1. Natural Disasters
Reading
信阳实验高中 何毓树

2. At the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to
Teaching objectives
At the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to
•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.

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. Vocabulary about natural disasters
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

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

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

17. Read for topics of each paragraph.
Reading strategies
Reading strategy 2
Read for topics of each paragraph. C
•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. A E D B

18. 1. Terrible flooding in Asia… b3
Reading strategies
Reading strategy 3
Read for clues about the missing sentence. (time, place, pron. linking)
Example
1. Terrible flooding in Asia… b
even Europe … underwater

19. Reading strategies 3 2. Reduced rainfall; drier f
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 … e
4. This has been caused by CO2...
Global warming
5. …the worst eruption… a
…a much greater eruption

20. Guessing the meanings of new vocabulary

21. Try to guess the meanings
big and very impressive巨大的
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
the size or level of sth规模，大小
unpleasant or difficult艰难的
the condition of being
separated 分离，分开.
fall off 滑落
to move smoothly over a surface滑行
having many mountains
多山的
build 建造
old and in bad
condition 破烂的

22. Read and answer 4 Pessimistic. Poor people.
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 ?
Pessimistic.
Poor people.
Overpopulation & industrialization.

23. Read and answer 4 Big population in cities (or urbanization )
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?
Big population in cities (or urbanization )
A volcanic eruption.
It might send the planet into winter for years.

25. Quiz : Fill in the blanks with proper words
according to the reading material.
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
typhoons
eruptions
forest
overpopulation 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. HOMEWORK Read the passage at least twice.
Find and analyze the long and difficult sentences in the passage.
Passage A & B on the handout.

28. Thank you!