unit 5 for want of a drink 现代大学英语.ppt

1、,The Economist,Unit 5 For Want of a Drink,For Want of a Drink,Unit 5,Questions / Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,W,B,T,R,Warming up,For Want of a Drink,Unit 5,Warming up,Questions / Activities,How do you understand the following cartoons?,W,B,T,R,Match the words with their correct meaning in

2、the text.,Check-on Preview,Warming up,squander overblown trudge,spend thoughtlessly, throw away exaggerated walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud,Objectives,Know something about water crisis Understand the causes of water crisis Think about how to deal with the crisis Consider the i

3、nitiatives common people can take Encourage students to actively think about international issues,W,B,T,R,Warming up,Background,Water Crisis,The Economist,B,W,T,R,For Want of a Drink,Unit 5,An English-language weekly news and international affairs publication edited in London. Founded by James Wilso

4、n in September 1843. For historical reasons. Neo-liberal inclination: a supporter of free trade, globalization, free immigration and social liberalism, including legalized drugs and prostitution. Circulation: 1.5 million/week in,Background,The Economist,The Economists issues on environmental issues,

5、Background,The Economist,Water Resources Worldwide ,Background,Water Crisis,World Water Stress: Population growth Expansion of business activities Rapid urbanization Climate change Depletion of aquifers Water pollution Water and conflict,Background,Water Crisis,Water Resources Worldwide,Water Resour

6、ces of China,Background,Water Crisis,General description: severe water quantity shortages and severe water quality pollution. Chinas water resources: Total water resources (2.84 trillion cubic meters): No. 6 Per capita water resources (2100 cubic kilometers): No. 88,Uneven distribution: 80% in the s

7、outh of China.,Background,Water Crisis,China average annual precipitation,Text Analysis,T,W,B,R,For Want of a Drink,Unit 5,Text Analysis,Theme,Understand the situation of the global water crisis Analyze the difficulties in meeting the water crisis Develop a right approach to common international cha

8、llenges,T,W,B,R,Introduction: a warning about a water crisis (paras. 12) Causal analysis of water shortage (paras. 35) Difficulty in satisfying these demands (paras. 68) Characteristics of water as natural resource (paras. 915) Reiteration of the value of water (paras. 1617) Conclusion: difficulty i

9、n using the resource sensibly (paras. 1819),Text Analysis,Structure,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Main Idea,Sentence Paraphrase,Words difficult to cure or get rid of Chronic arthritis/asthma The countrys chronic unemployment problem A chronic shortage of housing in rural areas,Text Analysis,Detail

10、ed Analysis,Part II: Exercise,Fill in the blanks The world water stress_ the growing population, made possible by the green revolution. Secondly, peoples _better-tasting and more interesting food greatly increases agricultures demand for water. Thirdly, the demand of industrial and _ activities for

11、water have also _ in the second half of the 20th century .,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Main Idea Difficulty in satisfying these demands (paras. 68),Why is meeting the increasing demand of water a difficult task? The supply of water is finite; Desalination of salty water is expensive; F

12、resh water is not readily available. What is the law of conservation of mass?,Global Water Cycle,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Words to refill (the ground) with water.,Perforate: to perforate something means to make a hole o

13、r holes in it. 我不愿戴耳机，因为它可能会使鼓膜穿孔。 I refused to wear headphones because they can perforate your eardrums.,Draw on sth: if you draw on or draw upon something such as your skill or experience, you make use of it in order to do something. He drew on his experience as a yachtsman to make a documentary p

14、rogram.,Be immune to/from sth: to be not influenced or affected by sth that happens or is done NBA is not immune to economic recession. John seems to be immune to teasing.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part IV: Exercise,Translate the following terms into Chinese. Average annual rainfall Surface wa

15、ter Basin Upstream Groundwater Artificial diversion,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part IV: Exercise,Translate the following sentences into English, using words in the brackets. 由于环境退化，不宜人类居住，数百万人不得不搬迁。(point) Millions of people have been resettled because their home environments have degraded to t

16、he point where they are no longer fit for human habitation. 该计划的妙处在于简洁明了。(beauty) The beauty of the plan lies in its simplicity.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Main Idea Reiteration of the value of water (paras. 1617),How do you understand that the value of water depends on the use of water

17、? Which use of water means the highest value of water? Industrial or domestic use? Why so? How do you understand that water is a human right?,The Right to Water “It is now time to consider access to safe drinking water and sanitation as a human right, defined as the right to equal and non-discrimina

18、tory access to a sufficient amount of drinking water for personal and domestic usesto sustain life and health. ” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on The Right to Water, 2007,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Difficulties in Getting Water in Africa,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Priced or not: co

19、ndensed conditional clauses introduced by “whether” Believe it or not, a 10-year-old girl beat a professional at chess. Like it or not, learners of English have to live with its irregular spelling.,Harness: If you harness something such as an emotion or natural source of energy, you bring it under y

20、our control and use it. the movements ability to harness the anger of all Ukrainians Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydroelectric power projects. The windmill is an example of how people harness the wind to produce electricity.,Trudge: if you trudge som

21、ewhere, you walk there slowly and with heavy steps, especially because you are tired or unhappy. （尤指因疲惫或沮丧）拖着沉重的脚步走，步履艰难地走 We had to trudge up the track back to the station. We were reluctant to start the long trudge home.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Words & Expressions,Words,Phrases,Sen

22、tence Pattern,extract respectively trudge,be harnessed to have access to believeto be,is explained by,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Exercise,Translate the following sentences into English, using words in the brackets. 我们在荒芜的路上跋涉了很长时间。(trudge) We trudged (along) the deserted road for a long

23、 time. 物理学家们想知道辐射的压力是否能被用来使物体高高飞起。 (harness) Physicists wondered whether radiation pressure could be harnessed to help an item soar. 并不是每个企业员工都能有访问所有信息的权利。 (access) Not everyone in the company should have access to all kinds of information.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part VI: Main Idea Conclusi

24、on: difficulty in using the resource sensibly (paras. 1819),What are the consequences? Do you agree? How do you understand “Water is in his soul”? Why is water difficult to organize?,Deities related to water,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Gong Gong,Osiris,Goddess Ganga,From this much follows: the b

25、elief that water is a human right results in/leads to many other consequences. Follow: to be a logical consequence of something If the explanation is right, two things follow. The conclusion that follows from the investigation is that drunk driving was the immediate cause of the accident. Just becau

26、se a child fails an exam, it does not follow that he will fail the next.,Invest: (often passive) to provide sb/sth with a particular quality or characteristic Tiananmen Square in Beijing is invested with deep historic significance. Her easy manner and simple black dress invested her with great elega

27、nce. A sense of wonder and delight is invested in his poems.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Sentence Paraphrase,Throughout history, mans dependence on water has made him live near it or organize access to it.,Man cant live without water.,In human history, since man cant live without water, man has chosen to