Unit 4 Natural disasters Reading for writing 课件-2023-2024学年高一上学期英语人教版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 4SNatural disasters Reading and Thinking Translation(3) Learning aims: 1)To translate the passage freely and fluently 2)To analyze long & complex sentences 3) To build up vocabularies and remember them Self-learning guidanceI (4’) 1.Read para1 and translate them by yourselves clearly and fluently. 2. Mark the phrases and long &complex sentences you didn't understand. 3.Get the main idea of para1 . 海啸袭击亚洲：6500余人丧生 By Robert Woodhouse Monday, 27 December 2004 罗伯特·伍德侯斯 2004年12月27日，星期一 1. 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. 2.Fishermen, tourists, hotels, homes, and cars were swept away by huge waves caused by the strong earthquake that reached a magnitude of 9.0. The undersea quake struck around 7:00 a.m., Sunday off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. In that area alone, at least 1,870 people were killed. 昨日，40年来最为强烈的地震引发了冲击亚洲沿海地带的海啸，造成印度尼西亚、印度、泰国、马来西亚和至少其他四个国家6500多人死亡。渔民、游客、酒店、住房和汽车都被高达9.0级的强震所引发的巨浪卷走。海啸巨浪由周日上午7点许发生在印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛西岸附近海域的海底地震引发。仅该地区就有至少1870人遇难。 When did the tsunami happen? It happened on 26December ,2004. Self-learning guidanceII (4’) 1.Read para2 and translate them by yourselves clearly and fluently. 2. Mark the phrases and long &complex sentences you didn't understand. 3.Get the main idea of para2 . 1.In Sri Lanka, some 1,600 kilometres west of the quake centre, the number of deaths stood at 2,498, and one million more were affected by the tsunami, government officials said. 2.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. 3. In southern Thailand, 1,900 people were hurt and many more were missing, local officials said. “I was having breakfast w