新视野大学英语第二版第三册U6Lead-in.pptVIP

U6 Section A How to Prepare for Earthquakes Contents 1.Warming-up I.Background imformation II.Cultural notes III.Pre-reading activities IV. Watch and discuss V. Assignment I. Background informationi. about natural disasters hurricane 飓风 tornado 龙卷风 tsunami 海啸 flood 洪水 drought 干旱 ii. Natural disasters happened in China Flood of 1998 Snow disaster in 2008 a delayed train snow-covered cars II. Cultural notes Measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale, the earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995 in the southern part of Hyogo Prefecture and lasted for approximately 20 seconds. The epicenter of the earthquake II. Cultural notes people, mainly in Kobe, lost their lives. Additionally, it caused approximately ten trillion yen ($200 billion USD) in damage. It was the worst earthquake in Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, which claimed 140,000 lives. III. Pre-reading activities First listening Listen to a passage about what happened before an earthquake. Second listening Listen to it again and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. IV. Watch and discuss V. Assignment Write an article about the topic “ How to Survive an Earthquake” with no less than 120 words in your exercise book. 2. Global Reading text structure main ideas 3. Detailed reading I. Words listening II. Understanding of the text II. Understanding of the text Pragragh 1 How do people predict an earthquake? Changs seismograph words and expressionsdetect vt. notice or discover sth. that is difficult to see, feel, etc. 发现；查出 detect sb. in (doing) sth. 发觉 He was detected in the act of cheating. detectable a. detective n./a. detection n. large schools of fish 大群大群的鱼 pragragh 2 What kind of building structure might prevent the great destruction of property? withstand vt. be strong enough not to be harmed by sth. such as gre