Module 8 unit 22 Lesson 3

1、Look at the following pictures and what are happening in the pictures?earthquaketsunami flood droughtvolcanic eruptions hurricane forest fire typhoonlandslide Review the wordsdroughts 地震地震 earthquake 森林火災(zāi)森林火災(zāi)floods 颶風(fēng)颶風(fēng)forest fires 滑坡，山崩滑坡，山崩hurricanes 海嘯海嘯landslides 臺(tái)風(fēng)臺(tái)風(fēng)tsunamis 火山爆發(fā)火山爆發(fā)typhoons 洪水

2、，水災(zāi)洪水，水災(zāi)volcanic eruptions 旱災(zāi)旱災(zāi) What do you think causes the disasters, people or nature?Discussion Read the article and check your answer to the questions: What causes the disasters?Reading Strategies: Completing texts with sentence gaps Read the text to get the general idea.Read a paragraph with a

3、 sentence gap and identify the topic, e.g. disasters.Read the sentences and look for clues about the missing sentence, e.g. is it an example of what is mentioned before?Certain words may help you: time references (then), pronoun references (it, that), linking words (however).Decide which sentence go

4、es in the gap. Check that it fits the sentences before and after it.Use the Strategies to complete the gaps in the text (1-5) with these sentences (a-g). There are two extra sentences you do not need.a) But evidence shows that 73,000 years ago there was a much greater eruption.b) Even Europe has suf

5、fered and large areas have been under water.c) That is probably not the most important factor either.d) Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless.e) On top of that add global warming.The answers : 1.b 2.f 3.g 4.e 5.a f) For example, the Yellow River, once famous

6、for flooding, failed to reach the sea at all for 226 days in 1997. g) One answer is overpopulation. Read the text again and answer these questions.1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future? Pessimistic. 2. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural disasters? Poor people.3.

7、Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts? Overpopulation and mismanagement of the worlds resources.4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now? Because half the worlds population lives in cities within range of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.5. What could be the biggest

8、 threat to the planet in the future? A volcanic eruption. 6. What effects might this threat have? It might send the planet into winter for years.Fill in the blanks about the text.In the last _ years, there are more and more disasters such as _, _, thunderstorms, earthquakes, _, volcanic _and _ fires

9、 all over the world. Why are so many disasters? One of the reasons is over- _. ten floodstsunamistyphoons eruptions forest population_ addition, _ change and global _ caused by the mismanagement of the worlds resources can lead _ the disasters or make them worse. At present, volcanoes and earthquake

10、s are more _ with the fast _ of people. Inclimate warmingtodangerous growthEarthquakes take the lives of 1.6 million people in the last hundred years. What is worse, the disaster professionals predict that the things will get _.worse Decide if the underlined words in the sentences below are nouns or

11、 verbs. Then write down their Chinese meanings.1. a) She put her arms around me to comfort me. b) The soldiers were armed with guns.noun 手臂手臂 verb 武裝武裝2. a) Heavy rains resulted in floods. b) His results were not as good as he had hoped.3. a) He means well but just gets it wrong sometimes. b) The te

12、lephone is a means of communication.verb 引起引起noun 結(jié)果結(jié)果verb 本意是本意是noun 方法方法4. a) The children had fun sliding down the slide all afternoon. b) Penguins slide downhill over ice on their bellies.5. a) Be careful! Dont slip on the wet floor. b) Write your number on this slip of paper.noun 滑梯滑梯verb 滑動(dòng)滑動(dòng)v

13、erb 滑倒滑倒noun 紙條紙條6. a) What would you like on your bread roll for lunch? b) He rolled the ball across the floor to me.noun 面包面包verb 滾動(dòng)滾動(dòng)Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words above.1. The _ forces protected the city.2. When will you get your exam _?3. Don broke his arm when he _

14、and fell on the ice.4. I _ what I said.5. What would be the best _ of advertising our product?armedresultsslippedmeanmeans6. Would you like honey on your _?7. The house _ down the mountain side in the flood last year.8. The match _ in a draw. They had 2 points each.rollresultedslid1. result in=lead

15、to=bring about 導(dǎo)致導(dǎo)致,造成造成昨天高速公路上的事故導(dǎo)致了昨天高速公路上的事故導(dǎo)致了7名乘客名乘客的死亡。的死亡。The accident on the highway yesterdayresulted in the death of 7 passengers.result from 因?yàn)橐驗(yàn)槎a(chǎn)生而產(chǎn)生The fire resulted from his carelessness.=His carelessness resulted in the fire.Language Points2. with的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu): with +n./pron. + adj./ ad

16、v./prep. phrases /n. /doing / done /to do with + object + object complement with的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)在句子中可以作伴隨的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)在句子中可以作伴隨 狀語(yǔ)狀語(yǔ), 也可以作原因狀語(yǔ)和后置定語(yǔ)。也可以作原因狀語(yǔ)和后置定語(yǔ)。 e.g. He walked along with his head down/ with his face red. He is waiting for you with a magazine in his hand.With nothing to do, I will go to the cinema. W

17、ith his work finished, he went back home.He lay there, with his eyes looking at the sky.Who lives in the room with the light on?(1) 他站在那里他站在那里, 手被綁在一棵樹(shù)上。手被綁在一棵樹(shù)上。 He stood there, with his hands tied to a tree. (2) 他頭高昂著走了進(jìn)來(lái)。他頭高昂著走了進(jìn)來(lái)。 He came in with his head high.3. wipe out (1) get rid of / remove

18、 清除清除, 除去除去e.g. Wipe out these unhappy things between you and her.(2) destroy completely 毀滅毀滅, 消滅消滅e.g. At last, the army wiped out the enemies. A disease almost wiped out the population of the island.4. turn on sb. 攻擊攻擊, 變得與變得與敵對(duì)敵對(duì)e.g. The dog turned on me and bit me in the leg. 5. at the rate of 以以的速度的速度; 以以的價(jià)格的價(jià)格e.g. The train was going at the (a) rate of 80 kilometers an hour.6. for instance 相當(dāng)于相當(dāng)于for example 7. range extent /distance between limits范圍、范圍、幅度和差距幅度和差距 e.g. The annual range of t