内容正文:
The Amazon rainforest :
A natural treasure
( period 2 )
video about
Rainforest
Sharing
Dub a videoclip about
“Rainforest”
Structur
e Gramma
r Wording
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Evaluation Form
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Stella
Sean
Structure Grammar Wording
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Evaluation Form
(perfect score★ ★ ★ )
Second
Draft
First
Draft
UK.
(para 2 Line 5 - 9) with an area of around 6 milion
sqvare kilometers, the Amazon rainforest is more than
half the size of china . The Amazon river, from which
the rainforest gets its name, is close to 6,400
kilometers in length- - -roughly 100 kilometers longer than the Yangtze River. ? 器
The main reason why the jungle has so
strong the power to impact the earth is
that it covers about 14 million square
kilometers, about 58 times the size of the
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• three times as long/large as ...
• more than/longer than/larger than ...
• three times the
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statistics
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That’ll be fun to watch.
But humans
They are so smart
Humans
So smart
Humans
Making air
ironic
So smart
What do you think
of the two
sentences?
We should strike a balance of human and
nature.
Unit 1
Nature in the balance
We humans should live in harmony with
nature.
Deforestation
Forests cover about 30% of the planet, and the
ecosystems they create play an important role in
supporting life on earth. But deforestation is clearing
earth’s forest on a large scale. And at the present rate of destruction, the world’s rainforest can completely
disappear within 100 years.
What causes deforestation? The biggest driver of
deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut down trees in order to plant crops like soybeans, palm trees and cocoa, or to
make room to raise cattle for beef. Logging operations(伐木 )which provide the wo