TEENS初三20-21学年第10期总第640期教案

王荆艳

 

 

Earth gets too warm (P5)

 

 

I. Warm up

1. Do you feel like Earth is getting warmer? Why or why not?

 

2. What kind of impact will global warming have on life on Earth?

 

 

II. While reading

3. Why did the researchers say “the Arctic is dying”?

 

4. What kinds of animals and plants live in the Arctic?

Animals: polar bears, reindeer, caribou

Plants: moss, lichen, grass

Humans: the Inuit people

 

Careful reading

5. What do we know about MOSAiC?

A. It aims to send scientists to the Arctic every year.

B. It is a two-year-long research program in the Arctic.

C. It collects data about global environmental changes.

D. It is an international program to study the Arctic climate. 

D

 

6. What prediction did the researchers make about the Arctic? 

 

7. What do Paragraphs 3 and 4 tell us?

A. Polar bears will starve to death without sea ice.

B. 56 percent of reindeer will disappear by 2050. 

C. There will be no grass if the Arctic gets warmer.

D. There will be no caribou in the Arctic in 20 years.

A

 

Language Points

8. What does the word “lock” mean in this paragraph?

A. burn

B. bury

C. miss

B

 

9. Indigenous people’s lives have been affected because _____.

A. they live in Europe and Russia

B. their houses will melt

C. their way of living is too old-fashioned

D. the animals they live on have decreased in number

D

 

10. What does “frozen only in memory” mean?

 

11. What is the story mainly about?

A. The circle of life in the Arctic.

B. The disappearance of ice in the Arctic.

C. The influence of climate change on Arctic life.

D. The development of an Arctic research program.

C

 

 

III. Post reading

As Arctic ice melts, plants, animals and humans are being impacted. We are running out of time and must take action before it’s too late.

 

What can we do?

 

 

IV. Word in use

Complete the sentences using the words provided.

force     disappear    dying    drop    depend

 

It was said that she had the power to bring the ____ back to life.

The rumor might not _______ as quickly as we’d hoped.

The product’s cost ______on the material that is used to make it.

4. I can’t ____ you to do this. It is up to you.

5. I ________ my glasses and broke them.

 

dying

disappear

depends

force

dropped