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Module 3 The Violence of Nature 教案---Writing ■Goals To learn to write about natural events ■Procedures Step 1: Talking about the worst natural disasters since 2000 Gujarat, India, 2001: earthquake (20,000 dead) El Salvador, 2001: earthquake (850 dead) Afghanistan, 2002: earthquake (2,500 dead) Algeria, 2003: earthquake (2,266 dead) Asia, 2003: SARS (744 dead, mostly in China) Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003: Heat wave (1,300 dead) France, Spain and Italy, 2003: Heat wave (50,000 dead) Bam, Iran, 2003: earthquake (26,300 dead) Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 2004: earthquake (571 dead) Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2004: rains (2,400 dead) Philippines, 2004: typhoon (1,000 dead) China, 2004: floods (1,300 dead) Southeast Asia, 2004: tsunamis caused by 9.0 earthquake (111,000 dead in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 10,700 in India, 5,400 in Thailand, 68 in Malaysia, 82 in the Maldives, 300 in Myanmar and 150 in Somalia, including 1,500 Scandinavian tourists, and dozens of Germans, Italians, Dutch, etc) Zarand, Iran, 2005: earthquake (500 dead) Nias, Indonesia, 2005: 8.7 earthquake (1000 dead) Mumbai, India, 2005: monsoon (1,000 dead) China, 2005: floods (567 dead) Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, 2005: hurricane (1,069 dead) Niger, 2005: famine (10,000? dead) Kashmir, 2005: earthquake (80,500 dead, of which 79,000 in Pakistan and 1,350 in India) Central America, 2005: floods (1,400 dead, of which 1,200 in Guatemala) Step 2: Writing about violent natural events I Met Mr. Flood Yi Xie (Amy) from China I used to think people are very clever, but we cant do anything when natural disasters happen. We cant prevent them, control them, or stop them. The only thing we can do is clean up after the disasters. Its very sad. When I was in high school, I met Mr. Flood. It started raining and kept raining almost a month; the water on the streets got higher and higher every day. We used boats instead of cars. We lost lots of things, including our businesses, our jobs, and our hom