1、Unit 2 The environment Task Designing a poster Skills building 1:reading for informationWhy we want to read the following?a news paper/a website/a plane ticket/a bus timetable/a magazine/an advertisementDiscussiona news paperto find out about the days news to find out about the weathera plane ticket
2、to find out departure/arrival timesto find out your seat numbera websiteto research information to find out the latest newsa magazineto find out about the latest fashionsto find out more about a particular topic,such as gardening to find out departure/arrival timesto find out where the bus stopsa bu
3、s timetablean advertisementto find out more about a productto find out where you can buy a product Answers for Part B 1.At what time can you see This is it?At 14:30 and 18:00.2.What is the weather like in Hangzhou?Rainy.3.What has just opened?The citys Modern Art Museum.4.How many people went to the
4、 opening?Over 10,000 people.Read the article about desertification.Work in pairs and list three things we can do to help stop desertification.Step 1:reading a scientific article to build fences(which stop wind from blowing the dirt away)to plant more trees and bushes.to find and drill for undergroun
5、d waterbetter administration of areas that are likely to turn to desert and training people in how to use water without wasting it.sharing information between countries and using satellites to pick out areas likely to be affected by desertification.Have a discussion with your partner to think of thi
6、ngs we can do to help stop desertification,which can be included in our posters later.Collect some money to help the poor farms.Save as much water as possible in our daily life.Ask scientists to find more plants that are suitable for growing in deserts.Pair workSkills building 2:listening and drawin
7、g conclusions Read the following sentences and try to get some conclusions.Ive just been to the hospital,and the doctor asked me to take some medicine.I want to have some more bread.The speaker is ill.The speaker is not full yet.If you hear“yet another tall building has been built in Shanghai.”What
8、can you conclude?There are already some tall buildings inShanghai.If you hear the following dialogue Man:The train is going to be late today.Woman:Im not surprised.What can you conclude?The train is often late.A.Read these short descriptions from news reports and draw a conclusion about what kind of
9、 natural disaster occurred in each situation.earthquake typhoon flood fire1.It had been raining for ten days and then the river went over its banks and water was everywhere.The field that we had just planted with rice was covered with water.flood 2.The house just went up in flames.We could not stop
10、it from burning down.3.One minute I was standing and the next I had fallen on the ground.The ground was moving all around me.Several cars fell into big holes in the roads.I was really frightened.I am lucky to be alive.fire earthquake4.The wind was very strong and the rain just poured down.Many shop
11、windows were broken.typhoon1.The fires have been burning for quite some time.2.Many people have lost their homes.B.Listen to the news report,tick ()the boxes of conclusions that can be drawn from.TT3.The police believe people in Los Angeles started the fires.4.The reporter thinks it is very sad that
12、 old trees will be burnt.5.The fire department has given up hope of stopping the fires.FF TListening materialReporter:This is Sally Smith reporting for World News from Los Angeles,California.California is still fighting huge fires that are sweeping across the state.Thousands of people have lost thei
13、r homes although no one has been killed.Firefighters are trying new ways to help save peoples homes.Thisincludes using special planes that can bring water from the sea and drop it on the fires.It is thought that some teenagers may have started the fires.As you can see from here that the damage to th
14、e environment is very bad.The fires have already damaged two hundred and sixty square kilometers of forest.Some of these trees are hundreds of years old and will be destroyed unless the fires are quickly put out.At the moment,there is no evidence that firefighters are in control of the fires.High wi
15、nds in the area are helping the fires to spread.I will update you again on the situation in an hour.This is Sally Smith,reporting to you live from Los Angeles,California.Step 2:listening to a lectureListen to your teachers lecture to learn more about desertification.1.How many people are affected by
16、 desertification every year?_2.Where does it happen?_ _ _ _ Two hundred and fifty million.Although desertification can happen everywhere,it is an especially big problem in Africa,and parts of South America.It is a problem in China as well.3.How are the people living in desert areas affected by it?_4
17、.Why does it happen?_They may lose their homes and farms because the land is too dry to use.Many families starve and others move to the cities to find work.Some parts of the world are becoming drier because the weather has changes.However,the actions of humans are making the problem of desertificati
18、on much worse._5.Who should be concerned?_People plant too much on the land without giving it a rest;too many animals depend on the same land for food;and people cut down trees for energy and to make space for more farms-all of this dries out the land.Everyone should be concerned.B.Check your unders
19、tanding of what you have just heard.Read the following statements and match them with the conclusions that can be made from them.1.Your teacher wants you to help educate people about desertification.2.A desert is an area of dry land.Desertification happens when land turns into desert.a.The ending -i
20、fication means a process.d.Many people around the world do not know about desertification.3.People plant things without giving the land a chance to rest.4.The wind carries sand from the deserts to the cities,causing air pollution.c.Some people become ill after breathing this air.b.One way to stop de
21、sertification is to allow the land a chance to rest.Listening materialTeacher:Desertification happens when land that can be used for farming turns into desert.It affects around two hundred and fifty million people every year.About a third of all Earths land suffers from this problem.Although deserti
22、fication can happen everywhere,it is an especially big problem in Africa,and parts of South America.It is a problem in China as well.Even people who do not live in desert areas can be affected,because the sand from the deserts gets carried by the wind to other areas.It is not very healthy to breathe
23、 the dusty air.It is worse for the people who live in these desert areas.They may lose their homes and farms because the land is too dry to use.Many families starve,and others move to the cities to find work.There are many reasons why this is happening.Some parts of the world are becoming drier beca
24、use the weather has changes.However,the actions of humans are making the problem of desertification much worse.People plant too much on the land without giving it a rest;too many animals depend on the same land for food;and people cut down trees for energy and to make space for more farms all of thi
25、s dries out the land.When it gets too dry and there are no trees to stop the wind,the soil blows away.Desertification is everyones problem.You can help solve this problem by educating people in your community and around the world.Skills building 3:presenting your point of viewI think/believe thatFrom my point of view it seems thatit seems to me thatPersonally I agree/disagree becausebecause as a result of due to on account of Useful wordsTitle _Content _Pictures/format _ Step 3:designing a posterHomeworkFinish step 3.
