1. Unit 6 Natural Disasters Reading: An earthquake survivor ’ s home page.

2. Judge the natural disasters: snowstorm floodsandstormtyphoonthunder and lightning fire earthquake

3. Translate the following phrases:  1 。输掉一场比赛  2 。数以千计的人  3 。撞上一棵树  4 。把村庄冲走  5 。从树上掉下来  6 。引发一场大火 lose a game thousands of people crash into a tree wash the village away fall from a tree start a big fire

4. Background information : 1999 年 9 月 21 日凌晨 1 点 47 分, 在台湾台北市西南方 150 公里处南 投县的集集镇, 震级为里氏 7.6 级, 当时 大多数人都在睡梦中. 据报道在台北市 人口密集地区有人员伤亡 ` 建筑 物倒塌和 其他损坏现象. 在此次地震中有 1700 多人 死亡,8700 多人受伤,12000 座建筑物遭受 破坏,100000 人无家可归. 据报道 这是台北上个世纪最严重的 一次地震.

5. The Taiwan earthquake  There was an earthquake in Taiwan. Timmy survived the earthquake. He wrote his story and put it on his home page.

6. Listen to the story and try to answer the following questions:  1. Where was Timmy when the earthquake started?  2. why do people look at each other in fear?  3. Why did the children scream?  4. people ran in all________, they did not know where___ ____. Some people ____ ____ ____ the shopping center. He was in a shopping center. Because they heard a big noise like thunder. Because they were frightened. directions to go ran out of

7. Ask and answer in pairs: Para 1 1.Where was Timmy? 2.What happened in the shopping center? Para 2 1. What happened to the buildings? 2. How did people react （做出反应） ? 3. What did Timmy do ? Para 3 1. Where was Timmy when the shaking stopped? 2. How did Timmy feel? Para 4 1.What did Timmy do while he was waiting for help? Para 5 1. How was he rescued ( 获救 )?

8. True or false questions: 1. Timmy was in a restaurant when the earthquake started. 2. Timmy heard a loud noise of thunder at first. 3. Animals ran wildly everywhere. 4. Timmy was trapped in a dark place when the earthquake stopped. 5. Timmy had nothing to eat when he was trapped under the bricks and stones. 6. People found Timmy at night. F T F T F F

9. Could you find the words in the story which can take the place of the following meanings? 1. keep in a place and can not move 2. shout loudly 3. stop being nervous or excited 4. very short time 5. the loud noise following lightning 6. fall be trapped scream calm down moment thunder come down

10. There are a lot of words in the text which describe noise, movement, fear and hope calm down, frightened, ran wildly, dark, slight shaking, screamed, thunder, safe, walls began to come down, real noise, still alive, earth started to shake, bombs bright daylight, could not see at all, shouted, a moment of fear, real noise pieces of glass and bricks fell down

11. Suppose you are Timmy and your partner is a reporter, now he is interviewing you about the following questions. 1.Where were you when the earthquake started? 2.What kind of noise did you hear? 3.Why did some children scream? 4.What did people do after they heard the noise? 5.Did you know where you were when the noise and Shaking ended? Why? 6. How did you feel when you knew you were trapped? 7. Why did you stop shouting for help after you found no one came for a very long time? 8. When did you begin to shout again? 9. What did people do when they heard your scream? 10. What do you want to say to those who have saved you?

12. After the interview, the reporter have to write a report about it, help him complete his report. Open your book to Page 96 Sandy wrote a diary about Timmy’s story. Could you help her to complete her story? Open your books at Page 96. Part B2

13. Find the following phrases from the text: 1. 惊恐地 2. 向四处奔跑 3. 该去哪 4. 开始倒塌 5. 冷静下来 6. 根本看不见 7. 处于困境中 8. 一阵恐惧 9. 匆忙地 10. 移走，拿开 in fear run in all directions where to go begin to come down calm down can not see at all be trapped a moment of fear in a great hurry move away