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1 Learning about language
Unit 4 Global Warming Learning about language 温州中学 罗虎

2 today before Global Warming

3 Rewrite Global Warming
climate, quantities, state, lead to,consequence,ranges, compared…to, catastrophe, keep on, There is no doubt, the effects of global warming The change of a small town Lanina, a small town in Argentina, used to attract huge numbers of tourists every year. The weather there used to be mild with warm winter and cool summer. It was many series of animals and plants that impressed travellers deeply. It is no wonder that tourists considered it as the heaven in the world and everything there seemed to be in a perfect condition. However, a disaster was on the way. It was not until several years ago that local people realised it. Floods and sandstorms continued attacking the town, leading to the spread of diseases and the destruction of species. As a result, people there had to move out of the town. climate quantities ranges There is no doubt that compared to state catastrophe kept on resulting in consequence Global Warming

4 ? Graph describing Global Warming What is the difference
between A and B? ? A. We know that the levels of carbon dioxide have increased greatly over the last 100 to 150 years. (Para 5) The general trend or description B. He found that, between these years, the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere went up from around 315 parts per million to around 370 parts per million. (Para 5) The description of the detail Global Warming

5 Discovering Global Warming
How is the graph described? Discovering general trend topic The graph shows the changes of the tourist number from 1991 to 2,000. On the whole, the number increased steadily over this period. The number rose from 5000 in 1991 to more than 25,000 in 2001 when it reached its highest. It can be concluded from the graph that the town attracted more and more tourists during this period. _________________________________________________________________ _____ ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ __________________________ _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ conclusion detailed information Global Warming

6 Global Warming Have a try Topic: show, change
General trend: on the whole, increase steadily, Detailed information: rise from…to…, reach its highest, Coclusion: conclude, decrease fall lowest Global Warming

7 Discussion What is it that has resulted in the present situation?
Global Warming

8 Make your own discoveries
1. What do these sentences have in common? 2. What is the function of the structure? To make the emphasized part salient (突出的). To put extra emphasis or importance on a certain part of the sentence. Global Warming

9 Global Warming Learn to use
It was__________ that played against each other in NBA for the first time on Nov Yao and Yi It was________________ that Yao and Yi played against each other in NBA for the first time. on Nov 9, 2007 for the first time It was_______________ that Yao and Yi played against each other in NBA on Nov 9, 2007. Global Warming

10 Global Warming Learn to use
The 29th Olympic Games will be held on Aug 8, 2008 in the Nest Building. It is …that… Global Warming

11 Learn to use It is/was …that… Global Warming

12 Learn to use Global Warming

13 Group work Global Warming
Now the local people want to make their suffering known and attract the public attention to GW . If you were one of them, what would you say? catastrophe consequence state quantities of compare to come about keep on result in It is …that… The global warming is no joke. Instead … _______________________________ _______________________________ ______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Let’s join hands for a better tomorrow! Global Warming

14 Homework 1. Finish the exercises on Page 28 and 29.
2. Polish your oral report and publicize it on the school network. Global Warming

15 Global Warming Everything there seemed to be in a perfect state.
Here “state” has the same meaning as in _______. A. It is Hambley who states that more carbon dioxide is a positive thing. B. The health of the patient was in a recovery state. C. The USA, which is made up of 50 states, lies in North America. D. His father used to work in a state-owned company. B To say or express formally condition A smaller partly self-governing area The government of a country Global Warming


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