TEENS 初三20-21学年第43期总第661期教案

王荆艳

 

 

India still struggling (P2)

 

 

I. Warm up

Look at a graph and answer the questions.

 

1. What does the graph tell you about the COVID-19 situation in India?

 

2. What are the reasons for this?

 

3. How should they deal with it? Can vaccines help?

 

 

II. Reading

Pre-reading

 

 

 

Fast reading

Read fast and answer the question:

 

4. What is the COVID-19 situation like in India?

 

worsen

get out of control

 

 

 

Careful reading

1. What problem does India face?

 

 

1. If something is overloaded, it _____.

A. has stopped working

B. is no longer needed

C. takes less time to finish tasks

D. has been given more work than it can handle

D

 

2. What problem does India face?

a. A shortage of masks. 

b. A new variant of the virus.

c. A shortage of medical oxygen.

d. Pressure from other countries.

A. ab                        B. bc      

C. ac                        D. bd

B

 

3. Is there something else that made the situation worse?

 

4. How has India's outbreak affected the world?

 

5. How is the world responding?

 

6. What is this passage mainly about?

A. new variant of COVID-19 in India.

B. A prediction of another COVID-19 outbreak in India.

C. How serious the COVID-19 pandemic has become in India.

D. What India is doing to deal with increasing COVID-19 cases.

C

 

 

 

III. Post-reading

What can we learn from this passage?

 

   A single country’s loss of control over the pandemic will likely cause another regional surge in infections and possibly lead to another wave of the pandemic worldwide.

    China has already expressed its willingness to provide India with whatever help it needs. It is hoped that more countries will do the same. The pandemic needs to be brought under control globally.

 

 

 

IV. Words in use

Complete the sentences using the words provided.

 

increase    run   deal   prevention    provide

 

1.They have _____ out of ideas and need your help.

2.Doctors stress the ________ of diseases.

3.Education is _______ by the state according to the law.

4.The population is _______ at about 6 percent per year.

5.We must take positive steps to _____ with the problem.

 

run

prevention

provided

increasing

deal