Unit 3 Our world

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Our world

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Organization

Learning objectives

Read and Listen

Vocabulary

Grammar

Culture in mind

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Learning Objectives

• will/won't; might (not) / may (not) for prediction
• if/unless + first conditionaI
• Vocabulary: environment

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Read and Listen

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Read & Listen

Look at the photos and the title. Read the text and check your ideas.

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Read & Listen

Read the text again and listen. Match the two parts of the sentences.

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1. In 2007, politicians in Paris
2. People only have to pay
3. At more than 1,450 bicycle stations,
4. Some people
5. Polititcians think the Velib scheme
6. If we don't change the situation,

a. if they use the bike more than half an hour.b. still use cars to travel across the city. c. might help to make the air in Paris cleaner.d. people can take bikes and leave them. e. the problem of pollution will get bigger. f. started a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.

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Vocabulary

Environment

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Vocabulary

Environment

• trafic jam
• pollution
• exhaust fumes
• reduce pollution level
• atmosphere
• fatory fumes
• global warming
• dramatic climate change
• disappearing
• rise (temperature)

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Vocabulary

Environment

Match the words with the pictures. Write 1-6 in the boxes

1. recycling

2. litters

3. pollution

4. factory fumes

5. rainforests

6. rubbish

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Vocabulary

Environment

Practice

1. waste
2. drop
3. clean up
4. recycle
5. pick up
6. cut down
7. pollute

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GRAMMAR

• will/won't; might (not) / may (not) for prediction
• first conditionaI
• unless

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Grammar

• will/won't and might (not) / may (not) for prediction

Look at the example

1. People will still use their cars.
2. It might reduce pollution levels in the atmosphere.

Use will or won't to express certainty and might (not) or may (not) to express possibility

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Grammar

• will/won't and might (not) / may (not) for prediction

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Grammar

• First conditional

Look at the example

If people want to travel across the city, they won't use a bicycle - they'll still use their cars.

First conditional consists of a condition clause and a result clause.

RULE

If + Present Simple, will/won't.

condition clause

result clause

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Grammar

• First conditional

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Grammar

• Unless in first conditional sentence

Unless we do something = lf we do / don't do something.

RULE

Unless we do something about it now, there will be traffic jams and temperatures will rise further.

Example:

The sentence above means: If we don't do something about it now, there will be traffic jams and temperatures will rise.

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Culture in Mind

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Water, Water, but it isn't everywhere

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Listen to seven facts about water. Number the pictures 1-7.

Match. Then listen again and check.

What problems do some people in the world have with getting water? Listen again and check your answers.

Listen

Guess the answers to these questions. Then listen to an interview with an expert and check your answers.

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Amy wrote an article for her school website. How many ideas does she have for making her town better for teenagers? Read Amy's article to find the answers.

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Underline the words and phrases Amy uses to introduces her each ideas in her article. Circle words and phrases she uses to give her opinion.

Write an article like Amy's. Use your ideas from Exercise 9, some of the vocabulary in the unit and Amy's article to help you. Plan your writing. Here is a possible plan:

1. say where you live and what the environmentaI problems are
2. say what people can do
3. think of a positive ending for your article

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Homework

Write an article expressing your idea on how to make better /improvement of the following topics:

• Your neighborhood
• Your city
• You hometown
• Others

Write your article in a five-paragraph essay format. Use some of the vocabulary and grammar and use Amy's article to help you. Here is a possible plan:

1. say where you live and what problems you want to improve
2. say what people and you can do
3. Think of a positive ending for your article

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Thank You!

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