . ________
⑵. A good idea occurred to me . __________
2.occur
发生
突然想起
3. pick up
⑴Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street ---- or even in the next town.___________
⑵.Shall I pick you up at the station._________
⑶. She soon picked up French when She went to live in France._________
⑷ The world economy is picking up.________
卷起
开车接某人
偶然学会
(经济等)好转
4.take off
⑴. They can take the fur off the back of a cat and the feathers off a chicken._______
⑵. Take your coat off and sit down.__________
⑶. The plane takes off in five minutes.________
⑷. He took two weeks off in August._________
⑸. His career has really taken off. _________
起飞
休息
脱掉
把…脱掉
事业腾飞,
迅速成功
5.leave
⑴.They can destroy houses , but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was._________
⑵.He has left for Shanghai.__________
用括号里词的适当形式填空
⑶. The news left me __________(wonder) what would happen.
⑷The bad weather left the project half _________(finish).
finished
wondering
离开
留下
6.strike
⑴By the late 1890s, he had moved to Galveston, where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane struck.______
⑵ A good idea struck me._______
⑶ The clock began to strike twelve._________
⑷ The workers are still on strike.__________
罢工
钟敲
(使)突然想起
袭击
Conclusion
1.cause
n. 原因 v.引起
2.Occur
v . 发生,想起
3.pick up
开车接某人,接收接听(广播);(经济等)好转;偶然(得到,学到);
(+of)
(occurred)
Conclusion
4.take off
起飞,事业腾飞;’迅速走红/成功;休假;
5.leave
离开;留下;让,使得
6.strike
v.袭击,打击; 突然想起; 敲钟 n.罢工
(struck,struck/stricken
Homework
1.Finish the exercise on page 103