课 题 课 型 Welcome to this unit M5U2 The Environment 单元导入 授课时间 第__ 周 星期 ___ 第_____节 Sept ___,2014 本节（课）三维目标与教学重难点 知识与技能 过程与方法 情感态度与价值观 教学重点 教学难点 To improve students’ language skills--- listening, speaking To acquire some background information about the topic---Enviroment Listening, speaking, brainstorming and interactive activities To inspire students’ enviromental awareness and cherish the precious enviroment condition we are live in To make students know the importance of the environment to the human beings and discuss the issues of enviroment To guide the students to apply their acquired knowledge to participate in the interactive activities of using language in a practical way Teaching Procedures: Step 1 : Brainstorming 1. Review the word ‘environment’ and let them imagine the adjectives related to environment . Write the words on the blackboard : Harmony, peaceful, destructive , pollution, disaster , protection, environmentalists. 2. Ask students to express their opinions freely by asking them questions below: 1) Compared to the last few years , do you think the environment is getting better or worse ? 2) What might be the reasons for the changes? Step 2 : Sharing information 1. Before moving on to discuss the pictures , encourage students to talk about some environmental problems they know about e,g , floods , forests fires , the greenhouse effect and acid rain. 2. Ask students to read the instructions and study the pictures one by one . 3. Show the students the other pictures and let them talk. 4. Ask students to read the three questions and put students into groups of four and ask them to discuss the questions . 5. Ask some students to report their answers to the class. 6. Ask students to think about other causes to the pollution of environment . 7. Ask students to think about the ways to protect the environment . Step 3: Language Output----Writing practice 在世界环保日到来前夕，联合国教科文组织就如何处理垃圾问题向全世界中学生征文。请你以Saving Our City为题，写一篇120词左右的短文。文章的第一句已给出，但不计入总词数。
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提示： 1．城市垃圾的危害：①污染环境；②有害健康。 2．你所在的城市是如何处理垃圾的： (1)垃圾分类； (2)报纸、玻璃的再利用；(3)填埋有害垃圾；(4)处理废水、废气； (5)尽我们的所能，爱护环境，保护环境。 sort 分类 It is important to deal with the rubbish in cities．．． A possible version: Saving Our City It is important to deal with the rubbish in cities. Rubbish must be treated properly. Otherwise it may cause a lot of problems. It may pollute the air and water. When people breathe the polluted air or drink the polluted water, they may get iii. Our city has begun to pay attention to the problem. As far as I know, some rubbish is sorted and sent to different factories. Rubbish, such as old newspapers and glass, is recycled. Some harmful rubbish is sent to a certain place and buried. Waste air is cleaned before it goes into the air. Waste water is treated before it is poured into rivers。 To protect the environment, the government has passed laws to prevent people from throwing rubbish everywhere. We should do our best to take good care of the environment and fight against pollution. Assisting material: 1. Talk about the environmental problems . 2 Talk about the pictures on P21 and discuss how to solve the problems Problems Causes Solution White Pollution Air pollution Decrease of Forests’ Forest fire Sandstorms Step 4: Homework 1.Preview reading 2.Do the exercise in the workbook 3.Write a short passage about the environment . 教学后记 2
课 题 课 型 阅读理解 ReadingI M5U2 The Environment 授课时间 第__ 周 星期 ___ 第_____节 Sept ___,2014 本节（课）三维目标与教学重难点 知识与技能 过程与方法 情感态度与价值观 教学重点 教学难点 To get the Ss to read a debate and grasp their different views To reinforce their reading comprehension skills and improve their overall ability Reading, listening, understanding, explaining and group activities To arouse Ss’ awareness of keeping the balance between the economy and the environment. To make students know the importance keeping a balance between economic development and the protection of environment To help students’s undertand the text fully and master the reading sttrategy Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Lead-in 1. What do you think of the weather or climate today? 2. Why there are so many natural disasters today? Do they have something to do with human beings? 3. Do you think we can achieve a balance between the economy and the environment? Step 2: Listening & Reading 1. What is Lin Shuiqing? ( an environmentalist) What is Qian Liwei? (an economist) 2. What problems has Lin raised and what solutions has he put forward? Problems: (Para2) industrial waste (Para3) overfishing (Para4) overpopulation Solutions: ? cut back on production ? recycling ? environmentally friendly ways of living ? more jobs 3. What is Qian Liwei’s opinion? ? factories concerned about the environment ? job opportunities ? recycling ? more effective laws ? higher taxes for some factories Step 3: Retelling 1. Suppose you were Lin, present your ideas on the relationship between the economy and the environment. 2. Suppose you were Qian, present your ideas on developing the economy. Step 4: Discussion 1. Where have you seen pollution? How did it make you feel?
