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Unit 5 Humans and nature
Professional Rescue Team
Learning Objectives
After this class, I will be able to:
1. tell as many natural disasters as you can;
2. learn the related work of rescue teams;
3. know how to be rescued/survive in outdoor and indoor natural disasters;
4. master some polite expressions of maintaining, interrupting and ending a conversation.
Warm-up
What natural disaster can you remember in the video?
When a natural disaster happens, who will save people’s lives and reduce the loss?
Professional Rescue Team
Lead-in
Match the photos (a-d)with the description(1-4)[ex. 1]
( ) 1. Search and rescue vehicles are brought into destroyed areas.
( ) 2. Trained dogs are used to help search for anyone who is still alive.
( ) 3. Rescue teams try to save people trapped under buildings.
( ) 4. Many houses are destroyed by the terrible flood.
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c
a
b
Blue Sky Rescue Team
Private rescuers in China
Blue Sky Rescue Team is China's largest non-governmental humanitarian organization, established in 2007.
The rescue team has set up 31 branches around China. More than 30,000 volunteers were registered nationwide, drawn from every walk of life.
The team's primary tasks are search-and-rescue, information screening, medical assistance and water supply, as well as epidemic prevention.
Hello, everyone! Today I would like to introduce the rescue team’s job. Rescue teams are the people who work in 1. __________ ___________. As we know, natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and landslides can cause death and 2. ___________________.
In the rescue attempts, rescue teams’ first and most important goal is to 3. ___________. They use 4. _______________________ and trained dogs to look for anyone who is still alive. It is a 5. _____________ process. For example, in one of the rescue attempts of the Nepal earthquake, over sixty members of China International Search and Rescue Team 6. _____________. They were there for twelve days, rescued two pe