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Unit 6 Earth first
Starting out○
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Understanding ideas
Starting out
Look at the cartoons and answer the questions.
What environmental problem does each cartoon refer to?
▣ater pollution
▣deforestration
▣air pollution
▣globla warming
Starting out
Look at the cartoons and answer the question.
What are the causes of these problems?
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smog
extreme heat
light pollution
noise pollution
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loss of biodiversity
soil pollution
white pollution
ocean pollution
Starting out
Look at the cartoons and answer the question.
Whate you think is the most serious environmental problem we
face today?What should be done to help solve it?
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smog
extreme heat
light pollution
noise pollution
BIOLOGICAL
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loss of biodiversity
soil pollution
white pollution
ocean pollution
Starting out
What oloea be done to help solve the environmental problems?
It's high time we (did)...
individuals
It's urgent to do...
government
It's requested that sb.should do...
It's high time we led a green life.For example,we can choose
carpooling,riding a bike or taking public transportation.
It's urgent for us to set an example for those around us.In this way,
more and more people will do their part in environmental pretection.
Understanding ideas
Tick the words that you would use to describe sharks.
▣dangerous
▣powerful
sharp
▣endangered
▣interesting
▣man-eating
intelligent
terrifying
▣cute
adorable
flexible
▣intelligent
keeping fish populations from growing too large
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防止鱼类数量过多增长
Pead the passage and find out how sharks
JAWS
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Sharks are describe in the
film as dangerous and bad
animals that eat humans.
Underline the key sentences in each paragraph in 3mins.
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SHARKS:
underwater She surfaces,cries in fear,
then disappean forever.This is the
DANGEROUS OR ENDANGERED?
opening scene f红om the 1975f行lma国
showing海shark attack,te菲she
story of a great white shark that attacks
and kilh wrimmers.rtes was a great
success.amrructing huge audiences and
winning many awans.It strengrhened
people'%long-held idea of the great
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People have always been scared of
shaarks.but faes made thites worse.
It made people frightened of sharks.
pecially of小he great white shark
Many people who saw the film started
to believe that sharks were had animale
thar ate humans.Some people stopped
swimming in the sea.afraid of the
where they die slowly and painfully.The
he foutht to protect sharks.He admirted
horrible creature from the film.Other
fins are ued in shark fin soup Finning
that his book was wrong about sharks'
people started fishing for sharks,killing
kille millions of shark a year
behaviour "Sharks don't taret humans."
as many as they could,At that time.
he sai,Experts have proved that shark
nobody cared if sharks were killed,
F mning would have an unexpe(ted effe
de not wee people as food,and they attac
or how many were killed.People jut
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wanted them killed.
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killed by sharks every year.
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After 1975.the numnber of largte sharks
across an awfual aight.It was an area where
Forninasely,nex everyone who watched
around America fell quickly.and soon
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elm山sba2 e afraid of sharlo
花ound the world.This was nor only
was covered with dead sharks.lenchley
some hecame博test家d in understanding
due to fear of shrks,but also finning
saw sharks being killed and this caused
themToday,as we leamn more abuut
Fmning is a type of fishing where sharks
a deep chan联n用,le came tose
arks.more people下nwAt
are caughr an日言her年ns4tff,Th
people av a由g年口harks rather than
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sharks are thrown back into the sea
the other way round.Fromn that day on.
Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1
A.Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
Para.2
B.The opening scene from the 1975 film Jaws.
Para.3
C.More people want to protect sharks from extinction.
Para.4
D.Benchley came across an awful sight of dead sharks and
fought to protect sharks.
Para.5
E.Jaws made people more scared of sharks and people
killed as many sharks as they could
Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para.1
The opening scene from the 1975 film Jaws.
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Para.2
Jaws made people more scared of sharks and people
illed as many sharks as they could.
Para.3
A.Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
Para.4
D.Benchley came across an awful sight of dead sharks and
ought to protect sharks.
Para.5
C.More people want to protect sharks from extinction