Unit 6 Disaster and hope
Starting out & Understanding ideas
Activity 1: Watch the video
Where is the city? What happened there?
How did people there react to the disaster? What was the result?
Starting out
Activity 2: Look at the posters
Have you seen the films? What are they about?
What do you think the main characters do in face of these disasters?
Starting out
Free talk: What other stories do you know about natural disasters?
What is it about?
What do characters do in face of the disasters?
What have you learned from the story?
Activity 1:Look at the thermometer
What happens when the temperature goes very high or very low? How do people deal with extreme temperature?
What were the highest and lowest temperatures recorded where you live? How do you feel in extreme temperatures?
Understanding ideas
Activity 2: Look at the picture and predict
What the passage is about?
feelings and concerns on the London tube on an unusually hot day
Ⅰ. 文本整体理解: 理清文章架构
Paragraph 1
Without air 1. ___________, it’s hotter than the
average 2. ___________in London, especially at
the Tube station.
Paragraph 2
It’s quite hot and 3. ___degrees at the Tube,
feeling a bit sick. I avoid the feeling by thinking
about work. One day the sun reflected off my
work building and 4. ______cars parked below.
Today what will happen?
conditioning
temperature
35
melted
Paragraph 3
As it’s hotter than before, the tall buildings will
be 5. _______, so I plan to learn how to swim
and buy a boat. I also advise the boss to move
the office to the top.
Paragraph 4
With the bad weather 6. _________due to
climate change, I’ll move to space because there are many 7. ________happening in the
world, such as a hurricane in Asia, heavy rain
in Eastern Europe and the forest fires 8.
______by the heat across Southern Europe.
flooded
occurring
disasters
caused
Paragraph 5
The 9. _____________comes that the next
station was Bank. Coming out of the station
with a heavy heart, I feel a fresh 10. _____.
Maybe I worry too much.
announcement
wind
Ⅱ. 文本细节理解: 探寻语篇细节信息
1. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. Flooding will come to London.
B. Warning people to focus on heat.
C. Reminding the world of climate change.
D. Explaining why London is getting hotter.
答案:D
2. What does the author feel about the heat?
A. Excited. B. Angry.
C. Worried. D. Happy.
答案: C
3. What do we infer in London?
A. There isn’t any air conditioning at all.
B. The high temperature ever happened.
C. The temperature is less than 30 in London.
D. There is high temperature at Tube station.
答案: D
4. What will the author intend to do?
A. He wants to buy a high flat and a boat.
B. He suggests moving his office.
C. He won’t worry a lot in the future.
D. He plans to move to space.
答案: C
Ⅲ. 文本素养提升: 阅读技能综合运用
1. 根据课文语境与语句知识细致解构语句。
译文: _______________________, 我也能活下来。
即使高楼大厦被洪水淹没
译文: _________________________, 也许我应该开始
考虑移居太空……
既然在地球上很难避免灾难
2. 根据课文完成短文。
With climate change, bad weather often (1) ______
(occur) in the world. I take the Tube to work and my
journey is on the (2)______ (hot) line of the Tube
system. I look through the newspaper that tells us
“Hot! Hot! Hot! ” Such bad weather can’t (3)___
_____(stand). ?
occurs
hottest
be
stood
Without air (4)___________ (condition), the
temperature inside the train (5)_______ (reach) 35
degrees, which makes me feel a bit sick. I think
(6)_____ what happened in my workplace, a tall glass
building, one hot summer —the sun reflected off it
and (7)______ (melt) cars parked below!
conditioning
reaches
about
melted
When thinking about the flood in London, I must
manage (8) _______(swim) or buy a boat and so on.
The bad weather (9) ____________(occur) due to
climate change in the world, such as a hurricane in
Asia, landslides in Eastern Europe, and forest fires in
Southern Europe, (10)______ makes me very nervous.
I even plan to move to space. ?
to swim
has occurred
which
However, as I step out of the station, I feel a fresh wind on my face. Maybe the condition is not the same as I’m thinking. I have been worrying a lot.
3. 阅读主题活动
(1)Do you share the author’s concerns about extreme
weather conditions? Why?
_____________________________________________
_______________________________________________
__________
I don’t agree with the author. Though climate in the
world is changing, it affects us less. So, we can’t worry
too much. ?
(2)Do you think climate change will affect your life in
the future? How would you adapt?
______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
____________?
With climate changing, it affects our life more or less,
but we needn’t worry too much. We only get used to it
step by step.
【阅读微技巧】
抓“关键”, 品味作者意图
关键: hot, climate change, London
意图: buy a boat, moving to space, flood, worrying too much
Activity 3: Read the passage
Choose the author’s purposes in writing the passage.
1. To explain why summers in London are getting hotter and hotter.
2. To complain about the London Tube.
3. To warn people about the danger of London being flooded.
4. To express his worries about the dangers of extreme weather conditions.
Activity 4: Complete the flow chart
2. melting and becoming one
8. nervous
1.30 plus degrees / over 30 degrees
3. a bit scared
5. speak with his manager about moving to the top floor
7.climate change
9.worrying too much
4.put his flat on the market and buy a boat
6.learn to swim
Activity 4: Complete the flow chart
Do you share the author’s concerns about extreme weather conditions? Why?
Do you think climate change will affect your life in the future? How would you adapt?