(共27张PPT)
Who Is Speaking
Part 1. A voice from nature
Who is speaking
How many years has it been
Why do people need nature
4. What does the nature want to tell us
Task 1. Enjoy a video and answer some questions.
微技能:Pay attention to the key words and numbers and then write down key information while watching.
1. Who is speaking
C. Mother disaster
D. Mother nature
B. Mother water
A. Mother forest
2. How many years have it been
A. 4.5 billions years
B. 4.5 billion years
C. 22,500 years
D. 4.5 million years
3. Why does people need nature
A. People are too weak to live alone.
B. People love their mother.
C. Our future depends on nature’s creation
D. Our actions to nature will determine our fate
When she thrive, we .
When she falter, we . Or worse.
Our will determine our .
Not hers.
So, we must protect nature.
4. What does the nature want to tell us
thrive
falter
actions
fate
Nature Is Speaking
大自然在说话
Task 2. Read the passage aloud with your affection.
Please pay attention to your pronunciation and your intonation.
Some call me nature. Others call me “Mother Nature.”有人称我为大自然。也有人叫我“大自然母亲”。
I‘ve been here for over 4.5 billion years. 22,500 times longer than you.
是你们人类存在时间的22500倍。我在这里已经超过45亿年。
I don’t really need people. But people need me.
Yes, your future depends on me.
我真的不需要人类。但人类需要我。是的,你的未来取决于我。
When I thrive, you thrive. When I falter, you falter. Or worse.如果我繁盛,你们也将繁盛。如果我衰败,你们也会衰败或者更糟。
I have fed species greater than you. And I have starved species greater than you.
我养育过比你们强大得多的物种。我也曾让比你们强大得多的物种因饥饿而亡。
My oceans,My soil,My flowing streams,My forests. They all can take you or leave you.
我的海洋,我的土壤,我那流淌的小溪,我的森林,它们都可以左右人类的存在。
How you choose to live each day, whether you regard or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me.
你们如何选择每天的生活,是否在意我还是无视我,我都不在乎。
One way or the other. Your actions will determine your fate. Not mine.
不管怎样,你们的行为决定了你们的命运,不是我的。
I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you
我是自然。我会继续下去。我随时准备进化。而你们呢?
Part 2. More voice from nature
Task 1. Enjoy the other video and fill with some blanks with following words by proper form.
how to make thing give Go leave big brain
More than generous think about make air beautiful come back
amazed Grow up smart my tree Jungle
figure it out Plant fun Medicine Human
I am the rainforest.
I watched them here.
They've , but they always .
Yes, they always come back.
For , their wood.
My , their .
For my , their escape.
I've always been there for them.
And I have been .
Sometimes I it all to them.
Now, , forever.
grow up
left
come back
my trees
plants
medicines
beauty
more than generous
gave
gone
But , they are so smart. So .
Such and opposable thumbs.
They know , things.
Now why would they need an old forest like me anymore Trees
Well, they do breath air. And I .
Have they that
Humans, so smart, they'll .
Humans, making air.
That'll be to watch.
humans
smart
big brains
how to make things
amazing
Jungles
make air
thought about
figure it out
fun
Task 2. Further thinking
nature
Mr. Rainforest
Generous
Kind
Rich
Selfless
Dedicated
poor
selfish
greedy
clever
vs
men
creative
What should the relationship between nature and human being be
conflicting
harmonious
nature
Forest
water
air
animals
mountains
river
earth
Plants
…
1. Do you know any other children
of nature
2. What do you think of nature
Mrs. Nature
Mrs. Nature
emotional
powerful
beautiful
I will give you a beautiful world.
I will bring you all kinds of natural disasters.
tornado
volcano eruption
snow slide
mudflow
Do you know any natural disasters
drought
flood
earthquake
sandstorm
Environment
problems
Domestic pollution
Water pollution
Noise pollution
Air pollution
Land pollution
Domestic pollution
In China, millions of tons of household wastes are produced every day.
what cause the pollution
Air pollution
A great number of cars are piping out kinds of waste gas into the atmosphere.
We can always see heavy smoke piped from the tall and ugly chimneys.
Water pollution caused by chemicals
Huai River in china
Because waste water is being poured continuously into rivers, water pollution is getting worse and worse.
Deforestation and desertification
Due to man’s deforestation, more than one quarter of china is suffering desertification .
Overpopulation
Overpopulation has cause a series of social problems.
Task 3. Discuss and make a speach
Topic :How to protect
nature
factory
Individual
save electricity(电)
recycle waste
take a bus / subway /ride a bike
save water
Stop using disposable things(一次性物品)
Stop littering
Measures
Use clean energy
Purify the waste before discarding
goverment
Make laws to punish pollution makers
close down heavily polluted factories
clean
factory
Individual
goverment
Part 4. Homework
题目:假设你是光明高中的学生李华,学校举办主题为“protect nature, protect ourselves”的演讲比赛,请你写一篇演讲稿,150单词左右。