[中学联盟]浙江省杭州市塘栖中学高中英语必修三教学课件：B3U4 astronomy warming up reading.ppt

The Biblical Account Day 1: God spoke and separated light from darkness creating Day and Night. Day 2: God spoke and separated the water creating sky and ocean. Day 3: God spoke and created dry land. Day 4: God spoke and created the sun, moon and stars. Day 5: God spoke and created living creatures in the air and sea. Day 6: God spoke and created the land animals and man. Day 7: God rested and blessed this day calling it Holy. Paragraph 1: A widely accepted theory about the formation of the universe Paragraph 2: The formation of the earth Paragraph 3: The importance of water for life Paragraph 4: The development of plants and animals on the earth Paragraph 5: The arrival of humans and their impact on the earth 1. Are humans the cleverest animals? Why? 2. Are they taking care of the earth well? Why? Discussion 1. Because they developed new methods of growing food, hunting and moving around. 2. Because they are putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which prevents heat from escaping from the earth into space. The earth may become too hot for the lives on it. greenhouse effect global warming * Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars The Solar system eight planets many comets other objects What are the names of the eight planets that circle our sun? 土星Saturn [s?t?(:)n] 天王星 Uranus [ju:?r?n?s] 金星Venus [vi:n?s] 地球 Earth 火星 Mars 水星 Mercury [m?:kjuri] 木星Jupiter ? [d?u:pit?] 海王星 Neptune [neptju:n] Each religion and culture has its own ideas about how life began on earth. What do you know? Nuwa created Human Beings Pangu Separated Sky from Earth Pangu separated the earth and sky with an ax. After he died, his breath became wind and cloud; his voice became thunder and his left eye sun and right one moon; arms and legs became edges and mountains; blood became rivers and tendon (