内容正文:
Unit 2 Working the land Period 4 Integrated skills
学习目标
1. Learn and catch key information about chemical farming or organic farming;
2. Work out the meanings of some important expressions;
3. Finish an argumentative article about chemical and organic farming.
活动方案
Activity 1:Check and review.
Briefly review the grammar we learned last time.
Activity 2: Learn and practise.
Ⅰ. Read a website article about chemical farming and answer the questions in Part A on P22.
Ⅱ. Listen to the interview and then finish the exercises in Part B on P23.
Ⅲ. Finish an argumentative article about chemical and organic farming.
文 体 常 识
一、 文体特点
议论文在内容上必须有论点、论据和论证三要素,在结构上要有引子、正文和结论三部分。利弊类议论文以议论为主,通过摆事实、讲道理等方法,对客观事物进行评述或议论,以阐明作者的观点与主张、说服别人。写作时应注意:
1. 认真读题、审题,把握信息要点,不可遗漏也不能添加;
2. 写作内容要条理清楚,层次分明;
3. 常用一般现在时;主、被动语态都可。
文章结构分三个部分:(1) 说明事物现状;(2) 事物本身的优缺点(或一方面);
(3) 你对现状(或前景)的看法或建议。
二、 常用句式
提出现象或话题
Recently, there is a heated/fierce debate on …
Nowadays there is widespread concern over the issue that …
Now … is enjoying increasing popularity due to the fact that …
陈述观点与看法
When it comes to …, people adopt different attitudes.
Some hold that …, while others argue that …
I personally think that/From where I stand,/I'm greatly convinced that …
原因、措施、结论
This phenomenon exists for a number of reasons as follows.
It's high time that we took measures to …
It is urgent/essential/necessary that immediate measures should be taken to …
To sum up/conclude …
三、 写作模板
Nowadays, there is widespread concern over (the issue that) ___________. In fact, there are both advantages and disadvantages in ___________.(引出议题)
Generally speaking, it is widely believed that there are several positive aspects as follows.(讨论议题) Firstly,___________ .(优点一) And secondly, ___________.(优点二)
Just as a popular saying goes, “Every coin has two sides.” ___________ is no exception, and in other words, it still has negative aspects.(讨论议题) To begin with, ___________.(缺点一) In addition, ___________.(缺点二)
To sum up, we should try to bring the advantages of ___________ into full play, and reduce the disadvantages to the minimum at the same time. In that case, we will definitely make better use of the ___________.(总结议题)
实 践 运 用
Please write an article with the title “Be Smart Online Learners”. You should write about 120 words, and base your article on the outline given below in Chinese.
1. 分析优势与不足;
2. 提出学习建议。
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
写作指导
审题
1. 文体:议论文。2. 时态:以一般现在时为主。
3. 人称:以第一、三人称为主。
谋篇
第一段:点明主题,表明观点;
第二段:展开论述利弊;
第三段:提出你的建议。
Activity 3: Consolidate and feed back.
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the words.
1. BookCrossing provides an ___________(identify) number to stick inside the book.
2. The training equips the students with a full understanding of first aid, which can make a real ___________(different).
3. Her popular book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of ___________(chemical) on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.
4. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly ___________(benefit) to your physical and mental health.
5. The government should take the emergency and ___________(severe) of air pollution into serious consideration and take measures to deal with it.
6. We sincerely hope that the government should take ___________(effect) measures immediately to prevent the pollution going from bad to worse.
7. The government has to close those small factories to prevent the water of the river from ___________(pollute).
8. He has just finished a study of the ___________(similar) and differences between the two countries.
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks with appropriate linking words.
1. That was really a splendid evening. It's years ___________ I enjoyed myself so much.
2. Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ___________ a cure for AIDS will be found.
3. Follow your doctor's advice, ___________ your cough will get worse.
4. One more hour ___________ I'll get the work finished.
5. It was when Tom was eleven years old ___________ his talent for writing became obvious.
6. Not the way he did it ___________ his words were criticized by people present.
7. Tom was about to close the window ___________ his attention was caught by a bird.
8. He had no sooner finished his speech ___________ the students started cheering.
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the phrases in the box below.
break down; be linked to; in terms of; cause damage to; make one's way
1. ______________________ his professional abilities, he's just no match for you.
2. The researchers thought all these outcomes ______________________ a lack of physical exercise.
3. When the concert was over, we ______________________ out of the hall to our dorm together.
4. I hope that my fault will not ______________________ the company.
5. Talks between management and workers ______________________ over the issue of holiday pay.
Ⅳ. Complete the sentences below.
1. 他们坐在一起数小时,讨论自己创办公司的利弊。
They sat for hours debating ___________________________________________ their own firm.
2. 人们普遍认为外语教学的最终目标是培养学生的跨文化交际能力。
__________________________________ the ultimate goal of foreign language education is to develop learners' intercultural communication competence.
3. 他失误的原因主要是年轻没有经验。
His mistake _____________________________________________ youth and inexperience.
4. 我完全相信中国可以在保护野生动物方面成为全球领导者。
I am ___________________ China can become a global leader ______________
_________________________.
5. 接受审判的时候,他企图对自己的行为轻描淡写。
At his trial, he tried _________________________________________________.
Activity 1:略
Activity 2:实践运用
Be Smart Online Learners
Learning online has become an important way to study recently. There are advantages and disadvantages concerning it.
Undoubtedly, there are some advantages for us students to study online, ranging from broadening our horizons to making learning more efficient. However, spending too much time before the screen does great harm to our eyes. What's worse, many students get addicted to online games rather than using it as a learning platform, which has become great concern for us.
When it comes to being online learners, one thing worth stressing is to make the best of the Internet wisely, which not only requires a tremendous amount of selfdiscipline, but requires us to make an appropriate learning plan as well.
Activity 3:
Ⅰ. 1. identification 2. difference 3. chemicals 4. beneficial 5. severity
6. effective 7. being polluted 8. similarities
Ⅱ. 1. since 2. that 3. or 4. and 5. that 6. but 7. when 8. than
Ⅲ. 1. In terms of 2. were linked to 3. made our way 4. cause damage to 5. broke down
Ⅳ. 1. the pros and cons of setting up 2. It is commonly acknowledged that 3. was mainly due to 4. absolutely convinced that; in the protection of wildlife 5. to minimize his behaviour
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