Weather天气话题Group ：No：Class：Name：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material: 2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimming：LearningKey Points Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material1. Master the reading skills: scanning and skimming2.Learning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Assessment:Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents(洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment.However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way—bystudying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with manyyears' experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990swhen he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shoresof the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoesthat people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and rightshoes to sell or wear.Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes—about 60,000in total—fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoecompany and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, thecompany told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be agreat experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into thewater and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the页 - 1 - 第patterns of ocean currents.The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas forbeachcombing (海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as aresult, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyergot to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collectinginformation about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliableinformation on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were ableto test and improve a computer program designed to model oceancurrents, and publish the findings of their study.As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as thescientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floatingin the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers andocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand.They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.（NMET 2019 广东）41. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest inmeaning to _________.A. fitting roomsB. trading fairsC. business talksD. group meetings42. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _________.A. what caused the shipping accidentB. when and where the shoes went missingC. whether it was all right to use their shoesD. how much they lost in the shipping accident43. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?s.rebmochcaeb morf noitamrofni gnitcelloc yB A.B. By studying the shoes found by beachcombers.C. By searching the web for ocean currents models.D. By researching ocean currents data in the library.44. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for _________.A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the worldB. making records for any lost objects on the seaC. running a global currents research associationD. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea45. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution.B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.(2)Cold weather can be hard on pets, just like it can be hard on people. Sometimes owners forget that their cats are just as used to the warm shelter (住所) as they are. Some owners will leave their animals outside for a long period of time, thinking that all animals are used to living outdoors. This can put their pets in danger of serious illness. There are things you can do to keep your animal warm and safe. Keep your pets inside as much as you can when the weather is bad. If you have to take them out, stay outside with them. When you're cold enough to go inside, they probably are too. I you must leave them outside for a long time, makesure they have a warm, solid shelter against the wind, thick bedding, and plenty of non-frozen water.If left alone outside, dogs and cats can be very smart in their search for warm shelter. They can dig into snow banks or hide somewhere. Watch them closelywhen they are left outdoors, and provide them with shelter of good quality. Keepan eye on your pet's water. Sometimes owners don't realize that a water bowl has frozen and their pet can't get anything to drink. Animals that don't have clean and unfrozen water may drink dirty water outside, which may contain something unhealthy for them. （NMET 2019全国II）页 - 3 - 第41. What do we learn about pets from Paragraph 1?A. They are often forgotten by their owners.B. They are used to living outdoors.C. They build their own shelter.D. They like to stay in warm places.42. Why are pet owners asked to stay with their pets when they are out in cold weather?A. To know when to bring them inside.B. To keep them from eating bad food.C. To help them find shelters.D. To keep them company.43. If pets are left on their own outdoors in cold weather, they may ________.A. run short of clean waterB. dig deep holes for funC. dirty the snow nearbyD. get lost in the wild44. What is the purpose of this text?A. To solve a problem.B. To give practical advice.C. To tell an interesting story.D. To present a research result.II.【While-class】Assessment:Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choosethe best answer(1)El Nifio, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman sho noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes theother way round.The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countriesgain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a partlybillion, 15 by grow economy American's helped 2019 in Nifio strongbecause of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural in rich countries in growth than the fall in poor ones.But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought (干旱）in south-east Brazil is becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about byEl Nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.The most recent powerful Nino, in 2019-98, killed around 21,000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe. But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.Simple improvements to infrastructure (基础设施）can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers (下水道）make it less likely that heavy rain is followed byan outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2019 by Mr. Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El Nino's harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority. (NMET 2019江苏)61. What can we learn about El Nino in Paragraph 1?A. It is named after a South American fisherman.B. It takes place almost every year all over the world.C. It forces fishermen to stop catching fish around Christmas.D. It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.62. What may El Ninos bring about to the countries affected?A. Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.页 - 5 - 第B. Droughts become more harmful than floods.C. Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.D. Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.63. The data provided by ODI in Paragraph 4 suggest thatA. more investment should go to risk reductionB. governments of poor countries need more aidC. victims of El Nino deserve more compensationD. recovery and reconstruction should come first64. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?To introduce El Nino and its origin. A.B. To explain the consequences of El Nino.C. To show ways of fighting against El Nino.D. To urge people to prepare for El Nino.Step4．PresentationStep5．Summary【Post-class】 III.Self- reflectionI enjoyed learning aboutI found these words useful:I found these expressions useful:I have learned aboutSome examples:Keys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework41. B42. C43. A44. D45. C41-44DAABII. While-class （课堂教学流程）61.D 62.C 63.A 64.D。