The violence of Nature
module 3 the violence of nature
learning paper 2 intensive reading
learning aim: to know different kind of natural disasters
important and difficult points: the language points in the text.
learning methods: reading, geography book, group work , discussing, etc.
activity 1 read the passage on page 22 and answer these questions.
1. what can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?
2. how many tornadoes are there in the us every year?
3. how many people died in the worst tornado of all time?
4. what happens during a hurricane?
5. when was the worst hurricane of all time?
6. what happened to him after the hurricane?
activity 2 read the passage again and translate the following sentences.
1. tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street--- or even in the next town.
2. they can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.
(1) leave sb./sth.+(v.-ing/v.-ed/ adj./adv./介詞短語
表示“使……處于某種狀態”
(2) inside表示“在……里面“形容詞作后置定語 , 修飾furniture
(3) where it was 是地點狀語作leave的賓語補足語3. on average, there are 800 tornadoes in the us each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
causing about 80 deaths 為現在分詞短語作狀語表結果。分詞的邏輯主語與句子的主語保持一致。
e.g. it rained heavily, causing severe flooding in that country.
4. by the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2700 had been injured.
（1）by the time 意為______________引導時間狀語從句，主句謂語動詞用___________時態。
（2）過去完成時的被動語態由___________________ 構成，表明在過去某個時間或動作之前已經被完成的動作。
5. the worst hurricane disaster of all time occurred on the 8th september 1900 in galveston, texas.
6. the cemetery where coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and coghlan’s coffin ended up in the sea.
end up ______________
e.g. if you go on doing that kind of thing , you’ll end up in the prison.
activity 3 .短文改錯
a terrible storm took place in a summer night. the
___ ___ 1._________