【ppt课件】高级英语第一册face_to_face_with_hurricane2教案-讲义

Paragraph 1
There are two cities of Gulfport in the U.S. The one mentioned in the text is in Mississippi, which is often visited by hurricane. The other is in Florida.
The detailed study of the text
• Introductory paragraphs 1 - 6 • --- time • --- place • --- background • --- conflict: man VS hurricanes/nature • --- character: John Koshak
One of the many homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were lost during Hurricane Camille
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The destruction of Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29, 2005) - Flooded roadways can be seen as the Coast Guard conducts initial Hurricane damage assessment overflights here during late August 2005.
More examples of blending
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【ppt课件】高级英语第一册 face_to_face_with_hurricane2教案
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Gulfport – This
sailboat washed
ashore in front of
the First Baptist
Church
Gulfport Gulfport's new $160,000 Recreation Center, it had been open less than a month
George Stewart, 57, a New Orleans evacuee, arrived at the Wesley Methodist Center Wednesday, after walking a two-day, 85-mile journey from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
Q. for Para.2 and 3: Why did John Koshak decide to stay and face the dangers of a
devastating hurricane?
• 1. He is a self-employed businessman Magna product -- the name of his company implication: How great the loss it would be if the house was destroyed.
• 2. His present house was in a better condition than his former house.
Demolish: to destroy completely demolish, destroy, raze, annihilate
Destroy is a general word with few overtones beyond its emphasis on force and thoroughness. Demolish and raze are generally applied to big or substantial things, such as buildings or other edifices. A building is demolished if smashed to pieces and razed if leveled to the ground. Demolish, unlike raze, is often used figuratively of the reduction of any complex whole to ruins. Raze is used almost invariably of buildings or their remains. Annihilate is the most extreme word in this list , and literally means to reduce to nothingness. As more commonly used, however ， it denotes a severe degree of damage to a thing or person. An army may annihilate an enemy force by so damaging it as to render it incapable of further offensive or defensive action, but without literally removing all traces of its existence. A debater may be said to annihilate his opponent if he defeats him decisively.