内容正文:
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
1. What can you see in the picture?
2. What is the cause of this phenomenon?
Global warming
全球变暖
melting glacier
3. What will happen if glaciers are melting faster than before?
CLIMATE CHANGE REQUIRES
THE WORLD’S ATTENTION
Prediction—— What will be talked about in the passage?
What is the graph about?
What information can you get from it?
What might have happened to the polar bear in the photo?
The temperature of the global surface rose about 1.2 ℃ from 1920 to 2016. The earth is becoming warmer and warmer.
skin and bones
starved to death
2
Read for structure
Part 1: problem/ phenomenon
evidence+ case
a case
Part 2: causes
Part 3: effects/influences/results
Part 4: solutions
evidence
The structure of the text.
problem
causes
effects
solutions
Expository writing
What kind of passage is it?
4
Read read for key information and draw a mind map of the text with key words,based on the questions.
Climate change requires the world’s attention
Problem
Causes
Effects
Solutions
What problem is being discussed?
What is some evidence of global warming?
How was the polar bear influenced by GW?
What is real cause of global warming?
What are the effects of global warming?
What should we do to stop or slow down global warming?
Read for details (para.1-2)
Problem
what ?
climate is getting warmer and warmer
a warming ocean & atmosphere
melting ice
rising sea levels
a dead polar bear
evidence/cases
How?
How was the polar bear inflenced by climate change?
Climate change
low sea-ice levels
bears could not hunt
had to travel greater distances to find food
starved to death
its dead bod