文档介绍：Jiejin College English Reading 4
Chapter 8
Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
This chapter is about science and improving life for human beings. The first reading, Trees for Democracy, is an excerpt of Wangari Maathais speech, given when she received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Students will develop skills including previewing a speech, building new words with prefixes and suffixes, finding evidence to disprove false arguments, pound words, analyzing an author’s point of view, reading timelines understanding idiomatic phrases in contexts, distinguishing fact from opinion, and reading for speed and fluency.
Part 1
The First
Part 2
The Second
Steps:
Before you read :
vocalulary
with EX1 and EX2
Reading:
3 Analysis of language points
study
After you read:
5. Writing
6. Exercises
Part 1 Reading skills and Strategies Trees for Democracy
Before You Read
P198 EX1 Previewing a Speech
Kikuyu [ki'ku:ju:] n. (肯尼亚)基库尤人[语] ; 吉库尤人(肯尼亚中部居民)
Kenya ['ki:njə, 'kenjə] n. 肯尼亚/ Africa
3. trees 4. Poverty 5. Green Belt n. 城市绿化带
Strategy : Building new words with Prefixes and Suffixes
P198 Ex 2
Unsuitable 2. nutritious 3. erosion
4. Conservation 5. ecological 6. primarily
Degradation 8. deterioration
9. deforestation 10. Advocacy
11. harassment 12. desertification
Warm up Questions
Do you know of any environmental movements?
How do you think planting trees might help a country
What kind of obstacles would you guess a woman like Maathai might face in starting an environmental movement?
Read: Introduction:
Great journeys often with one small step. Wangari Maathai’s 旺加里·马塔伊 Green Belt Movement绿带运动is based on a simple idea, planting trees. Because of the place she was born and the fact that she was a woman, she had to face immense obstacles巨大的障碍to put her idea into practice. Her speech , which follows, describes her work, the reasons that make it effective and some of the difficulties she had to e.