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Unit 3
Environmental Protection
Reading and Thinking
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Know about the climate change and understand the main idea of each paragraph.
Voice your personal opinions on how to protect environment by teamwork.
Learn about the “greenhouse effect” and know how it works.
Learning Objectives:
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Analyse the consequences of climate change and enhance the awareness of environmental protection.
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Look at the picture and graph below. What is it about? What information can you get from it?
The earth is becoming warmer and warmer.
Why?
Because of the global warming.
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What other consequences of the global warming?
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the rise of
sea level
dying
animals
coastal cities submerged
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natural
disasters
extreme weather
economic losses
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Climate Change Requires The World’s Attention
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1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. Some polar bears died of starvation.
B. What the greenhouse effect is.
C. How the polar bears find food.
D. Global warming has caused some disasters
and we must pay attention to it.
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1. What is the problem?
2. What are the evidences of climate change?
Para 1
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Climate Change Requires World’s Attention
We have known about climate change for decades. There is little doubt that Earth is getting warmer and warmer (see the graph). A warming ocean and atmosphere along with melting ice and rising sea levels provide evidence of a dramatic change in the global climate.
Para 1
The ________ is getting warmer and warmer.
Evidence 1: ________________________________
Evidence 2: ______________
Evidence 2: _______________
Earth
a warming ocean and atmosphere
melting ice
rising sea levels
climate
change
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1. When did it happen?
2. Where did it happen?
3. What did they find?
Para 2
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Para 2
Time
Where
What happened
2013
Norway’s Arctic Island of Svalbard.
A polar bear died of starvation.
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climate change
starvation
longer
food-seeking travel
lack of food
low sea-ice levels
The following reasons account for the death of the polar bear, with one influencing another.
Put them in a correct logical order.
What is the root cause?
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1. What is the definition of natural greenhouse effect and
man-made greenhouse effect?
2. What is the function of natural greenhouse effect?
3. What is the problem of man-made greenhouse effect?
Para 3
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Definition:
Heat from the sun enters the atmosphere and warms the Earth’s surface.
Function:
Keeping Earth’s warm and habitable.
Definition:
People produce huge amounts of extra greenhouse gases.
A big problem:
Causing Earth’s surface temperature to rise quickly.
Natural greenhouse effect
Man-made greenhouse effect
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D. Heat enters the
atmosphere
B. Reflected sunlight
Atmosphere
C. Heat reflected back
to earth’ surface
A. Heat released back into space
Find out how the greenhouse effect works
A.
D.
C.
B.
extreme rainstorms, heat waves
serious damage, costing human lives, economic losses
Scan Para.4 to finish the following chart
1.
2.
not only
3. .
but also
4. .
extreme 5. and
6. causing
7._______________________
extreme
weather
natural
disasters
causing serious damage
costing human lives
rainstorm
heatwaves
examples
The rise in temperature
leads to
results
deaths and economic losses
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Who has the responsibility to help reduce global warming?
Governments
Individuals
Para.5
1. make policies
1.restrict the amount of carbon dioxide our lifestyle produce
2. educate everyone about global warming, along with its causes and impacts
2. take appropriate actions and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Read for main idea & text type
Match the main idea with each paragraph
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
A problem of climate change.
The causes of the increase in the global
average surface temperature.
The consequences of the rise in temperature.
The solutions to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
An exact example of climate change.
The development of the passage.
problem
example
causes
consequences
solutions
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1. What type of writing is this passage?
A. Argumentative writing
B. Narrative writing
C. Expository writing
D. Advertising writing
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2. In which part of a magazine may we find this passage?
A. Entertainment
B. Economy
C. Education
D. Environment
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In Paragraph 5, the author hopes everyone can take actions to reduce our “carbon footprint”.
Carbon Footprint
Knowledge Extension
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that a person or organization produces by the things they do, used as a way of measuring the amount of harm they do to the environment.
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What can we do in our daily life to help to protect our environment?
Discussion
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Sort the garbage
Abate the use of plastic bags
Value our own role
End wasting resources
Encourage others to paticipate in it
Alter our lifestyle
Ride a bike or walk to school
Turn off all electric devices when not in use
Help inform those around the danger of global warming…
Video Appreciation
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Lucid waters and lush mountains are valuable as "mountains of gold and silver".
绿水青山就是金山银山。
A community with a shared future for mankind.
人类命运共同体。
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Homework
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
— Mohandas K. Gandhi
地球能满足人类的需要,
但满足不了人类的贪婪。
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Together,
let's return green to the earth and build a beautiful
China!
Going Green
Joe Tamaela
Going Green, track 1, disc 0
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