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Content:
Part 1 Warm Up 3’
Part 2 Text 7’ Part 4 Discussion 8’
Part 3 Retell 3’ Part 5 After-Class Review
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Tutor: Please encourage the student to answer the questions and keep this part in 3 mins.
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Rice is a staple food for many countries. In parts of Africa and Asia,
many poorer urban families get over half their daily calories from 1. … , can rice keep up?
rice. As the world population increases, can rice keep up?1 To meet (to be able to understand or deal with
something that is happening or changing
growing demands, rice production has to be raised by at least 70% very fast)
over the next three decades. The area devoted to rice cultivation ( E.g. Penny tended to work through her lunch
hour in an effort to keep up with her work.
耕作) cannot grow, so much international research is being done to
2. The area devoted to rice cultivation …
find ways of growing rice on less land.2
(to use a space, area, time, etc. for a
Worryingly, rice production is affected by global climate changes.3 particular purpose)
Methane gas (沼气), one of the causes of global warming, is in fact E.g. The new museum will have a special
hall devoted to education.
a by-product of wet lowland (低地) rice cultivation. Methane-
3. Worryingly, rice production is …
producing bacteria thrive in wet rice fields and the plants
(making you feel worried)
themselves send the gas into the atmosphere. Water management
E.g. Levels of some pollutants are worryingly
could reduce methane emissions, but practical methods that do high.
not reduce rice yields (产量) still have to be found.
Tutor: Please read or let the student read the text, and explain the underlined expressions in blue.
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Hints:
staple … Africa and Asia … poorer … half … calories
population … meet … production … 70% … three decades
area … cultivation … research … less land
affected … climate changes … Methane … by-product …
wet lowland … bacteria … plants … send
water management … practical methods
Tutor: Please encourage the student to retell the text. The
hints are NOT necessarily needed.
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(Try to talk for at least 2 minutes for each question. You are encouraged to use the
expressions that you’ve learned today. )
1. keep up
keep up / devoted to / worryingly As the world population increases,
can rice keep up?
1. What can be done by every individual and the government
2. devoted to
to protect the environment?
The area devoted to rice cultivation
cannot grow, so much international
2. Do you think that the environment will be better in the
research is being done to find ways of
future?
growing rice on less land.
3. How can we teach children about the importance of protecting
3. worryingly
the environment?
Worryingly, rice production is affected
by global climate changes.
Tutor: Please let the student talk freely, each question about 2 mins. Using the expressions from
today is encouraged.
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Review the expressions you’ve learned today and try to use them to make some sentences.
1. keep up 跟上（变化、形势等） 2. Over half his speech was devoted to the issue of
to be able to understand or deal with something that is happening unemployment.
or changing very fast 3. The report recommends that more resources be devoted to
E.g. 1. As the world population increases, can rice keep up? teaching four-year-olds.
2. I read the papers to keep up with what's happening in the
outside world. 3. worryingly 令人担心地
3. Things are changing so fast, it's hard to keep up. making you feel worried
E.g. 1. Worryingly, rice production is affected by global climate
2. devoted to 将…用于 changes.
to use a space, area, time, etc. for a particular purpose 2. Worryingly, the gun was never found.
E.g. 1. The area devoted to rice cultivation cannot grow, so much 3. Even if growth accelerates, unemployment will remain
international research is being done to find ways of growing rice on worryingly high for several years.
less land.
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