新视野视听说U7.ppt

KRNET2000 What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age? This is the question that haunts climatologist Jack Hall. Hall’s research indicates that global warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet’s climate. While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year-old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition. He must now cope with the severe flooding and plummeting temperatures in Manhattan. Having taken refuge inside the Manhattan Public Library, Sam manages to reach his father by phone. Jack only has time for one warning: stay inside at all costs. As full-scale, massive evacuations to the south begin, Jack heads north to New York City to save Sam. But not even Jack is prepared for what is about to happen—to him, to his son, and to his planet.  Now watch five pieces of short videos from the film— The Day After Tomorrow. After that work in groups of 4 and have a discussion. Then finish the following task. Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. The term global warming is a specific example of the broader term “climate change”, which can also refer to global cooling. In common usage the term refers to recent warming and implies a human influence. Now watch the NEWS three times and fill in the blanks with the words and sentences you hear. Its the coldest, utmost wind-swept place on earth. _____________ it is the biggest desert in the world. Few animals or plants survive here. And with a land area nearly 60 times bigger than Britain, it ___________ 90 percent of the worlds ice.  Now the big fear is that a big melt for _______________ sea levels and perhaps for mankind too.  For