A unit Natural disasters (reading).ppt

What bad weather did we learn last time? typhoon rainstorm snowstorm thunder and lightning What natural disasters did we learn last time? drought flood earthquake volcano What ’ s your feeling when you see this picture? The Taiwan earthquake ? There was an earthquake in Taiwan. Timmy survived the earthquake . He wrote his story and put it on his home page. Let ’ s read his story quickly ,then answer some questions: was Timmy? was Timmy saved ? Matching the words with the meanings: stop being nervous or excited come down kept in a place and could not leave shout loudly down the loud noise following lightning ______; Could not see at all. // The noise___. Finall y _______ _____ Pieces _____ _________ ___ ________ ______ The____noise came like_____. Then // ________ ______ A _____noise like______ Some people ______. Then _______ _____ /// At first Timmy What happened People do Noise loud thunder screamed Looked at each other in fear. People were frighened . Felt a slight shaking. real bombs People ran in all directions. of glass and bricks fell down. Tried my best to run out to the street. ended Calmed down was Timmy when the earthquake started? did people look at each other in fear? 3. What did people do when the earth started to shake? did Timmy do when the earthquake started? happened to the buildings? was Timmy when the earthquake ended? Questions: 1. Where was Timmy when the earthquake started? Give the right answers: 2. Why did people look at each other in fear ? He was in the shopping centre. Because they heard a loud noise and they became very frightened. 3. What did people do when the earth started to sh ake ? People ran in all directions and some ran out of the shopping centre.