Unit 8 Natural disasters Welcome to the unit 课件24张

1. To learn about some kinds of natural disasters:
earthquake, flood, thunder, lightning, storm
2. To learn to talk about natural disasters
3. To learn the new words and expressions:
up, earthquake, coach, flood, village,
lightning, storm, thunder, lose final,
thousands of, wash away, catch fire
Objectives
A: What’s the weather like today?
B: It’s…
windy
sunny
rainy
cloudy
foggy
snowy
disaster
mop
up
earthquake
thousands of
accident
coach
n. 灾难；不幸，祸患
vt. 用拖把擦干净
adv.完全地
n. 地震
成千上万的
n. 事故，意外的事
n. 长途汽车
Words and expressions review
crash
flood
wash away
village
lightning
storm
thunder
catch fire
vi. & vt. 猛撞; 碰撞
n. 洪水，水灾
冲走
n. 村庄
n. 闪电
n. 风暴，暴(风)雨
n. 雷；雷声
着火
Words review
Talk
Is there any bad weather in your city? Does it bring you some troubles?
Yes, sometimes the wind is so heavy that it blows trees down. And I can’t see anything at all in the street.
......
Hobo has some trouble. What happened to him?
was sleeping
正在睡觉
was/were doing
过去某时正在发生的动作
when
当……时, 引导时间状语从句
if引导的条件状语
从句用一般现在时，主句用一般将来时
（主将从现）
Didn’t you +V原形+…
你难道没有…?
Observe-and-explain
1. Use different tones.
2. Add your own actions to make the dialogue more interesting.
1. What was the weather like when Hobo was sleeping?
2. When there’s too much rain in a short time, what will it cause?
3. What does flood belong to? Natural disaster or accident?
It was rainy./It was raining heavily.
It will cause flood.
Talk
Natural disaster.
Can you tell the difference between natural disasters and accidents?
Natural disasters are all caused by natural forces (自然力).
Accidents are usually caused by people.
Do you know any other natural disasters?
earthquake
fire
drought
snowstorm
?['??θkwe?k]
?[dra?t]
tsunami
?landslide
?[tsu?'nɑ?m?]
['l?n(d)sla?d]
blizzard:暴风雪
outrage: 肆虐
magnitude:震级
Richter Scale:里氏震级
Look through the description of each living environment below and guess which natural disaster may happen there.
estuary:河口
slum:贫民窟
1. Role play the conversation in groups;
2. Role play the conversation in front of the class
Let’s see which group does the best.
Work in pairs and discuss a natural disaster you know well with your partner. Use Sandy and Millie’s conversation as a model.
Sample conversation:
A: Did you hear about the flood in Wuhan last
month?
B: No. What happened?
A: My friend told me about it. There was heavy
rain for several days.
B: Oh, really?
A: Yes, it was terrible. There was water all
around his house. His furniture and all his
books got wet.
B: Did your friend leave his house?
A: Yes. He and his family moved to his uncle’s
house, as his uncle lived far away and there
was no flood there.
请点击
Complete the following sentences.
1. 1998年的特大洪水冲走了许多房屋和
大树。
The big flood in 1998 ______________
_____________________
2. 在唐山大地震中，成千上万人遇难。
The Tangshan Earthquake _______
__________________
washed a lot of
houses and trees away.
killed thousands of people.
Check your answer
3. 昨天一个年轻人从2 楼摔下来，竟然安然无恙。
Yesterday a young man _______________
________ but he didn’t get hurt.
4. 上个星期五两个小学生在教室里玩火，将整幢大楼烧了起来。
Two pupils played with fire in their
classroom last Friday and _____________
_________________.
5. 在昨晚的事故中，一辆大客车撞到了树上。
A coach crashed into a tree _____________
last night.
fell from the 2nd
floor
started a big
fire in the building
in the accident
Now 2 mins to test your spelling.
1. English-Chinese
disaster, earthquake, accident, coach, flood, village, lightning, storm, thunder,
2. Chinese-English
用拖把擦干净；完全地；成千上万的；猛撞；冲走；着火
Exchange your papers to see who does the best.
Finish the exercises in Learning English.
Preview the article The
Taiwan earthquake on page 94.
3. Preview the new words and
expressions.