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课件网) Welcome to the unit Unit 8 Safe and sound 学习目标 1 2 3 To master some new words and phrases. To learn about and distinguish emergencies and natural disasters. To talk about an emergency or a natural disaster you have heard about or experienced. To learn about newspaper headlines and try to suggest a headline for each emergency or natural disaster you talked about. 4 An emergency is a sudden, serious and dangerous event or situation. People need to act quickly to deal with it. A natural disaster is a sudden and powerful event in nature, such as an earthquake or a flood. 新课讲授 Presentation Emergencies and natural disasters storm 风暴 snowstorm 暴风雪 rainstorm 暴雨 flood thunder 雷 & lightning 闪电 big fire (引起大火) Emergencies and natural disasters Sandy is reading a newspaper. Decide which headlines are about emergencies (E) and which are about natural disasters(ND). Power cut leaves thousands without heating Lightning starts big fire in office building 1 2 Earthquake makes thousands of people homeless Coach comes off road and hits tree 3 4 E E E ND Three men hurt in car accident Flood washes away factory 5 6 Typhoon leaves whole town in terrible state House fire traps five and firemen save the family 7 8 E E ND ND Practice Language points emergency 名词,意为“紧急情况”,其复数形式是emergencies。还可以作形容词，意为“紧急的;应急的”。常用短语如下： an emergency landing 紧急着陆 emergency exit 紧急出口 the emergency room 急救室 an emergency kit 急救包 1. Decide which headlines are about emergencies… 决定哪些头条是关于紧急情况的…… e.g. We may meet all kinds of emergencies in our daily life. 日常生活中我们可能遇到各种紧急情况。 The plane made an emergency landing. 飞机进行了紧急着陆。 Please come out from the emergency exit. 请从应急出口出去。 The patient is in the emergency room. 病人在急诊室。 Do you have an emergency kit at home 你家里有急救包吗？ 2.An emergency is a sudden, serious and dangerous event or situation. 紧急情况是指突然、严重和危险的事件或情况。 situation 名词,意为“情况”,还可表示“处境”,有时可表示物体的“位置/ 地点”。 in a/an... situation 处于……情况/境地 deal with a/an... situation 处理……情况 e.g. His situation is serious. We must send him to hospital. 他的情况很严重。我们必须送他去医院。 She found herself in a difficult situation. 她发现自己处境艰难。 The hotel is in a beautiful situation by the lake. 酒店位于湖边一处优美的位置。 We must deal with the situation at once.我们必须立即处理这种情况。 3. Earthquake makes thousands of people homeless homeless 是形容词，意为“无家可归的”，在句中通常作定语修饰名词。 the homeless 指无家可归的一类人，相当于homeless people。 homeless 是由名词home 加后缀-less 构成的，后缀-less 意为“没有的”，常加在名词后面构成形容词。如： use (用处) → useless (无用的) hope (希望) → hopeless (没有希望的) care (当心) → careless (粗心的；马虎的) e.g. The homeless people need our help. 无家可归的人需要我们的帮助。 We need to buil ... ...
