Chapter 2 Protecting our environment

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Chapter 2Protecting our environment (a)
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Listening
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Speaking
Grammar
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Reading (1)
Presentation
Words study
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Warming-up

• Answer the questions.
• Where do we live?
• 2. What things can effect (??) our health? Can
  you give some examples?
• 3. Whats the most important work we should do
  for our living(??)?

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The Earth is our homeland. We must protect our
earth. However, our earth is in danger. Now
please watch a short movie.
Click here! Watch!
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The environment pollution is a big problem in the
world. It's attacking our health seriously.
Producing strong harmful gas
Its hard for me to breathe! Help!
air pollution
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We know that fresh air is very important to
human beings. However, many factories produce
harmful gases into the air. It makes the air
dirtier and dirtier. It's harmful to our health.
What shall we do? Can you give some advice?
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Water is also one of the most important resource
(??) to human beings. However, water pollution is
everywhere. It becomes more and more seriously
problem. Look at the following pictures. How do
you feel? And What shall we do? Can you give some
advice?
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We are worrying We are crying! Our
hearts feel painful! Stop !!!
water pollution
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fish is dead
becomes dirty
Yellow River is polluted
Taihu is polluted
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We are very sad to see that our environment
is polluted in many ways.
rubbish pollution
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food polution
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Bomb!
Beep!
too noisy
Keep quiet, please! I can be asleep. Stop, noise!
Noise pollution
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Summary
What pollution do you often see in our daily life?
Pollution
food pollution
air pollution
noise pollution
water pollution
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What a beautiful estate it is! Everyone wants our
homeland like this. Do you think so? But
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Howerver, we feel sad because many places ar
polluted in many ways. The nature is getting
worse and worse. The water becomes dirtier and
dirtier and air is also getting more and more
terrible. For examples, please look at these
photos.
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Help me! Im thirsty! Where are you, water? I
cant live without you!
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The soil is washing away.
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The dust is covered many cities.
sand storms in the northwest areas
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Discussion
The environment become more more serious. There
is much pollution around us. Our homeland is in
danger. What should we do? Talk it over.
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What should do to protect our homeland?
? Protect the water resource. ? Dont throw
rubbish into the rivers, lakes. ? Save water
everyday
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Do some cleaning
To make our homeland clean.
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They are having a survey on pollution.
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Why do they plant trees?
?To plant trees to protect our environment.
planting trees
? to make the air clean ? to keep up the soil
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Look at the picture (P15) and make dialogue in
pairs.
Sam What are doing in the garden? Robert Im
planting trees. Sam What trees are you
planting? Robert Im planting apple trees. Sam
Where are the trees? Robert They are in the soil.
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How do you know about?
1. How long do they live on the earth?
mimi
mice
2 years
14 years
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25 years
1,200 years
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2. Pollution means the process(??) of making
things dirty and unhealthy. Which type of
pollution do trees help fight?
Trees can stop

air pollution
noise pollution
water pollution
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3. Which of the following come from trees?
trees
fruit
cotton
beans
rubber

oil
tea
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4. The best-known flowers in Shenzhen are
azaleas. These sweet-smelling flowers are known
as the flowers of Shenzhen city. Which picture
shows azaleas(???)?
palm trees
Banana trees
azaleas
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C2. Find the words in Column A in the interview
and match them with the meanings in Column B.

• The answers
• Project --- ( ) 2. interview--- ( )
• 3. Breathing --- ( ) 4. natural--- ( )
• 5. Warn --- ( ) 6. a chemical--- ( )
• 7. Cut down --- ( )

