Unit 22 Environmental Protection

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Unit 22 Environmental Protection

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Environmental protection?
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• Environmental Information Share

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Nature is Turning On us!
to attack suddenly unexpectedly become
hostile towards

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Read to Know Nature is Turning On Us!

• What is the general idea?
• What aspects will be covered?

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Layout

• Part 1 Para A-B
• Part 2 Para C-D
• Part 3 Para E

Disasters become increasingly common.
Reasons and losses caused by disasters.
Far worse situation is to come.
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Read to Focus Facts
Numbers
Reality Present Situation
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Disasters Affected areas
Flooding Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, Europe
Storms (Hurricanes) the US, Central America
Drought (reduced rainfall) Africa, the Yellow River, a number of nations, the west of the US
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Disasters Affected areas
Volcanic eruption the small island of Montserrat
Earthquakes Asia, Europe, South America
Asian tsunami Indonesia (132,000 100,000)
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Numbers Facts
10,000 90 million
300 km/ph 40 30 years ago
300 55 500 million
1.6 million lives
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Read to understand Question
Time

• Sentences to focus on
• Topic related expressions

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Read to understand Sentences to
Focus On
The last few years have seen environ-mental
disasters on a grand scale and ex-perts are
predicting far worse to come.
This catastrophe is still fresh in the
minds of people worldwide who have not yet got
over their separation from loved ones lost in the
tsunami.
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Read to understand Sentences to
Focus On
Volcanoes and earthquakes are even more dangerous
than in the past as around half the worlds
population now lives in cities.
Most disaster experts believe there is the
potential that things could get a lot worse.
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Read to understand Topic Related
Expressions

• see/witness sth.
• turn on
• leave dry
• in armed conflict over
• wipe out
• be fresh in ones mind

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Read to understand Topic Related
Expressions

• grow at a disturbing rate
• without any means to earn ones
• living
• occur at random times
• warn in advance
• claim lives

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Read to Think Nature Human

• Are natural disasters caused by nature itself?
• Can human live in harmony with nature? HOW?
• What can we do to help?

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Homework

• A summary and give comments.
• Language Focus L3
• A report on human activities and environmental
  problems.
• ( ? Optional ? )

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