课题:Unit 4 Global warming
Lesson 7 (extensive reading)
【三维目标】1.Improve students’s ability to get the mian idea and useful information from reading passage.
2.Process and method:Group work,Task-based teachng.
3.Emotion attitude and value:To develop students’ sense of cooperation with the help of group work.
【课前预习】设计意图:训练学生阅读和提取关键信息的能力。
Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the world. For example, cars have made the air unhealthy for people to breathe and poisonous gas is given off by factories. Trees on the hills have been cut down and waste water is being poured continuously into rivers. Furthermore, wherever we go today, we can find rubbish carelessly disposed.
?? There are different kinds of pollutants, each of which comes from different sources. It is necessary to identify the source of pollution, in order to make a policy to eliminate them.
?? Different products, processes and activities of our industrialized world together form the major source of pollution. The forms of pollution can be mainly divided into three kinds—solid, liquid and gas.
?? These pollutions have greatly damaged our planet and continue to do so. In fact, pollution is threatening our existence. The whole ecological balance of the earth is changing. Massive destruction of environment has brought about negative effects and even posed a great threat to man’s existence.
?? We must face the situation that exists and take action to solve our environmental problems. For instance, new laws must be passed to place strict control over industrial pollution, the public must receive the education about the danger of pollution and so on.
?? The earth is our home and we have the duty to take care of it for ourselves and our later generation. Fortunately, more and more people have realized these problems. Measures have been taken to deal with these situations by the government. Laws have been passed to stop pollution, I hope the problems will be solved in the near future and our home will become better and better.
1. How many examples of environmental problems are given in the first paragraph?
A. 2 ??????????????????????????? B. 3 ?????????????????? C. 4 ???????????????????????????? D. 5
2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In all there are three kinds of pollution
B. If people continue to pollute our planet, there will be no trees.
C. Industrial pollution has been completely controlled.
D. Laws have been passed to stop pollution and protect our environment.
3. The writer’s attitude towards the future of the earth is _____.
A. despair ???????????????? B. negative ????? ???C. optimistic ???????????????? D. hopeless
【课堂演练】设计意图:进一步提升学生阅读和提取关键信息的能力。
You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature. But, rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation(撤离) of an island nation—the citizens of Tuvalu will have to have their homeland.
During the 20th century, sea level rose 8-12 inches. As a result, Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water.
Paani Laupepa, a Tuvaluan government official, reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years. Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions(导致温室效应的气体排放), which are a main cause of global warming. “By refusing to sign the agreement, the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC.
Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries.
Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable(易受影响的) to rising sea levels. Maumoon Gayoon, president of the Maldives, told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.
1. The text is mainly about_________ .
A. rapid changes in earth’s temperature B. bad effects of global warming
C. moving of a country to a new place D. reasons for lowland flooding
2. According to scientists, the DIRECT cause of more and fiercer storms is________.
A. greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations
B. higher surface water temperatures of the sea
C. continuous global warming D. rising sea levels
3. Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not_______.
A. agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions B. sign an agreement with Tuvalu
C. allow Tuvaluans to move to the US D. believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real
4.The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is______.
A. Australia B. New Zealand C. the Maldives D. The United States
【课后延伸】 请从以上阅读文章中摘抄生单词,并背诵。
课前三分钟
二次备课
课后反思
Teaching key and difficult points:
1. Teaching key points:
Improve students’s ability to get the mian idea and useful information from reading passage.
2. Teaching difficult points:
Read the passage and solve the difficult questions correctly.