Unit Two Living Enviroment.ppt

Unit Two Living Enviroment Teaching Objectives Read an article about how a driver always keeps his taxi clean and tidy; Enlarge your vocabulary for describing your environment; Get some ideas about noise pollution; Get some tips about adverbial clauses of time in English; Learn how to write a note of apology. Time Allotment: Section A (4 periods): 1st period: Pre-reading activities and new words 2nd period: While-reading activities (expressions, difficult sentences and understanding of the text) 3rd period: While-reading activities (text structure; main ideas) 4th period: Post-reading activities (exercises and practice of key point in the text ) Grammar (1 period) 5th period : Explanation and practice Section B(2 periods) 6th period: words and questions 7th period: structure and important sentences. Comprehensive Questions 8th period: T explains some difficult sentences Section A Pre-reading Activities Step 1 Warming up Step 2 Cultural notes; Step 3 Words Warming-up Growing evidence shows that global climate changes are being caused by environmental pollution, especially by greenhouse gases. Do we need to take immediate actions to halt this trend? If yes, how? u=3793634032,4237140463fm=23gp=0.jpg u=819707786,1372458496fm=23gp=0.jpg Should there be further restrictions on the advertising, selling, and smoking of tobacco? Should it be banned? 时文阅读才材料3.doc Cultural notes Environment, in brief, is made up of the natural environment and the living environment. Natural environment, in a broad sense, comprises all of the living and non-living things existing on the earth. However, the term is quite often used as the opposite to “living environment”, referring to the environment free from human intervention. Living environment refers to the environment relevant to the daily lives of human beings, including the atmosphere, water, waste, noise, offensive odors, etc. People have the right to live in a healthy and pleasant environment, and at the same time it