Project Unit 3 Science and nature

Having a debate

Lead-in: appreciate some scenes in some movies

Read the article and give the main idea for each paragraph. Paragraph Main idea Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Humans _____________ _______ the environment __________________ towards the problem. Different attitudes have carelessly damaged

Paragraph Main idea Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Both developed and developing countries Should ______________ ______________________. Humans can only really win by_________________. towards living in harmony protecting nature work together

What is the attitude of poorer nations towards the problem? What about the attitude of developed nations? Poorer nations pay more attention to economic development but less to the environment while developed nations do things in a different way.

Read it again and answer the following questions. 1. What have people done to nature? 2. If we continue in this way, what might happen? They have done a lot to destroy and damage nature. It may cause a catastrophe.

If we focus only on environmental conservation, then people may suffer. Should the economic development be stopped in favor of nature? We are only doing what humans have always done, using nature to meet our needs. One side: 3. What different attitude towards environmental conservation?

The other side: Such thinking may cause catastrophe, unless we start to look around and understand how a clean environment benefits us all.

Discuss: 1. Which is more important, economic development or protecting nature? 2. Do you think it contrary ( 矛盾的 ) to develop economy while not damaging the environment?

注意： “ 地球 ” 只有一个，一 旦删除，无法挽回，确定要 删除 “ 地球 ” 吗？！ Having a debate Planning 1. Form your groups 2. Decide which topic your group would like to choose

3.Split group members into For and Against. 4. Give each member of the group a different role: speaker, researcher, timekeeper etc. 5. Search for the information about your topic. Internet magazine libraries books debate on TV debates on the radio any other resources you can use

Preparing: 1. Sort the information 2. Discuss and decide what information to start the debate with 3. Keep a good point for the ending 4. Make a list of the points you think your opposite members will think of. 5. Decide how to argue against those points.

Producing: 1. Practise the debate in each group and practise for many times. 2. Decide how one is going to time each section of your debate.

Presenting: 1. Come together to debate the topic in front of the class. 2. Display the research on the walls. 3. Decide the team which change the minds lose in the debate.

Language points

1. argue: v. [I] to speak angrily to sb., telling them that you disagree with them: v.[I or T] to give the reasons for your opinion, idea, belief, etc: [+ that]

The children are always arguing. Kids, will you stop arguing with each other? They were arguing over/about which film to go and see. 孩子们一直在争辩。 孩子们, 你们能不能彼此停止争论 ? 他们对于去看哪一部影片在争论.

部长争论以赞成 / 反对削减军队开支。 The minister argued for/in favour of/against making cuts in military spending. 两种方式你随便用哪一种为这个案子 辩护。 You can argue the case either way.

argument: n. [C or U] a disagreement, or the process of disagreeing: 孩子们对于玩什么游戏进行了争论。 The children had an argument about/over what game to play. 在激烈的辩论后最终做出了一个决定。 A decision was finally made after some heated argument.

2. turn out : (1) to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:

As events turned out, we were right to have decided to leave early. (2) to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly: The truth turned out to be stranger than we had expected. [+ to infinitive] 事情真相结果要比我们预料的奇怪。 正如事情结果所证明的, 我们决定 早点出发是对的。

[+ that] It turns out that she had known him when they were children. 结果是在他们还是孩子的时候她 就认识他了。

We wanted to get home before dark, but it didn’t quite ___ as planned. （ 2004 广西） A.make out B. turn out C. go on D. come up 高考链接 B

Homework Display your research on the walls of your classroom after class.