thoseninokidsarecoming（p6）.pptVIP

Those Nino kids are coming ?? (P6) 北京一零一中学 戴群 * * Curriculum focus Language skills: skimming for the main idea; reading for details; summarizing Cross-curriculum: discovering the natural environment Pre-reading What’s the weather like today? Is it tough? What kind of weather can be called tough weather? What might be the cause of tough weather? 4. Have you ever heard of “El Nino”? Do you know what it means in Spanish? 5. Guess what “La Nina” means in Spanish. Read the passage for the first time and finish the following exercises. 1) What’s this passage mainly about? A. It is about disasters brought by two little children. B. It is about what El Nino and La Nina are. C. It is about El Nino, La Nina and their effects. D. It is about man-made global warming . While reading 2) What do the words with emphasizing dots under them refer to? her (Para. 1) these areas (Para. 3) They (Para. 4) which (Para. 5) them (Para. 7) La Nina the central and eastern equatorial Pacific La Ninas the huge flood along the Yangtze River in summer of 1998 both El Nino and La Nina 2. Read the passage again and decide whether these statements are true or false. Normal temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific are higher than at the start of 2006. La Nina came earlier than her brother El Nino. Unlike El Nino, La Nina typically brings with her dry weather. 4) The huge flood in China was caused by El Nino. 5) Man-made global warming possibly has something to do with El Nino and La Nina. 6) La Nina is friendly to China and will not attack China this year. Following the steps of her little brother, El Nino, La Nina soon will start to make trouble. following 在这里是一个分词做状语, 表示一种伴随状况. 现在分词作状语时，其动作就是句子主语的动作，它们之间是主动的关系；过去分词作状语时，其表示的动作是句子主语承受的动作，它们之间是被动的关系。分词作状语可以表示时间、原因、方式或伴随的状况。 Grammar focus e.g. Walking along the street one day, she saw a little girl running up to her. Heated, ice will change into water. Exercises: 1.__