高级英语第二版第一册lesson1.ppt

Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Lesson One Teaching Aims To know the writing techniques of a narrative To be acquainted with some literary terms of narration To learn to use words to describe disasters and violence To appreciate the language features To learn to write a story about disasters Teaching Contents and Steps I. Additional Background Knowledge II. Introduction to the Passage III. Effective Writing Skills IV. Rhetorical devices V. Special Difficulties VI. Discussion and exercises I. Additional Background Knowledge 1.??Hurricane; 2. typhoon; 3. cyclone(旋风 ) I. Additional Background Knowledge Hurricane: a tropical storm in which winds attain (v.达到 ) speeds greater than 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour. The term is often restricted to those storms occurring over the North Atlantic Ocean. Incipient (初期的) hurricanes usually form over the tropical N Atlantic Ocean and mature as they drift westward. I. Additional Background Knowledge Hurricanes also occasionally form off the west coast of Mexico and move northeastward from that area. An average of 3.5 tropical storms per year eventually mature into hurricanes along the east coast of North America, usually over the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of mexico. Hurricanes are given girls’ names. I. Additional Background Knowledge Typhoon: similar storms occurring over the West Pacific Ocean and China Seas are called typhoons which are given serial numbers. I. Additional Background Knowledge whirlwind (龙卷风) a general term/ circular wind Tornado(暴风；大雷雨 ) visible as a tube-shaped cloud of dust which moves in a relatively narrow path can be devastating in its destructiveness. cyclone -- a vortex, usually hundreds of miles in diameter Image: tornado image: tornado image: Cyclone Image: Cyclone Image: hurricane Camille naming system the Beaufort scale The Beaufort Scale defines a storm as a wind having velocity（速度） of between 64 and 75 miles an hour. the Beaufort scale，蒲福风力等级 (英国海军将领Francis Beaufort[1774-1857]拟订,分0-1