Unit 6 Disaster and Hope Understanding ideas课件-2022-2023学年外研版（2019）高中英语必修第三册

Unit 6 Hot! Hot! Hot! From this video, what can you know? We can see the terrible result of volcano’s eruption----no life. What do you know about other disasters? earthquake flood drought typhoon avalanche blizzard wildfire Complete the reports with natural disasters.  In1881, a(n) struck the small Vietnamese city of Haiphong, bringing terrible strong winds. When it hit the coast, huge tidal wavescaused severe flood, costing the lives of up to 300,000citizens. In August 1949, the Landes region of Southwest France faced a major that last almost a week. Some 500 km2 of forested land was burnt and 82 people killed. Even today, it is considered one of Europe’s most deadly forest fires. The winter of 1950 to1951 came to be known as the Winter of Terror when over 600  struck towns and villages in the mountains of the Swiss-Austrian Alps. Caused by exceptionally heavy snowfall within a short period of time, they destroyed destroy buildings and forests, and claimed over 256 lives.  wildfire avalanche typhoon In 1960, Chile suffered the strongest to be recorded in the 20th century. The shock is generally agreed to have had a magnitude of 9.5. it caused a(n) with waves of up to 25 meters affecting places as far away as Hawaii and Japan. A(n) hit Iran in February 1972, causing a week of extremely low temperatures. Winter storms brought as much as 7.9 metres of snow in the south of the country, resulting in the deaths of about 4000 people. In July 2011, a(n) struck East Africa. It was said to be the worst in 60 years, not a single drop of rain fell for almost a whole year. It led to a severe food crisis and threatened the livelihoods of more than 9.5 million people. earthquake drought blizzard flood What can you infer from the two pictures? Global warming Match the main idea of the paragraphs. Para. 1　 A. The author’s feeling