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Unit 3
Ships in the Desert
by Al Gore
Teaching Points
? I,Background information
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions for discussion
I,Background Information
? 1,Al Gore the author
? 2,Clean Air Act
? 3,The Aral Sea
II,Introduction to the Passage
? 1,Type of literature:
? -- a piece of exposition
Introduction to the Passage
? 2,The purpose of a piece of exposition,
? -- to inform or explain
Introduction to the Passage
? 3,Ways of developing the thesis of a
piece of exposition,
? --- comparison,contrast,analogy,
identification,illustration,analysis,
definition,etc,
Introduction to the Passage
? 4,The central thought or thesis
III, Effective Writing Skills
? 1,making effective use of specific
verbs
? 2,discussing the solution to
environmental problems from a
politician’s point of view,that is,
relating the solution to environmental
destruction to the solution to arm races
IV, Rhetorical Devices
? 1,understatement
? 2,metaphor
V,Text Analysis
VI, Special Difficulties
? 1,analyzing the structure of some long
and complicated sentences
? 2,understanding the scientific matters
connected with ecological environment
? 3,translating long and complicated
sentences
? 4,mastering the rules of word
formation
VII, Questions for Discussion
? 1,How has human civilization now become
the dominant cause of change in the global
environment?
? 2,What changes in the global environment
present a strategic threat to human
civilization? How should we face this
challenge and solve the problem?
? 3.What solutions does the writer put forward
to our ecological problems?
VIII,Exercises
? P.150-153