Hurricane飓风PPT演讲.pptVIP

Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Aims To know the writing technique of a narrative. To be acquainted with some literary terms To learn to use words to describe disasters and violence To appreciate the language features To learn to write a story about disasters. Teaching Contents Pre-reading questions Background Text study The literary style and terms of narration Language points Comprehension Questions Text Analysis and Appreciation Exercises Tasks After Class Pre-reading questions 1. What types/styles of writing do you know? Explain them briefly. 2. What is narration? How is a piece of narration developed? What elements are basically necessary in a narrative writing? 3. What is Hurricane? What other related terms do you know? Background Hurricane: a tropical storm in which winds attain speeds greater than 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour. The term is often restricted to those storms occurring over the North Atlantic Ocean. Incipient hurricanes usually form over the tropical N Atlantic Ocean and mature as they drift westward. Hurricanes also occasionally form off the west coast of Mexico and move northeastward from that area. An average of 3. 5 tropical storms per year eventually mature into hurricanes along the east coast of North America, usually over the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico. Background Hurricanes are given girls names. The National Weather Service of the United States has used girls names to identify hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico since 1953 and the names were given in alphabetical order. A semi-permanent list of 10 sets of names in alphabetical order was established in 1971. This practice of giving girls names to hurricanes changed recently. In 1980 a hurricane was given a mans name and was called Hurricane David. Hurricane sea-son begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. The track of hurricane Camille Background Hurricane Camille: The storm lashed Mississippi and Louisiana for