3. What bad weather did we learn last time? typhoon rainstorm snowstormthunder and lightning

4. What natural disasters did we learn last time? drought flood earthquake volcano

5. New words: shaking 摇动 fear 害怕 恐惧 scream 尖叫 direction 方向 wildly 失去控制地 calm 平静下来 bomb 炸弹 be trapped 陷入困境 slight 轻微的 brick 砖 moment 片刻 mind 头脑，想法 since 由于，既然 alive 活着的 hurry 急忙

6. Matching the words with the meanings: P96 B1

7. Match the meanings on the left with the words on the right. A thunder B scream C calm down D be trapped E wildly F shaking G come down 1.stop being nervous or excited 2.keep in a place and can not leave 3.the loud noise following lightning 4. shout loudly 5. behaving in an uncontrolled ( 不受控制的 )way. 6. fall down 7. movements from side to side or up and down C D A B E G F

8. What’s your feeling when you see this picture?

9. Background information : 1999 年 9 月 21 日凌晨 1 点 47 分, 在台湾台北市西南方 150 公里处南 投县的集集镇, 震级为里氏 7.6 级, 当时 大多数人都在睡梦中. 据报道在台北市 人口密集地区有人员伤亡 ` 建筑 物倒塌和 其他损坏现象. 在此次地震中有 1700 多人 死亡,8700 多人受伤,12000 座建筑物遭受 破坏,100000 人无家可归. 据报道 这是台北上个世纪最严重的 一次地震.

10. The Taiwan earthquake There was an earthquake in Taiwan. Timmy survived the earthquake. He wrote his story and put it on his home page. Let’s read his story quickly,then answer some questions:

11. 1. What did Timmy hear at the beginning? 2. How did Timmy feel when he was trapped?

12. 1.Where was Timmy when the earthquake started? 2.Why did people look at each other in fear? 3. What did people do when the earth started to shake? 4.What did Timmy do when the earthquake started? 5.What happened to the buildings? 6.Where was Timmy when the earthquake ended? Questions:

13. 1. Where was Timmy when the earthquake started? Give the right answers: 2. Why did people look at each other in fear? He was in the shopping centre. Because they heard a loud noise and they became very frightened. 3. What did people do when the earth started to shake? People ran in all directions and some ran out of the shopping centre.

14. Give the right answers : 4.What did Timmy do when the earthquake started? 5.What happened to the buildings? He tried his best to run out to the street. Pieces of glass and bricks fell down. Then the walls began to come down. 6.Where was Timmy when the earthquake ended? It was dark around him and he didn’t know where he was.

15. 1. Timmy was in the street when the earthquake started. 2. Timmy heard a loud noise of thunder at first. 3. People ran wildly everywhere. 4. Timmy was trapped in a dark place when the earthquake stopped. in a shopping center ____________________ _____________________________ felt a slight shaking through his body

16. 5. Timmy had nothing to eat when he was trapped under the bricks and stones. 6. People found Timmy during the day. 7. Timmy didn’t try to run out to the street. 8. Timmy didn’t survive the earthquake. a packet of chocolate ___________________ _________ tried his best ____________ survived

17. At first 1 Then 2 When the shaking ended 3 After he was trapped 4-5 finally 6

18. Can you find out Where he was What he did What he saw What he heard How did he feel

19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Choose the correct caption for each picture : I screamed for help. People ran out of the shopping center. Help came. Was it thunder? I was trapped.The wall came down.

20. 1 Was it thunder? 2 People ran out of the shopping center. 3 The wall came down. 4 I was trapped. 5 I screamed for help. 6 Help came. Put the pictures in the correct order:

21. Complete the story. Timmy is a teenager. He lives in T ________. He s _______ the earthquake in 1999. He first heard a big noise like t ______ in the shopping center.Then the noise became really loud. It sounded like b _____under the ground. After that, pieces of glass and b ______ fell down.Finally, the noise and s _______ ended, he was t _______and could not get out.He tried to shout for h ____.At last people m _____ away the bricks and stones and s ______ him. aiwan urvived hunder ombs ricks haking rapped elp oved aved

22. Summary: Today we learnt an article about an earthquake in Taiwan. If an earthquake happens now, what should we do?

23. 1. What can you do when you are in the earthquake ? 2. What will you do when the others are in danger ? Discussion:

24. Homework 1. Read the text again and retell it. 2. Learn the words and phrases by heart. 3. Some exercises.