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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,*,*,Passage A,Frog Story,before reading,global reading,detailed reading,after reading,CO,NT,ENTS,assignment,before reading,Activity 1 discuss environmental issues,Activity 2 discuss endangered species,Activity 3 vocabulary bank,Activity 1,Watch the MV of Earth Song by Michael Jackson.Discuss what weve done to our Mother Earth and how she is ailing.,An English Song,Earth Song,W,hat is happening to our Mother Earth?,Square dance,Plastic trash,Industrial gas emission,Automobile emission,Oil spill,石油泄漏,endangered species,Can you mention some of the endangered species?,Department of College English,Sun Bear,(马来熊),Activity 2,Tibetan Antelope,Department of College English,Siberian tiger,Asian elephant,Yangtze river dolphin,black-necked crane,Flamingo(,火烈鸟),Golden/Snub-nosed,Monkey,(金丝猴),Department of College English,Vocabulary bank,Climate change:Complete the sentences with the appropriate words.,1.The earths climate is changing and the world is becoming,w,_.,2.Climate change is caused by,h,_ activities.,3.Petrol,oil,and coal are called,f_ f_,4.The burning of fossil fuels releases harmful g_ g_.,5.One of the greenhouse gasses is _(CO2).,armer,uman,ossil,uels.,reenhouse,asses,carbon dioxide,Activity 3,Climate change:complete the sentence with the appropriate words.,6.Another harmful gas is called,m,_.(,甲烷,),7.Greenhouse gasses,t,_ heat from the sun in the earth,a,_.,8.As a result of the ice,m,_ in the North and South Poles,the sea,l,_ are rising.,9.Climate change can cause an increase in,f,_,h,_,and,d,_.,10.An international agreement on climate change is called the,K_P_,.,athane,rap,tmoshpere,elting,evels,lood,urricane,rought,yoto,rocotol,Global reading,Prediction,Skimming and scanning,Outline,Background Information,LOOK AT THE TITLE OF THE PASSAGE AND PREDICT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO READ.,Likely contents,writer,Type of writing,style,Personal experience?,Social event?,Friend?,A child?,Male?,Female?,Factual?,Fictional?,Informal?,Chatty?,Prediction,Work in groups to answer the following questions.,Skimming and scanning,Narration,Time,Place,characters,Plot,Tone,Purpose,lately,A log cabin in woods,of Northern Wisconsin,the author,a tree frog,He wants to encourage readers,to fight against pollution.,Humorous&,figurative,The author amazingly,observed that the frog,preferred staying in his,studio rather than in the,green house.,1.What kind of writing is the passage?Is it a narration,an,exposition or argumentation?,2.What are the specific features of narration?,3.Try to find the connective words that link the story together.,QUESTIONS,A narration.,It is written in chronological sequence.,lately,last November,after a while,then,last week,for five months,as,after a moment,at that moment,and then,4.,What happened to the author and the frog?,The frog was endangered by the worsening environment and came to“inform”the author of the severe situations.,Reference:,5.,What does the story imply to you?,Man and animals are related as they live in the same environment.,Reference:,Main idea:,I appeal to everyone to take action.,Frog story,Main idea:,I know why the frog is there.,Main idea:,The appearance of the frog,Part II:Para.5-16,Part III:,Para.17-18,Part I:,Para.1-4,Outline,Wisconsin,Wisconsin is a state in the north central United States.Its total area is 169,642 sq km.The name of the state comes from an Indian word that may mean“gathering of the waters”or“place of the beaver”.The capital is Madison.Wisconsin ranks 18th in population(5,169,677 by 1997 estimate)among the 50 states and is an important state in terms of the value of its manufacturing.Wisconsin remains a leading dairy state,accounting for about 14%(1999)of U.S.milk and 27%(1999)of the nations output of cheese.,Despite Wisconsins many lakes,ponds,and rivers,drought especially in summer can be a serious problem.,Background information,Detailed reading,Comprehension task,Summary,Words and expressions,Sentence translation,Critical thinking,Para 1-2,Why does the author build a log cabin in the woods of Northern Wisconsin?,Where does the author put the tree frog?,Comprehension tasks,Para.1-2,A couple of odd,things have happened lately.,I have a log cabin in those woods of Northern,Wisconsin,.I built it,by hand,and also added a greenhouse to the front of it.,It is a joy to,live in.In fact,I work out of my home doing,audio,production and environmental work.As a tool of that trade I have a computer and a studio.,Chinese,Para 3-4,Where is the tree frog?,Where does the author put the tree frog?,Comprehension tasks,Para.3-4,I also have a,tree frog,that has,taken up residence,in my studio.,How odd,I thought,last November when I first noticed him sitting,atop,my sound-board over my computer.I,figured,that he(and I say he,though I really dont have a clue if she is a he or vice versa)would be more comfortable in the greenhouse.So I put him in the greenhouse.Back he came.And stayed.After