高中英语第二册上Unit10 Frightening nature-Warming up03 and reading ppt.pptVIP

* * * * * * Unit 10 Frightening nature Warming up Reading Step 1 Warming up What’s the weather like today? Do you often care about the weather? How do you hear about it? Have you ever heard of typhoon? What words can you think of to describe the typhoon weather? heavy wind (blow hard) storm roaring thunder Also roaring forties: part of the Atlantic Ocean, often very stormy, between latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees south. 6. What will you feel in such kind of weather? 7. What about the hurricane? Have you ever heard about it? 8. What about volcano? 9. Look at the picture. Find out as much as you can to describe it. frightened, scared, terrible, happy (why?) eruption lava 10. How is a volcano formed? 11. Where is the most possible place that a volcano may erupt? Near the oceans The rocks under the earth becomes hotter and hotter and erupted from the mountain. 12. Do you know how a volcano works, if you do, describe it? gas liquid solid lava vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulphur, etc. bits of rock and volcanic ash, etc. Step 2 Pre reading the town of Pompeii (relics) two thousand years ago 18 hours Step 3 While reading Task 1 Scan the text and answer the following questions. What is described in the following passage? When and where did it happen? Who is the writer of the letter? The eruption of the volcano called Mount Vesuvius. On the 24th of August in 79 AD in southern Italy. Pliny, the younger. Task 2 Decide whether the following sentences are true or false. A volcano erupted on the 24th of August in 79 BC in southern Italy. My uncle planned to save his friend’s wife Rectina. My uncle went to rescue Pompy after saving Rectina. The flames came from the homes of farmers who had left in a panic with the kitchen fires still on. They decided to try the open air instead of staying in the house. It was night when the volcano erupted. F F T F T F Task 3 Divide the text into several parts and tell the main ide