1. Lesson 3 Natural Disasters

2. Look at the following pictures and what are happening in the pictures?

3. earthquakes

4. droughts

5. tsunami

6. floods

7. volcanic eruptions

8. hurricanes

9. forest fires

10. typhoon

11. landslides

12. What do you think causes the disasters, people or nature? Discussion unnatural

13. 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.

14. 3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts ? Overpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resources.

15. 4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now ? Because half the world’s population lives in cities within range of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. 5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future? A volcanic eruption.

16. 6. What effects might this threat have? It might plunge the planet into winter for years.

17. Fill in the blanks about the text. In the last ___ years, there are more and more disasters such as _____, ________, windstorms, earthquakes, ________, volcanic _________and _____ fires all over the world. Why are so many disasters ? One of the reasons is over- __________. ten floods droughts typhoons eruptions forest population

18. __ addition, ______ change and the spectre of global ________ caused by the mismanagement of the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or make them worse. In climate warming

19. At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more _________ with the fast ______ of people. Earthquakes 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 _____. dangerous growth worse

20. Language Points

21. Important phrases 1. on record 2. result in 3. wipe out 4. turn on 5. at the rate of 6. quantities of 7. for instance 记载下来的，有记录的 产生。。。结果，导致 区别于 result from 消除，毁灭 打开，攻击，袭击 以 … 速度 at the speed of 大量 a quantity of for example

22. 8. within the range of 9. at risk 10. in some degree 11. plunge into 12. on top of … 在 … 范围内 有危险，冒险 在某种程度上说 使陷入，遭受。。。 in addition

23. With 的复合结构 : with +n./pron. + adj./ adv./prep phrases /n /doing / done /to do with + object + object complement With 的复合结构在句子中可以做伴随 状语, 也可以做原因状语和后置定语

24. 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 you monitor in my class, I will be in charge of the class easily.

25. With nothing to do, I will go to the cinema. With 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?

26. (1) 他站在那里, 手被帮在一棵树上。 He stood there, with his hands tied to a tree. (2) 他头高昂着走了进来. He came in with his head high.

27. wipe out: (1) get rid of / remove: 清除, 除去 e.g. Wipe out these unhappy things between you and her. (2) destroy completely : 毁灭, 消灭 e.g. At last, the army led by Mao Zedong wiped out the enemies. A disease almost wiped out the population of the island.

28. risk : vt./n. 冒险 e.g. You are to take risks to get what you want, but you must not risk your life ! at risk 处于危险之中, 作表语或者状语

29. at/ take/run the risk of 冒 …… 的危险 He saved my life at the risk of losing his own. They were ready to run/take the risk of being taken prisoner by the enemy.

30. risk it: 冒风险试试 I don’t dare to risk it, it’s too dangerous.

31. plunge: vt./vi. 投入 ( 某物 ) 使陷入 ; 突入 Don’t plunge your hand into cold water. What plunged the country into the war?

32. result in: have as a consequence 造成 …… 的结果, 导致 e.g. It is their carelessness that resulted in the accident. result from 是由。。。造成的 e.g. It all resulted from jealousy.

33. 1. After the storm they had to ______. 2. Many people in the developing world suffer from diseases because they are ______________. 3. Our team was knocked out in the _________ of the competition. rebuild undernourished semi-final Exercise 6 Complete the sentences with words from the above exercise in a suitable form.

34. 4. The bomb was about to go off but the experts managed to ______it. 5. I _____________ the question and failed the exam. 6. I ________ yesterday and arrived an hour late for class. defuse misunderstood overslept

35. 7. A lot of houses collapsed in the earthquake because of ____________ construction. 8. Floods are not _______ these days; they happen more and more often. sub-standard unusual