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(共22张PPT)
Unit 1
Nature in the balance
Writing
Learn some useful expressions;
Write an article for the school newspaper calling for everyone to protect animals.
Learning objectives
In pairs, talk about animal protection. Use the following questions and expressions to help you.
1. Why should we protect animals
2. How are animals harmed by human activities
3. What action should be taken to protect animals
Talking about animal protection
Animals are in danger/at risk when we...
We can take care of/protect animals with these measures.
Protecting animal habitats is of great importance because...
We can take measures to/make efforts to...
We should call on people to ...
Write an article for the school newspaper calling for everyone to protect animals. Use your ideas from part C and the information in parts A and B to help you.
Learning about the structure
When you write an article to call for the protection of animals, you can follow the structure below:
State the importance of protecting animals.
Explain how human activities harm animals.
Come up with ways to protect animals.
Learning about the language
It is a good idea to give examples when you explain how human activities harm animals. You can use the following expressions: for example, for instance, take the example of, etc.
You can also use powerful and emotive words and phrases to make a strong impact on the reader.
Para 1 Importance of protecting animals
Para 2 How human activities harm animals
Para 3 Ways to protect animals
一、审题定调
本写作要求写一篇关于保护动物的短文。由于该文章是为学校英语报纸投稿，旨在向大家提出自己的动物保护建议，所以用第一人称，时态以一般现在时为主。
二、谋篇布局
文章可以分为以下三部分。
第一部分：保护动物的重要性；
第二部分：描述人类活动对动物造成的伤害；
第三部分：提出保护措施。
a faithful companion 忠实的伙伴
in danger 处于危险中
create the reserve 设立保护区
the destruction of the natural habitats 自然栖息地的破坏
raise your public awareness of protecting animals
提高你保护动物的公共意识
be cruel to animals 虐待动物
Many species of animals are in danger of dying out.
许多动物种类都处于濒临灭绝的危险中。
The reason why Chinese white-flag dolphins are endangered is that their habitats are disappearing due to water pollution and illegal fishing there.
中华白鳍豚濒危的原因是它们的栖息地由于水污染和违法捕捞正在消失。
The government must take effective measures to prevent people from harming the animals.
政府必须采取有效措施，阻止人们伤害动物。
Animal protection How human activities harm animals
Some human activities, such as hunting and fishing, directly cause populations of many animals to fall. Other human activities have an indirect impact on animals. / Some human activities have done much harm to animals, directly and indirectly.
When we build farms or factories, we destroy animal habitats.
Air, water, noise and light pollution can all have a deep and damaging influence.
...
Animal protection Ways to protect animals
Make hunting endangered animals against the law.
Protect animal habitats by creating well-planned and well-managed protected areas and taking small actions like using less paper.
Reduce how much beef we eat.
Make people understand the importance of animals and their need for protection.
...
2. Fill in the chart below to work out the outline of the article.
Explain how human activities harm animals:
Come up with ways to protect animals:
State the importance of protecting animals:

Call for the protection of animals
Animals are very important.
Human activities have done much harm to animals.
We must try our best to help protect animals and there are a lot of things that can do.
Pre-writing
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3. Learn some tips on the language of the article.
Give examples when explaining how human activities harm animals, with expressions like for example, for instance, take the example of, etc.
Human activities have done much harm to animals. For example/For instance, fishing and hunting directly cause populations of many animals to fall. Farming, tourism and industry damage or even destroy animal habitats, leaving them with nowhere to live or no food to eat.

Pre-writing
Step
3
Human activities have done much harm to animals. Let me take the example of the Amazon rainforest, which is the “lungs of the planet”. Over the past 50 years, about 17 per cent of the rainforest has disappeared due to human activities such as agriculture and cattle farming. As human activities continue to grow, the list of species in danger of extinction becomes longer.
Give examples when explaining how human activities harm animals, with expressions like for example, for instance, take the example of, etc.
Use powerful and emotive words and phrases to make a strong impact on the reader.
Animals are very important.
Animals play a very important role.
We cannot live/survive without animals.
Animals mean a lot/a great deal/much to us.
The importance of animals can never be ignored/denied/doubted.
Animals is to us what water is to a fish/the heart is to a human.
...
Pre-writing
Step
3
Human activities have done much harm to animals.
We cannot ignore the fact that ...
No one can deny the fact that ...
There is no denying that ...
However, some changes have taken place that ...
...
Use powerful and emotive words and phrases to make a strong impact on the reader.
We must try our best to help protect animals.
It’s high time that we did/should do something to ...
Let’s join our hands and take action immediately.
In my opinion, we should ... and spare no effort to ... because only in this way can we ...
Please start from now on! We will never know what we can do until we try!
If everyone makes some contributions, ... will become ...
In a word, if everyone pays more attention to ..., there will be less/fewer ... and ... will be better.
I’m calling for your active participation in ...
...
Use powerful and emotive words and phrases to make a strong impact on the reader.
Write the article for school newspaper calling for everyone to protect animals.
Come up with a short and impressive title.
Draft a topic sentence for each part. Remember to make it clear and straightforward.
Support the topic sentence with explanation, examples, quotes, statistics, etc.
Steps
Writing
Step
4
Check the writing.
Mistakes
in terms of
Punctuation
Spelling
Grammar
Choice of words
Style (formal/informal)
Structure
Post-writing
Step
5
Work in pairs
Self-review
Peer review
Find mistakes.
Correct them.
Make comments.
Read comments your
partner make.
Improve your writing.
Homework
Review what’s been learnt in class.
Polish up the article according to the suggestions given by others.

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