Design quizzes or Q & A section for the presentation.
Part I Suggested projects
Key topic areas are: various causes of global warming the impact of global warming on the environment long-term effects of global warming How the climate changed over the past decades climate change and agriculture international policies in response to global warming recommendations for addressing the problem
联合国气候变化框架公约 UNFCCC or FCCC is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992. Countries joined this international treaty to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were, by then, inevitable. It entered
Part I Suggested projects
Recommended steps to do the project are: Brainstorm, narrow down the topic, then choose a focus; Search for information (articles, report, pictures, videos, etc.) from English sources; Process the information, and choose examples and details to support the aspects that are to be presented; Write a report with the information selected, and make a multimedia presentation of the report in class;
3. dramatically (Para. 1) adv. suddenly or obviously, in a very sudden
and noticeable way e.g. Your life changes dramatically when you have a baby to take care of.
Unit 1 》Part II 》Text-related information
2. 2. The Group of 77 (G77)
77国集团
The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by 77 developing countries signatories of the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries” issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing countries in the United Nations, which provides the means for the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all major international
Unit 1 》Part II 》Text-related information
Text e first lead-in article, lists the effects of global warming on the physical world, the natural world and people. In Reading 2 various causes of global warming are analyzed. In Reading 3, students will further read about the climate change and international efforts. The fourth article focuses on a summary of the global warming.
4. be linked to (Para. 1) related to each other in some way
e.g. Rock music has always been linked to the drug culture. The police suspected that the two cases are linked to each other.
Unit 1 》Part III 》 Reading 1
Language Points
1. frequent (Para. 1) ad. happening often
e.g. Their arguments are becoming more and more frequent. He is a frequent visitor to the museum.
《综合学术英语教程 1》
宋步峰 山东大学
Unit 1 Global Warming
Warm up
Part I
Part I Suggested projects Part II Text-related information Part III Reading & Listening Part IV Additional activities Part V Exercises
Unit 1 》Part II 》Text-related information
5. Cancun 坎昆 (墨西哥著名旅游城市)
Cancun is a city in southeastern Mexico, located on the northeast coast of the Yucatá n Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a major worldrenowned tourist destination,as well as being the seat of the municipality of Benito Juá rez. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, and is one of the easternmost points in Mexico. Cancún is located just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort band known as the Riviera Maya.
Part II Text- related information
Unit 1 》Part II 》Text-related information
Background information
1. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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3. Kyoto Protocol 京都议定书
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international treaty, named for the Japanese city of Kyoto in which it was adopted in December 1997, that aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming. In force since 2005, the protocol called for reducing the emission of six greenhouse gases in 41 countries plus the European Union to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels during the “commitment period” 2008–12.