Welcome to the unit

To get a general idea about

natural disasters

To learn to talk about natural

disasters

Objectives

disaster

mop

up

earthquake

thousands of

accident

coach

n. 灾难；不幸，祸患vt. 用拖把擦干净adv. 完全地n. 地震成千上万的n. 事故，意外的事n. 长途汽车

Words review

crashflood

wash awayvillage

lightningstorm

thundercatch fire

vi. & vt. 猛撞 ; 碰撞n. 洪水，水灾冲走n. 村庄n. 闪电n. 风暴，暴 ( 风 ) 雨n. 雷；雷声着火

Words review

What’s the weather like today?

What’s happened to Hobo?

Let’s have a look.

Lead-in

Listen and answer the questions.

1. What’s the weather like?

2. What’s happened to Hobo?

3. What was Hobo doing when it started to rain?

4. When did Hobo hear the rain?

5. Why does Hobo want Eddie to go home with him?

It’s raining.

His house is all wet.

He was sleeping.

When he woke up, he heard.

He wants Eddie to mop up the water.

What words do we use to talk about natural disasters?

What words do we use to talk about accidents?

rainstorm, snowstorm, typhoon …

Natural disasters and accidents

car accident, plane crash, fire...

All these natural disasters are caused by natural force. They are different from accidents. Accidents are usually caused by people.

Can you tell the difference between natural disasters and accidents now? Here are some newspaper headlines. Please find out which ones are natural disasters.

1. School football team loses final

2. Earthquake kills thousands of people

3. Car accident kills three men

4. Coach crashes into tree

Natural disasters and accidents

5. Flood washes away village

6. Lightning starts big fire in

classroom building

7. Young boy falls from tree and

hurts legs

8. Big storm kills 20 people

Please distinguish ( 区别 )

the following natural

disasters

floods

forest fires

hurricanes

landslides

tsunamis

typhoons

volcanic eruptions

droughts

2008——China——snow havoc

2009——China——earthquake

2010——China——rainstorm

2013——China—— earthquake

Complete the following sentences.

1. 1998 年的特大洪水冲走了许多房屋和 大树。 The big flood in 1998 ______________ ________________________________2. 在唐山大地震中，成千上万人遇难。 The Tangshan Earthquake _________ ________________________________

washed a lot of houses and trees away.

killed thousands of people.

3. 昨天一个年轻人从 2 楼摔下来，竟然安然无 恙。 Yesterday a young man ________________, but he didn’t get hurt.4. 上个星期五两个小学生在教室里玩火， 将整幢大楼烧了起来。 Two pupils played with fire in their classroom last Friday and ______________ _________________.5. 在昨晚的事故中，一辆大客车撞到了树上。 A coach crashed into a tree _____________

last night.

fell from 2nd floor

started a big fire in the building

in the accident

Write an article around 70 w

ords on the topic of ‘natural d

isasters’. Collect enough infor

mation before you write.

1. To read the text on Pages 94-95.

Try to get the basic information of

the Taiwan earthquake

2. To read the new words of unit 8