Unit 5 Living in harmony. Module 3 Our fragile environment

What environmental problems are we facing? caused by nature caused by humanity Brainstorming

flood tornado tsunami

water pollution air pollution

rubbish

melting ice caps

endangered species

soil erosion

desert & desertification

deforestation

So, now we are facing a problem: How could we protect our environment? Saleem money Pakan Valley medicine

An o_____ businessman was seriously ill from being overweight. Unfortunately, he was still o________ with making money. He dealt with business first instead of meeting his p______ doctor, who was bringing him v_____ news about saving his life. What was worse, he made a bad decision to c_________ all the trees in Pakan Valley in order to build a factory there, so he could make a huge p____. Of course, you can f_______ the consequences. The main i_________ of the only medicine that could save his life came from a newly-discovered o_____ which only grew in Pakan Valley. bese bsessed ersonal ital ut down rofit oresee ngredient rchid Task A: Text Summary

Physical appearance: Background: Personality: obese, overweight billionaire businessman unfriendly impatient impolite selfish greedy From the story, what kind of person is Saleem?

Do you want to be a person like Saleem? If not,if you own this land, what would you do? Why?

1.Provide more jobs 2.Provide things that people can buy 3.Make much profit 4.Protect environment 5.Produce medicine that can save lives 6.Promote sustainable development and growth 7.Provide natural beauty for people 8.Provide fresh vegetables and fruits for people 9.Promote the tourism business in our country 10.Keep balance between nature and humanity Possible reasons:

Since you are all aware of protecting our environment, in our daily life, what would you do indeed to protect the environment from being polluted?

Task C: Our action!

Protect plants and flowers

Plastic Bag

Walks UndergroundBicycles The heavy traffic

Saleem’s greed leads to his death, if we human beings continue to do such foolish things, the same thing will happen. As long as we pay attention to protecting our environment, our world will be a harmonious family. So let’s take action now! Let’s heal the world together! Conclusion:

Strategy: Using a flow chart understand events or processes: Sometimes in order to see how things relate to each other in a reading passage, it is helpful to use a flow chart. Each box on a flow chart shows either a decision that is made, an event that happens or stage in a process. The arrows on a flow chart tell us what happens next or as a result of previous events. Only the most important points are usually placed on a flow chart.

Homework Write an article about how to protect our environment.