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　　Reading and Vocabulary
　　Teaching Goals:
　　1.To get Ss to have the general idea of the reading passages.
　　2. To get Ss to know some facts of the two disasters.
　　Teaching Procedures:
　　Step 1 : Pre-reading
　　Read about the Gulf Steam and check the meaning of the words:
　　Students’ activities
　　1. What is a current?
　　(a) A kind of electricity  (b) A movement of water  (c) A kind of wind
　　2. What kind of things flow?
　　(a) Water    (b) Time    (c) Money
　　3. If two places are on the same latitude ,they are on the same line _____
　　(a) east/west   (b) north/south
　　Suggested answers:  b. a . a
　　Step 2: While-reading
　　a.Skimming
　　Read the passage quickly and silently. Find the words and expressions in the passages and match them with the definition.
　　bury  disaster  feather  fur  occur  tropical
　　1. you can see this on an animal  __________
　　2. describing the hottest parts of the earth, north and south of the equator __________
　　3. a terrible event  _________
　　4. you can see these on a bird  _________
　　5. to place in the ground or tomb ___________
　　6. to happen __________
　　Suggested answers: 1. fur  2. tropical  3. disaster  4. feather  5. bury  6. occur
　　b. Detailed-reading
　　Students’ activities
　　Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
　　1.How strong are tornado winds?
　　2.What can happen to furniture when a house is destroyed by a tornado?
　　3.How many tornadoes are there in the US every year?
　　4.How many people died in the worst tornado of all time?
　　5.What happens at sea during a hurricane?
　　6.When was the worst hurricane of all time?
　　7.Was the actor Charles Coghland killed in it?
　　8.What happened to him after the hurricane?
　　Suggested answers:1. More than 400 km/h. 2. It stays where it was. 3. About 800. 4. More than 700. 5. It has huge waves. 6. 8th September, 1900. 7. No, he wasn’t.  8. His coffin was dropped in the sea by a hurricane and carried to Canada by the Gulf Stream.
　　Step 3: Post-reading
　　Read the passage again and fill in the form with suitable words.
　　Tornado Hurricane
　　Definition
　　Times
　　Place
　　Phenomena
　　Bad results
　　The worst example you know
　　Suggested answers:
　　Tornado Hurricane
　　Definition A rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. Strong tropical storm.