教材文本 Unit 4 Listening Task (Workbook)

Unit 4 Global warming Listening task (workbook) Listen to Toms talk about Clean Up Australia DayTop 9 rubbish items1 Cigarette butts2 Gloss bottles3 Plastic bags4 Small pieces of paper5 Plastic bottle caps6 Glass Pieces7 Plastic straws8 Soft drink cans9 Plastic bottles Ian Kiernan1 Listen once or twice more. Notice the dates Tom mentions, what happened on these dates and any other interesting facts. Make notes in the table.YearEventFacts about the event2 Tom displayed a chart of the top rubbish (litter) items during his talk. In pairs，discuss how this list would be different at your school or in your community. What would be the most common items? Why do you think litter is bad for the environment?LISTENING TEXTCLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAYTom is giving a talk to his class about Clean Up Australia Day. Today Im going to talk about Clean Up Australia Day. Clean UP Australia Day is one day in the year when people get together and clean up their environment. Clean Up Australia Day started with this man Ian Kieman. Ian is a great sailor and in 1987 he competed in an around-the-world yacht race. When he was sailing in this race, he was shocked at the pollution in the worlds oceans. There was rubbish floating everywhere. So when he got back to Sydney he started organizing a clean-up day for Sydney Harbour. In 1989, 40,000 people volunteered to clean up the harbour. They collected tonnes of old car bodies, plastics of all kinds, glass bottles and cigarette butts. It was so successful that Ian organized the first Clean Up Australia Day. More than 300,000 people volunteered to help the first time it was held in 1990. After that in March, every year, more and more people help. Heres a table showing the most common kinds of rubbish found in 2001 on Clean Up Australia Day. You can see that the top three are cigarette butts, glass bottles and plastic bags. As much of the rubbish as possible is recycledabout 20and the rest goes to rubbish tips. Clean Up Austuralia Day works very wellthere are now many places that wont need cleaning this year because theyre still clean from the last Clean Up Day. In fact, it has been so successful that we now have Business Clean Up Day, Schools Clean Up Day, as well as Clean Up Australia Day. After he started Clean Up Australia Day, Ians next goal was to take his idea to the world. He got the support of the United Nations Environment Programme and, as a result. Clean Up the World started in 1993. In Clean Up the Worlds first year 30 million people in 80 countries were involved on a weekend in September. In 2001, about 40 million people from 128 countries took part. They cleaned streets, beaches, river banks and parks. I think Ian Kiernan is a wonderful man. Hes an inspiration to people who dont want to feel helpless about world problems. People feel that they can take control of the problems themselves, and not wait for governments to act. It also helps them to know that communities all around the world are improving their environment too. (sound of students clapping)Answer key for Exercise 1: YearEventFacts about the event1987Ian Kiernan competed in anaround-the-world yacht raceHe was shocked at the pollution in the ocean.1989Clean-up day for Sydney Harbour40,000 volunteers; collected old car bodies, plastics, glass bottles, cigarette butts1990the first Clean Up Australia Day300,000 volunteers2001Clean Up Australia Daymost common kinds of rubbish: cigarette butts, glass bottles and plastic bags1993The first Clean Up the World30 million volunteers in 80 countries2001Clean Up the World40 million vol