1. Unit 22-L3-1 Natural Disasters Reading 信阳实验高中 胡国珍

2. Teaching objectives complete texts with sentence gaps. infer the meanings of the new vocabulary talk about disasters with the help of the learnt vocabulary concerning natural disasters. At the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to

3. Brainstorming natural disasters

4. Natural disasters flood

5. Natural disasters drought

6. Natural disasters earthquake

7. Natural disasters tsunami

8. Natural disasters volcanic eruption

9. Natural disasters hurricane

10. Natural disasters forest fire

11. Natural disasters typhoon

12. Natural disasters landslide

13. Natural disasters thunderstorm

14. tsunami 海啸 typhoon 台风 volcanic eruption 火山喷发 flood 洪水 drought 干旱 landslide 滑坡，山崩 hurricane 飓风, 狂风 thunderstorm 雷暴，雷雨 Read aloud and memorize them please Vocabulary about natural disasters

15. What do you think causes the disasters, people or nature? Read the article and check your answer … Before you start

16. Reading strategies Reading strategy 1 Read to get the general idea. Natural disasters are getting worse.

17. Reading strategies Reading strategy 2 Read for topics of each paragraph. Causes of natural disasters Examples to show disasters become common Experts predict that natural disasters will get worse Overpopulation in cities makes more people in danger Examples of volcanic eruption and earthquake showing their threat to our world. C A E D B

18. Reading strategies Reading strategy 3 Read for clues about the missing sentence. (time, place, pron. linking) 1. Terrible flooding in Asia… b Example even Europe … underwater 3

19. Reading strategies Read for clues about the missing sentence. (time, place, pron. linking) 2. Reduced rainfall; drier f the Yellow River failed to reach the sea 3. Why…? g One answer is … 3 4. This has been caused by CO 2... e Global warming 5. …the worst eruption… …a much greater eruption a

20. Guessing the meanings of new vocabulary

21. 1.grand adj. L -2 2.scale n. L -2 3. rough adj. L15 4. separation n. L20 5.slip v. L28 6.slide v. L28 7.mountainous adj. L29 8. construct v. L25 9. shabby adj. L25 Try to guess the meanings big and very impressive 巨大的 the size or level of sth 规模，大小 the condition of being separated 分离，分开. unpleasant or difficult 艰难的 having many mountains 多山的 fall off 滑落 to move smoothly over a surface 滑行 build 建造 old and in bad condition 破烂的

22. Read and answer 1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future ? 2. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural disasters? 3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts ? 4 Pessimistic. Poor people. Overpopulation & industrialization.

23. 4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now ? 5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future? 6. What effects might this threat have? Read and answer 4 Big population in cities (or urbanization ) A volcanic eruption. It might send the planet into winter for years.

25. In the last ____ years, there are more and more disasters such as _______, earthquakes, ________, volcanic _________, tsunamis and _____ fires all over the world. Why are there so many disasters? One of the reasons is ______________. __ addition, the global _________ caused by the mismanagement of the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or make them worse. ten floods typhoonseruptions forest overpopulation Quiz : Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the reading material. In warming

26. At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more ___________ as around half the world’s population now lives in cities. An even greater number of people live at ____. Earthquakes have taken more than 1.6 million lives in the last hundred years. What is worse, the disaster experts predict that the things will get ______. dangerous risk worse

27. 1.Read the passage at least twice. 2.Find and analyze the long and difficult sentences in the passage. 3.Passage A & B on the handout.