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Unit5 HUMANS AND NATURE
Period 1 Topic Talk
高中英语北师大版2019必修第二册
Nature
floods, earthquakes
Natural disasters:
water, grass
Natural landscapes:
water pollution
Environmental problems:
Warm-up & Lead-in
Brainstorm:What comes to your mind when you see the word “nature”?
animals, plans
Living things:
Vocabulary Building
What can you see in the picture?
drought
hurricane
landslide
flood
volcanic eruption
Natural disasters:
Natural disasters:
floods, droughts
hurricanes, landslides
volcanic eruptions
earthquakes, storms
Living things:
weed
deer
insect
fox
dolphin
shark
kangaroo
eagle
whale
animals
birds, fish, deer
insects, whales
dolphins, sharks
kangaroos, foxes
eagles, bats
pangolins
plants
trees:
willow, pine, aspen
flowers:
rose, lily, carnation
weeds
Living things:
Natural landscapes:
forests, rivers
hills, water
green space, grass
landscape: a wide view of country scenery 风景,景色
noise/ air/ water/ soil pollution
climate change
changes to ecology生态改变
the destruction of jungles热带丛林的破坏
Environmental problem
Unit5 HUMANS AND NATURE
Let’s go over the new words
1. disaster
2. flood
3. drought
4. hurricane
5. landslide
6. volcanic
7. eruption
8. wildlife
9. comment
10. crowded
11. landscape
12. living
13. weed
14. deer
15. insect
16. whale
17. dolphin
18. shark
19. kangaroo
20. eagle
21. fox
22. soil
23. climate
24. ecology
25. jungle
26. shock
27. lecture
28. overuse
29. million
30. greenhouse
31. turn one’s back on sb.
32. title
Talk about each aspect:
Example: There are many different kinds of animals and plants in nature, such as dolphins, sharks, trees, flowers etc.
🎧 Listening(5.1)
1.pre-listening:预测对话主题与内容;
Comments
Natural Landscapes
Living Things
Environmental Problems
🎧 Listening(5.1)
2.while-listening:
What’s the main idea of the dialogue?
-----Listen and take notes.
🎧
2.while-listening:
Listen again and complete the text builder.
Actually, the whole city is quite green.
About 66 percent of the city is covered with water or green space.
It’s great for wildlife. You can see different kinds of birds.
There’s less water pollution now than fifty years ago. The biggest environmental problems are air pollution and noise pollution.
check answers
Post-listening
Use the Text Builder to talk about the natural environment of our hometown.
I am so lucky to live in a beautiful community. There is a lot of green space between buildings. When spring arrives, we can see so many colorful flowers along the streets. Animals, such as different kinds of birds, love this kind of environment. And there are other interesting animals too, like squirrels.
There are many different kinds of animals and plants in nature.
All of us are amazed by natural landscape,such as rivers, forests, and mountains.
There is little we can do to avoid natural disasters.
We are faced with serious environmental problems.
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Two students are talking about what they have learnt from a lecture about nature.
---Listen to the dialogue and complete the information below.
Listening(5.2)
The two students were shocked at the lecture on nature. They didn’t know that we were so much. They learnt that we overused nature. As a result, nature , felt pain, and finally on us. They realised that nature is our home. Humans, animals, plants and live in it. We should our “home”. We should nature.
harming nature
got hurt
turned its back
all other living things
take care of
protect
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Listen again and think about the two questions.
Why nature turned its back on us?
What’s the title of the lecture?
What have you learned from their dialogue?
We learnt that we overused nature. As a result,nature got hurt, felt pain and finally turned its back on us.
How do humans treat nature?
We are harming nature so much.We overuse nature.
How does nature treat us?
Nature gets hurt, feels pain and turns its back on us.
What’s the relationship between humans and nature?
Nature is our home. Humans, animals, plants and all other living things live in it.
What should we do?
We should take care of our “home” .We should protect nature.
1. People should live in harmony with nature.
2. Humans are responsible for the extinction of different kinds of wildlife.
3. Air pollution is not the environmental problem that can only be solved by planting more trees.
4. If we harm nature, it will turn its back on us.
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
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Homework
Write down your understanding of the relationship between humans and nature. Try to use the useful expressions learned in this class.
熟记本课词汇;
写一段短文描述你身边的自然或环境问题。
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