a while I,got quite used to,the fact that as I would check my morning email and on-line,news,he would be there with me surveying the,Para 5-7,How does the author communicate with the frog?,How long has the tree frog been with the author?,Comprehension tasks,Para.5-7,Then,last week,as he was climbing around looking like a small gray/green human,I started to wonder about him.,So,there I was,working in my studio and my computer was,humming,along.I had to stop when,Tree Frog went across my view.He stopped and turned around and just sat there looking at me.Well,I sat back and looked at him.For five months now he had been riding there with me and I was suddenly overtaken by an urge to know why he was there and not in the greenhouse,where I figured hed live a happier frog life.,“Why are you here,”I found myself asking him.,Para 8-10,Why does the tree frog come back from the green house?,What was the author working on at that time?,Comprehension tasks,What will happen to the maple trees and the beautiful Wisconsin?,As I looked at him,dead on,his eyes looked directly at me and I heard a,tone,.The tone seemed to hit me right in the center of my mind.It sounded very nearly like the same one as my computer.In that tone I could hear him“say”to me,“Because I want you to understand”.Yo.That was,weird,.“Understand what?”my mind jumped in.Then,after a moment of feeling this communication,I felt I understood why he was there.I came to understand that frogs simply want to hear other frogs and to,communicate,.Possibly the tone of my computer sounded to him like other tree frogs.,Interesting.,I kept working.I was working on a story about global climate change and had just received a fax from a friend.The fax said that the earth was warming at 1.9 degrees each decade.,At that rate,I knew that the maple trees that I love to tap each spring for syrup would not,survive,for my children.My beautiful Wisconsin would become a,prairie,by the next generation.,Para.8-10,Para 11-13,Why are tree frogs“an indicator species”?,Comprehension tasks,At that moment Tree Frog leaped across my foot and sat on the floor in front of my computer.He then reached up his hand to his left ear and cupped it there.He sat before the computer and reached up his right hand to his other ear.He turned his head this way and that listening to that tone.Very,focused,.He then began to turn a very,subtle,but,brilliant,shade of green and leaped full force onto the computer.,And then I remembered the story about the frogs that I had heard last year on public radio.It said frogs were dying around the world.It said that because frogs,skin was like a lung turned inside out,their skin was being affected by pollution and global climate change.It said that frogs were being found whose skin was like paper.All dried up.It said that frogs were an“,indicator,species,”.That frogs will die first because of the,sensitivity,.,Then,I understood.,Para.11-13,Para 14-18,What did the author understand?,What message does the frog have for us?,Comprehension tasks,The frogs have a message for us and it is the same message that some,sober,folks have had for us.“There are no more choices.”We have reached the time when we must be the adults for the planet,for the sake of the future generations of human and for frogs.,Because we are related.,Then I understood that there are no,boundaries,that there is no more time.,That we,for the sake of,our relatives,must act now.,And then I understood,not only why the frog was there,but,also why I am here.,Para.14-18,I found a tree frog in my studio some months ago.I took it to my,g,_,as I thought it would be a better place for the frog.But it came back and insisted taking the,r,_ in the studio.Why?I couldnt get an idea.Then,after five months of being together,we seemed to be able to,c,_ with each other.It may sound,w,_,but I did feel I came to understand what it wanted me to do.The frog came to me probably attracted by the,h,_ tone of my computer,which sounded like that of other tree frogs,or with a,m,_ to tell me that frogs were dying around the world because of their,s,_ to the pollution and global climate change.As frogs are an“,i,_ species”,what has happened to them may happen to us,if we sit back and do nothing.We must act now,or it would be too late.,g,reenhouse,r,esidence,c,ommunicate,w,ired,h,umming,m,essage,s,ensitivity,i,ndicator,Summary,Odd,奇怪的;怪异的,1,、衬衫和夹克单独看很好,但放到一起就有点怪了,e.g.I met some odd classmates during my college days.,大学时代遇到了很多怪人。,Separately the skirt and jacket are,fine,but they look a bit,odd,together.,Words and expressions,Residence,住处,住所,1,、城里工作的人实际上都住在乡村。,e.g.,He refused to live in the governors,residence,.,他拒绝住在州长的住处。,People who work in the city actually take up,residence,in neighboring towns.,Words and expressions,vice versa,住处,住所,我们对他有信心,他对我们也如此。,e.g.,She hates him and,vice versa,.,她恨他,他也同样恨她。