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Unit 6 Disaster and hope
课前背诵检测
1.既然你有机会,就该充分利用。
Now that you’ve got a chance, you might as well make full use of it.
2.我正要进餐厅时,突然想到我没有锁车。
I was about to go into the restaurant when it occurred to me that I had not locked the car.
3.真遗憾,汤姆不能来参加这次聚会了。
It is a shame that Tom can’t make it to the party.
4.浏览一下杂志,看看有没有你能贴到海报上的图片。
Look through magazines to find pictures that you can stick on your poster.
5.和我们的小公寓相比,比尔的房子就像是宫殿。
Compared with/to our small flat,Bill’s house seemed like a palace.
Unit 6 Disaster and hope
Understanding ideas
Learning Aims:
1. Be able to read charts and talk about how you feel about extremely mild and cold weather;
2. Predict the content of the text by looking at illustrations and titles, summarize the main ideas and the writing purpose;
3. Think about global climate change and talk about the measures to deal with it, as well as raise the awareness of environmental protection.
Activity 1:
What happens when the temperature goes very high or very low? How do people deal with extreme temperature?
What were the highest and lowest temperatures recorded where you live? How do you feel in extreme temperatures?
Yantai: the highest temperature:38℃
the lowest temperature:-13.1℃
Step 1
Activity 1 Look at the thermometer and answer the questions.
/θəˈmɒmɪtə(r)/
体温计,温度计
what the passage is about?
The author's feelings and concerns on the London tube on an unusually hot day
Step 1
Activity 2: Look at the picture and predict.
1. To explain why summers in London are getting hotter and hotter.
2. To complain about the London Tube.
3. To warn people about the danger of London being flooded.
4. To express his worries about the dangers of extreme weather conditions.
Step 2
Activity 3: Read the passage and choose the author’s purposes in writing the passage.
Activity 4: Complete the flow chart with words and expressions from the passage.
The keys to activity 4
30 plus degrees / over 30 degrees
melting and becoming one
a bit scar