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Unit 3 Environmental Protection
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Q1.What’s happening in the photo?
Q2.What will happen if glacier are melting than ever before?
Q3.What does this photo make you think of?
What consequences may global warming bring about?
Global Warming
extreme weather
natural disaster
animal dying
the rise of the sea level
wildfire
threaten ecosystem
coastal
cities
submerged
economic
losses
英国遭遇极端天气侵袭,巨大单体雷暴云低空压境,宛如世界末日
风暴追逐者赴美拍震撼极端天气 黑云压城似末日来临
Extreme weather
The rise of the sea level
coastal cities
submerged
Wildfire
Prediction
Q. What is the graph about? What information can you get from it?
global temperature change
The graph shows the changes of global surface temperature over the period from 1920 to 2016.
Increase steadily
Increase sharply
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Q. What do you think might have caused the death of the polar bear?
The polar bear might have died of starvation.
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Read for the text type
Q1. What's the type of this text?
A. News report.
B. Biography.
C. Exposition.
D. Argumentation.
CLIMATE CHANGE REQUIRES THE WORLD’S ATTENTION
Exposition: an explanation/introduction of objective things or reasoning, etc.
Reading
Read for structure
Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Paras.1&2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
Exposition
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problem
causes
consequences
solutions
Part 1
problem
Q1.What evidence of climate change can you find in the first paragraph?
a warming ocean and atmosphere
melting ice
rising sea levels
Read for details
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climate change
starvation
longer
food-seeking travel
lack of food
low sea-ice level
Q2. The following reasons account for the death of the polar bear, with one influencing another. Read paragraph 2 and put them in a correct logical order.
What is the root cause?
Cause and effect
Part 2 cause
Q. How the greenhouse effect works in natural and man-made situations?
greenhouse effect
natural greenhouse effect
keeping Earth’s climate warm and habitable
man-made greenhouse effect
causing Earth's surface temperature to rise quickly
Part 3 conseq