文档介绍：Unit 9 Environment
Week One
Skills:1. Further practices on public speaking
2. Further practices on note-taking
Materials: Textbook exercises and supplementary exercises
Procedure:
Warm-up activity10min
Introduction to the environment issues faced by China
Public speaking and interpreting 30min
Impromptu speeches by students: “As university students, what can we do to protect the environment?”
Students are given two minutes time to prepare the speech on the given topic either in Chinese or English. Then students either volunteer or are called at random to make their speeches in class. Other students are required to act as interpreters at the end of the speeches.
Note-taking and interpreting 40min
Speech by Kofi Annan on World Environment Day 2004 (See attachment)
Before the exercise, special terms and expressions are explained to the students. Then they are required to interpret the speech paragraph by paragraph.
Urgent Need To Protect, Sustainably Manage Oceans And Seas,
Secretary-General Says In World Environment Day Message
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Environment Day, 5 June 2004:
The marine environment is facing challenges that, if not addressed immediately and effectively, will have profound implications for sustainable development.  The theme of World Environment Day 2004 –“Wanted! Seas and Oceans:  Dead or Alive?”-- emphasizes that society can no longer view the world’s seas as a convenient dumping ground for our waste, or as an unlimited source of plenty.
The facts are clear.  The world’s seas and oceans are ing increasingly tainted by untreated waste water, airborne pollution, industrial effluent and silt from inadequately managed watersheds.  Nitrogen overload from fertilizers is creating a growing number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in coastal waters across the globe.  Marine litter is killing up to a million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals and turtles each year.  With more than 40 per c