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Unit 8 Protecting our Environment

Unit 8 Protecting our Environment. Text A Saving Nature, but Only for Man. Objectives. Understand the main idea and structure of the text; Appreciate the various argumentative skills employed in the text; Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

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Unit 8 Protecting our Environment

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  1. Unit 8 Protecting our Environment Text A Saving Nature, but Only for Man

  2. Objectives • Understand the main idea and structure of the text; • Appreciate the various argumentative skills employed in the text; • Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; • Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.

  3. Brainstorming: What does environmental protection concern with?

  4. Main idea • How to understand the title of text A? • environmental luxuries & environmental necessities • sensible environmentalism & sentimental environmentalism

  5. Structure • Introduction • Body • Conclusion

  6. Text Analysis Argumentative Methods • Contrast • quotation: para. 8—Protagoras’ principle • example: paras 3/ 13 • definition: paras 2/ 5 • cause and effect—paras. 3/ 4 • data—paras.7/ 8/ 11

  7. Language study Structure Now that (L2) But now that everyone has claims to love Mother Earth, how are we to choose among the dozens of …?

  8. 2. More than + past participle/adj. (L14) In April scientists reported that ozone damage is far worse than previously thought.

  9. Difficult Sentences 1. (L1) Environmental sensitivity is now as required an attitude in polite society as is, say, belief in democracy or aversion to nylon.

  10. 2. (L31) A sensible environmentalism does not sentimentalize the earth.

  11. 3. (L34) Ask hardworking voters to sacrifice in the name of the snail darter, and, if they are feeling polite, they will give you a shrug.

  12. 4. (L 37) Of course, this man-centeredness runs against the grain of a contemporary environmentalism that worships the earth to the point of excess.

  13. 5. (L 40) It is nothing more than sentimental. It takes, for example, a highly selective view of the kindliness of nature.

  14. 6. (L45) Such a principle helps us to fight our way through the jungle of environmental argument.

  15. 7. (L56) It is a ridiculous sentimentalism that would deny ourselves oil that is peacefully attainable because it risks disrupting the breeding grounds of Arctic reindeer.

  16. 8. (L59)  I like the reindeer as much as the next man.

  17. 9. (L78) When the threat to man is of a lesser order … a more moderateaccommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order.

  18. 1. 环境意识 2. 对尼龙的厌恶 3. 以 --- 的名义 4. 对环境的奢侈追求 5. 对环境的必需要求 6. 运用规则 7. 基本原理 8. 理智环境保护论 9. 遏止温室效应 10食物链 11. 保护自然 12. 以 --- 为理由 13. 对地球感情用事 14. 与--- 格格不入 15. 减少消费 16. 大气臭氧层 17. 保护环境 18. 感情用事的环境保护论者 19. 错误的心态 20. 为了大自然 Useful Expressions

  19. After-class assignment • Go over unit 8 of Intergrated Reading; • Finish the the listening of Listening and Speaking, and the reading of Reading Course and Fast Reading according to the teaching plan. Thank You and Good Bye!

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