课件30张PPT。 The economy Unit 2 Reading or the environment --must we choose?注意：“地球”只有一个，一旦删除，无法挽回，确定要删除“地球”吗？！Acid rainWater pollutionAir pollutionrubbishAlmost 800 million
people in the world do not have enough to eat. Have you ever seen a debate or even taken part in a debate?
Do you know something about debates?Reading strategyReading a debateThe procedure of the debate:A presents his points. B presents his points.
Open discussion1.What’s the procedure(程序) of a debate?2. While reading or listening to a debate, what should you remember?You should remember each speaker’s speech is meant to convince you.The topic: For side speaker:Against side speaker:The environment or the economy?Mr. Lin ShuiqingMr. Qian LiweiFrom ______As an ______As an ________the society for Environmental PreservationenvironmentalisteconomistTrue or False1.The person from the Society for environmental Preservation is an economist.2.Creatures living in water are killed by chemicals.3.The economist thinks that economic development is not bad for the environment.4. The economist think that cutting back on the amount of things we produce will cause people to lose jobs.5.According to the economist’s suggestion, if you want to harm the environment, you don’t have to pay to do it. environmentalistscanning12345612345Detailed reading Many places …. Many plants and
animals …. Factories …
Rivers are full of chemicals which flow into the sea and kill sea creatures.
Fishing boats catch large numbers of fish without giving them time to lay eggs.
The world’s population has grown to more than six times what it was in 1800. …
People should try to cut back on production and reduce the amount of things they make and buy.
It would be beneficial to expand our recycling industry, and teach people about environmentally friendly ways of living. We may even create more jobs and help the economy at the same time.There are many factories and industries …. The people running these factories ….
If we cut back on …, then jobs will be lost. People are more important than fish and trees.
We should produce more things from recycled materials, and less from materials taken directly from the environment.
We need more effective laws to preserve the environment, …. This includes more inspections to control how many trees are cut down and how many fish boats can catch.
Factories … should have to pay higher taxes.
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Lin Shuiqing’s speech?
A. Industrial waste destroyed many places and killed many places and animals.
B. Factories producing poisonous chemicals should close down.
C. Fishes died because of more than one reasons.
D. Polluted atmosphere can make human beings sick.
Reading comprehension
2.What can be inferred from the speech?
A. Though we caught large numbers of fish, they develop so quickly that we’ll still have enough to eat.
B. It’s likely that we’ll not have enough to eat if we keep producing people rapidly.
C. Lin Shuiqing is for the idea of recycling, while Qian Liwei is against it.
D. An economist is often seen as being against the environment.
3.What does the sentence “People often think that economic development is bad for the environment, but this does not have to be right.”(L33-35) mean?
A. Economic development is good for the environment.
B. Economic development is bad for the environment.
C. Economic development is not always bad for the environment.
D. People are wrong to think economic development is bad for the environment.summaryeconomistViewpoints opinionsdestroyedapproachinghealthystableReasonspoisonouslay eggslive onamountrepairingconcernedcut back onrecyclingenvironmentallydirectlyeffectiveinspectionscut down Do you think it is possible to achieve a balance between the economy and the environment?
How can this be achieved? Discussion1. We could educate people to respect and protect the environment.
2. We could urge(催促,劝告) factories that produce large amounts of waste to build a system to purify the waste and minimize the damage to the environment.
3.We could urge the government to pass stricter laws to protect the environment.
4. We could create a system to deal with the waste and rubbish scientifically.Homework:1.Read the text.
2. Preview the language points in the debate.1. what happened as a result of industrial waste? Many places have been destroyed and many plants and animals have died.The waste goes into the atmosphere
and makes us sick. Some waste flows into the water and
later into the sea, killing sea creatures.2. What’s the effect of water pollution?population explosion What should we do to recycling?We should expand our recycling industry and teach people about environmentally friendly ways of living.They think of clouds of dirty smoke or a pipe pouring waste into a river.They think of greedy businessmen hiding from their responsibilities to the environment.What do many people think of factories according to Mr. Qian’ speech?We need more effective laws to preserve the environment, which still allow the economy to grow.
