Unit 2 The Environment

Reading

1.What are the environmental problems in your living surroundings?

2.Do you think a healthy environment is important for human beings? Why?

Some kinds of pollution

In China millions of tons of household wastes are produced everyday.

Air pollution

The automobiles are piping out all kinds of waste gas into the atmosphere.

We can always see heavy smoke piped from the tall and ugly chimneys.

Deforestation

A photo from the Amazon drainage area.

Many tropical rain forests were cut down in order to be developed into farmlands.

Sandstorm

Everything was covered with sands.

It looks like something like a bomb exploding not far away.

Water pollution caused by chemicals

Huai River in china Michigan Lake in USA

An earthquake

The impact on human beings

Many children suffer hunger.

Because of pollution many children were born abnormal.

Which ones are caused by nature and which ones are caused by man?

Rubbish, smoke, cutting, water pollutionare caused by man and the others by nature.

The economy

or the environment

must we choose?

A debate between an environmentalist and an

economist

Have you ever seen a debate or even taken part in a debate? Do you know something about debates?

If you want to know more

information on the problem,

please read the text.The economy or the environment—

must we choose?

Reading strategy: reading a debate

• What is the order of a debate?

1. One side: present their points first2. The other side: follow and present their points 3. Have a discussion

Speakers in a debate will represent opposite views.

The order of the debate:

Lin Shuiqing presents his points.

Qian Liwei presents his points.

Open discussion.

Reading strategy: reading a debate

• What are the basic elements in a debate?

Debate

Clear views

Persuasive language

Convincing evidence

Support your own idea only

follow a certain order for the speakers

What side does Mr Lin Shuiqing

and Mr Qian Liwei each

represent?

Mr lin represents the society for

Environment Preservation while

Mr Qian ， an economist.

Fast reading

2.. According to Mr. Lin Shuiqing, what is happening to large amounts of fish?

They are being caught by fishing boats before they can lay eggs.

He starts his speech by talking about the way large areas of the world are damaged by industrial waste.

1.. What does Lin Shuiqing start his speech by talking about?

Detailed reading

3.. What does Lin Shuiqing think we should teach people about?

He thinks we should teach people about environmentally friendly ways of living.

Lin Shuiqingrecycling ___industrial waste ___population ___fishing ___water pollution ___production ___

Qian Liweitaxes ___recycling ___factories ___production ___laws ___

Put the subjects each speaker talks about in the correct order.

6

4

3

2

1

2

3

4

5

1

5

Detailed reading

Speaker Qian Liwei, an economist

Views

A1. _____ environment and a 2._______economy should be possible at the same time.

Reasons

6__________

●we should produce more things from7 _________ materials, and less from materials taken 8__________

from the environment.

●we need more 9___________ laws to10 _________ the

environment.

●factories11 _________ the environment should pay higher 12___________.

factories &

industries

●3. ________ the amount of pollution

● Spend money4. _________ the damage

●Be5 _______ about the environment

healthy

stable

Suggestions

Control

repairing

concerned

recycled

effective preserve

polluting

taxes

directly

Lin Shuiqing’s speech

large areas of the world

Factories produce poisonous chemicals

place

atmosphere make us sick

water sea kill sea creatures

be wiped out by fishing boats

catch fish without giving them time to lay eggs

a lasting effect upon the number of fish

more people more land more food6.5 billion

be damaged by______________

be destroyed have diedanimals

industrial waste

=

cut back on production

reduce the amount of things

environmentally friendly ways of living

Suggestions in Lin Shuiqing’s speech

recycling

factoriesclouds of dirty smokea pipe pouring chemical waste into a river

as an economist be seen as being against the environment

businessmenescape from the responsibilities to the environmentmoney

economic development is ____for the environment

factories &

industries

control the amount of pollution

spend money repairing the damage

very concerned about the environment

lose the jobscut back on amount of things

bad

Qian Liwei’s speech

recycling

more from recycled materials

less directly from the environment

more effective laws

higher taxes

the key to helping both sides

produce

preserve the environment

do harm to the environment

have to pay to do it

Mr Qian Liwei’s suggestions

What can we do in our daily life in

order to protect the environment?

Using handkerchief instead of the paper napkin.

Using paper bag instead of plastic bag.

Do not use one-off chopsticks.

Throw cans, bottles, paper and plastic into the dustbin. …

Consolidation

Finish the speech with the words in the box

industry population waste economy responsibility reduce recycled Earthpollution environment

My aim in life is to save the for future generations. I want to become an environmentalist after I finish school. Too many people think that cannot be stopped if we want the to continuedeveloping. But that is ridiculous. We can dangerous and dirty from factories if we aresmart about what we buy. I want to teach people to buy products. The production of recycled things is muchbetter for the environment, because it means we do notneed to cut down more trees and cause the destructionof more forests. The will still grow, but Earth willnot have to suffer.

industry population waste economy responsibility reduce recycled Earthpollution environment

environment

pollutioneconomy

reducewaste

recycled

industry

We should also pay attention to what we eat. People should take for not buying certain kinds of fish,because there are not many left in the ocean.we also have a problem with . The number of people in the world keeps growing, and we are producingmore rubbish. What if we run out of space? If we all worktogether, we can solve these problems and keep clean and healthy.

industry population waste economy responsibility reduce recycled Earthpollution environment

responsibility

Earth

population

1.Retell the speech 2.Finish the relevant exercises in your Unit Revision.