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Unit 6 Lesson -6
Forests should stay
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• listened to a passage on the utility and destruction of forests
• discussed the main ideas of the passage
• completed a paragraph
A Work in pairs. Name some forests in Bangladesh and say where they are located. Discuss with your partner und write down at least three points about the utility of forests.
B You are going to listen to the first part of a talk on the importance of forests. After listening, check whether any of your points made in Task A have been mentioned in the passage. If not add the ones that are mentioned in the talk.
C Now discuss in pairs why people are destroying forests throughout the world. Then listen to the second part of the talk on the destruction of forests. Did you have the same points? Add any new ones that you have heard to your list.
D Write 2-3 sentences in your own words about what will happen if there are no forests in the world.
E Now look at the words in the box below and tick those that are mentioned in the listening text.
hypertension deforestation
global warming rainforest ecology paracetamol
smallpox
wood pulp
quinine
F Listen to the passage again and say whether the following statements are true or false.
1 Forests help humans in various ways.
2 All American drugs come from rainforest plants.
3 Quinine comes from vegetables.
4 The snakeroot plant is used to treat high blood pressure.
5 No rainforest has been burnt down in Africa.
6 Rainforests absorb carbon dioxide.
7 Deforestation may bring about the greenhouse effect.
G Now complete the paragraph below by using an appropriate word in each blank.
If we Dash forests and Dash down trees, the effects might eventually Dash us all. If forests Dash into desert wastes, what will Dash carbon dioxide? Then the weather pattern will Dash and the world will become Dash. This is called the greenhouse Dash. If forests go, the heat of the sun will be Dash inside the atmosphere As a result, the polar ice caps will Dash and this will cause the Dash of huge areas of the globe.
Skills.
Discussion,
listening for
specific
information,
completing a paragraph. Functions.
Expressing
probability.
Grammar/Structure.
Present continuous tense.
passive voice,
first conditionals.
Vocabulary.
medicinal,
hypertension,
deforestation, trap,
wood pulp, iceberg.
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Unit 6 Lesson -6
Forests should stay
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• listened to a passage on the utility and destruction of forests
• discussed the main ideas of the passage
• completed a paragraph
A Work in pairs. Name some forests in Bangladesh and say where they are located. Discuss with your partner und write down at least three points about the utility of forests.
B You are going to listen to the first part of a talk on the importance of forests. After listening, check whether any of your points made in Task A have been mentioned in the passage. If not add the ones that are mentioned in the talk.
C Now discuss in pairs why people are destroying forests throughout the world. Then listen to the second part of the talk on the destruction of forests. Did you have the same points? Add any new ones that you have heard to your list.
D Write 2-3 sentences in your own words about what will happen if there are no forests in the world.
E Now look at the words in the box below and tick those that are mentioned in the listening text.
hypertension deforestation
global warming rainforest ecology paracetamol
smallpox
wood pulp
quinine
F Listen to the passage again and say whether the following statements are true or false.
1 Forests help humans in various ways.
2 All American drugs come from rainforest plants.
3 Quinine comes from vegetables.
4 The snakeroot plant is used to treat high blood pressure.
5 No rainforest has been burnt down in Africa.
6 Rainforests absorb carbon dioxide.
7 Deforestation may bring about the greenhouse effect.
G Now complete the paragraph below by using an appropriate word in each blank.
If we Dash forests and Dash down trees, the effects might eventually Dash us all. If forests Dash into desert wastes, what will Dash carbon dioxide? Then the weather pattern will Dash and the world will become Dash. This is called the greenhouse Dash. If forests go, the heat of the sun will be Dash inside the atmosphere As a result, the polar ice caps will Dash and this will cause the Dash of huge areas of the globe.
Skills.
Discussion,
listening for
specific
information,
completing a paragraph. Functions.
Expressing
probability.
Grammar/Structure.
Present continuous tense.
passive voice,
first conditionals.
Vocabulary.
medicinal,
hypertension,
deforestation, trap,
wood pulp, iceberg.