1. 多维阅读第14级
This Is a Wildfire

2. Questions
1. What can you see on the cover? 2. What’s the title? 3. Do you know how a wildfire starts? 4. What keeps a wildfire burning? 5. Is there anything else you know about it?

3. Enjoy your reading time

4. Read pages 2-3 and answer the question.
Read and answer
Read pages 2-3 and answer the question.
What is a wildfire?
It has big and hot flames.
It leaps up in the sky.
It has big and black smoke.

5. Read pages 4-5 and answer the question.
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Read pages 4-5 and answer the question.
What can start a wildfire?
The hot sun, a hot wind, the lightening, the sparks made by a fast train and people can start a wildfire.

6. Read pages 6-7 and answer the question.
Read and answer
Read pages 6-7 and answer the question.
What keeps a wildfire burning?
Trees, dry grasses, houses and air.

7. Read pages 8-9 and answer the question.
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Read pages 8-9 and answer the question.
What happens after a wildfire?
Many homes have burned down.
People have died.
Many animals get burned or even die in a wildfire.

8. Read pages 10-11 and answer the questions.
Read and answer
Read pages and answer the questions.
What happened to the
kangaroo?
2. How did the vets help it?
Her paws and tail were
burned, and she was
very thirsty.
They made a pouch for her and fed her with a bottle.

9. Read pages 12-13 and answer the questions.
Read and answer
Read pages and answer the questions.
What happened to the
black bear?
2. How did the vets help it?
Her paws and eye were
badly burnt.
They made a bandage
for him.

10. Finish the mind-map Finish the mind-map based on
these questions and their answers.
1. What is a wildfire? 2. What can start a wildfire? 3. What keeps a wildfire burning? 4. What happens after a wildfire? 5. What happened to the kangaroo? How did the vets help it? 6. What happened to the black bear?

11. Group work
Based on the mind-map, work in groups of four, and each one choose a topic to introduce: the start of a wildfire, how a wildfire starts, how a wildfire continues, the serious results of a wildfire.

12. Group work
Work in groups of four and discuss: Why do you think a wildfire causes such serious results? Choose a role from Writer, Reporter, Opinion giver 1, Opinion giver 2.

13. Role play
Work in groups of three, imagine you were the kangaroo, the black bear and the vet, role play their experiences after a wildfire.

14. Express your ideas How can a wildfire be avoided?
How can we stop a wildfire?
What can we do when
a wildfire happens?

15. Homework Make a poster about how to avoid a wildfire
and what we should do when a wildfire happens.
(2) Search more information
about the natural disasters,
then write down a report of
your research based on
the structure of the book.