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2. What do you think is the biggest danger to our environment today? 3. What can we do to help clean up the environment? Step 6. Homework Finish the relevant exercises in 《学海导航》 附：学案 I. Read the text (P22-23) and do the following exercises 1. Fast reading Read the text quickly and then answer the following questions. 1). Who are the three speakers? 2). What does Lin Shuiqing start his speech by talking about? 3). What’s Lin Shuiqing’s suggestion about protecting our environment? 4). What’s Qian Liwei’s opinion about the economy and the environment? 5). What’s the way Qian Liwei suggests to protect the environment? 2. Careful reading Read the text carefully and then do the following exercises. If necessary, a discussion is needed. 1). C2 on P24. 2). Read the text (P22-23) and finish off the form below (one word for each blank). Title: Make a(n) (1) between the economy and the environment. Lin Shuiqing Qian Liwei (2) is so bad that large areas of the world are damaged. In addition, many sea creatures are being (3) by over-fishing. The world’s (4) has been increasing rapidly. We should (5) production and the amount of things we make and buy. A healthy environment is as (6) as a stable economy. We should not (7) companies and money as the enemy. We shouldn’t cut back on production because we will lose many jobs. We should use (8) materials to produce more things. More effective laws should be made to (9) the environment. The factories (10) the environment should have to pay higher taxes. Opinions Suggestions We need to expand our recycling industry. II. Find and translate the phrases in the text 1. environmental protection 2. protect the environment 4. natural disasters 5. a healthy environment 8. wipe out 9. be beneficial to 11. clouds of dirty smoke 12. economic development 14. pay higher taxes III. Find and translate the following sentences 3. damage the environment 6. open the floor 7. in addition 10. environmentally friendly ways of living 13. the key to helping both sides 4
1. Pollution is so bad that many rivers are full of chemicals which flow into the sea and kill sea creatures. 2. This will have a lasting effect upon the number of fish left for us to eat. 3. While we damage our environment, we keep producing more and more people who need more land to live on and more food to eat! 4. The world’s population has grown to more than six times what it was in 1800. 5. My suggestion is that we should try to cut back on production and reduce the amount of things we make and buy. 6. It is obvious that you are very concerned about the present situation. 7. When people think of factories, they think of clouds of dirty smoke or a pipe pouring chemical waste into a river. 8. We need to stop thinking of companies and money as the enemy! 9. But I do agree that recycling may be the key to helping both sides. 10. What we need is more effective laws to preserve the environment, which still allow the economy to grow. 11. Asking around, I find many people willing to pay slightly higher prices for things that are environmentally friendly. IV. Fill in the passage according to the text Lin Shuiqing: Good morning, everyone. I am talking to you today about the way large areas of the world are damaged by (1) waste. Factories produce large (2) of (3) chemicals and the waste they create goes into the (4) and makes us sick. In (5) , many sea (6) are being (7) (8) by fishing boats. These boats catch large (9) of fish without giving them time to (10) (11) . This will have a (12) (13) upon the number of fish left for us to eat. While we damage our environment, we keep (14) more and more people who need more land to (15) (16) . My suggestion is that we should try to (17) (18) (19) production and reduce the amount of things we make and buy. It should be (20) to (21) our (22) industry and teach people about (23) (24) ways of living. We may even (25) more jobs and help the (26) at the same time. Qian Liwei: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. Lin. It is (27) that you are very (28) (29) the present situation of our environment. When people think of factories, they think of greedy businessmen (30) (31) their responsibilities to the environment. People often think that (32) development is bad for the environment. But (33) I am here to say is that having worked (34) (35) (36) with many environmentalists, I know that a (37) environment and a (38) economy should be possible at the same time. We need to stop (39) of companies and money as the (40) ! I do agree that recycling may be the key to (41) both sides. We should produce more things from (42) materials. What we need is more effective laws to (43) the environment. (44) around, I find many people (45) to pay (46) higher prices for things that are (47) (48) . And those factories which pollute the environment should have to pay higher (49) . 教学后记 5