高三春季合刊Wildlife moves in (P14-15)
发布时间:2020-05-09
Wildlife moves in (P14-15)
江苏省丁沟中学 吴璇
Lead in
Q1. What’s the influence of the virus on people’s lives?
Enormous economic losses have been caused worldwide.
People infected with the virus can get sick or even lose their lives.
People have to stay at home to keep safe and check the spread of the virus.
Q2.Have you ever thought about the influence of the virus on wild animals?
Maybe with people being caged indoors, wild animals have more freedom.
Q3. When was the last time you saw wild animals not caged?
Rarely do we have chance to get close to wild animals.
Q4. Can you imagine wild animals wandering the streets in real life?
From a different angle
Humans→ in Wildlife→ out
Reading
1. What’s your feeling toward this news?
I feel amazed because it offers me a different angle to look at a problem.
We should give more respect to wildlife and nature rather than take everything for granted.
Divide the article into three parts and find the topicsentence for each section:
Part 1 (Para 1-4):Nature seems to be taking back urban areas.
Part 2 (Para 5):Gradually, human beings came to lose their connection with nature.
Part 3 (Para 6-11):However, the recent lockdown of cities amid the pandemic“frees space for other animals”. We should reflect on our relationship with nature, according to AFP.
Reflection
Would you like to recommend this article to your friends? What will you tell them about its conclusions?
It's time for human beings to reflect on their relationship with wild animals.
Human beings should take the blame for what they have done.
Human beings and wild animals are both the inhabitants of the Earth instead of the owners.
Language focus
1.retreat (P1)
v. /n. 退却;撤退;后退;隐退
Eg.The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat.
法军在人数上突然处于劣势,被迫撤退了。
2.pandemic (P1)
adj.(疾病)在全国(或世界)流行的
n. (全国或全球性)流行病,瘟疫
联想:epidemic n. 传染病;流行病;风尚等的流行adj. 流行的;传染性的
3.habitat (P4)
n. [生态] 栖息地,产地
Eg. Habitat loss and climate change will be the biggest reasons for
their extinction.
栖息地的消失和气候的变化将是它们灭绝的最大原因。
4. evolve (P5)
v. 发展,进展;进化;逐步形成;推断出
evolution n.
5. jostle (P5)
v. 推挤,撞;争夺
Desperation has driven women to jostle with men for limited relief
supplies.
绝望的境地使得女人为了有限的救灾物资和男人们展开了竞争。
6. flock (P5)
n.(羊或鸟) 群; (特定类型的)一群人
v. 聚集;成群而行
Eg. A noisy flock of tourists came into the building.
一群吵吵嚷嚷的游客走进了大楼。
Hundreds of people flocked to the football match.
数百人蜂拥前来观看足球比赛。
7. unmowed (P5) a.未割草的 mow n. 草堆;谷堆;v. 割草;收割庄稼
8. lockdown (P6)n. 一级防范禁闭(期)
9. amid (P6) prep.
在……中间,在……当中;为……环绕
( in the middle of or surrounded by )
10. reduce (P7) v. 减少;降低;使处于;沦为
11. avid (P7)adj. 渴望的,贪婪的;热心的
12. livestream (P8)
v.视频直播
Eg. Some people certainly find this medium appealing, as online "livestreams" are becoming all the rage in China.
随着网络“直播间”在中国风行一时,的确有一些人认为这个地方非常有吸引力。
13.quarantine (P8)
n.v. 检疫隔离
Eg. It is said that all ships coming from abroad should be quarantined.
据说对所有国外来的船舶都要进行检疫。
14. temporary (P11)
adj. 暂时的,临时的n. 临时工,临时雇员
15. live in harmony with (P5)与...和谐生活 harmonious a.和谐的
16. share natural resources, including sunlight, water, forests and land
分享从阳光到水源,从森林到土地的各种自然资源
17. (be) stuck indoors (P7)被困在室内
18. lock up (P10)锁起来,关起来
19. as ...put it (P11)
正如某人所说
Eg. True human happiness should be, as he put it, fulfilling.
人类真正的幸福应该是,如他所说,全面的。
Let’s finish a peom!
Return the forest to deer.
Return______ to ________.
Return______ to ________.
...
Return nature to wildlife.
Homework
Recommend the article to your friends.
Today I read about an amazing article that you should not miss. It’s said that ____________
______________. It’s deep in my mind that we human beings __________________
_________________________.