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课件网) Unit 4 Natural Disasters Reading for Writing Learning Objectives 1. To know more about the Tsunami and its effect. 2. To learn the format and the structure of a brief summary. 3. To learn how to write a news report. Watch and say What natural disaster happened in the video A tsunami is a series of waves caused by earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions. What is a tsunami 1. What’s the type of the text 2. What is the text about Prediction The Daily News By Robert Woodhouse Monday, 27 December 2004 The Daily News By Robert Woodhouse Monday, 27 December 2004 It is a news report. It might be about the big damage the tsunami caused. This passage is most likely to be taken from _____. a newspaper Task 1 Read the news report and find out the structure. Headline 标题 (tells what happened) Byline 署名 (shows the reporter and date) Lead 导语 (date, place, event and cause) Body 主体 (more details) Tail 结语 (effect/following events) Task 2 Read Para. 1 and finish the table. When (date) What (event) Where (place) Why (cause) Who (effect) How 26 December 2004 A tsunami Southeast Asia A powerful undersea earthquake More than 6,500 people were killed. Deadly and destructive The most powerful earthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed into coastlines across Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists, hotels, homes, and cars were swept away by huge waves caused by the strong carthquake that reached a magnitude of 9.0. The undersea quake struck around 7:00 a.m, Sunday off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island. In that area alone, at least 1,870 people were killed. Paragraph 1 过去40年来最强烈的地震引发的海啸昨天袭击了亚洲的海岸线，造成印度尼西亚、印度、泰国、马来西亚和至少四个其他国家的6500多人死亡。渔民、游客、酒店、住宅和汽车都被9.0级强烈地震引起的巨浪卷走了。这场海底地震发生在周日早上7点左右，印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛的西海岸。仅在那个地区，至少有1870人死亡。 Paragraph 2 In Sri Lanka, some 1,600 kilometres west of the quake centre, the number of deaths stood at 2,498, and one million more were affected by the tsunami, government officials said. Indian officials said as many as 1,900 had been killed along the southern coast. Another 254 were found dead in Thailand and 54 in three other countries. In southern Thailand, 1,900 people were hurt and many more were missing, local officials said. “I was having breakfast with my three children when water started filling my home. We had to leave everything and run to safety,” said Chandra Theravit, a local Thai woman. 政府官员说，在距离地震中心以西约1600公里的斯里兰卡，死亡人数为2498人，另有100万人受到海啸的影响。印度官员表示，南部海岸已有多达1900人丧生。另有254人在泰国被发现死亡，54人在其他三个国家被发现死亡。当地官员说，在泰国南部，1900人受伤，更多人失踪。“我正在和我的三个孩子吃早餐，这时家里开始进水。我们不得不放下一切，跑到安全 ... ...
