Frightening nature（The Fourth Period）

    because he wanted to know more about it. on his way, he wrote all he observed. it was dangerous, but my uncle was not afraid. he decided to rescue his friend pompy. when he saw his friend, he tried to calm him and he even took a bath, had dinner and slept. he tried to make the scared people calm down too. finally, they realized that it was too dangerous to stay there and decided to go outside. but it was too late. my uncle immediately fell down, dead. two days later, his body was found. his expression suggested that he was not afraid at all even at the last time.
step ii reading
t: (teacher shows the screen.) now we'll learn a new passage about typhoon. open your books at page 79. read the passage fast and answer the questions on the screen. write your answers on a piece of paper and i'll collect the first five pieces.
  answer the following questions:
  1. where did the ship meet bad weather?
  2. what should they do in such terrible weather?
(students read the text. then teacher collects the first five pieces of answers,
 has a look at them and gives them back to the students. )
t: who will give us the answers?
sa: i'ii answer the first question. when the ship nanshan was on her way from south to fuzhou, with chinese workers returning to their home village, it met bad weather.
sb: the second question: in such terrible weather, they could only move the ship over the high sea and into the very eye of the wind.
t: (teacher shows the screen.) very good. now read the text again and have a discussion with your partner about the questions on the screen. a few minutes later, we'll check the answers.
find the answers to the following questions:
1. how was the weather in the morning?
2. why did the captain say that it looked as if a typhoon was coming on?
3. where were they when the full force of the hurricane struck the ship?
4. what does the sentence “another one like this, and that's the last of her.”
      mean?
5. why did the captain strike a match?
    what did he see?

suggested answers :
1. in the morning, the weather was fine, for there was no wind.
2. because he observed the barometer fell steadily and he knew that a terrible
   storm would come soon.
3. when the hurricane struck the ship with full force, they were all on the bridge. it was a higher position on the ship.
4. it means that if another white tower of foam(a very big wave)struck the ship,
   it would sink.
5. because the captain wanted to see the barometre, but there was no light. he