Starting out
1Watch the video and answer
the questions.
1Which of the facts in the video do
you find most alarming?
2What does the video want to
tell us?
2Look at the cartoons and answer
the questions.
1What environmental problem
does each cartoon refer to?
2What are the caus of
the problems?
3What do you think is the most
rious environmental problem we
face today? What should be done
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1 Tick the words that you would u to describe
sharks. Add any more you can think of. dangerous powerful endangered
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e e a woman swimming at night in a dark a.
Suddenly, she is pulled
underwater. She surfaces, cries in fear, then disappears forever. This is the
opening scene from the 1975 film Jaws , showing a shark attack. It tells the story of a great white shark that attacks and kills swimmers. Jaws was a great success, attracting huge audiences and winning many awards. It strengthened people’s long-held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal.2 People have always been scared of sharks, but Jaws made things wor. It made people frightened of sharks,
especially of the great white shark. Many people who saw the film started to believe that sharks were bad animals
that ate humans. Some people stopped swimming in the a, afraid of the horrible creature from the film. Other people started fishing for sharks, killing as many as they could. At that time, nobody cared if sharks were killed, or how many were killed. People just wanted them killed.
3 After 1975, the number of large sharks around America fell quickly, and soon fell around the world. This was not only due to fear of sharks, but also finning. Finning is a type of fishing where sharks are caught and their fins cut off. The sharks are thrown back into the a
Understanding ideas Now compare your choices with the class. Share what you know about sharks.2 Read the passage and find out how sharks are described in the film Jaws .
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cf不能全屏where they die slowly and painfully. The fins are ud in shark fin soup. Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
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Finning would have an unexpected effect upon Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was bad on. In 1980, Benchley was diving when he came
across an awful sight. It was an area where fishermen were finning, and the a floor was covered with dead sharks. Benchley saw sharks being killed and this caud a deep change in him. He came to e
people as a danger to sharks, rather than the other way round. From that day on,
he fought to protect sharks. He admitted that his book was wrong about sharks’ behaviour. “Sharks don’t target humans,” he said. Experts have proved that sharks
do not e people as food, and they attack us by mistake. Only around six people are killed by sharks every year.
5 Fortunately, not everyone who watched the film Jaws became afraid of sharks – some became interested in understanding them. Today, as we learn more about sharks, more people than ever want to protect them from extinction.
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1 How do you think Peter Benchley felt after diving in 1980?
2 What other films or books do you know that feature wild animals? Do they “paint” a good or bad picture of the animals? Say how the animals are described.
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• People who saw the film Jaws believed 2 .• Some people stopped
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while others
started to 4 .• The number of large sharks fell quickly due to 5 .
• Peter Benchley admitted that his book 6 and fought 7
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• Experts have proved that
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by mistake.
• Some people became interested in
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3 a We e a woman swimming at night in a
dark a.
b It made people frightened of sharks, ...1 Look at the ntences from the reading
passage and answer the questions.2 1 In ntence (a), who is swimming at night?2 In ntence (b), who is frightened of sharks?3 Why does the author choo to u different forms of verbs in the two ntences?Now look for more ntences with the structures in the reading passage.
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