牛津高中英语模块5-Unit2-Task

1、Unit 2THE ENVIRONMENTTask Designing a posterDiscussionWhy we want to read the following?a news paper / a website / a plane ticket / a bus timetable / a magazine / an advertisementto find out about the days newsto find out about the weatherto find out departure / arrival timesto find out the seat num

2、berto find out about the latest fashionsto find out more about a particular topic, such as gardeningto search for informationto find out the latest newsto find out departure / arrival timesto find out where the bus stopsto find out more about a product topic, such as gardeningto find out where you c

3、an buy a productB Read the newspaper on page 32 and underline the information which answers the questions that follow. 1. At what time can you see This Is It? 2. What is the weather like in Hangzhou?At 14:30 and 18:00.Rainy.3. What has just opened? 4. How many people went to the opening?The citys Mo

4、dern Art Museum.Over 10,000 people.A Your Science teacher has asked you to read the article about desertification on page 33. Read it and underline all of the solutions to desertification. Pair work Have a discussion with your partner to think of things we can do to help stop desertification, which

5、can be included in our poster.Solutions to desertification: To encourage farmers to building fences To provide money to plant more trees and bushes in dry areas To do scientific research on the problem To have a better management of the potential desertIf you hear Yet another skyscraper has been bui

6、lt in Shanghai.What can you conclude?There are already some skyscrapers in Shanghai.Skills building 2: listening and drawing conclusionsIf you hear the following dialogueMan: The train is going to be late today.Woman: Im not surprised.What can you conclude? The train is often late.A. Read these shor

7、t descriptions from news reports and draw a conclusion about what kind of disaster occurred in each situation.earthquake typhoon flood fire1. flood2. fire3.earthquake4. typhoon1. The fires have been burning for quite some time.2. Many people have lost their homes.B. Listen to the news report. Tick (

8、) the box of the conclusions that canbe drawn from it.3. The police believe people in Los Angeles started the fires.4. The reporter thinks it is very sad that old trees will be burnt.5. The fire department has given up hope of stopping the fires.Listen to your teachers lecture to learn more desertif

9、ication. 1. How many people are affected by desertification every year? _ _It affects around two hundred and fifty million people every.2. Where does it happen? _ _ _ _3. How are the people living in desert areas affected by it? _ _ _Although desertification can happen everywhere, it is an especiall

10、y big problem in Africa and parts of South America and China.People lose their homes and farms; many families starve and others move to the cities to find work.4. Why does it happen? _5. Who should be concerned? _People plant too much on the land without giving it a rest; too manyanimals all depend

11、on the same land toeat; and people cut down trees for full and to make space for more farms. Everyone should be concerned.B. Check your understanding 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

12、 help educate people about desertification.2. A desert is an area of dry land. Desertification happens when land turns into desert.a. The ending -ification 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 res

13、t.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 desertification is to allow the land a chance to rest. To train people in responsible water usage To share information and solutions between countri

14、es To use satellites to pick out areas likely to be affected by desertificationWhen you present your point of view, you usually want people to accept your ideas. There are certain things you can do to make what you say more polite so that people will be more likely to agree with you.Presenting your

15、point of viewSkills building 3:You can use these expressions to help you introduce your point of view:I think / believe thatFrom my point of view it seems thatIt seems to me thatPersonally, I agree / disagree becauseYou can use these expressions to explain your point of view:because as a result ofdu

16、e to Desertification is caused by people cutting down trees and digging up bushes.People should not keep on planting things on the same piece of land. The land needs to rest!Deserts form naturally. We shouldnt worry about desertification. It will fix itself.We must stop building factories. They poll

17、ute the water and all the plants die. Then the land turns into desert.We need to learn how to use water better. If we are careful, well have enough water for people, animals and plants and then no deserts will form.Farmers should stop letting their animals eat all the grass. If there is no grass, a

18、desert will form.Out-of-dated farming methods cause desertification.1. How can desertification be prevented?2. Can a desert be turned back into land that can be used for farms and forests? You have decided to focus on the following areas in your poster. Discuss the questions below with your group.Designing a poster3. Is desertification a worldwide problem?4. Why is it important to fight desertification?5. What progress has been made in fighting desertification so far?6. Can young people do anything to he