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Xiao Shu, from NO.2 middle school, Lianyuan

Flood

Drought

Earthquake

earthquake

Fire

Tornado

Hurricane

Lightening

Volcano

Locusts 蝗虫

Grasshoppers 蚱蜢

flood lightening

earthquake typhoon

fire grasshoppers

Tornado hurricane

volcano drought

landslide snowslide

Natural Disasters

flood

In the classroom

Earthquake

You’re sleeping.

Typhoon

You’re riding on the road.

Fire

You’re shopping in a supermarket.

DH.Lawrence 1885-1930

这篇短文是根据 DH.Lawrence 在1930年写的小说The Virgin(未婚女子) and the Gypsy(吉普赛人) 改编而成的。

DH.Lawrence（1885-1930）是最著名的英国作家之一novelist 。主要的小说作品有：

Sons and Lovers《儿子和情人》

Lady Chatterlay’s Lover 《查莱特夫人的情人》

Step 1.Fast reading

Listen to the tape and answer the questions.

1. What natural disaster did Flora and Jeff suffered ?

2. What rescued them?

(Chimney)

(Flood)

Step 2. Careful reading

1. Divide the whole passage according to the change of the places.

In the garden :

On the way to the house :

Inside the house:

Next to the chimney:

Paragraph 7 to 9

Paragraph 2 to 6

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 10 to 11

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Pic 4

Pic 1 In the garden

Pic 2 On the way to the house

Pic 3 Inside the house

Pic 4 next to the chimney

roar/a wall of water /be upon

Waved arms

Looked around/ couldn’t move

surprised / wondering/frightened

In the garden

anxious / frightened

struggle / get on her feet / hold hands / fought for life / pull…up couldn’t move/ran / got to the

steps

seize/dragged ..towards /pull her up/hold onto a tree / shouted / ran to the steps

/opened the hall door

Swept down/ swallow/wave/ cold as ice/ flowed fast than a river/go down / great roar / flowed

around their legs

wave/like a sea/swept past/wild/

cut down trees /deep / swept away

cracking noise /strange sounds/

moved / falling down

went down / cut down by water

completely destroyed/swept away

looked for the chimney

climbed the stairs / ran upstairs/

listened / started crying.

scared / panic / anxious /

Inside the house

noise/gone down/moved

up and down

stand like a tower

found the chimney /

saved themselves

relieved

Next to the chimney

Step 3. Practice for understanding and word study.

1.Can you work out what the underlined words refer to?

Before she could move , she heard a loud noise , which grew to a terrible roar.

(2) There she saw a wall of water that was quickly advancing towards her .

(3) She wanted to watch it .

(4) Flora , whose beautiful hair and dress were all cold and wet , started crying.

(5) For some moments both were silent. 

a loud noise幻灯片 11

behind her

a wall of water that was quickly advancing towards her

Flora

Jeff and Flora

2.”However , before she could think twice ,the water was upon her.”

Which is Not the correct explanation to this sentence? ( )

A. She has no idea that the water came upon her so soon.

B. She had no time to think more before the water was upon her.

C. The water came upon her so soon that she had no time to think more.

D. The water came upon her so soon that she didn’t think it for the second time.

3.What’s the Chinese for the phrase “get on her feet”? ( )

A.双脚站立 B.爬到脚上

C.淹没脚部 D.踩到脚上

4.How many times did Flora fall over on her way to

the house? ( )

D

A.

twice

5.Which of the following statements is Not true? ( )

A. Flora was so surprised by the coming water that she couldn’t do anything.

B. The garden was completely destroyed by the water.

C. Jeff and Flora were saved by holding the chimney.

D. It was Flora who first found the flood.

6. The word “after “ in “Tree after tree went down, cut down by the water.” has the same meaning as ( )

A. We will come back after 10 o’clock .

B. He would look after my baby when I went shopping.

C. Many tourists will come to visit this temple year after year.

D. The place was named after a famous explorer Columbus.

D.

C

7.Answer the questions

Read the passage quietly and quickly, and find out the answers

to the two questions on the screen.

a. What were Flora’s first two feelings when she turned around and saw the water coming?

b. Why was Jeff looking for the chimney?

She felt surprised and frightened.

Because that is the strongest part of the house.

Noise , voice and sound

Noise 指令人讨厌的声音,嘈杂声. 噪音等

No one can bear the noise.

Voice 特指人说话的声音,噪音,

Please speak in a loud voice .

Sound 是一个普通词, 可以指自然界的 一切声音

the sound of footsteps幻灯片 4

drag ,pull and draw

Pull 用力拉,牵引

She pulled down the blind.

Drag 缓慢用力拖拉,笨重前行

They are dragging a net in fishing.

Draw 用途广泛, 可指物理的拉,也指精神的吸引

He drew me aside and told me what had happened.幻灯片 5

Step5. Important phrases

1.sweep away

11.be upon

2.pull sb. up 12.look into

3.get on one’s feet

4.fight for one’s life

5.move up

6.fall down

7.tree after tree

8.up and down

9.refer to

10.go through

幻灯片 15

Shelley sent him ( ) to explain the reason why she couldn’t go to his birthday party.

A. one letter or the other

B. a letter after the other

C. letters after letters 幻灯片 13

D. letter after letter

D

tree after tree

fight for , fight with and fight against

A. fight for 为……而斗争

He called on the workers to fight for their rights.

B. fight with 与……作战 与…….并肩而战

The soldiers are fighting with their enemy.

C. fight against 同…….作斗争

Man is fighting against pollution.

eg. The Chinese people the Japanese enemy for 8 years .

A. fight for B. fight against

C. fought against D. fought for 幻灯片 5

C

Step6.Tell the story in your own words and fill in

the table below.

First: First, Flora saw Jeff running and waving his arms . She turned around as saw a wall of water advancing towards her quickly.

Next: Next, the water swept Jeff and Flora down and they are struggling for their lives.

Then: Then, they tried to get to the house and climbed the stairs to be safe from the water.

Finally: Finally , part of the house fell down but they were safe next to the chimney.