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Module 3 The Violence of Nature Reading and vocabulary---教案 Step 1 LEAD-IN As you know, the condition of weather is changing badly. Please name the disasters of nature. The pictures, includes flood, drought, fire, landslide, earthquake, hurricane, typhoon, tornado, thunderstorm. Step 2 while-reading Questions-asking 1. Read this passage aloud and answer the following questions. How can tornadoes destroy houses? They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was. 2).?Where do tornadoes mainly occur? In the US, with area from Texas in the Southeast to South Dakota in the north 3) Do a thorough reading and fill in the blanks. A tornado is a _____ ______of air from a__________ to the ground. On (the) average, there are ______ tornadoes each year, ________ about 80______ and 1500_________. The worst occurred in____, _______ three US states and making 700___________ and 2700________. The key: rotating column thunderstorm 800 causing Deaths injuries 1925 affecting dead/ killed injured Activity2 What is a hurricane? 1. Give the definitions of Tornado and Hurricane. A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. A hurricane is a strong tropical storm. 2. Read and answer the questions1）What happens during a hurricane? Why? There are huge waves, heavy rains and floods. Because there are violent winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more 2) Where do they usually occur? In the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. 3) When and where did the worst hurricane happen? It occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas. So we call it the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Activity 3 An Extraordinary Event 1. Understand this sentence The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometers up the eastern US to Prince Edward Island. 2. Fill in the blanks according to the blanks. _______ the late 1890s, he _____ _____ to Galveston, _____ he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane ____. The