5. Find and read any articles about nanotechnology in the newspaper, then, list some important points from the article
6. After you read two or more articles, draw a conclusion from what you have read You may state your comments about it in the following space
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Achievement indicators:
Learners are able to…
• answer questions about specific details and inferences of the text
• find main idea of the text • identify the communicative purpose of the text
• match some words in the text with their meanings • find the synonyms of some words in the text
• use some words to make sentences • identify simple present tense sentences used in the
text • express their ideas related to the topic in written way
English for Biology Teachers
Bring It to Mind .
Answer the questions below
In the past decades, there have been many natural disasters occur in either outside or inside our country. Did you have any experience
in suffering from such disasters? How did you feel at the time? In your opinion, what are things which potentially cause the disasters?
Let’s Start .
1. Read the following text carefully to do the next exercises
Floridas Coast: Whats at Stake
Posted: 29-May-2007; Updated: 05-Sep-2007 If you live in Florida, you live near the ocean — no
point in the state is more than 80 miles away from either the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.
More than three quarters of the states population — over 13 million people — live in coastal counties.
Coastal communities have grown by nearly 6.3 percent since 1999 and nearly 32 percent since 1990,
one of the highest rates of growth in the country. Floridians are acutely aware of the threats tropical
storms and hurricanes pose.
Most of the states major economic centers — Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa-St. Petersburg — lie on the coast. The Florida Keys, the Dry Tortugas and the Everglades are a handful of
the many natural resources important to the states tourist industry. Beach tourism brought in 41.6 billion in 2000 and supported 442,000 jobs. For example, the
coral reefs of the Keys generate over 1 billion in tourism dollars each year. Activities such as reef diving are at risk, since coral reefs are vulnerable to both damage from storms and
excessively warm water caused by global warming. The most hurricane-battered coast
As an arm of land separating the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, Florida receives more than its share of severe weather. Since the 1970s, Florida has been hit by more tropical
storms and hurricanes than any other state. Since 1990, Florida has been hit directly by 22 tropical storms and hurricanes.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew hit Dade County with Category 4 force, generating 17-foot storm surges. The storm system killed 23 people. Property damage in the state of Florida from
