Extensive Reading

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Extensive Reading
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Revision
Some exercise about inversion.

• 1. Not until all the fish died in the
  river____ how serious the pollution was.
• A. did the villagers realize
• B. the villagers realized
• C. the villagers did realize
• D. didnt the villagers realize

A
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• 2. Never ___ such great progress as
• they do today.
• A. make so many young scientists
• B. so many young scientists have
• made
• C. did so many young scientists make
• D. have so many young scientists
• made

C
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• 3. Only when ____ 30 years old ___ to learn
  English.
• A. was he, did he begin
• B. was he, he began
• C. he was, did he begin
• D. he was, he began

C
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• 4. ___ your letter, I would have gone
• to see you the other day.
• A. If I would have received
• B. Had I received
• C. should I receive
• D. If I received

B
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Listening Speaking
Speech 1

• Problems Most _______ dont ______.
• Governments of the world must make
• sure that all people from developing
• countries have free access to

leaders
listen
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• _____ ________ ______ limit the number of
  ____ per family stop _______ _____ _____ without
  replacing them.

clean
drinking
water
cars
cutting
down
trees
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• People of the world must
• make use of alternative______________, such as
  ________, ______ and car-pooling
• reduce, _____ and _______as much as possible.
• We need _______!

transportation
walking
biking
reuse
recycle
action
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Speech 2

• The Earth Summit is not just about good
  ________ and big ______ it is about ______
  __________ ______ the _________ we are facing.

speeches
words
doing
something
about
problems
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• I have brought a bag of ________.
• You may think that ________ is useless, but I
  will tell you how we can use ________ to make the
  future ________, cleaner and ______, and to
  ______ _______.

rubbish
rubbish
rubbish
better
greener
make
money
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Listening text
Speech 1

• Hi. We are three children from three
  different continents and wed like to tell you
  what we think about the environment. The children
  of the world are disappointed because too

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• adults are too interested in money and wealth
  to take notice of serious problems that affect
  our future. Young people from all over the world
  have many things to say about the environment,
  but we all agree on one serious problem most
  leaders dont

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• listen. We are here today because we want you
  to listen to listen to everybody.
• Heres what the children of the world are
  saying

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• Governments of the world must
• ? make sure that all people from developing
  countries have free access to clean drinking
  water
• ? limit the number of cars per family
• ? stop cutting down trees without replacing
  them.

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• People of the world must
• ? make use of alternative transportation such
  as walking, biking and car-pooling
• ? reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as
  possible.

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• We are worried that many governments listen
  too much to those who care very little for the
  environment and people. Remember, we cannot buy
  another planet, and our lives and those of future
  generations depend on this. We are not asking too
  much! You

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• said this Summit is about taking action! We
  need more than your applause and comments of
  well done or good speech. We need ACTION!
• Thanks for having us here and for
  listening to the voices of children.

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Speech 2
Ladies and Gentlemen,

• Thank you for giving me the opportunity to
  speak to you today. I wish, however, we could do
  more than just talk. The Earth Summit is not just
  about good speeches and big words it

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• is about doing something about the problems we
  are facing. I will try to do something right now,
  right here. Thats why I have brought this big
  bag. What do you think is in it? Well, Ill show
  you. Yes, thats right, rubbish! On my way over
  here, I

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• picked up the rubbish I saw in rubbish bins on
  the street so that I could talk to you about what
  rubbish really is. Some of you might think that
  rubbish is what we throw away, something useless
  that only causes problems. Well, I say that thats

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• rubbish. Let me explain what I mean. What is
  really in this bag? Resources possibilities,
  money, jobs and solutions! What we call rubbish
  today is actually the resources of tomorrow. Let
  me tell you how we can use rubbish some left
  over food, a

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• milk carton, and an empty bottle to make the
  future greener, cleaner, and better, and to make
  money.

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Reading on Page141
True or False

• 1. Protecting the environment is a problem
  that can only be solved by the government.
• What people like you and I do about the
  environment makes a difference.

F
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• 2. Environmental problems are solved by big
  meetings like the Earth Summit.
• Big meetings like the Earth Summit are
  important, but environmental problems are solved
  when all people take action and make changes.

F
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• 3. Only by taking action can we improve the
  situation.
• 4. Adults do not care about the environment.
  
• Adults care about the environment,
  although it sometimes seems as if young people
  care more.

T
F
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• 5. Liao Mingyu does not think that most
  leaders care about the environment.
• Liao Mingyu thinks that most leaders
  will listen and take action.

F
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• 6. Nobody listens to what children have to
  say about the environment.
• The international youth programme, as
  well as the speeches at the Earth Summit and
  other examples, show that people do listen to
  what children have to say about the environment.

F
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• 7. Students are too young to understand
  difficult issues such as environmental
  protection.
• Students are old enough to understand
  difficult issues such as environmental protection
  and should study these issues in school.

F
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• 8. Liao Mingyu and her classmates try to take
  action to protect the environment.

T
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Answer questions

• 1. Why is it important for us to learn more
  about the environment?
• It is important for us to learn more about
  the environment so that we can change our bad
  habits.

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• 2. What can we do to protect the environment?
• We change our bad habits that is harmful
  to the environment, refuse to buy products from
  companies that harm the environment, and do what
  we can to learn more and take action.

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• 3. Do you think that students should learn
  about the environment in school? Should it be a
  subject that everyone has to study, like maths or
  physics? Why or why not? What would the students
  need to learn?

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• I think that students should learn about
  the environment in school. It should be a subject
  that everyone has to study, like maths or
  physics. Because children are the hopes of our
  homeland. Once children realize the importance of
  protecting the

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• environment and take active part in protecting
  it, there is a chance we save the earth. Besides,
  if children learn more about the environment,
  they will look for good ways to improve our
  environment and they will remind

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• their parents and other adults of the danger
  of keeping environmentally unfriendly habits. The
  students would need to learn the importance and
  how to protect the environment.

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• 4. Would you like to take part in a conference
  like the one Liao Mingyu went to? What would you
  like to do? What would you say?
• Id like to listen to something about how
  to protect the environment and

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• make a speech. I would say that the government
  the environmental protection is very important. I
  hope the government in the world can do what they
  can to help the poor children go to school and
  take action to control pollution and improve
  health care.

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• Whats more, I would call on people
• all over the world to try their best to
  protect our environment, save our earth.

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Homework

• (1) Recite some key sentences and
• retell the text with your own words.
• (2) Preview the writing in the next
• lesson.