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Book 1 UNIT 4 NATURAL DISASTERS
向华蓉
To read the news report to find out five Ws and one H; identify main points of a news report.
To organize the structure of a summary.
To write a summary.
How to write a summary
What is a summary?
A summary is a short statement of main points.
A summary paragraph tells the main ideas and
the most important information of a longer passage.
What elements should be contained in a summary?
Five Ws and one H (who, what, where, when, why, and how)
What disaster is it?
A Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of waves caused by
earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions.
Look and predict
Timeliness
Concise
language
...
What’s the genre of the text?
What are the features of news report?
Read and find out the five Ws and one H of the reading material:
who what where when why how
Listen and read for Detailed Information
who what where when why how
Listen and read for Detailed Information
More than 6,500 people were killed
A powerful tsunami crashed
Along the coastlines across Asia
Sunday, 26 December
Caused by a powerful earthquake
Unexpectedly and terribly
A NEWS REPORT
04
02
Reporter
03
Time
01
Lead
Title
06
End
05
Body
Understand the structure of the news
The most powerful earthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed into coastlines across Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries.
Lead
01
02
03
04
Event:
Cause:
Place:
Efffect:
Main points of the news, usually including
the event, cause, time, place, and effect.
tsunami
earthquake
coastlines
across Asia
Analyse the content of the news
Indian officials said as many as 1,900 had been killed along the southern coast. Another 254 were found dead in Thailand and 54 in three other countries. In southern Thailand, 1,900 people were hurt and many more were missing, local officials said. “I was having breakfast with my three children when water started filling my home. We