高中英语第二册上Unit09 Saving the earth-warming up07 ppt.pptVIP

* What do you expect to learn in this unit? The beautiful earth is our home. Do you love to live here? Help Waste from factories and cities should be stopped from throwing into the water. The water is seriously polluted. But after seeing the following pictures, do you still enjoy living on the earth? Can you imagine that this is the water they drink everyday? More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean and safe water. Without safe and clean drinking water there would be more patients in the hospitals. The people in developed countries are using 85 percent of the world’s water. Air pollution The harmful smoke should be made harmless before it goes into the air. Air pollution causes more than 2.7 million deaths in the world every year. More air pollution is caused by the burning of fuels like coal, gas and oil. Each year tens of thousands of people die in the world’s major cities as a result of breathing polluted air. Air pollution causes other diseases and may make it easier for children to get sick in the future. poor sanitation Over 2.4 billion people have no access to good sanitation. Every day, as many as half of all the people on the earth suffer from one of the many diseases caused by poor sanitation. Without proper sanitation, efforts to improve health care are useless. desert The area of desert is growing. desertification too many sheep and cattle all the grass be eaten grass never grow again ; the land become desert Why is more and more land becoming desert? Many forests have been destroyed. deforestation The area of desert in the world is growing every year. Many parts of the world, which once had large populations and produced plenty of crops, have become deserts. Cattle are one cause of the problem. In good years, farmers increase the numbers of their cattle. Then one year, the rains fail to come. The farmers do not want to kill any of their cattle, so the cattle eat all the grass and anything that grows on poorer land. If this