1. Unit 5 The power of natrure
---Warming-up and pre-reading

2. Do you know any natural disasters ?
Please work with your partners and make a list of natural disasters .
Look at the following pictures and point out what kind of disasters they are.

3. earthquake

4. tsunami

5. tornado

6. drought

7. flood

8. typhoon/hurricane

9. landslide

10. mudflow

11. sandstorm

12. snowstorm

13. volcano

14. 地震 海啸 龙卷风 干旱 水灾 台风/飓风 山体滑坡 泥石流 沙尘暴 暴风雪 火山 雷电 雪崩 earthquake tsunami
tornado
drought
flood
typhoon/hurricane
landslide
mudflow
sandstorm
snowstorm
Volcano
Thunderstorm
snowslide

15. What do you know about volcano?

16. Have you ever seen a volcano?

17. 1. How is a volcano formed?
The rocks under the earth become hotter and hotter and erupt from the mountain. 17

18. Boiling rock erupts from the crater; the lava flows slowly down the mountain.

19. gas solid liquid vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen (氮), sulphur (硫磺)
bits of rock and volcanic ash, etc.
liquid
lava (熔岩)

20. 2. Where is most possible for a volcano to erupt?
Near the oceans.

21. 3. What types of volcanoes do you know?
An extinct volcano 死火山
An active volcano 活火山
A dormant volcano 休眠火山

22. 4. Who will climb into a live volcano to take the
temperature of the boiling rock inside?
volcanologists

23. 5. What kind of things might a volcanologist do?
Collect and evaluate
information about
volcanoes.

24. Working as a volcanologist
What might be talked about?
An Exciting Job
Working as a volcanologist

25. Skimming the text and try to find out main ideas of each part.
The writer’s experience
of watching the volcanic eruption
Part 1(Para 1-2)
Part 2(Para 3-4)
Part 3(Para 5)
The writer’s job and its importance
The reasons for the writer’s enthusiasm about his job.

26. Careful reading Part one (Para. 1- 2) 1. Where is Mount Kilauea?
2. The writer was appointed as a volcanologist
working for_____________________________
In Hawaii.
the Hawaii Volcano Observatory

27. Part two (Para. 3- 4) 3. Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea
less damage than you might imagine?
4. What did the scientists do after the eruption?
No one lives near the crater(the top of Mount Kilauea).
Dropped as closed as possible to the crater

28. What is the writer? Choose the best answer A He is a doctor
B He is a teacher
C He is a scientist
D He is a volcanologist

29. 2. What’s the job of the writer?
A Collecting information for database about Mount Kilauea
B Analyze the information
C Help the villagers to move their home
D Traveling around the world

30. 3. When did he first see an eruption?
A It was in the second week after I arrived in Hawaii
B It was in the second day after I arrived in Hawaii
C It was in the third night after I arrived in Hawaii
D It was in the first night after I arrived in Hawaii

31. 4. What does the writer mean by using “lucky” in the sentence “ I was lucky enough to have a much closer look at it. ” ?
A. He left much safer on the top while the other two scientists climbed down into the crater.
B. It was his first sight of an eruption.
C. It was the first time for him to watch the crater.
D. both B and C.

32. 5. What does the word “alive” mean in the sentence “
5. What does the word “alive” mean in the sentence “... danger excites me and makes me feel alive”?
Living or not dead.
B. Active or lively.
C. Continuing.
D. Healthy.