高中英语人教版选修ppt课件.pptx

Unit 4 Global Warming
Save the earth!
Period 1 Reading I
The Earth Is Becoming Warmer – But Does It Matter?
Translate the following words into English:
图表
现象
燃料
影响
灾难
副产品
数据
气候
每
陈述
范围
干旱
graph
phenomenon
fuel
per
data
catastrophe
climate
consequence
state
range
byproduct
drought
与…比较
发生
大量的
导致
增加
毫无疑问
继续
物种的灭绝
compare to
come about
huge quantities of
result in
build up
There is no doubt that …
keep on
the destruction of species
Translate the following words into English:
Fast Reading
Who wrote the magazine article? The name of the magazine?
What are the names of the three scientists mentioned in the article?
What is mainly discussed in the passage?
1. Who wrote the magazine article? The name of the magazine?2. What are the names of the three scientists mentioned in the article?
Sophie Armstrong.
Earth Care.
Dr Janice Foster, Charles Keeling, George Hambley.
Reading tips: In English, some nouns begin with a capital letter(大写字母), such as names of people and places, titles(标题) of magazines, newspapers, stories and books, people’s titles(头衔), etc..
is mainly discussed in the passage?A. What has caused the global warming and whether it matters.B. What effects of the global warming will be.C. How serious the global warming could be.D. What the global warming is.
Reading tips — skim the title and Para 1:
Title: THE EARTH IS BECOMING WARMER – BUT DOES IT MATTER?
Para 1: … how has this come about and does it matter?
skimming
Skim the text to get the main idea of the passage and each paragraph, then divide the whole passage into 4 parts and summarise the main idea of each part.
Main ideas of each part
Part1
(1)
Introduce a debate over the issue of global warming
Part2
(2-3)
Explanation about how global warming comes about.
Part3
(4-6)
Analysis of data and two different attitudes among scientists towards global warming.
Part4
(7)
Two choices of deal