Unit 6 Earth first Starting out 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 6 Earth first Starting out by Ada Starting out Do you know what day April 22nd is ? April 22nd is Earth Day. What is Earth Day for? It’s an opportunity for every person to cherish and protect our planet. Starting out 1 Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 Which of the facts in the video do you find most alarming? 2 What does the video want to tell us? alarming adj. 令人惊恐的；令人惊慌的 Starting out 1 Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 Which of the facts in the video do you find most alarming? 2 What does the video want to tell us? Severe environmental problems we’re facing nowadays makes our future uncertain. It’s time for everyone to take action now and make our planet a greener and safer place for our future generations. Starting out 1 Watch the video and answer the questions. Watch again and find where the answers are. Starting out Save Life on Earth Earth, home1 countless plants and animals for millions of years, has an uncertain future. How many of us are aware that 130,000 square kilometres of forest disappear every year. Around 25,000 trees 2 (cut) down each day just to make toilet paper. Each day, around 150 to 200 species of plants and animals become extinct -- 3 (near) 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction. Over 1 million animals are killed by ocean 4 (pollute) each year. 1 billion people don’t have clean 5 (drink) water. A plastic bottle can take 450 years to break down. The ice caps are more than 50% 6 (thin) than they were 40 years ago. to are cut nearly pollution drinking thinner Starting out Save Life on Earth If we don’t change our ways, we are7 risk of ruining our planet and destroying many more plants and animals. Some day in the future, there may be no tigers, no horses, no butterflies, no dolphins and no whales; nor there be any trees8 flowers. All of these things will be gone. And we will be g