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Module 4 Sandstorms in Asia 教学设计 CULTURAL CORNER ■Goals ●To read about earthquakes ■Procedures Step 1: Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. Step 2: While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 3: After you read Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. You may make sentences with these expressions. Useful expressions from Earthquakes Around the Pacific earthquakes around the Pacific, occur worldwide every day, more than a hundred thousand in a year, be situated in one of the most active earthquake regions, in the world, terrible earthquakes, the most serious of these, affect eight provinces, in Central China, cover an area of 800 square kilometers, 60 percent of the population, in all, lose one’s lives, the California Earthquake of the 18th of April 1906, take place at 5:15am, last for only a minute, cause the worst natural disaster, in the nation’s history, be caused by…, do the most damage, destroy a total of 25,000 buildings, be made homeless, cause about 3,000 deaths, one hundred years later, continue to cause problems for the whole of… Periods 12 Introduction and Reading—What Is a Tornado?… ■Goals To learn to read passages with the past perfect passive and indirect speech about tornadoes To learn to read with strategies ■Procedures Step 1: Warming up by reviewing 21st century disasters Hi, class. Nice to see you safe and sound. Today we take up Module 3 The Violence of Nature. Throughout history there have been sudden, terrible events that have shaken the world. Sometimes they are man-made, ranging from the infamous sinking of the Titanic to the deadly Chernobyl meltdown of 1986, while others are natural disasters, such as the catastrophic eruption of the island of Krakatau or the devastating Tokyo earth