Unit 10. Nature in danger

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Once there were green fields (1) _ by the sun.

Once there were valleys where (2) _ used to run

Once there were (3) skies with (4) clouds high above Once they were part of an everlasting love

We were the (5) _ who strolled through green fields

Green fields are (6) _ now, parched by the sun

Gone from the (7) where rivers used to run

Gone with the cold wind that swept into my (8)

Gone with the lovers who let their (9) _ depart

Where are the green fields that we used to roam ?

I'll never know what made you run away

How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day

I only know there's nothing here for me

(10 _ in this wide world, left for me to see

Unit 10:

Nature in

Danger

Part A: Reading

I Before you read

cheetah panda

Siberian tiger

I Before you read

earthquake

forest fire

flood

Natural disasters

I Before you read

Vocabulary

1 species (n)

2 influence (v, n)

3 affect (v)

4 destroy (v) destruction (n)

5 pollutant (n)

6 consequence (n)

7 rare (a)

8 extinct (a), extinction (n)

9 effort (n)

10 endangered (a)

11 prohibit (v) = ban (v)

12 interfere (v) interference (n)

13 co-exist (v)

14 survive (v)

loài tác động, chi phối gây ảnh hưởng phá hủy, tiêu diệt chất gây ô nhiễm hậu quả

hiếm, quí tuyệt chủng

sự cố gắng, nỗ lực

bị đe dọa ngăn cấm can thiệp cùng tồn tại sống sót

Smoking is

prohibited

continue to exist

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I Before you read

Vocabulary

2 Influence (v, n) /'influəns/

4 Destroy (v) destruction (n) /di'strɔi/, / dis'trʌk∫n/

6 Consequence (n) /'kɔnsikwəns/

8 Extinct (a), extinction (n) /iks'tiηkt/

10 Endangered (a) /in'deindʒəd/

11 Prohibit (v) = ban (v) /prə'hibit/

12 Interference (n) /,intə'fiərəns/

II While you read

• Listen to the recording reading the passage

II While you read

Task 1: Vocabulary understanding

1 Dinosaurs became millions of years ago

2 She tried to _ herself from the wind

3 This species of bird is in numbers every year

4 The chemical from cars and factories make the air, water and soil dangerously dirty

5 The blue Wales is a (an) _species

6 Because of the of human beings, many animals have become extinct

pollutants

interference

decreasing extinct

protect endangered

II While you read

Task 2: Multiple choices

1 Paragraph 1

A Human beings need to grow food

B Human beings pollute the environments

C Human beings interfere with nature

D People should stop living in city and villages

2 Paragraph 2

A Many animals are disappearing

B Human beings are responsible for the changes in the

environment

C People are in danger of becoming extinct

D The human race is also an endangered species

II While you read

Task 2: Multiple choices

3 Paragraph 3

A Human beings have made efforts to protect the

environment

B Scientists have made a long list of endangered species

C People should kept away from animals and plants

D Rare animals do not disappear

4 Paragraph 4

A The survival of endangered species

B The Earth – a happy planet

C Conditions for a peaceful co-existence

D People’s interference with the environment

II While you read

Task 3: Question answering

1 What are four ways by which human beings are

changing the world?

2 What are the serious consequences of people’s

interference with the environment?

3 What has been done to protect the environment?

II While you read

Task 3: Question answering

1 What are four ways by which human beings are

changing the world?

They are:

- changing the environment by building cities and villages

- affecting the water supply by using water for industry and

agriculture

- changing weather conditions by cutting down trees in the

forests

- destroying the air by adding pollutants to it.

destroy, destruction

The forest is being destroyed

Endangered (a)

• danger (n)

Nguy cơ, sự nguy hiểm

• dangerous (a)

nguy hiểm

• endanger (v)

đe dọa, gây nguy hiểm

• endangered (a)

bị đe dọa, trong tình trạng bị

nguy hiểm

I’m a dangerous

tiger

I’m an endangered

deer

Extinct (a)

The Dinosaur is one of the extinct animals They

disappeared millions of years ago

Pollutant (n)

• pollute (v)

gây ô nhiễm

• polluted (a)

bị ô nhiễm

• pollution (n)

sự ô nhiễm

• pollutant (n)

chất gây ô nhiễm

Smoke from factories is a kind of pollutant

rare (a)

The koala is a rare animal

species (n)

human species

plant species

animal species