英语视听说 Unit 3 New Orleans Is Sinking.ppt

Background Notes New Orleans Hurricane Katrina 1. New Orleans----the Big Easy New Orleans, located in Southeastern Louisiana along the Mississippi River, is a major port city and historically the city in Louisiana. New Orleans 1. New Orleans----the Big Easy The city is one of North America’s most distinctive and culturally diverse cities and has been a leading commercial center since its founding. It is also a major international tourist center. Cities of the dead----the above-ground tombs in New Orleans Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States. Word Bank For 300 years, the sea has been closing in on New Orleans. 50,000 houses are going to be bulldozed. Right here we are about 60 feet off the ground, and it is from this altitude that you can really see what’s happened to the city of New Orleans. The houses are splintered block after block after block, almost as if the city had been carpet-bombed in war. The possessions of thousands of families, the stuff collected over lifetimes is suddenly garbage, clawed up into mountains in city parks. Word Bank Should New Orleans pick up right where it was? (stand up slowly after falling) Katrina threw coastal erosion into fast forward. (sped up) That’s the projection. (an estimate of a future amount.) That sinking could only be slowed in theory by essentially rolling back the clock. If the house is at the 100-year flood elevation, then they could rebuild. Word Bank There’s evidence some of the levee wall may have failed from bad design or lousy workmanship. By next summer, the levees will withstand a Category 3 storm. The database is linked to aerial images of every single address. Structure of the video Introduction Hurricane Damage in New Orleans Tim Kusky’s advice Some New Orleanians’ hop