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Unit5 The power of nature 预习学案 Learning aims 1．Knowledge aims: 1）To help students learn to read a text about nature power get grasp the main idea. 2）To master some important words and phares 2．Ability aims: Develop the students reading ability and let them learn to use some reading strategies such as skimming ,scanning ,and so on. 3．Emotional aims: 1）Stimulate the students’ love for nature by getting them to know Volcano 2）Let students realize the importance of protecting nature. StepⅠ Background information Kilauea is unique among the world’s volcanoes in that it’s not only one of the most active volcanoes in the world, but it puts out, probably, the highest volume per year of lava of any volcano on the planet. On average, over a thousand gallons of lava come streaming, gushing or oozing out of Kilauea every second, of every day of the year. Kilauea rises just over 4 thousand feet above sea level that’s taller than four Eiffel towers stacked on top of each other but, there’s a lot more depth to Kilauea than meets the eye. The impressive thing about Kilauea is what we don’t see of it, and there’s about another 18,000 feet of this volcano that goes down below sea level to the ocean floor. So it’s really among one of the largest volcanoes in the world as well. Kilauea volcano is also one of the most powerful. With temperatures hot enough to melt rock at over 1,500 degrees, Kilauea has the power to do some pretty serious damage. It’s very very destructive to things that already exist on the island of Hawaii, such as trees, wildlife, buildings, anything in the path of this lava will be completely destroyed. Partly because it gets run over by the lava, but most importantly because it’s so hot that it sets everything in its path on fire. But amazingly, out of Kilauea’s destruction comes creation. What looks like a process of destruction to us as human beings is really the process of island building and growth. And while the rich volcanic soil generates new plant life