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(1)GRADE
Unit 9: Natural disasters Lesson 4: Reading
Time : 45 minutes
(2)AIMS
• By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to :
1 get information about Natural Disasters.
2 develop the skill of guessing the words and ideas from the context.
(3)Outline
1 Warm up : - Watching video - Matching games
2 Pre-reading : - Pre-teach vocabulary - Grammar structure - Prediction
3 While-reading : - Checking prediction - Questions – Answers - Sentence completion
4.Post-reading : - Discussion - Writing
(4)Matching pictures with kinds of disasters
1 earthquakes
tidal waves typhoons volcanoes tornadoes a
b
c
d
(5)Activity : Match words in column A with their synonyms in column B
1.strike/ struck/ struck (v) a- sudden
2.collapse (v) b- (to) hit
3.abrupt (adj) c- (to) pour out
4.hurricane (n) d- funnel-figured
5.erupt (v)-eruption (n) e- (to) fall down
6.funnel-shaped (adj) f- (to) take up
7.suck up (v) g- cyclone
(6)Activity 2: Grammar structures
• Tenses: - simple present - simple past
• Passive voice: - past simple
- present simple
• Relative clauses with relative pronouns:
(7)Activity 3:Cross in the appropriate box that you guess ( Yes: + No: - )
Natural
disastes With Features Effects water With fires strong With
winds
With
thunders Human Animals Houses Trees
Earthquakes - - -Tidal waves +
(8)Reading
Earthquakes: Ninety percent of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim, which is known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ In 1995, a huge earthquake struck the city of Kobe in Japan A large number of people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed.
Tidal waves: Tidal waves are the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth In the 1960s, a huge tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California!
Typhoons: When a tropical storm reaches 120 kilometers per hour, it is called a hurricane in North and South America, a
(9)Volcanoes: We can usually predict when a volcano will erupt Mount Pinatubo, which is a volcano in the
Philippines, erupted in 1991 It was the world’s largest volcanic eruption in more than 50 years Hundreds of people died, but thousands were saved because
scientists had warned them about the eruption
(10)Task 1: Read the passage and check whether your prediction is right or wrong
Natural
disasters Features Effects
With
water With fires strong With winds
With
thunders Human Animals Houses Trees
Earthquakes - - - - + + + +
Tidal waves + - + - + - -
-Typhoons + - + + + + + +
Volcanoes - + - - + + + +
(11)Task :Read the passage then answer the question
Earthquakes: Ninety percent of earthquakes occur
around the Pacific Rim, which is known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ In 1995, a huge earthquake struck the city of Kobe in Japan A large number of
people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed.
(12)Tidal waves: Tidal waves are the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth In the 1960s, a huge tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California!
(13)Typhoons: When a tropical storm reaches 120 kilometers per hour, it is called a hurricane in
North and South America, a cyclone in Australia, and a typhoon in Asia The word ‘typhoon‘
comes from Chinese: tai means ‘big‘ and feng
(14)Volcanoes: We can usually predict when a volcano will erupt Mount Pinatubo, which is a volcano in the Philippines, erupted in 1991 It
was the world’s largest volcanic eruption in more than 50 years Hundreds of people died, but
thousands were saved because scientists had warned them about the eruption.
(15)Tornadoes: Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms which pass overland below a
thunderstorm They can suck up anything that is in their path In Italy in1981, a tornado lifted a
(16)Task 3: Complete the sentences
1.The majority of earthquakes……
2. During the earthquake in Kobe, many….
3. A tidal wave can only occur when……
4. In Australia, a tropical storm is known as……
5. The Chinese language gave us…….
(17)Task 1: Discussion
Work in groups of five: discuss one of five disasters, then report it in front of the class.
(18)Homework
Writing
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