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课件网) disaster flood lightning experience cause furniture bury feather violent tornado flood hurricane lightning thunderstorm sandstorm Natural Disasters earthquake flood hurricane thunderstorm sandstorm tornado Lightning …… Find the words and expressions in the passages and match them with the definitions. 1.you can see this on an animal_____ 2.describing the hottest parts of the earth ,north and south of the equator _____ 3.a terrible event _____ 4.you can see these on a bird _____ 5.to place in the ground or tomb_____ 6.to happen _____ fur tropical disaster feathers bury bury disaster feathers fur occur tropical occur Read the three paragraphs quickly and find out the topic sentence of each part: 1. A Tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. 2. Hurricanes are strong tropical storms, and they usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. 3. This is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane. Part One Tornado Read the passage and answer the following questions . 1. What is a tornado What bad results can tornadoes cause 2. Please describe the worst tornado of all time . Time : Place : Bad results : Tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. 龙卷风是指一个从空中的雷暴延伸到地面而生成的旋转气柱。Column of air 由空气组成的柱状物 In 1925 In the US Affecting 3 US states ; 700 people , killed ; 2,700 , injured Read the passage and answer the following questions . I. What is a hurricane 2. What happens during a hurricane Why Part Two Hurricane 1. A hurricane is a strong tropical storm. 2. There are huge waves, heavy rains and floods. Because there are violent winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more. a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground Strong tropical storms In the US in the southern Atlantic Ocean , the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexio More than 400kms/h 120kms/h or more pick up ; put down ; take off ; destroy ; leave huge waves , heavy rain and floods In 1925, in the US , affecting 700 people ; killed , 2,700 ; injured September 8th , 1900 . Killed 6,000 people ; destroyed 3,600 building Tornado Hurricane Definition Place Wind speed Bad results The worst example Part Three :An Extraordinary Event Questions (1)Where did Charles Coghlan die (2)What happened to him after the hurricane Answers (1) Galveston (2) His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream Fill in the blanks Charles Coghlan was a nineteen century Irish__1___ who went to live in Canada. By the late 1890s,he had moved to Galveston,___2__ He died in 1889, a year before the hurricane ___3_____.The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was _____4____by the hurricane and Coghlan’s _____5___ended up in the sea. Eight years later, the coffin was founded by ____6_____in the sea near his home on Prince Edward in the east of Canada. Coghlan ____7____back to Canada –after he ... ...
