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Aim: To identify what global warming is, its causes and consequences.
Time: 4 hour class
Activity: Do the tasks clicking on the link
Task 1: Getting starter
- Watch the video to get some ideas. What's the topic?
- Write words related to images from the video on your notebook.
Task 2: Building Vocabulary
Task 3: Reading Comprehension
Task 4: Listening Comprehension
- Your are goint to watch a trailer of last Oscar-winning documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
predict what key vocabulary you expect to hear in the trailer. - Listen and watch the trailer. What catched your attention?
- Report what the numbers refer to according to the trailer
2005 60 million 75 years ago - Wach the trailer ‘An Inconvenient Truth and fill in the gaps with this words
1. refugees 2. at stake 3. within the decade 4. Temperature increases
5. other threats 6. act together 7. hurricane 8. home to
9. sea level worldwide 10.hottest of all 11. stronger storms 12. the same glacier
If you look at the ten hottest years ever measured, they've all occurred
in the last fourteen years. And the (1) _________________________ was
2005. Scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming. I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America.This is Patagonia 75 years ago, and (2) _________________________ today. This is Mount Kilimanjaro 30 years ago and last year.(3) _________________________ there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.This is really not a political issue, so much as a moral issue. (4) __________________ are taking place all over the world … and that's causing (5) _________________________ .
This is the biggest crisis in the history of this country. Early this morning
(6) __________________ Katrina slammed
into New Orleans. Is it possible that we should prepare against (7)
_________________________ besides terrorists?
From Paramount Classics comes a film
that has shocked audiences everywhere they've seen it. The Arctic is
experiencing faster melting. If this were to go, (8)
_________________________ would go up 20 feet. This is what would happen
in Florida … Around Shanghai, (9) _________________ 40 million people …
The area around Calcutta – 60 million … Here's Manhattan. The World
Trade Center memorial would be under water. Think of the impact of a
couple of hundred thousand
(10) _________________ , and then imagine a hundred million.
We have to (11)
_________________________ to solve this global crisis. Our ability to
live is what is (12) _________________________.
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