Unit 16. Man and the environment

Week: 36
Period: 106
Monday, May 15th, 2009
LESSON 3: POLLUTION ( B 1)
UNIT 16:
MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Vocabulary:
environment (n)
môi trường
air (n)
không khí
ocean = sea (n)
biển
trash (n)
rác rưởi
power (n)
điện, năng lượng
coal (n)
than đá
oil (n)
dầu
gas (n)
khí đốt
pollute (v)
làm ô nhiễm
waste (v)
phí phạm, lãng phí
Pre questions – predict:
a) What are we destroying?
b) What are we wasting?
c) What are we polluting?
1. forests
2. wild animals
3. plants
1. water
2. power (coal, oil, gas)
1. the air
2. the land
3. the rivers
4. the ocean
Questions:
a) Why are wild animals and plants in danger?
Because people are destroying the forests.
b) What is polluting the air?
Gases are polluting the air / People are polluting
the air: they are burning too much coal, oil and gas.
c) Where does the pollution come from?
The pollution comes from gases and trash.
d) What is polluting the land, the rivers and the oceans?
Trash is polluting the land, rivers and oceans.
Make a list of “Don’t”.
Example:
Don’t destroy the forests.
Don’t waste water.
Don’t pollute the air.
What do we do to protect the environment?
Don’t waste water.
Don’t pollute the air.
Don’t destroy the forests.
Don’t burn too much coal, oil and gas.
Don’t produce too much trash.
Don’t pollute the land, the rivers and the oceans.
Don’t destroy wild animals and plants.
HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart new words.
Read the text and answer the questions again.
Prepare B2 – B4.