Environmental

Protection

Unit 22

In this unit we will…Read an article on global warming and identify

missing information in a text.Talk about environmental issues in the world today.Listen to and take notes from a lecture and a radio

interview.Write a report about the environment.Revise reported speech and practise vocabulary

relating to global warming, natural disasters and

endangered animals.

Look at the following pictures

and discuss what are

happening in the pictures?

Look at the following pictures

and discuss what are

happening in the pictures?

earthquakes

droughts

tsunami

floods

volcanic eruptions

hurricanes

forest fires

typhoon

landslides

What do you

think of the

disasters?

Discussion Discussion

Natural disasters

Lesson 3

1. which of the disasters in the Key Words do you think are:

• caused by people?

• made worse by people?

• natural?

Key Words: Disasters

droughts, earthquakes, floods,

forest fires, hurricanes,

landslides, tsunamis,

typhoons, volcanic eruption

2. Read the article and check your answers to Exercise 1.

• caused by people forest fires

•natural

• made worse by hurricanes

droughts, earthquakes, floods,

landslides, tsunami, typhoons,

volcanic eruptions, forest fires,

hurricanes

Reading strategies:Completing Texts with sentence gaps• Read the text to get the general idea.• Read a paragraph with a sentence gap and identify the topic, e.g. disasters.• Read the sentences before and after the gap and look for clues about the missing sentence, e.g. is it an example of what is mentioned before?• Certain words may help you: time references (then). pronoun references (it, that),linking words (however).• Decide which sentence goes in the gap. check that it fits the sentences before and after it.

2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two extra sentences you do not need.

a) But evidence shows that 73.000 years ago there was a much greater eruption.

b) Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas have all been underwater.

c) That is probably not the most important factor either.

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d) Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless.

e) On top of all that add global warming.

f) For example, the Yellow River, once famous for flooding, failed to reach the sea at all for 226 days in 1997.

g) One answer is over-population.

2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two extra sentences you do not need.

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4. Read the text again and answer these

questions:1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards

the future ?

2. Who are most likely to be the victims of

natural disasters?

3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods

and droughts ?

Pessimistic / Negative.

Poor people.

Overpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resources.

4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more

dangerous now ?

5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet

in the future?

6. What effects might this threat have?

Because around half the world’s population lives in cities, more than 500 million people now live within the range of a volcanic eruption and even greater number of people at risk from earthquakes.

A volcanic eruption.

It might send the planet into winter for years.

Fill in the blanks about the text.

In the last ___ years , there are more and

more disasters such as _____ , ________,

windstorms, earthquakes, ________,

volcanic _________and _____ fires all

over the world.

Why are so many disasters ? One of the

reasons is over- __________.

ten

floods droughts

typhoons

eruptions forest

population

Post Reading

__ addition, ______ change and the specter of

global ________ caused by the mismanagement of

the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or

make them worse.

At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more

_________ with the fast ______ of people .

Earthquakes take the lives of 1.6 million

People in the last hundred years. What is worse,

the disaster professionals predict that the things

will get _____.

dangerous growth

worse

In climate

warming

1. a) She put her arms around me to comfort me.

b) The soldiers were armed with guns.

2. a) Heavy rains resulted in floods.

b) His results were not as good as he had

hoped.

3. a) He means well but just gets it wrong

sometimes.

b) The telephone is a means of communication.

Decide if the underlined words in the sentences below are

nouns or verbs. Then write down their Chinese meanings.

noun 手臂

verb 武装

verb 导致

noun 成绩

verb 意思是noun 方式

4. a) The children had fun sliding down the slide

all afternoon.

b) Penguins slide downhill over ice on their

bellies.

5. a) Be careful! Don’t slip on the wet floor.

b) Write your number on this slip of paper.

6. a) What would you like on your bread roll for

lunch.

b) He rolled the ball across the floor to me.

noun 滑梯

verb 滑行

verb 滑倒

noun 小纸条

noun 卷

verb 滚动

1. The ___________ forces protected the city.

2. When will you get your exam ___________?

3. Don broke his arm when he ___________ and fell on the ice.

4. I ____________ what I said.

5. What would be the best ________________ of advertising our product?.

6. Would you like honey on your ______?

7. The house ____________ down the mountain side in the flood last year.

8. The match _________ in a draw. They had 2 points each.

armed

Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the underlined words above:

resultsslipped

meanmeans

rollslid

resulted

Discussion

Work in group of 4.

Imagine you are a futurologist.

Now you predict an epidemic in the

future. Try to use as many words and expressions you have learnt in the passage as possible.

Name ? When ? Where ? Effect ?

will be spreading, will have killed,…

Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.

1. What natural disasters have happened in the

last few months?

2. What do you think governments can do to help

prevent natural disasters?

3. What organisations do you know that provide

aid after disasters, or work for the

environment?

4. What can we do to improve the environment

and help victims of natural disasters?

Homework

Finish exercises on pages 56-57.