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Professor Hall: Yes, it is a paradox, but, global warming can 3) trigger _____ a cooling trend. Let me explain. The Northern Hemisphere owes its temperate climate to the North Atlantic current. Heat from the sun arrives at the 4) equator ______ and is carried north by the ocean. But, global warming is melting the polar ice caps and 5) disrupting ________this flow. Eventually it will shut down, and when that occurs, there goes our warm climate. British Reporter: Excuse me. When do you think this could happen, professor? When?
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Nominated: • Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA(Golden Reel Award) 2005 • Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA 2005 • Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
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Director: Roland Emmerich Run Time: 124 minutes Release Time: 2004 Awards & Nominations Won: • BAFTA Awards: Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects • Visual Effects Society Awards(VES Award) 2005 • Golden Trailer Awards(Golden Trailer) 2005 • BMI Film & TV Awards 2005 • BMI Film Music Award • Best Single Visual Effect of the Year 2005
Word Bank cataclysmic a. 大变动的 fragile a. 脆弱的
paradox n.
Kyoto Accord fossil n.
自相矛盾的话
《京都议定书》 化石
sensation 采用耸人听闻手 alist n. 法的人
chunk a. 大块的
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______ 7. tornado
_________ 8. avalanche
9. tsunami ______
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Directions: In this part, you’re going to watch six clips from
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Watch the clip and fill in the blanks with the words you get from the clip.
Professor Hall: What we have found locked in these ice cores is 1) evidence _______ of a cataclysmic climate shift, which occurred around ten thousand years ago. The concentration of these natural greenhouse gases in the ice cores indicates that runaway warming pushed the planet into an ice age, which lasted two centuries. Arabian Reporter: I’m 2) confused _______ . I thought you were talking about global warming, not an ice age.
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Plot Summary
This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall, who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam, who is in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city is overwhelmed by
A disaster film is a film that has an ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, an asteroid collision or natural calamities) as its subject. Along with showing the spectacular disaster, these films concentrate on the chaotic events surrounding the disaster, including efforts for survival, the effects upon individuals and families, and “what-if” situations. These films typically describe multiple plotlines, focusing on the characters’ attempts to escape or cope with the disaster and its after-effects. Once the disaster begins in a disaster film, the characters are usually
the movie The Day After Tomorrow. After watching each clip, please complete the tasks following it.
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Clip 1 UN Conference on global warming in New Delhi. (1'58")
Introduction to Disaster Films (1)
Unit 7 The Day After Tomorrow
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Part 3 Fun Time
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1. landslide _______
eruption 2. volcano _____________
3. lightening ________
4. flood ____
_________ 5. earthquake
6. fire ___
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Unit 7 The Day After Tomorrow
Introduction to Disaster Films (1) Section A Focused Activities Section B Extended Activities
Introduction to Disaster Films (1)
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The Day After Tomorrow shows a disastrous and abrupt climate change. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is at a research station in Antarctica when an ice block as big as a state breaks off the continental shelf. Jack senses that wild weather patterns (huge typhoons, large hailstorms in Japan and other temperate zones) might signal a coming ice age tripped off by global warming. Now identify the natural disasters according to the following pictures.