外研版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第二册 Unit5 Understanding ideas 公开课课件.pptxVIP

Unit 5 A delicate worldUnderstanding ideas 目录页IⅣPre-readingPost-readingcontentsIIVIⅤFast readingLanguage pointsIIIIntensive readingHomeworkⅠPre-reading Pre-reading Look at the picture and answer the questions.1. What animals can you see in the picture?Students’ own answers. Look at the picture and answer the questions.2. What kind of changes would take place if cats, rats and rabbits were introduced to an environment like this ?They would hunt the birds and eat the native vegetation, thus upsetting the local ecological balance. Pre-readingPre-reading Background Information Macquarie Island – UNESCO World Heritage CentreMacquarie Island (34 km long x 5 km wide) is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, lying 1,500 km south-east of Tasmania and approximately halfway between Australia and the Antarctic continent. The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie Ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific plate. It is a majorPre-reading Background Information geoconservation significance, being the only place on earth where rocks from the earth’s mantle (6 km below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea-level. These unique exposures include excellent examples of pillow basalts and other extrusive rocks.ⅡFast readingRead the passage and find out what happened to Macquarie Island. Non-native species introduced to Macquarie Island attacked native birds, and led to a substantial reduction of bird population and even the extinction of parakeets. In addition, non-native species ate and devastated the native Fast readingRead the passage and find out what happened to Macquarie Island. vegetation. All of this played a part in upsetting the natural harmony of the island. But now the island’s ecology is on the road to recovery with human efforts. Fast readingChoose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons. 1. To analyse how Macquarie Island was saved from