冀教版八年级下册Unit2Lesson7PlantingTrees课件 (1).ppt

Task A Tree-Planting Day is coming. Do you have any plans for it? Make up a dialogue with your partner. Task B Suppose the environment club in our school wants to make a poster for Earth- Day (April 22). Can you make one? To Save Our Earth Sample Dialogue A: Hi! Nice to see you. You know Tree-Planting Day is coming, have you got any plans? B: Well, _______________. A:… B:… A: See you then! * * Listen to the dialogue and write true (T) or false (F) 1. Li Ming and Wang Mei were having a picnic on a farm. ( ) 2. They asked a teacher for help. ( ) 3. Li Ming saw another group of people on the hillside. ( ) 4. Wang Mei really liked the project. ( ) F F T F * The Green Great Wall was built across ________ of the country. What is the Green Great Wall? It is made up of strips of human-planted forest. Each year_______ blow a lot of soil off the land. Things are getting more and more serious. About 3600 k㎡ of grassland are taken by the Gobi Desert every year. The Green Great Wall project started in 1978. by ______, people hold back the expansion of the desert and raise northern China’s forest coverage by 5％ to 15％. By the year 2050, _______ will be about 2800 miles long. A. the Green Great Wall B. planting more trees C. dust storms D. the northern part D C B A Complete the passage with the missing phrases. * The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says deforestation(森林采伐) still continues at “a warning speed” around the world. Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting down of forests to provide land for agriculture. About 13 million hectares(公顷) of forest were cut down or lost each year in the last 10 years. The FAO found that South America and Africa had the highest loss of forests. And Australia also suffered (遭受) huge losses because of drought (干旱). But some countries have improved their forest policies (政策) and l