Learning paper 2 Intensive Reading
Learning aim: to know different kind of natural disasters
Important and difficult points: the language points in the text.
Learning methods: reading, geography book, group work , discussing, etc.
Activity 1 Read the passage on page 22 and answer these questions.
1. What can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?
2. How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?
3. How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?
4. What happens during a hurricane?
5. When was the worst hurricane of all time?
6. What happened to him after the hurricane?
Activity 2 Read the passage again and translate the following sentences.
1. Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street--- or even in the next town.
2. They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.
(1) Leave sb./sth.+(v.-ing/v.-ed/ adj./adv,高中数学./介词短语
表示“使……处于某种状态”
(2) Inside表示“在……里面“形容词作后置定语 , 修饰furniture
(3) Where it was 是地点状语作leave的宾语补足语3. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
causing about 80 deaths 为现在分词短语作状语表结果。分词的逻辑主语与句子的主语保持一致。
e.g. It rained heavily, causing severe flooding in that country.
4. By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2700 had been injured.
(1)by the time 意为______________引导时间状语从句，主句谓语动词用___________时态。
(2)过去完成时的被动语态由___________________ 构成，表明在过去某个时间或动作之前已经被完成的动作。
5. The worst hurricane disaster of all time occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas.
6. The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlan’s coffin ended up in the sea.
end up ______________
e.g. If you go on doing that kind of thing , you’ll end up in the prison.
Activity 3 .短文改错
A terrible storm took place in a summer night. The
___ ___ 1._________
wind was so strong that many trees brought down. It _____ 2.
was already eleven o’clock. Li Ming who had been to ____ 3.
night school, was still not back and her parents were ___ 4.
very anxious. Half an hour later the wind stopped, and it __ 5.
was still raining, Li Ming’s parents were about to looking _____ 6.
for him when he returned. Li Ming explained the storm has _____ 7.
pushed over many big trees as well telephone lines, blocking _____ 8.
the roads and that the bridge had been washed away by _____ 9.
the floods. So they had been to find another way back.
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