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课件网) Unit 4 Natural Disasters Listening and Speaking Reading and Thinking Language Competence Students can understand and utilize vocabulary, sentence patterns, and descriptive expressions related to natural disasters. Learning Ability Develop students' autonomous learning skills about natural disasters, enabling them to summarize reading strategies and knowledge points. Cultural Awareness Deepen students' awareness of the cultural and social impacts of natural disasters, fostering respect for diverse disaster - response cultures. Thinking Quality Students should be able to analyze the causes, consequences, and prevention of natural disaster. Learning Objectives Teaching Focus Master natural - disaster - related language expressions, practice reading - to - writing transformation skills, and explore the cultural and social implications of disasters through reading and discussion. Teaching Challenges Enable students to apply complex language structures accurately when describing disasters, integrate multiple thinking modes to analyze disaster - related issues. Teaching Focus and Teaching Challenges Part 1 Listening 1. What’s going on in this photo 2. What kinds of natural disasters can you think of In the photograph, a team of soldiers are rescuing somebody from a collapsed building following an earthquake. Some natural disasters are hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, erupting volcanoes, wildfires, and tornadoes. Look and discuss Watch the video Natural Disasters and look at the photos. Activity 1 Do you know what these disasters are. Write down their names. Activity 1 tornado tsunami earthquake wildfire flood Listen to the news reports and tick the disasters that you hear. Activity 2 ● earthquake ● tornado ● wildfire ● drought ● landslide ● tsunami ● flood ● volcanic eruption Circle the key word(s) in the questions below and write the kind of information they refer to. Activity 3 Questions 1. What was the magnitude of the earthquake in Ecuador 2. How many people were killed or injured in Ecuador 3. Where are the floods 4. What are the rescue workers and soldiers doing in the flood-hit area 5. When did people see the tornado in Memphis 6. Which buildings were damaged in Seoul 7. What caused the landslide in Seoul Then listen again and answer the questions. Activity 3 Question Type of Information Answer 1. What was the magnitude of the earthquake in Ecuador number 2. How many people were killed and injured in Ecuador number 3. Where are the floods place 4. What are the rescue workers and soldiers doing in the flood-hit area activities 5. When did people see the tornado in Memphis time 6. Which buildings were damaged in Seoul places 7. What caused landslide in Seoul reasons 7.8 About 230 people were killed and more than 1,500 were injured. In central China. They are working day and night to make sure that people are safe. at 9:25 a.m A library and a supermarket by heavy rai ... ...
