1、Unit 2The environment,Task,Designing a poster,Skills building 1: reading for information,Why we want to read the following?,a news paper/a website/a plane ticket/a bus timetable/a magazine/an advertisement,Discussion,a news paper,to find out about the days news to find out about the weather,a plane
2、ticket,to find out departure/arrival times to find out your seat number,a website,to research information to find out the latest news,a magazine,to find out about the latest fashions to find out more about a particular topic, such as gardening,to find out departure/arrival times to find out where th
3、e bus stops,a bus timetable,an advertisement,to find out more about a product to find out where you can buy a product,Answers for Part B,1. At what time can you see This is it?At 14:30 and 18:00. 2. What is the weather like in Hangzhou? Rainy. 3. What has just opened?The citys Modern Art Museum. 4.
4、How many people went to the opening?Over 10,000 people.,Read the article about desertification. Work in pairs and list three things we can do to help stop desertification.,Step 1: reading a scientific article,to build fences (which stop wind from blowing the dirt away) to plant more trees and bushes
5、. to find and drill for underground water better administration of areas that are likely to turn to desert and training people in how to use water without wasting it. sharing information between countries and using satellites to pick out areas likely to be affected by desertification.,Have a discuss
6、ion with your partner to think of things we can do to help stop desertification, which can be included in our posters later.,Collect some money to help the poor farms. Save as much water as possible in our daily life. Ask scientists to find more plants that are suitable for growing in deserts.,Pair
7、work,Skills building 2: listening and drawing conclusions,Read the following sentences and try to get some conclusions. Ive just been to the hospital, and the doctor asked me to take some medicine.I want to have some more bread.,The speaker is ill.,The speaker is not full yet.,If you hear “yet anoth
8、er tall building has been built in Shanghai.” What can you conclude?,There are already some tall buildings in Shanghai.,If you hear the following dialogue Man: The train is going to be late today. Woman: Im not surprised. What can you conclude?,The train is often late.,A. Read these short descriptio
9、ns from news reports and draw a conclusion about what kind of natural disaster occurred in each situation.,earthquake typhoon flood fire,1. It had been raining for ten days and then the river went over its banks and water was everywhere. The field that we had just planted with rice was covered with
10、water.,flood,2. The house just went up in flames. We could not stop it from burning down. 3. One minute I was standing and the next I had fallen on the ground. The ground was moving all around me. Several cars fell into big holes in the roads. I was really frightened. I am lucky to be alive.,fire,ea
11、rthquake,4. The wind was very strong and the rain just poured down. Many shop windows were broken.,typhoon,1. The fires have been burning for quite some time. 2. Many people have lost their homes.,B. Listen to the news report, tick () the boxes of conclusions that can be drawn from.,T,T,3. The polic
12、e believe people in Los Angeles started the fires. 4. The reporter thinks it is very sad that old trees will be burnt. 5. The fire department has given up hope of stopping the fires.,F,F,T,Listening material,Reporter: This is Sally Smith reporting for World News from Los Angeles, California. Califor
13、nia is still fighting huge fires that are sweeping across the state. Thousands of people have lost their homes although no one has been killed. Firefighters are trying new ways to help save peoples homes. This,includes using special planes that can bring water from the sea and drop it on the fires.
14、It is thought that some teenagers may have started the fires. As you can see from here that the damage to the environment is very bad. The fires have already damaged two hundred and sixty square kilometers of forest.,Some of these trees are hundreds of years old and will be destroyed unless the fire
15、s are quickly put out. At the moment, there is no evidence that firefighters are in control of the fires.,High winds in the area are helping the fires to spread. I will update you again on the situation in an hour. This is Sally Smith, reporting to you live from Los Angeles, California.,Step 2: list
16、ening to a lecture,Listen to your teachers lecture to learn more about desertification.,1. How many people are affected by desertification every year? _ 2. Where does it happen? _,Two hundred and fifty million.,Although desertification can happen everywhere, it is an especially big problem in Africa
17、, and parts of South America. It is a problem in China as well.,3. How are the people living in desert areas affected by it? _ _ _ _ 4. Why does it happen? _ _ _ _,They may lose their homes and farms because the land is too dry to use. Many families starve and others move to the cities to find work.
18、,Some parts of the world are becoming drier because the weather has changes. However, the actions of humans are making the problem of desertification much worse.,_ _ _ _ _ _ 5. Who should be concerned? _,People plant too much on the land without giving it a rest; too many animals depend on the same
19、land for food; and people cut down trees for energy and to make space for more farms-all of this dries out the land.,Everyone should be concerned.,B. Check your understanding of what you have just heard. Read the following statements and match them with the conclusions that can be made from them.,1.
20、 Your teacher wants you to help educate people about desertification. 2. A desert is an area of dry land. Desertification happens when land turns into desert.,a. The ending -ification means a process.d. Many people around the world do not know about desertification.,3. People plant things without gi
21、ving the land a chance to rest. 4. The wind carries sand from the deserts to the cities, causing air pollution.,c. Some people become ill after breathing this air. b. One way to stop desertification is to allow the land a chance to rest.,Listening material,Teacher: Desertification happens when land
22、that can be used for farming turns into desert. It affects around two hundred and fifty million people every year. About a third of all Earths land suffers from this problem.,Although desertification can happen everywhere, it is an especially big problem in Africa, and parts of South America. It is
23、a problem in China as well. Even people who do not live in desert areas can be affected, because the sand from the deserts gets carried by the wind to other areas. It is not very healthy to breathe the dusty air.,It is worse for the people who live in these desert areas. They may lose their homes an
24、d farms because the land is too dry to use. Many families starve, and others move to the cities to find work.,There are many reasons why this is happening. Some parts of the world are becoming drier because the weather has changes. However, the actions of humans are making the problem of desertifica
25、tion much worse.,People plant too much on the land without giving it a rest; too many animals depend on the same land for food; and people cut down trees for energy and to make space for more farms all of this dries out the land. When it gets too dry and there are no trees to stop the wind, the soil
26、 blows away.,Desertification is everyones problem. You can help solve this problem by educating people in your community and around the world.,Skills building 3: presenting your point of view,I think/believe that From my point of view it seems that it seems to me that Personally I agree/disagree because,because as a result of due to on account of ,Useful words,Title _ Content _ Pictures/format _,Step 3: designing a poster,Homework,Finish step 3.,Thank you !,
