新风尚综合英语3unit4.ppt

Copenhagen Conference Jimmy Carter Biography Solar Panels on the white house low-carbon efforts made at NPC China’s Green Revolution Career Centre Learning Strategies Reading Tables A table is an organized display of factual information, usually numbers or statistics. 1. Determine how the data is classified. 2. Make comparisons and look for trends or patterns. 3. Draw conclusions. 1900 1950 1985 2000 2025 2100 Developing regions (total) 1,070 1,681 3,657 4,837 6,799 8,748 Africa 133 224 555 872 1,617 2,591 Asia (a) 867 1,292 2,679 3,419 4,403 4,919 South America 70 165 405 546 779 1,238 Developed regions (total) 560 835 1,181 1,284 1,407 1,437 Europe, Russia, Japan, Oceania (b) 478 669 917 987 1,062 1,055 Canada, USA 2 166 264 297 345 382 World total 1,630 2516 4,837 6,122 8,206 10,185 a Excludes Japan b Includes Australia and New Zealand Population (millions) This cartoon is on climate scepticism (怀疑论). It shows a climate sceptic pointing in horror at a flipchart listing all the positives of a low-carbon economy. Discuss how low-carbon economy can bring these positives. The Joy of English Para. 6 2. dominate v. (1.) To control, govern, or rule by superior authority or power:? e.g. ★ Successful leaders dominate events rather than react to them. (2.)?To exert a supreme, guiding influence on or over:? e.g. ★ Ambition dominated their lives. 3. trade…for…: exchange for e.g ★ We are trading environment for development. ★ Who wants to trade something for an I pod? Para. 7 We’re in the middle of an awful and seemingly endless employment crisis, and China is the country moving full speed ahead on the development of the world’s most important new industries. I’d like someone to explain the logic of that to me. Go to Para.8 Para. 7 1. awful: adj. very bad or pleasant e