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课件网) Planting Trees 河北保定师范附属学校 张晓玲 Listen to the dialogue and write true (T) or false (F) 1. Li Ming and Wang Mei were having a picnic on a farm. ( ) 2. They asked a teacher for help. ( ) 3. Li Ming saw another group of people on the hillside. ( ) 4. Wang Mei really liked the project. ( ) F F T F Read the dialogue and order the steps of planting a tree. 5 4 3 2 1 Retell the steps of planting a tree or make up a dialogue about the steps with your partner. 1 2 3 4 5 dig a hole large enough put … into cover fill … with … pack water in the bottom of Read the dialogue and find out the reasons. Why do so many people come to the hillside to plant trees Practice: Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box. 1. I was a farmer on the edge of Gobi Desert. Life there is difficult. A long time ago, grass and trees _____ the soil. 2. But as time goes by, more and more grassland has disappeared and _____ desert. 3. So I _____ my backpack _____ what I need and came out to look for a new life. 4. _____, I lost almost everything on my way to Guangzhou because there was a hole _____ of my backpack. 5. Perhaps a thief made that hole, but I couldn’t say _____. Now I am a worker in a factory and my new life here is going well. However, I still miss my hometown. cover turn into by the way in the bottom of fill… with … for sure covered turned into filled with By the way The Green Great Wall was built across _____ of the country. What is the Green Great Wall It is made up of strips of human-planted forest. Each year_____ blow a lot of soil off the land. Things are getting more and more serious. About 3600 k㎡ of grassland are taken by the Gobi Desert every year. The Green Great Wall project started in 1978. by _____, people hold back the expansion of the desert and raise northern China’s forest coverage by 5％ to 15％. By the year 2050, _____ will be about 2800 miles long. A. the Green Great Wall B. planting more trees C. dust storms D. the northern part D C B A Complete the passage with the missing phrases. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says deforestation(森林采伐) still continues at “a warning speed” around the world. Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting down of forests to provide land for agriculture. About 13 million hectares(公顷) of forest were cut down or lost each year in the last 10 years. The FAO found that South America and Africa had the highest loss of forests. And Australia also suffered (遭受) huge losses because of drought (干旱). But some countries have improved their forest policies (政策) and laws. For example in China, India and Vietnam, they got more than 2 million hectares a year in the last 10 years because of tree-planting programs. In Europe, it also continues to enlarge. However, the rate of deforestation is still very high in many areas and forests undisturbed (未被打扰的) by human activity continue ... ...
