Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It! Teacher: Wang Nianying

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It! Teacher: Wang Nianying Students: Class 12, Grade 2014

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment • Contents: • Looking Ahead • 2. New words and expressions • 3. Getting Ready • 4. Discussion

Which group is good, better or best? Group 1: Group 2: Group 3: … … … Have a competition!

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment Contents: 1. Looking Ahead

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment • Contents: • Looking Ahead • 2. New words and expressions

condemnvt. (1) 谴责；判刑；宣告……有罪(与to连用) 完成句子： He ______________________________ for murder. (他因谋杀被判死刑。) was condemned /sentenced to death

Practice The judge condemned the criminal（罪犯） ______ all his life in prison. A. to spendB. spending C. to spending D. spent 【答案】A 【解析】句意为：法官宣判罪犯终生监禁。condemn sb. to是“宣判某人……”， to为不定式符号。

reproduction n. produce vt. 产生（结果或影响）；（大量地）生产;出产； n.产品，农产品 production n.（为了销售而进行的）生产 product n.产品；出品；产物 e.g. 1. 这家工厂每周生产500辆小汽车。(produce) 2. 生产过程(process)出了问题。(production) 3. 这些失败都是坏习惯的产物。(product) This factory produces 500 cars a week. There’s something wrong with the production process. The failure is the product of the bad habits.

【辨析】affect，effect，effort ①affect通常作及物动词（vt.)，有“影响，感动，感染等”意思。 ②effect通常作名词(n.)，意为“结果，效果，作用，影响等”，常用词组：have an effect on / upon sb．对某人有影响； take effect 生效，实行。 ③effort通常作名词(n.) ，意思为“努力、尝试”等。

【常用词组】 ① make an effort to do sth. / make efforts to do sth. 努力 ② make every effort to do sth.尽一切努力做某事 ③ spare no effort 不遗余力

【即时练习】用affect、effect、effort填空。 1.The change in climate may ________ your health． 2. What he said might have a bad _________ on the boy． 3. He spared no ______ to help the poor. ． 4. The song ___________ her deeply． 5. Cancer has ________ his lungs(肺部) affect effect effort affected affected

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment • Contents: • New words and expressions • 2. Looking Ahead • 3. Getting Ready

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. Something that one person likes may be distasteful to someone else.

Examples Can you put the proverb into Chinese? Jill: I don’t understand why Don doesn’t like to read science fiction. It’s the most interesting thing to read. Jane: One man’s meat is another man’s poison. 一个人的佳肴常为另一人的毒药。/ 一个人喜欢的常是另一人不喜欢的。 I wouldn’t want to do her job, but she seems to love it. Oh well, one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

The coming article is about the coqui, a kind of frog. Read the following sentences and guess if they are true (T) or false (F) before you read the article. 1) The coqui is a kind of very big frog. 2) The coqui is from Hawaii. 3) The coqui is dangerous to the environment. 4) The number of coqui keeps increasing. 5) The coqui can only be caught by hand. F F T T T

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment • Contents: • Looking Ahead • 2. New words and expressions • 3. Getting Ready • 4. Discussion

But in fact, there’s still something that we must do to protect the environment. What can we do to protect our environment?

Discussion ( In sixs): What can we do to protect the environment? e.g. I think … In my opinion, … We should / shouldn’t … To protect the environment, … Report to the class: ______________

Which group is good, better or best? Group 1: Group 2: Group 3: Excellent! Congratulations!

Unit 1 Protecting Our Environment Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It! Teacher: Wang Nianying