内容正文:
Extended reading
News that Matters: pollution in Norgate
Unit 1 Nature in the balance
What can you observe in the video?
Lead-in
Heavy industries
Lack of awareness on environmental protection
water pollution
What caused the pollution?
Do you know any other kinds of environmental issues?
Environmental
issues
global warming
water pollution
air pollution
habitat loss
…
soil pollution
light pollution
noise pollution
overfishing
Brainstorming
According to the title and the picture, what kinds of pollution do you think the city have now?
Prediction
News that matters:
pollution in Norgate
Name Identity
1. Scan the transcript and find out who are engaged in(参与) the show and what’s their identity?
2. What’s the main idea of this TV show transcript ?
Fast reading
A local resident
Senior manager of a local factory
Chief of the Norgate Environment Protection Committee
James Smith
Vincent Brown
Julie Archer
Host
Host
Fast reading
Main idea:
Environmental protection or economic development? Who is responsible for the pollution in Norgate?
1. Scan the transcript and tell who are engaged in(参与) the show and what’s their identity?
2. What’s the main idea of this TV show transcript ?
Name Identity
James Smith A local resident
Vincent Brown Senior manager of a local factory
Julie Archer Chief of the Norgate Environment Protection Committee
According to the guests’ identities, what attitudes may they take towards environmental protection and economic development?
Fast reading
L.9-14. Find out the attitude of James Smith.
For health and safety reasons alone, heavy industry has to go.
Smith
Before heavy industry factories moved in Now (Things became______________.)
The air was ________, the grass _______ and the water _________. The river is __________and__________.
The smog in the air has _________the sky ______________ and given him a _________that he can’t___________.
fresh
green
clear
dirty
smelly
colored
a smoky grey
cough
get rid of
totally different
Compa