人教新课标选修6 Unit 4 Global warming Reading课件（共24张）.ppt

人教课标 高二 选修 6 Unit 4 Glance quickly at the magazine article and answer the questions. 1. Who wrote the magazine article? What is the name of the magazine? Sophie Armstrong wrote the magazine article. The name of the magazine is Earth Care. 2. What are the names of the three scientists mentioned in the article? They are Dr. Janice Foster, Charles Keeling and George Hambley. 3. What do they think about global warming? Do they agree with one another? There are some very different attitudes among scientists towards this issue. Some think the effects will be terrible, while some others believe that we should not worry about it. Graph I shows the temperature increase of one degree Fahrenheit between 1860 to 2000. 4. What are the two graphs about? Graph 2 shows the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere from 1957 to 1997. 5. What is the main topic of the article? Global warming/ the warming of the earth. Vocabularyreading 1. come about: 产生；发生 该和平协议是在国际社会的强大压力下产生的。 The peace agreement came about through intense pressure by the international community.? 那件事发生在去年我们去纽约时。 That came about when we went to New York last year.? 2. random: adj. 随机的；随意的 我们研究了随机抽样的120个家庭。 We studied a?random sample?of 120 families. 胡乱放了几枪。 A few random shots were fired. at random: 随机地；随意地 这帮犯罪分子随意选择对象下手。 The gang picked their victims at random.? 3. subscribe: vi. 订购；捐款 一年只需 32 美元就可以订阅这份杂志。 You can subscribe to the magazine for as little as $32 a year.? 她定期捐款给一个环境行动组织。 She subscribes to an environmental action group.? subscribe to: 同意 我从未赞同过这样的看法，以为学生时代是一生中最快乐的日子。 I have never subscribed to the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life. 4. quantity: n. 数量；大量 a quantity of: 一些 警方还在公寓里发现了一些枪支。 The police also found a quantity of guns in the flat.? in quantity: 大量地 大批量购买要便宜得多。 It’s a lot cheaper if you?buy?it?in quantity. 为防饥荒，我们应该大量储备食物。 We should store quantities of food in case of famine