外研版高中英语必修三M3The Violence of Nature导学案

Module 3 The Violence of Nature

Made by Jiao Yan, Number Three High School, Linqing

Tasks for you in this period:

1. Read and fully understand the text.

2. Learn how to use the new words and phrases.

3. Sentence structure: 非谓语动词（doing）做结果状语

4. Learn to describe a natural disaster.

ⅠReading comprehension （课前必做）

Step 1 Read the passage quickly and silently , then choose the best answers.

1 About tornadoes, which one of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground.

B. The most violent tornado has winds of more than 400 kilometres a minute.

C. Almost all the tornadoes occur in the US.

D. On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year.

2 Hurricanes

A. are strong tropical storms

B. usually occur in the southern Indian Ocean

C. are columns of air from thunderstorms

D. are strong winds only causing huge waves

3 Which is the RIGHT order about Charles Coghlan ?

①The terrible hurricane struck the city Galveston .

②He moved to Galveston ,and died there .

③He moved to New York .

④He went to live in Canada .

⑤His coffin was found in the sea near his home on Prince Edward Island .

A.①②③④⑤

B.④③②①⑤

C.⑤①②④③

D.④②③①⑤Step 2 Read the passage slowly and carefully again, then do activities 2、3on P22 ⅡLanguage points（课前必做）

Important phrases

1.卷起;掀起

2.放下

3.脱掉；去掉

4.平均说来

5.有史以来

6.到十九世纪九十年代末为止 __________

7.以…结束/告终

Important sentences

1.【原句】Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down

in the next street—or even in the next town .

According to the following sentences, guess the meaning of the phrases “pick up”

1)She kept picking up magazines and putting them down again.

2)Will you pick up all your toys?

3)The bus picks up passengers outside the airport.

4)We were able to pick up the BBC World Service.

5)She picked up Spanish when she was living in Mexico.

6)We managed to pick up a few bargains(便宜货) at the auction( 拍卖会).

7)After staying in hospital for long, the patient was advised to go to the

seaside to pick up his health.

总结pick up 的意思：________ _______ ________ _______ _______ _______ ________

Practice:

(2006年襄樊)When the cooking class changed to Tuesday, I had to drop out so that I could ____ my daughter from her piano lessons.

A. think up

B. make up

C. take up

D. pick up

put down Translate the phrases in the following sentences:

1)Put that knife down before you hurt somebody! ___________

2)The meeting is on the 22nd. Put it down in your diary. ____________

3)The military government is determined to put down all opposition.

________

4)We managed to put the price of the house down by 5%. ______________ 2.【原句】They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where

it was.

形容词inside 在句中做定语，修饰furniture, where it was 为地点状语做furniture 的宾补。

Leave+ n. /pron. +o.c.（doing / done /adj. /adv. /prep. Phrase /n. /where 引导的地点状语从句）

Translation:

1)昨晚上谁没关门？______________________________________

2)不要让她在外面的雨里等着。

______________________________________________________

3)你看完书后，最好放回原处。

________________________________________________________ Practice：To buy some salt, the careless housewife went downstairs, ______ the fish _____ over the gas.

A. left; cooked

B. leaving; being cooked

C. leaving; cooking

D. left; being cooked

3. 【原句】On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US every year, causing about 80 deaths and 1500 injuries.

The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925, affecting three US states.

（1）“causing”and “affecting” are used as adverbial of result (结果状语) Practice

1)His parents died, ______ him an orphan.