Unit5　Learningaboutlanguage精品课件（新人教选修6）.ppt

新课标人教版课件系列;Learning about language;1. I went to a tea house with two friends last weekend but all they talked about was volcanoes. I was so _____ that I fell asleep. 2. A tourist very foolishly took a risk by walking right to the edge of an active_________. 3. I carefully ___________ over the fallen rocks and returned to the car.;4.Nothing can ___________ the experience of standing close to an active volcano for the first time. 5.Can volcanologists predict when a volcano will____________. 6.The sight of hot lava entering the sea at dawn was____________.; Mount Vesuvius This mountain has erupted more than 50 times since the eruption in 79 A.D., when it buried Pompeii and its sister city, Herculaneum. After Pompeii was buried and lost to history, the volcano continued to erupt every 100 years until about 1037 A.D., when it entered a 600-year period of quiescence. In 1631, the volcano killed an additional 4000 unsuspecting inhabitants. ;2.Complete the text with the words below in their proper forms. foundtain, burn to the ground, ash, lava, absolute, fantastic, eruption, amaze, unfortunately;The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD took people in Pompeii by surprise. It was so quick and so severe that the town soon covered in _______ and _________. Many houses in the town were ______________. It was an ________ disaster for many people who could not get away in time. A writer named Pliny, who was there during the ________, described how lava was thrown into the air like a ________. ;_____________ many of the townspeople, ____________at the ___________ sight of Vesuvius eruption, stayed too long and failed to escape in time.;1.Examine the sentences below and discuss in what way the structures are similar to each other and in what way they are different. Looking carefully at the ground, I made my way to the edge of the crater. Having experienced quite a few earthquakes in Hawaii already, I didn’t take much notice.;The -ing form can be used as