TEENS 初三20-21年第19-20期总第649期教案

王珊

 

 

Protect The Yangtze (P2)

 

 

I. Warm up

Look at the picture:

 

1. What can you see in the picture?

2. What do you know about this river?

3. Can you guess what we are going to read about next?

 

 

 

II. Pre-reading

Look at the title and predict.

1. What happened to the Yangtze?

2. What can people do to protect it?

3. Can you guess what the article is about?

     

 

 

III. While reading

Part 1

Read the first paragraph of the passage. What’s the main idea?

 

1. What does the first paragraph tell us about the Yangtze River?

A. How old it is.

B. What its environment is like.

C. Why it’s important.

D. What problems it has.

C

Key sentences

 

Part 2

Read the second paragraph. Finish a profile about the new law.

Key sentences

 

 

Read the third paragraph. Answer the following question:

3. What does Paragraph 3 explain?

A. Why the river needs protection.

B. How the river is being polluted.

C. How Chinese paddlefish died out.

D. How the river will be protected.

A

 

4. What’s wrong with the “mother river”?

It is being affected by overfishing, desertification, and pollution.

 

Part 3

Read the rest of the passage.

Answer the following questions about The Yangtze River Protection Law.

 

5. What are the two parts of the law?

6. What activities are mentioned in the law?

7. Who will be fined?

8. What damage can sand mining cause to the river?

9. How will companies that produce dangerous chemicals be dealt with, according to the law?

 

 

 

IV. Word in use

Complete the sentences using the given words and phrases.

make up    take effect    die out   survive   decline

 

1. Women ________ 56 percent of the student body.

2. Laws should be passed to protect pandas. Otherwise, they will certainly  ________.

3. No one can ________ more than a week without water.

4. The traffic law won’t ________ until the end of the year.

5. Support for the company continues to ________.

 

make up

die out

survive

take effect

decline

 

Language Points

Learn the following useful phrases.

 

 迫切需要

 由于

 重罚

 遵守法律

 采沙

 一种稀有资源

 集中于

 

be in great need of

due to

heavy punishment

follow the law

sand mining

a rare resource

focus on

 

长难句辨析：

1.

 

Which 在这里引导的是非限制性定语从句，指代的内容是前面所讲的“this has led to lower water levels on the river” 这一句所描述的整个情况。

 

2.

 

 

 

本句的主干是 “Companies will be relocated”, “that” 在这里引导的是定语从句 “produce dangerous chemicals”修饰先行词 “companies”，指代的内容是前面所讲的“companies”.

 

V. Post-reading

Please design a poster that encourages people to protect the Yangtze River. Use facts and information from the article.