odule 6 Save our world
Teaching aims and demands
1. nowledge aims
1) To learn something about protecting the environment.
2) To know more about the ways to save the world.
3) To learn the grammar: word-building---- suffixes and prefixes
2. Ability aims
The students will be able to grasp the key words and expressions about the environment and can use corrected patterns to communicate with others in both oral English and written English.
3. Emotional aims
Help the students learn how to communicate with others, and let the students realize the responsibility of protecting the environment. It’s time to save our world.
ey and difficult points:
1) words and expressions in U1 and U2
2) grammar knowledge in U3
3) important sentences in U1 and U2.
Teaching methods:
Individual, pair and group work to make every student active in class.
Teaching aids:
Tape-recorder, computer, pictures and epidiascope.
Teaching time:
3* 40munites
Unit 1: It’s wasteful to throw away paper and metal
Teaching steps:
Step 1. Warming up
Look at the pictures and talk about the questions about pollution
1)our environmental situation
1. Waste glass and paper are thrown away everywhere.
2. Rivers and oceans have been polluted by dirty water and oil . Plenty of fish have been dead.
3.We use large numbers of mobile phones and drive all kinds of cars. We waste a great deal of metal and Human being is harmed by rays and exhaust.
4. White rubbish is around us. It affects our health and destroy our soil.
2)What on earth should we do?
1. We should save electricity and energy.
2. We should collect the glass and paper and make them recycle.
3. We try our best not to use mobile phones.
4. We should have a car pool to reduce air pollution.
5. We should plant more trees, not to cut them down. It’s wasteful to throw away paper and metal
Step 2. listen and learn
1) listen to the tape and review the words
air electricity energy factory glass metal ocean paper
pollution protect recycle throw away
2) listen with purposes:
1. How did Zhao ing feel when he read the article?
2. What is a green school?
3. Why is it wasteful to throw away glass and paper?
4. What happened if we don’t turn off lights?
Step 3. learn the dialogue
ey words and expressions:
1.Hey,you guys! Guess what! 喂，伙计们．猜猜
2.At a green school.在环保学校
3.Be careful about/of sth.对某事仔细认真
4,collect reusable waste 收集再利用的费品
5. Sell sth. for recycling 卖某东西再循环
6.Raise money 捐款
7.Save energy/ waste electricity节能／费电
Step 4.Practice after the dialogue
1)Connecting the sentences according to the dialogue
1. Zhao ing first saw New Standard while
he was doing his homework on favourite books
2. Zhao ing wants to knohen
they are going to write about environmental education.
2. In a green school everyone
agrees we must be careful with environment/help save our world.
3. We can save our world if
everyone thinks about pollution and recycling.
2) Fill in the best words:
1. Cycling to school is both__________ and environmentally friendly
2. You really need to be ________ with things bad for the environment.
3. Everybody can do a little bit to help with _____________problems.
5. It is _______to throw away the_________ shopping bags.
6. Scientists are_________ about neays to save energy.
Step 5. Listen again and discuss questions:
1)What we should do?
2)What we shouldn’t do?
Step 6.Pronunciation and speaking
1. When are you going to write about environmental education.
2. It’s wasteful to throw away glass. paper. and metal. So every class collects reusable waste
Step 7.Homework:
1.act out the dialogue with their partners
2.Discuss hoe to protect the environmrnt.
Unit 2:Remember three words: reduce, reuse and recycle
Teaching steps:
Step 0ne: lead-in
Begin with answering the questions:
•1. Do you try to walk or ride a bike to school?
•2. Do you buy new clothes just because they are the latest fashions?
•3. Do you open a window instead of turning on air conditioning?
•4. Do you buy things produced locally instead of made abroad?
•5. Do you take your own cloth bag when shopping instead of using plastic bags?
6. Do you sort the waste before throwing it away?
Step two: learn the text
1)listen to the tape and let the students repeat after it
2)ask the students to read the text for the class
3)learn the key words and expressions
1.do harm to sth/sb..对…有害处
do good to sb./sth.对… 有好处
Eg.Alan would never do harm to his classmates.
Taking more exercise is good to you health.
2.everyday activities．每日活动
everyday (adj.) every day (adv.)
Eg. Computers are part of our everyday life.
She reads English aloud every day.
3. reduce …going into sth. 减少某物避免进入某物中
Eg.We should reduce dirty water going into the rivers
4. as…..as. 和……一样
Eg. aybe the old clothes as good (as the new ones).
Flowers are as beautiful as butterfly.
be not so ……as. 和……不一样
Eg. The clothes made in abroad are so cheap as ones in China.
5. repair sth. if sb. can instead of doing sth.如果能修理… 而不做…
Eg. We should repair TV set if we can instead of buying new ones.
6. take energy. 消耗能量
Eg. Running every day takes energy of your body so You can stay slim.
7. Be better than doing. 比…好
Eg. Recyclying is better than throwing things away.
Step three: Practice the exercises in the text
Check things you should do. Ex.4
Step four: work in pairs and answer the questions: Ex.6
Step five: Sample writing:
1. All of us take an active part in recycling programmes. We use or buy products made from recycled material. Such as……, why do we recycle them? Because…… (your opinion).
2. We don’t waste things. It means that we save money and reduce pollution. how to do….(show your idea) . eeping the world green is our duty.
Step six: Homework:
1. Finish making a poster
2. aster the key words and expressions
3. Learn to carry out 3R
Unit 3: Language in use
Teaching steps:
Step one: Learn-in
Learning to learn
Re=again, able=can be ====renewable
A:Care collect done hope possible usual used wanted waste
B:Positive: -able -ful re-
Negative: im- -less un-
* Form neords:
collectable, hopeful, impossible, unused, wasteful, hopeless,
undone, unwanted, reusable. Unusual, reused
Step two: Practice grammar and words: match the words with their meaning
a. reusable b.Unhealthy c.unclean d.impossible
e. untrue f. successful g.Uncomfortable
1. Polluted water is not healthy.
2. It’s something we can use again.
3. The water in the river was very dirty.
4. It’s not true that we don’t listen to students.
5. They hope that the project will be a success.
6. It was not possible to clean up the whole river.
7. The people on the mountain top were not comfortable.
Step three: Work in pairs: Put them in correct column
Waste Pollution Wildlife
a. Don’t buy anything made from endangered animals or plants.
b. Glass bottles and newspapers can be taken to recycling centres and reused.
c .Don’t boil more water than necessary.
d.Don‘t take new plastic bags from the shop reuse your old ones.
e. Turn off lights when you don’t need them.
f.Use a bicycle or walk instead of using the car.
Step four: listen again and answer the questions
Ask the students to think them individually, and then let a few students to answer for the class, at last the teacher check out the answers. Ex.7
Step five: Complete the table
Practice the word-wording, pay attention to the part of the speech. Ex3.
Step six: complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Act.3
Ask the students to do them individually for the class.
Step seven: around the world
ask the students to read the passage by themselves, and let one of the students tell the class the main idea. They should understand next information:
1.What’s Friends of the Earth?
2.What do they do in the world?
3.What are their major issues?
Step eight: Homework
1.review the form of the word-building
2.Practice the expressions about environment
3.make a leaflet about pollution
