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Unit 22 Environmental Protection In this unit we will… Read an article on global warming and identify missing information in a text. Talk about environmental issues in the world today. Listen to and take notes from a lecture and a radio interview. Write a report about the environment. Revise reported speech and practise vocabulary relating to global warming, natural disasters and endangered animals. Look at the following pictures and discuss what are happening in the pictures? earthquakes droughts tsunami floods volcanic eruptions hurricanes forest fires typhoon landslides Discussion What do you think of the disasters? Lesson 3 Natural disasters 1. which of the disasters in the Key Words do you think are: • caused by people? • made worse by people? • natural? Key Words: Disasters droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruption 2. Read the article and check your answers to Exercise 1. • caused by people forest fires • made worse by •natural hurricanes droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, tsunami, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, hurricanes Reading strategies: Completing Texts with sentence gaps • Read the text to get the general idea. • Read a paragraph with a sentence gap and identify the topic, e.g. disasters. • Read the sentences before and after the gap and look for clues about the missing sentence, e.g. is it an example of what is mentioned before? • Certain words may help you: time references (then). pronoun references (it, that),linking words (however). • Decide which sentence goes in the gap. check that it fits the sentences before and after it. 2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two extra sentences you do not need. 5 a) But evidence shows that 73.000 years ago there was a much greater eruption. 1 b) Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas have all been underwater. c) That is probably not the most important factor either. 2. Use the strategies to complete the gaps in the text(1-5) with these sentences(a-g). There are two extra sentences you do not need. d) Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless. 4 e) On top of all that add global warming. 2 f) For example, the Yellow River, once famous for flooding, failed to reach the sea at all for 226 days in 1997. 3 g) One answer is over-population. 4. Read the text again and answer these questions: 1. What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future ? Pessimistic / Negative. 2. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural disasters? Poor people. 3. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts ? Overpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s resources. 4. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now ? Because around half the world’s population lives in cities, more than 500 million people now live within the range of a volcanic eruption and even greater number of people at risk from earthquakes. 5. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future? A volcanic eruption. 6. What effects might this threat have? It might send the planet into winter for years. Post Reading Fill in the blanks about the text. In the last ___ ten years , there are more and more disasters such as floods _____ , ________, droughts windstorms, earthquakes, typhoons ________, volcanic _________and _____ eruptions forest fires all over the world. Why are so many disasters ? One of the population reasons is over- __________. In addition, climate __ ______ change and the specter of warming caused by the mismanagement of global ________ the world’s resources can lead to the disasters or make them worse. At present, volcanoes and earthquakes are more _________ with the fast growth ______ of people . dangerous Earthquakes take the lives of 1.6 million People in the last hundred years. What is worse, the disaster professionals predict that the things worse will get _____. Decide if the underlined words in the sentences below are nouns or verbs. Then write down their Chinese meanings. 1. a) She put her arms around me to comfort me. noun 手臂 b) The soldiers were armed with guns. verb 武装 2. a) Heavy rains resulted in floods. verb 导致 b) His results were not as good as he had hoped. noun 成绩 3. a) He means well but just gets it wrong sometimes. verb 意思是 noun 方式 b) The telephone is a means of communication. 4. a) The children had fun sliding down the slide noun 滑梯 all afternoon. b) Penguins slide downhill over ice on their bellies. verb 滑行 5. a) Be careful! Don’t slip on the wet floor. verb 滑倒 b) Write your number on this slip of paper. noun 小纸条 6. a) What would you like on your bread roll for noun 卷 lunch. b) He rolled the ball across the floor to me. verb 滚动 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the underlined words above: armed 1. The ___________ forces protected the city. results 2. When will you get your exam ___________? slipped and fell 3. Don broke his arm when he ___________ on the ice. mean 4. I ____________ what I said. means 5. What would be the best ________________ of advertising our product?. roll 6. Would you like honey on your ______? slid 7. The house ____________ down the mountain side in the flood last year. resulted in a draw. They had 2 8. The match _________ points each. Discussion Work in group of 4. Imagine you are a futurologist. Now you predict an epidemic in the future. Try to use as many words and expressions you have learnt in the passage as possible. Name ? When ? Where ? Effect ? will be spreading, will have killed,… Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. 1. What natural disasters have happened in the last few months? 2. What do you think governments can do to help prevent natural disasters? 3. What organisations do you know that provide aid after disasters, or work for the environment? 4. What can we do to improve the environment and help victims of natural disasters? Homework Finish exercises on pages 56-57.