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Unit 6 Nurturing nature
Developing ideas
新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第一册
Activity 1
Watch the video and answer the questions.
Which natural heritage site is introduced in the video
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
2. What kind of threat is it facing
Human activities bring a lot of threat:
Industry along the coast pollutes its waters;
illegal fishing is reducing the number of fish;
climate change has many negative effect on the coral.
Activity 2
Predict what the passage is about.
Activity 3
Choose the topic sentences for the paragraphs to complete the passage.
Located off the coast of North-east Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living thing on the planet.
Whether it was a genuine job offer or an eye-catching marketing event isn’t really important.
This call for an island caretaker attracted interest from all over the world.
Ben did a lot during his time as an island caretaker.
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Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 5:
Paragraph 6:
Think & Share
Explore the islands of the Reef and find out what the area has to offer. Report back via weekly blogs, photo diaries and video updates. Promote the islands through newspapers, magazines and TV interviews.
4. In the first reading passage the writer uses his own experience to describe the challenges of building the railway and the solutions to these problems. In this way, he wants to tell us that we should protect nature while constructing and developing human society. In the second passage the writer explains the best job in the world, its requirements and its duty to raise the public awareness of the beauty of nature, and to understand the delicate balance of nature. Both of the passages stress that human beings should protect our environment and live in harmony with nature.
Activity 4
Think about what you would present in the video.
Organise your ideas by considering the following points.
Share your ideas within the group.
Choose a group member to present their ideas to the class.
Discuss and present your ideas for the short video required.
Now think about how you could use the language you have learnt from the passages in your presentation and what you have learnt from others’ presentations.
Activity 5
Read the job advertisement and answer the questions.
How long will the job last
The job will last for four months.
2. What are the responsibilities of the job
The responsibilities of the job are to monitor the area for algae, work on ships and remove algae from water.
3. What benefits does it offer
It provides accommodation and meals and you can negotiate the salary with the employer.
Activity 6
Choose one of the jobs and complete the notes.
Guardian of the Pine Tree
Mount Huangshan, Anhui Province
making sure that nothing harms the Welcoming-Guest Pine;
checking the tree several times a day;
taking notes recording the observations
accommodation and meals provided；
15-day-vacation with pay every year
Activity 6
Choose one of the jobs and complete the notes.
Panda Breeder
Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Provence
Responsibilities: looking after pandas;
talking to visitors;
posting updates on social media
Insurance of endowment；
allowance in canteen
Activity 6
Choose one of the jobs and complete the notes.
Red Stone Gorge Cleaner
Red Stone Gorge Cleaner
climbing up and down the cliffs;
clearing rubbish;
Helping conserve the environment
Basic wage- ￥ 200,000 per year;
work- related injury insurance
Activity 7
Work in pairs.
PANDAS NEED YOU!
Panda Breeder, full-time job
Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province
Taking care of panda; talking to visitors; posting
updates on social media
Three day’s paid leave every month; meals
and physical examination provided
All applicants welcome, but preference will be
given to those from veterinary medicine and zoology.
Please visit our website www. for more information.
Make improvements to each other’s job advertisements and share them with the class.(共9张PPT)
Unit 6 Nurturing nature
Starting out
新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第一册
Activity 1
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
1. What do you know about these places
2. What do these places have in common
Activity 1
Huanglong, China:
Located in the north of Sichuan, Huanglong is a historic and scenic area widely known for its colourful pools, hot springs, valleys, waterfalls, snow-capped peaks and diverse forest. The area also has a population of endangered animals, including the giant panda and the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey.
Activity 1
Iguazú Falls, Argentina and Brazil:
The Iguazú Falls stretch in width for 2.7 kilometres (or 1.7 miles). Their height varies between 60 metres (200 feet) and 82 metres (or 269 feet). They feature over 275 individual falls that thunder into the Iguazu River. Special walkways have been built around the Iguazu Falls to allow visitors to get close up to this wonder of their natural beauty and power.
Activity 1
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania:
Located in north-east Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the world’s tallest free standing mountain, about 5,895m above sea level. The mountain is encircled by mountain forest. Mount Kilimanjaro consists of three principal volcanoes: Kibo (centre), Mawensi (east), and Shira (west). Shira and Mawensi are extinct volcanoes. However, Kibo is a dormant volcano; it can erupt again. The mountain has been the subject of many scientific studies because of its shrinking glaciers and disappearing ice fields.
Activity 1
Uluru, Australia:
Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as "Uluru / Ayers Rock", is a large sandstone rock formation in southwestern Northern Territory, central Australia. Uluru is sacred to the Aboriginal people of the area. Uluru / Ayers Rock rises 348 metres above the surrounding desert plain and reaches a height 863 metres above sea level. The area around the formation is home to an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings.
Activity 1
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
1. What do you know about these places
2. What do these places have in common
They are all included on the World Heritage List.
Activity 2
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 What are the three types of World Heritage Sites
There are three types of the World Heritage Sites, cultural, natural and mixed.
A mixed heritage site is a site that has both cultural and natural significance.
2 What other natural heritage sites in China do you know of (共9张PPT)
Unit 6 Nurturing nature
Understanding ideas
新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第一册
Activity 1
Work in pairs and complete the quiz.
