外研版必修3 Module 3 The Violence of Nature Reading and vocabulary 课件(24张PPT)

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(共24张PPT)
Reading & Vocabulary
Book 3 Module 3
Task1:
Understand The Gulf Stream
Canada
America
Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
It travels past the east coast of the United states towards eastern Canada.
The Gulf Stream starts in the Gulf of Mexico
It flows
northeast across
the
Atlantic
1. What is a current?
(a) A kind of electricity.
(b) A movement of water.
(c) A kind of wind.
Read about the Gulf Stream and check the meaning of the words.
current flow latitude
Task2:
2. 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/south
part one

part two

part three
Charles Coghlan’s story in the worst hurricane disasters.
A rotating column of air and its power.
Hurricanes are strong tropical storms and introduce its power and the worst disaster by it.
Match each part with its main idea.
Read the first two parts of the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Tornadoes
storms
Task1:

? Tornado Hurricane
What are they? ___________are rotating columns of air from thunderstorms to the ground. Hurricanes are strong tropical
_________.
Texas ???
the Gulf of Mexico??

? Tornado Hurricane
Where do they occur? They mainly occur in the area from ________ in the southeast to South Dakota in the north in the US. They usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and ________
____________.
400????
floods ????

? Tornado Hurricane
How violent can they be? The most violent have winds of more than ________ kilometres per hour. There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more, which cause huge waves, heavy rain and ________.
800
six

? Tornado Hurricane
How often do they occur? On average, there are ____
tornadoes in the US each year. There are on average_____
Atlantic hurricanes each year.
1925???
3,600

? Tornado Hurricane
The worst one It occurred in ________, affecting three US states, killing over 700 people and injuring 2,700. It occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas, killing 6,000 people and destroying ________ buildings.
Read the third part of the text carefully and match the time with what happened.
Task2:
1. Before the
late 1890s ?
2. By the late
1890s ? ?
3. In 1899
4. In 1900 ?
5. In 1908 ?
A. Coghlan died.
B. Coghlan had moved to Galveston.
C. A hurricane struck and the cemetery where Coghlan was buried was destroyed, and his coffin ended up in the sea.
D. Coghlan went to live in Canada. He then moved to New York and became famous.
E. Coghlan’s coffin was found by fishermen in the sea near his home in the east of Canada.
True or False.
1. All tornadoes have winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
2. There are more tornadoes occurring in the US than in other parts of the world.
3. In the US, there are usually about
80 people killed in tornadoes every
year.
Task3
The most violent
4. Both the worst tornado and the
worst hurricane occurred in the US.
5. The worst hurricane of all time killed one-sixth of the population in the US.
6. Charles Coghlan didn’t become
famous until he moved to New York.
7. Coghlan’s coffin was destroyed by
the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
cemetery
The disaster killed
6000 people in a
population of 37000
Task1: Listen and repeat
Task2:
When we face the disasters of nature,
what should we do? What can’t we do ?
In a word, when we face the disasters of
nature, we should keep calm, try our best
to protect our life instead of our own wealth.
With the environmental pollution, natural
disasters are more and more, so let’s
act together! Protect our environment.
Task3:
Don’t cut the trees freely.
(不要随意砍伐树木)
Throw the rubbish into the dustbins.
(把垃圾扔进垃圾箱)
Don’t throw anything into the rivers.
(不要像河里扔任何东西)
Turn off the lights and the water taps
and save energy.
( 随手关灯和水龙头,节约能源)
Protecting the environment is our duty.
(保护环境,人人有责)
Task4:
a rotating column of air
strong tropical storms
over 400km/h
120km/h or more
in the US
in the Atlantic Ocean...
pick up…,put…down,
take…off …, destroy…
kill…
destroy…
1925 US
1900 Galveston
Tornado Hurricane
Definition
Speed
Place
Damage
The worst
example




1.Finish activities 2 and 3 on page22

2.Write a composition about how to face

the disasters of nature.

.