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Unit 6 Earth first
Starting out
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Q1: What does the video want to tell us?
1. Watch the video and answer the question.
①_______square kilometres of forest disappear every year.
②Around _______ trees are cut down each day just to make toilet paper.
③Each day, around _________ species of plants and animals become extinct—nearly ________ times the natural rate of extinction.
④Over ____________ animals are killed by ocean pollution each year.
⑤__________ people don’t have clean drinking water.
⑥A plastic bottle can take ______ years to break down.
⑦The ice caps are more than ______ thinner than they were _____ years ago.
2. Listen and complete the missing numbers.
Q2: Which of the facts in the video do you find most alarming?
130,000
25,000
150 to 200
1,000
1 million
1 billion
450
50%
40
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3. Look at the cartoons and answer the questions.
water pollution
deforestation
air pollution
global warming
Q1: environmental problems?
Q2: causes of the problems?
Q3: the most serious problem?
Q4: solutions the the problem?
Tips: ignore; cause/lead to; people's awareness of environmental protection ;
recycle; garbage classification; green energy;ecosystem; take measures/actions...
If environmental problems are not
solved, we will see the scene of the
picture and such.
等等,诸如此类的事
Unit 6 Earth first
Understanding ideas
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1. Tick the words that you would use to describe sharks.
Add any more you can think of.
fierce
horrible
scary
terrifying
frightening
aggressive
tricky/slippery
flexible
giant
Unit6 Reading
——SHARKS:DANGEROUS
OR ENDANGERED?
Pre-reading
Look at the pictures and the title and predict:
1. Which one may the author focus on: dangerous or endangered?
2 . What type of text is this passage?
A.Narration(记叙文).
B.Argumentation(议论文).
C.Exposition(说明文).
D.Prose(散文).
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2. Read the passage and find out how sharks are described in the film Jaws.
Steven Spielberg
斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格
(美国导演、编剧、制作人)
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While-reading
Para.1 A. Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
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