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人教2020 必修三 Unit4
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NASA satellite image of Typhoon Goni
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Is exploring space a waste of time and money?
To predict what kind of passage is it?
an argumentative essay
para1 read and underline the different opinions about space exploration
Countries around the globe are spending billions of dollars and lots of time on various space missions, whether to Mars or other planets much further away. Some people argue that we should stop wasting time and money exploring space. Instead, we should feed the world 's poor and find immediate solutions to other problems, such as pollution and fatal diseases. However, others feel this is a shallow view which fails to realise how exploring space helps us.
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Study the organisation and language features
Against : Some people argue that we should stop wasting time and money exploring space.
For : However, others feel this is a shallow view which fails to realise how exploring space helps us.
current situation/ Phenomenon
Find the three topic sentences that summarise the writer's arguments about space exploration.
1. Firstly, exploring space has already made difference in the fight against world hunger.
2. Secondly, space exploration has already promoted technological improvements that benefit us all.
3. Finally, sending astronauts into space has helped people to think about the world's problems and even to find ways to solve them.
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They are key points to support your argument.
Underline the sentence that repeats the writer's opinion in the last paragraph.
In clolsing, exploring space provides the world with many different benefits. Therefore, it should continue so as to provide new and better solutions to people's short-term and long-term problems.
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In clolsing, exploring space provides the world with many different benefits.
summarise the structure
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(1). 用于句首提出论题或现象的句型
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