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Activity 2
Find out why the railway is particularly special to the author.
The author has worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and as the highest railway in the world and being claimed to be “impossible”, the railway is a record of all the efforts made by the author and other people who worked on it to overcome the most difficult engineering challenges. All of these make the railway special to the author.
Activity 3
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
1. To prove that humans can conquer nature.
2. To highlight the amount of work required to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
3. To praise the workers’ efforts in building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Activity 3
To praise the workers’ efforts in building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
1. The sentence in Paragraph 2 “Taking years to complete, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a record of all of our efforts to overcome the most difficult engineering challenges.” shows that the workers made a great effort to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
2. From Paragraph 2 to Paragraph 6 the author tells us the challenges they met when constructing the railway and the measures they took to solve the problems. From these we can tell the workers make a great effort to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
3. In Paragraph 6 the author says “I feel a sense of pride and achievement” and in Paragraph 7 “I am proud that we built our ‘impossible’ railway in the world with the care the environment deserves.” All of these indicate that the author’s purpose is to praise the workers’ efforts in building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Activity 4
Complete the table.
Thirty-three passages
move safely and freely in their natural habitat
prevent damage to wetlands and grasslands
a total length of about 160 kilometres
moved to a new area
Several oxygen-making stations
regular breaks
protect Cuona Lake
build a twenty-kilometre wall
protect it from construction waste
1. They have to apply state-of-the-art techniques to protecting the permafrost in the subgrade of the railway embankment;
2. They need to make regulations to ensure the environmental disposal of the construction waste;
3. They must overcome problems brought about by complex topography.
2. Sky Railway, highest, impossible, extraordinary; You can also say it is a miracle, great achievement, etc.
3. The railway has made it convenient for people to travel around; it has promoted the local economy; it has improved people’s living standard, etc.
4. You can use reading skills like scanning to collect information. In this way you can put aside unimportant content and focus on the information you are searching for, and then it will help you sum up the main idea quickly.(共15张PPT)
Unit 6 Nurturing nature
Using language
新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第一册
Present perfect continuous
Activity 1
Look at the sentences from the reading passage and answer the questions.
They are different in form and meaning.
For Sentence (a) the form is “have been doing”, while for (b) is “have done”.
In meaning, the bold part Sentence (a) means the action is continuous from the past; while the action happened once in the past.
1. Which of these statements is true about sentence (a)
(1) Wild animals started using these passages in the past.
(2) Wild animals used these passages only once.
(3) Wild animals still use these passages now.
2. What is the difference between the expressions in bold insentences (a) and (b)
Activity 1
Now look for more sentences with the present perfect continuous tense in the reading passage, and summarise its use in your own words.
1. The train has been racing along steadily since it left Xining.
2. All this time, the song “Sky Railway” has been playing inside my head.
3. The journey has been flying by, ...
4. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been attracting people’s admiration for centuries.
5. …passengers from all over the country have been enjoying these magical landscapes..
Activity 2
1. have been hearing
2. has been making
3. is moving
4. have been flying
5. have been given
6. have been using
Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs in brackets
Activity 3
Look at the charts and make sentences using the present perfect continuous tense.
1. The number of trees has been increasing in the last 20 years.
2. Desert areas have been reducing in the last 20 years.
3. Butterfly population has been increasing / has becoming larger and larger in the last 20 years.
Activity 4
Talk about how the environment where you live has changed.
Use the present perfect continuous tense where appropriate.
Work in pairs.
Tourism and the environment
Activity 5
Listen and Listen to the conversation and choose the places mentioned.
Nepal and Thailand are mentioned.
Activity 6
Listen again and complete the notes.
Now work in pairs. Discuss what type of travel you prefer.
hard work
elephants
hike in the mountains
count
lie on the beach
a nice hotel
a one-day bike tour
Activity 7
Persuading others
Compromising
The fact is that…
Wouldn’t you agree that…
I agree, but…
As a compromise, …
Let’s find a compromise.
Let’s meet in the middle.
Complete the boxes with the expressions from
the conversation.
Activity 8
Complete the passage with the expressions in the box.
1. create opportunities for new businesses
2. help the local economy
3. not eco-friendly
4. disturb the wildlife
5. provide more jobs
6. use up natural resources
7. higher carbon emissions
Activity 9
Advantages
Disadvantages
1. attract more tourists
2. create opportunities
for new businesses
3. help the local economy
4. provide more jobs for
people living in the area
补充：
5. raise awareness of local wildlife
6. provide locals with a chance to experience other cultureshy
1. not eco-friendly
2. disturb the wildlife
3. use up natural resources
4. higher carbon emissions
补充：
5. pollute inshore seawater
6. destroy local ecological
environment
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Complete the boxes with the expressions in Activity
Activity 10
Student A:
You are a hotel operator who wants to build a hotel on some forested land.
Student B:
You are a conservationist who wants to protect the wildlife there.
Work in pairs.
Role-play a discussion to reach an agreement that is satisfactory for everyone.
Now think about how well you approached the problem from different perspectives and reached an agreement.
