Unit 9 Intergrating skills Voices of the earth summit

1. Unit 9 Intergrating skills Voices of the earth summit 福清侨中陈柳菁

2. Revision What does the Earth Summit mainly talks about? • It mainly talks about environment problems and solutions.Experts from all over the world are welcome to the Earth Summit,speaking about different topics and discussing new ways to solve old problems.

3. Let's hear the voices of the Earth Summit.

4. allternative-alternate defend against/from incorrect-correct afect/effect advise sb.(not)to do sth. advise doing sth. Let’s learn some new words first.

5. Speech 1 Problem: most ________don’t __________. Governments of the world must: Make sure that all people from developing countries have free access to ________ ________ _________ ; limit the number of _________ per family; Stop _______ ______ _______ without replacing them. leaders listen clean drinking water cars cutting down trees

6. People of the world must: Make use of alternative ____________, such as ________ ______and car-pooling; reduce,_____ and _____ as much as possible. We need ________! transportation walking biking reuse recycle action

7. Speech2 The Earth Summit is not just about good ________ and big ________;it is about ________ _______ _______ the ________ we are facing. I have brought a bag of _______. You may think that ________ is useless,but I will tell you how we can use ________ to make the future ________ ,cleaner and _____,and to _______ _______. speech word problems doing something about rubbish rubbish rubbish greener make money better

8. Answers to Exercise 2 Thoughts,commments,opinions Speech 1 I agree that most leaders don’t seem to listen. It is terrible that some people don’t have access to safe drinking water. I think that it would be good to use alternative transportation, but I don’t think we should limit the number of cars per family Speech 2 It would be great if we could use rubbish to make money !I didn’t know that it could be done.

9. Questions Speech 1 Why do some people not have access to safe water? What can we do about it? Why do leaders not listen? What can I do to help? Speech 2 If rubbish is so useful, why don’t people use it?

10. Speeches time

11. Sample outline • Introduction:We should tell the restaurants in our city to stop using wooden chopsticks and white plastic boxes. • Description of the current situation (what do the restaurants do today?)

12. Part 1. Reasons why wooden chopsticks and white plastic boxes are bad Reasons why wooden chopsticks are bad Cut down trees to make them Can’t be used more than once Reasons why white plastic boxes are bad Made from dangerous chemical Can‘t be used more than once People throw them away or burn them Causes rubbish piles and dangerous gases

13. Part 2 Alternatives（solutions） • Use other chopsticks that can be used many times • Recyle used wooden chopsticks • Use the boxes that are made from safe materials • Use the boxes more than once • Don’t throw away or burn used boxes

14. Part 3 Action we should take • Tell the restaurants and our friends about the problem • Ask the restaurants to change their behaviour • Don‘t go to rrestaurants that use wooden chopsticks and plastic boxes • Bring our own chopsticks and “green and clean boxes”

15. Tips for preparing a speech Knowing how to give a good speech is a useful skill。If you want to give a good speech，there are a few things you need to consider。 • I：Think about your audience • A）Who will listen to your speech？ • B）What are they interested in？ • C）What do they want to know？ • D）What do they already know？ Outlines likes these will help you decide what you are going to say。

16. II：Prepare and practise • Reseach your topic carefully and organise the material. • Before you give the speech,practise in front of a mirror or together with a friend.

17. Life!