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Unit 22
Environmental
Protection
In this unit we will…
Read an article on global warming and identify
missing information in a text.
Talk about environmental issues in the world today.
Listen to and take notes from a lecture and a radio
interview.
Write a report about the environment.
Revise reported speech and practise vocabulary
relating to global warming, natural disasters and
endangered animals.
Look at the following pictures
and discuss what are
happening in the pictures?
earthquakes
droughts
tsunami
floods
volcanic eruptions
hurricanes
forest fires
typhoon
landslides
Discussion
What do you think
of the disasters?
Lesson 3
Natural disasters
1. which of the disasters in the Key
Words do you think are:
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caused by people?
•
made worse by people?
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natural?
Key Words:
Disasters
droughts,
earthquakes,
floods,
forest fires,
hurricanes,
landslides,
tsunamis,
typhoons,
volcanic eruption
2. Read the article and check your answers to
Exercise 1.
• caused by people
forest fires
• made worse by
•natural
hurricanes
droughts, earthquakes, floods,
landslides, tsunami, typhoons,
volcanic eruptions, forest fires,
hurricanes
Reading strategies:
Completing Texts with sentence gaps
• Read the text to get the general idea.
• Read a paragraph with a sentence gap and identify
the topic, e.g. disasters.
• Read the sentences before and after the gap and
look for clues about the missing sentence, e.g. is it
an example of what is mentioned before?
• Certain words may help you: time references (then).
pronoun references (it, that),linking words (however).
• Decide which sentence goes in the gap. check that
it fits the sentences before and after it.
2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the
text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two
extra sentences you do not need.
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a) But evidence shows that 73.000 years ago
there was a much greater eruption.
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b) Even prosperous Europe has suffered and
large areas have all been underwater.
c) That is probably not the most important
factor either.
2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the
text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two
extra sentences you do not need.
d) Third, the other bits of land you might
have been able to farm are now useless.
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e) On top of all that add global warming.
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f) For example, the Yellow River, once
famous for flooding, failed to reach the sea
at all for 226 days in 1997.
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g) One answer is over-population.
4. Read the text again and answer these questions:
1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards
the future ?
Pessimistic / Negative.
2. Who are most likely to be the victims of
natural disasters?
Poor people.
3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods
and droughts ?
Overpopulation and mismanagement of the
world’s resources.
4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more
dangerous now ?
Because around half the world’s population lives
in cities, more than 500 million people now live
within the range of a volcanic eruption and even
greater number of people at risk from earthquakes.
5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet
in the future?
A volcanic eruption.
6. What effects might this threat have?
It might send the planet into winter for years.
Post Reading
Fill in the blanks about the text.
In the last ___
ten years , there are more and
more disasters such as floods
_____ , ________,
droughts
windstorms, earthquakes, typhoons
________,
volcanic _________and
_____
eruptions
forest fires all
over the world.
Why are so many disasters ? One of the
population
reasons is over- __________.
In addition, climate
__
______ change and the specter of
warming caused by the mismanagement of
global ________
the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or
make them worse.
At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more
_________ with the fast growth
______ of people .
dangerous
Earthquakes take the lives of 1.6 million
People in the last hundred years. What is worse,
the disaster professionals predict that the things
worse
will get _____.
Decide if the underlined words in the sentences below are
nouns or verbs. Then write down their Chinese meanings.
1. a) She put her arms around me to comfort me.
noun 手臂
b) The soldiers were armed with guns.
verb 武装
2. a) Heavy rains resulted in floods.
verb 导致
b) His results were not as good as he had hoped.
noun 成绩
3. a) He means well but just gets it wrong
sometimes. verb 意思是
noun 方式
b) The telephone is a means of communication.
4. a) The children had fun sliding down the slide
noun 滑梯
all afternoon.
b) Penguins slide downhill over ice on their
bellies. verb 滑行
5. a) Be careful! Don’t slip on the wet floor.
verb 滑倒
b) Write your number on this slip of paper.
noun 小纸条
6. a) What would you like on your bread roll for
noun 卷
lunch.
b) He rolled the ball across the floor to me.
verb 滚动
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of
the underlined words above:
armed
1. The ___________
forces protected the city.
results
2. When will you get your exam ___________?
slipped and fell
3. Don broke his arm when he ___________
on the ice.
mean
4. I ____________
what I said.
means
5. What would be the best ________________
of
advertising our product?.
roll
6. Would you like honey on your ______?
slid
7. The house ____________
down the mountain side
in the flood last year.
resulted in a draw. They had 2
8. The match _________
points each.
Discussion
Work in group of 4.
Imagine you are a futurologist.
Now you predict an epidemic in the
future. Try to use as many words
and expressions you have learnt in
the passage as possible.
Name ? When ? Where ? Effect ?
will be spreading, will have killed,…
Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
1. What natural disasters have happened in the
last few months?
2. What do you think governments can do to help
prevent natural disasters?
3. What organisations do you know that provide
aid after disasters, or work for the environment?
4. What can we do to improve the environment
and help victims of natural disasters?
Homework
Finish exercises on
pages 56-57.