book6 unit5 The power of nature reading

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Unit 5
The power of nature
Reading
Pre-reading
volcano
Who will climb into a live volcano to
take the temperature of the boiling
rock inside
volcanologists
Collect and evaluate
information about
volcanoes.
What kind of things might a
volcanologist do
An Exciting Job
Working as a volcanologist
What might be talked about
Part 1(Para 1-2)
Part 2(Para 3-4)
Part 3(Para 5)
The writer’s job and its importance
The writer’s experience
of watching the volcanic eruption
What amazed the writer most.
Read for the structures and get main idea for each part
The writer expressed his love for
his job as a volcanologist and told
us one of his unusual experience
in Mount Kilauea, Hawaii.
What’s the main idea of the article
Part one (Para. 1- 2)
What does the vilcanologist do and
why it is important
Careful-reading
Job: ____________
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importance: ______________________________
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feelings (adj.): _____________ -- __________
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Fill in the blanks.
volcanologist
collect information for a database
help scientists to predict where
lava will flow and how fast
protect ordinary people from volcanoes
excited
/Save people’s lives by warning them to
leave their homes.
never bored
feel alive
1. Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea more dangerous than the actual eruption
2. What made the author realize that an
eruption occurred
3. What did the scientists do after the eruption
Part two (Para. 3- 4)
Part two (Para. 3- 4)
1. Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea
more dangerous than the actual eruption
The lava buries everything in its path.
The rocks from the volcano usually
don’t damage anything because no one
lives near the crater.
my bed began shaking
a strange sound
My bedroom became as bright as day
an abosolutely fantastic sight
red hot lava was fountaining hundred
of metres into the air
2. What made the author realize that an
eruption occurred
The light was caused
by the red-hot rocks
and gas that erupted
from the volcano.
put on white protective suits, helmets,
big boots and special gloves
dropped as closed as possible to the crater
slowly make our way to the edge of the
crater
looked down into the red boiling center
3. What did the scientists do after the eruption
Part three(Para. 5)
What does the writer find impressive
even after studying volcanoes for more
than twenty years
The author is impressed by the beauty
of the eruption and also by its potential
to cause great damage.
My first experience:
I was ____ asleep when my bed began _______
and I heard a _______ sound, like a ______
passing nearby. Then I found my bedroom was
as ________ as day, and red lava ___________
hundreds of meters into the air.
fast
shaking
strange
train
bright
fountaining
Fill in blanks about the writer’s
experience of the volcano.
The next day, three of us wanted to get close
to the ______. We put on ___________suits,
________, big _______ and special ______,
which made us look like __________. We
slowly ________________ to the edge of the
crater to collect some _____ for ____________.
helmets
boots
gloves
spacemen
made our way
lava
later study
protective
crater
Discussion:
Why does the writer think his job is exciting
1.finish exercises on page 36.
2.remember some words
Homework