Environmen tal Protection Unit 22

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

What do you think of the disasters? Discussion

Natural disasters Lesson 3

1.which of the disasters in the Key Words do you think are: caused by people? made worse by people? 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 peopleforest fires natural made worse byhurricanes 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. a)But evidence shows that years ago there was a much greater eruption. b)Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas have all been underwater. c)That is probably not the most important factor either. 5 1

d) Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless. e) On top of all that add global warming. f) For example, the Yellow River, once famous for flooding, failed to reach the sea at all for 226 days in g) One answer is over-population. 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

4. Read the text again and answer these questions: 1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future ? 2. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural disasters? 3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts ? Pessimistic / Negative. Poor people. Overpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resources.

4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now ? 5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future? 6. What effects might this threat have? 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. A volcanic eruption. It might send the planet into winter for years.

Fill in the blanks about the text. In the last ___ years, there are more and more disasters such as _____, ________, windstorms, earthquakes, ________, volcanic _________and _____ fires all over the world. Why are so many disasters ? One of the reasons is over- __________. ten floods droughts typhoons eruptions forest population Post Reading

__ addition, ______ change and the specter of global ________ caused by the mismanagement of the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or make them worse. At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more _________ with the fast ______ of people. Earthquakes take the lives of 1.6 million People in the last hundred years. What is worse, the disaster professionals predict that the things will get _____. dangerousgrowth worse Inclimate warming

1. a) She put her arms around me to comfort me. b) The soldiers were armed with guns. 2. a) Heavy rains resulted in floods. b) His results were not as good as he had hoped. 3. a) He means well but just gets it wrong sometimes. b) The telephone is a means of communication. Decide if the underlined words in the sentences below are nouns or verbs. Then write down their Chinese meanings. noun 手臂 verb 武装 verb 导致 noun 成绩 verb 意思是 noun 方式

4. a) The children had fun sliding down the slide all afternoon. b) Penguins slide downhill over ice on their bellies. 5. a) Be careful! Don’t slip on the wet floor. b) Write your number on this slip of paper. 6.a) What would you like on your bread roll for lunch. b) He rolled the ball across the floor to me. noun 滑梯 verb 滑行 verb 滑倒 noun 小纸条 noun 卷 verb 滚动

1.The ___________ forces protected the city. 2.When will you get your exam ___________? 3.Don broke his arm when he ___________ and fell on the ice. 4.I ____________ what I said. 5.What would be the best ________________ of advertising our product?. 6.Would you like honey on your ______? 7.The house ____________ down the mountain side in the flood last year. 8.The match _________ in a draw. They had 2 points each. armed Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the underlined words above: results slipped mean means roll slid resulted

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