c
b
d
a
g
e
f
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Lean the new words by heart.
1. probably perhaps ??? 2. give out sth comes
out of ?? 3. harmful dangerous, trouble
???, ??? Smoking is harmful to
our health.
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4. pass give sth. to sb. by hand
??, ??
He passed the torch to another.
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4. fight (v.) ??,??, fighter (n.)-- soldier
?? 5. collect get sth. together ?? Do you like
collecting stamps? 6. project ?? a class
project ?? Were studying a class project on
environment.
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7. interview ask sb. questions for sth. ??
The news reporter is interviewing Gou
Jingjing.
8. Doctor (Dr.) ??, ??
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9. be interested in sth. ????
like (enjoy) doing sth. be
keen on sth. What sport are you interested in,
Judy?
What sport are you keen on, Judy?
10. end (n. v.) ????? the end, ??in the end???
at the end of????
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11. breathing fresh ?????? breathe (v.) /i/,
breath (n.)/e/ ??, fresh ???,fresh fruit
(vegetables, meat, milk, air) Lets climb Wu
Tong M. and breathe fresh air.
12. nature ??natural???
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We try our best to keep the balance of nature.
????????????natural air conditioner ????,natural
environment 13. cool (v.) make sth.
cool,??? Its so hot now. Lets get some
ice-cream to cool our ourselves.
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13. insects ?? Butterfly is one
of the insects. 14. Warn ????? The
guide warned the tourists not to climb the
mountain with fire. 15. produce (v.) ??,?? ,
production??, product ??
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16. chemical ???? This kind of insect can
produce a chemical
when others attack it. 17. join (v.) ?????,
???? They joined together last night. He
joined the army two years ago. 18. underground
(n.) ??,??
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Trees joined their roots together
underground. 19. communicating with ?? Tree can
communicating with each other. 20. be in danger
????? They are in danger, please call 110 for
help. 21. destroy (v.) ??
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In order to build factory, the villagers
destroyed the nature. 22. cut down cut sth. to
make it fall down ?? Why did they cut down
the trees? 23. burn (v.) ? burnt ??,?? The forest
in Australia burned a lot.
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24. against (prep.) ??,?? He turned against
his promise. We must destroy our best fighters
against pollution. Sometimes our teacher stand
against the door.
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More practice Matching
?nature ? interview ? insect ? produce ?
burn ? warm ? collect ? chemical
? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? ???? ? ?? ? ?? ? ??
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Matching

• breathe fresh air
• communicate with
• destroy nature
• a class project
• be in danger
• cut down
• harmful gas
• be interested in
• give out

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• ??
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• ??????
• ????
• ?????
• ????
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C2. Find the words in Column A in the interview
and match them with the meanings in Column B.

• The answers
• Project --- ( ) 2. interview--- ( )
• 3. Breathing --- ( ) 4. natural--- ( )
• 5. Warn --- ( ) 6. a chemical--- ( )
• 7. Cut down --- ( )

c
b
d
a
g
e
f
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Fill in the blanks with correct words.
burnt

1. He _____ the letter after reading it.
2. Some people like __________ stamps from different
   countries.
3. I put some ice into the glass to _____ the water
   inside.
4. Mum _______ you not to go out. There is a storm
   coming soon.
5. Trees are ______ air conditioners.
6. Trees can p______ a c_______ .

collecting
cool
warned
natural
roduce
hemical
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More practice

• Mr. Xu ______________(???) a professor___________
  (????).
• 2. Do you like _________ (??) stamps?
• 3. Mr. Liu ___________________ (????)
  insects(??).

is interviewing
on pollution
collecting
is interested in
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chemical
4.Some farmers use _________ (????) to kill
_______(??) for the crops. 5. Trees can
__________________ (???) each other. 6. We must
___________ (??) to stop the _________(??) around
us.
insects
communicate with
try our best
pollution
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warn
7. We should ____ (??) the children not to
_____________(??) in the forest. 8. All the
____________(??) will die without water. 9. If we
dont plant more trees, the soil will ___________
(??), the air will be dirty. So we must take our
action to _______ (??) our earth.
play with fire
living things
wash away
protect
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Translate the following words and expressions
into Chinese.
1. collect some facts 2. interview sb. 3. a
class project on pollution 4. be interested in
sth. 5. living things 6. be useful for
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• 6. enjoy breathing fresh air
• 7. thank sb. for sth.
• 8. cool the air
• 9. natural air conditioners
• 10. know a lot about trees
• 11. insects attack a tree
• 12. warn sb. not to do sth.

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13. produce a chemical 14. make sb. do sth.
15. join their roots together
underground 16. communicate with one
another, 17. be in danger
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18. cut down lots of trees 19. burn a lot of
trees 20. destroy 21. do against pollution 22.
the best fighters of pollution
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Homework

1. Learn the new words by heart.
2. Prepare the whole passage.
3. Whats the trees useful for? Think it over.