2013年浙江高一英语精品课件：Unit4 Section One2（人教版必修3）.pptVIP

Think about what you have read and discuss these questions in pair. 1. Why was the earth different from other planets? The water remained on the earth. 2. Why did the plants grow before the animals came? Because plants provide oxygen for animals to breathe. 3. Why is it wrong in films and stories to show dinosaurs and people together? Because dinosaurs died out long before human beings developed on the earth. 4. There used to be nine planets in the solar system. Recently scientists have decided that one of them can no longer be considered a planet. Do you know the name of that planet? Do you know why they removed it? Pluto. Scientists now think it is too small to be called a planet. 5. What problem is caused by human beings? Human beings caused global warming. Read the passage again and underline all the discourse markers and sentence connectors. Discourse markers: however, next, after that, later, finally, thus, as a result of this Sentence connectors or conjunctions: and, but, because The other puzzles hidden the passage are: How did the earth’s atmosphere develop? Why did water stay on the earth but not on the other planets? How did life forms develop? Why did some life forms disappear? Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars Warming up What are the names of the eight planets that circle our sun? 土星 Saturn 天王星 Uranus 金星 Venus 地球 Earth 火星 Mars 木星 Jupiter 海王星 Neptune 水星 Mercury The sun Do you know any questions that astronomers are interested in? ●How did the universe begin? ● How did life begin? ● Is there life on other planets? ● Are there other life forms in the universe? ● What happened to all the matter after the “Big Bang”? ● What are “black holes”? Pre-reading 1. The origin of life on earth is a question that interests astronomers. What do you know about it? ● How old is the universe? (several billion years ago) ● How old is the Earth? (between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago) ● Which were the first creatures or p