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Reading and Thinking
Unit 03
Environmental Protection
新人教选择性必修三
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Learning Objectives
By reading, explain causes and negative effects of global warming;
Be aware of the importance of cutting greenhouse gases and take effective action to do it;
By teamwork, present how to solve the problem of global warming in groups.
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look and discuss
What’s happening in the picture? Where is it?
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The picture showed us Glacier melting, we can see a large piece of ice breaking off a large glacier.
It is likely to be in the Arctic or Antarctica or somewhere nearby.
What’s happening in the picture? Where is it?
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pre-reading
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What happened to the polar bear in this video?
what caused this?
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1.What’s the type of this text?
a. news report
b. biography
c. expository essay
d. argumentation
2. what’s the main purpose?
to persuade readers to focus on climate change problem
while-reading
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Expository essay
The authors sometimes use some graphs or diagrams in their essays in order to convince their readers. These graphs and diagrams often come from scientific reasearch reports and other reliable resources.
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predict:
1.What is the graph about? What information can you get from it?
2. What do you think might have caused the polar bear's death?
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read for the structure:
1. search for the topic sentence of each paragraph and summarize the main idea.
2. divide the passage into several parts
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Task 1: Find the key sentence of each paragraph and summarize the main idea of each part:
Para 1
Para 2
The evidence of dramatic climate change that had an impact on Earth’s ecology
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Para 3
The cause of the increase in the global average surface temperature
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Para 4
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The consequences of the rise in temperature
The solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Summary
Part Paragraph Main idea
Ⅰ 1-2
Ⅱ 3
Ⅲ 4
Ⅳ 5
The evidence of dramatic climate change that had an impact on Earth’s ecology
The cause of the incre