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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 3
Ships in the Desert
Teaching Aims
1. Improving Reading Skills----understanding scientific readings
2. Enriching Vocabulary--- enlarging vocabulary
cultivating students’ sense of word building
understanding that synonyms have fine shades
3. Improving Writing skills --- making effective use of specific verbs
discussing the solution to environmental problems from a politician’s point of view, that is, relating the solution to environmental destruction to the solution to arm races
Teaching Activities
Vocabulary
1 hour
Text Analysis
4 hours
Discussion
3 hours
Practice
2 hours
Teaching Process
I . Warming up
to Additional Background Knowledge
III. Text Analysis
Introduction to the Passage
Effective Writing Skills
Rhetorical Devices
Special Difficulties
IV. Questions
Assignment
Write a position on: We must protect our ecological system.
Reference Books
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
A Handbook of Writing
English Rhetoric & Writing
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
《英语修辞大全》
A Guide to Advanced English
Britannia Encyclopedia
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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 3
Ships in the Desert
Warming-up Activities
Dou you think the environment is facing some threats? If yes, what are the threats?
Have you ever thought of protecting our ecological system? Any god proposals?
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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Title
Unit 3
Ships in the Desert
Additional Background Information
Al Gore
Born in 1948 in Washington ., . Senator (1984-1992) from the State of Tennessee, and the . Vice-President (1992--2000 under President Bill Clinton. HE is the author of the book Earth in the Balance from which this piece is taken.
Clear Air Act
One of the oldest environmental laws of the ., as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. It was passed in 1970.
Ozone depletion
A layer of