内容正文:
Unit 2
Natural disasters
Report 1: Pupil’s lives spared
during Falmont earthquake
Report 2:
Girls saves 100 from tsunami
Step 2 Pre-reading
Task 5:
Language points
1. We cannot prevent natural disasters, but is there anything we can do when they hit.
我们无法预防自然灾害,但当它们来袭时,我们能做些什么呢?
说出下列句子中 hit 的 词性 和 含义。
①Text messages are not popular any more when WeChat becomes a hit.
②It hit me all of a sudden that I had forgotten my sister's birthday.
③On May 12th, 2008, an earthquake hit Wenchuan County, leaving lots of people dead and injured.
④ Suddenly a football fell just in front of me and almost hit me.
n. 很受欢迎的人(或事物)
vt. 使......突然想起
vt. 打击,侵袭
vt. 撞击,碰撞
2 Pupils’lives spared during Falmont earthquake.
福尔蒙特发生地震,小学生成功_________。
spare v. 饶恕,幸免,使逃脱; 抽出,匀出;省得,免去;
v. 不吝惜(时间或金钱)
adj. 闲置的; 备用的;空闲的;
逃脱
Take some spare clothes in case you get wet.
He studies music in his spare time.
I'd love to have a break, but I can't spare the time.
He wanted to spare his mother any anxiety.
During the bombing only one house was spared.
He spared no effort to make her happy again.
备用的 adj
空闲的 adj
抽出 v.
免去 v.
幸免 v.
不遗余力做某事
标题
spare no effort to do sth…
spare one's life
不遗余力做某事
使某人幸免于难
FALMONT - On 17 March, 476 students and 36 teachers at Falmont Primary School escaped an earthquake that hit the county at 2:27 p.m.. Only 5 students suffered slight______(injure), ______the current figures of 7 killed and over 200 injured in the disaster area________.
injuries
despite
at large
福尔蒙特——3月17日下午2点27分,福尔蒙特小学的476名学生和36名教师逃脱了地震的袭击。尽管目前整个受灾地区已有7人死亡,200多人受伤,但(在这所学校)只有5名学生受了轻伤。
para.1
4 Alice Brown, head teacher at Falmont Primary School, was teaching _______the floor began to shake. Her students' ________(react) was quick and correct --- they moved under their desks , head first, and held on to the legs of the desks.
when
reaction
para.2
5 At the same time, Miss Brown quickly opened the classroom door, in case it became damaged during the shaking and could not open