,Weve the confidence in him and,vice versa.,Words and expressions,Para 6,I was suddenly overtaken by an urge to know why he was there and not in the greenhouse,where I figured hed live a happier frog life.,Suddenly I had a strong urge to know why he was there and not in the greenhouse,where I thought hed live a happier frog life.,我突然有一股强烈的欲望想了解他:为什么他要呆在这儿而不乐意呆在花房里?我认为对树蛙来说,花房显然要舒适得多。,Paraphrase,Words and expressions,The fax said that the earth is warming at 1.9 degrees each decade.,The fax said that the earth is getting 1.9 degrees warmer every ten years.,传真说地球的温度正以每十年,1.9,度的速度上升。,Paraphrase,Words and expressions,1.After a while I got quite used to the fact that as I would check my morning email and on-line news,he would be there with me surveying the world.,过了一些日子,我就习惯了有他做伴,清晨我上网查收邮件和阅读新闻的时候,他也在一旁关注这个世界。,Sentence Translation,2.For five months mow he had been riding there with me and I was suddenly overtaken by an urge to know why he was there and not in the greenhouse,where I figured hed live a happier frog life.,五个月了,他一直这样陪着我。我突然有一股强烈的欲望想了解他:为什么他要呆在这儿而不乐意呆在花房里?我认为对树蛙来说,花房显然要舒适得多。,Sentence Translation,3.At that rate I knew that the maple trees that I love to tap each spring for syrup would not survive for my children.,我知道,照这种速度下去,每年春天我都爱去提取树桨制糖的这片枫林,到我孩子的那一代就将不复存在。,Sentence Translation,4.He then began to turn a very subtle,but brilliant shade of green and leaped full force onto the computer.,然后他起了微妙的变化,全身呈现出一种亮丽的绿色,用尽全力跳到电脑上。,Sentence Translation,5.It said that because frogs skin is like a lung turned inside out,their skin was being affected by pollution and global climate change.,消息说因为青蛙的皮肤就像一个内里朝外的肺,所以正在受到污染和全球气候变化的影响。,Sentence Translation,6.,年轻人有时会抱怨无法和父母沟通。,(communicate with),complain(of),Young people sometimes complain of being unable to communicate with their parents.,(be)unable to communicate with their parents,Sentence Translation,8.,家养的动物习惯于依赖人,因此很难能在野外活下来。,(survive),(be)used to depending on humans,Domestic animals are used to depending on humans,so it is difficult for them to survive in the wild.,survive in the wild,Sentence Translation,10.,我估计公交路线上堵车了,因为我都等了,30,分钟也没见一辆车开过去。,(figure),there is a traffic jam on the route of the bus,I figure that there is a traffic jam on the route of the bus,for Ive waited for 30 minutes without seeing one passing by.,without seeing one passing by,Sentence Translation,Work in pairs and discuss the questions.,1.how are we and frogs related?,2 What should we do to achieve sustainability?,Critical thinking,After reading,Useful expressions,Oral Practice 1:Earth Hour,Oral Practice 2:A Dialogue,Oral Practice 3:A Debate,A Project,Useful expressions,odd,lately,atop,joy,residence,climate,a couple of,take up,It is a joy to,shade of green,full force,Indicator species,climate change,be overtaken by,reach the time,Earth Hour,What is Earth Hour?When will it start this year?,Watch a video clip(Earth Hour 2014).Suppose you were the chairman of the Student Union in SEU,how would you organize an on-campus activity for the coming of Earth Hour?,O,ral practice,1:E,arth hour,Work in pairs.Two students are talking about limiting car use.One insists that the unnecessary car journey be cut out while the other thinks itd be unfair to the private motorist and harmful to the car industry.,Hints:,green measure,ration petrol,public transport,inconvenient,develop environmentally clean vehicles,fast and efficient railway systems,car industry,unemployment,O,ral practice,2:A,dialogue,Topic:,strict polices and regulations on industrial pollution will lead to expensive cost and they may slow down economic development.,Group A:,for strict polices and regulations.,Group B:,against strict polices and regulations.,procedure:,divide the class into two groups for discussion,and then one or a few representatives is/are elected from each group to defend their views.,Oral Practice 3:a debate,Pros:,for strict polices and,regulations,Cons:,against strict policies,and regulations,Topic:strict policies and regulations on industrial pollution,will lead to expensive cost and they may slow down economic,development.,debate,To ask questions and moderate the debate:,Good morning/evening,What do you think about.?,Which are the advantages/disadvantages of.?,Do you think that.?,I have one more question:.,Its time.We have to finish.,Thank you very much.,Good luck with.,O,ral practice,3:A,debate,To express opinions:,From my point of view.,I think that./I believe.,I agree/dont agree with that/you.,Yes,you are right.,Are you sure about this?,Id like to add something.,O,ral practice,3:A,debate,Write a passage of around 150 words,comparing fossil fuels and green energy.You may write on the basis of the following outline.,矿物燃料和绿色能源的定义。,矿物燃料和绿色能源的比较(优缺点)。,结论,Writing Assignment,Make Our School Green,Working in groups of 4 students,you will plan and design how to save energy in our school and how to use renewable energy resources.,Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to summarize all the work you have done:surveys,calculations,conclusions,poster,your solution.,A project,1.Review passages a and understand,language focus well and make good use of them.,2.Finish the exer
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