Module 3  The violence of Nature

Learning paper 2   Intensive Reading

Learning aim: to know different kind of natural disasters

Important and difficult points: the language points in the text.

Learning methods: reading, geography book, group work , discussing, etc.

Activity 1  Read the passage on page 22 and answer these questions.

1. What can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?

2. How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?

3. How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?

4. What happens during a hurricane?

5. When was the worst hurricane of all time?

6. What happened to him after the hurricane?

Activity 2  Read the passage again and translate the following sentences.

1. Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street--- or even in the next town.

2.  They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.

(1) Leave sb./sth.+(v.-ing/v.-ed/ adj./adv./介词短语

表示“使……处于某种状态”

(2) Inside表示“在……里面“形容词作后置定语 ,   修饰furniture

(3) Where it was 是地点状语作leave的宾语补足语3. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year,    causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.

causing about 80 deaths 为现在分词短语作状语表结果。分词的逻辑主语与句子的主语保持一致。

e.g. It rained heavily, causing severe flooding in that country.

4. By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2700 had been injured.