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人教版·九年级下册
英语
Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A 3a-3c
情景导入
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“9·11事件”又称“911恐怖袭击事件”、“美国911事件”等,指的是美国东部时间2001年9月11日上午(北京时间9月11日晚上)恐怖分子劫持的4架民航客机撞击美国纽约世界贸易中心World Trade Center和华盛顿五角大楼The Pentagon的历史事件。包括美国纽约地标性建筑世界贸易中心双塔在内的6座建筑被完全摧毁,其它23座高层建筑遭到破坏,美国国防部总部所在地五角大楼也遭到袭击。“911”事件是发生在美国本土的最为严重的恐怖攻击行动,遇难者总数高达2996人。
September 11 attacks were made by human beings.
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汶川地震
How about these pictures?
earthquake地震
flood洪水
typhoon台风
snowstorm暴风雪
sandstorm沙尘暴
tsunami海啸
Life is full of the unexpected.
What do you know about these unexpected events?
How did they make you feel?
What should we do in the face of the unexpected?
生成新知
3a
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. Which two events does the writer mention?
2. How did the writer end up missing both events?
In May 2001, I found a job in New York at the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, I arrived at my building at around 8:30 a.m. I was about to go up when I decided to get a
Life Is Full of the Unexpected
coffee first. I went to my favorite coffee place even though it was two blocks east from my office.
n.街区
As I was waiting in line with other office workers, I heard a loud sound. Before I could join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke rising above the burning building. I felt lucky to be alive.
(与……)成一排
n.工作者;工人
v.盯着看;凝视
n.不信;怀疑
prep.在……上面
adv.在上面
adj.着火的;燃烧的
adj. 活着;有生气的
Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21, 2011 and realized that my alarm had never gone off. I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken off.
n.机场
“This is the first holiday I’ve taken in a year, and now I’ve missed my plane. What bad luck!” I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to
prep.&conj. 到; 直到
wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquak