Unit 4 Global warming

Reading

Teaching goals

Target language

words and phrases:

energy, light(v.), heat(v.), renewable, non-renewable, run out, compare, phenomenon, graph, fuel, trap, data, climate, catastrophe, consequence, range, per, glance, compare to, come about, fierce debate, result in, build up, keep on

Ability goals

Enable the students to talk about different sources of energy.

Enable the students to read the text, understand what it is about and talk about the causes and effects of global warming.

Teaching important & difficult points

Enable the students to get a better understanding of articles of this kind.

Teaching aids

A projector and a blackboard

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Warming up

T：Now let's look at a picture on the slide and answer the question below.

What is the greenhouse made and used for?

A greenhouse is made of glass and is used for growing plants, especially during cold weather.

What's greenhouse effect?

Step 2 Scanning

Read the text quickly and find the answer to the questions:

1. Who wrote the magazine article? What is the name of the magazine?

Sophie Armstrong, Earth Care.

2. What are the names of the three scientists mentioned in the article?

Dr Janice Foster, Charles Keeling, George Hambley.

3. What do they think about global warming? Do they agree with one another?

They don't agree with each other.

Dr. Janice Foster thinks the effects of global warming could be very serious.

George Hambley thinks global warming will be mild with few bad environmental

consequences.

Charles Keeling believes it is the burning of more and more fossil fuels that is resulting in a big