Language Focus:

Words: harm, rubbish, collect, whenever, produce, wherever, neighbourhood, litter, onto, public, spit, protect, tidy, dustbin, recycle, contribution

Phrases: cut down, make a contribution to…, harm the environment, keep…clean and tidy, throw…onto…, in a public place

Sentences:

There was a truck collecting rubbish.

It’s a pleasant way to keep our city clean.

Taking care of our environment is very important.

Have I ever collected waste paper or bottles for recycling?

Teaching Objectives

1.    Try to understand the whole lesson and finished Ex. 1 in the workbook.

2.    Read it fluently and the pronunciation and intonation should be right.

3.    Master the following materials as 4skills

Word: harm, rubbish, collect, whenever, produce, wherever, neighbourhood, litter, onto, public, spit, protect, tidy, dustbin, recycle,

Phrases: cut down, harm the environment, keep…clean and tidy, throw…onto…, in a public place

Sentences:

There was a truck collecting rubbish.

It’s a pleasant way to keep our city clean.

Taking care of our environment is very important.

Have I ever collected waste paper or bottles for recycling?

4.    Master the following materials as 2 skills:

Word: contribution

Phrase: make a contribution to…

Properties: Pictures: Overhead Projector; Recorder

Teaching Procedures:

1.       Organization of the class

We are going to talk about how to make our world more beautiful

II. Revision

Yesterday, we knew the river had become dirty, why?

What did Greener China want to do? Why?

The present perfect tense (2) 表示过去延续到现在的一个动作或状态

for+时间段 since+ 时间点

瞬间动词不能加上一段时间做状语，要进行转变。 如： open, close, begin, finish, get up, fall asleep, die, come, get to, reach, go, leave, join…

III. Pre-read

Part 1. In small groups, get the students to discuss the questions.

IV. Presentation

Show some pictures of the environment, and have the students look at the pictures and ask: What environment is beautiful? What environment is polluted?

Get the students to talk about the pictures and speak out their own idea. Teach some words: rubbish; spit. . . Have the students guess the meaning by guestures and pictures. Ask some questions like:

Have you done anything to harm the environment?

What have you done?

Have you ever done anything to improve the environment?

What have you done?

Have the students discuss the questions in small groups, get the whole class to share their answers.

Read through the text and find the answers to the questions of Exercise 1 in the workbook.

V. Reading

Part 2. Speech Cassette. Play the tape for the students to listen and find the answers to questions of Exercise I in the workbook, then check the answers in pairs.

Books open, play the tape again and have the students read the text along with the tape. Note some useful expressions:

A piece of beautiful music;

Pick up;

Collect rubbish;

Keep our city clean;

Take care of;

Throw . . . onto. ..;

Spit in a public place;

Cut down;

Protect our environment;

Make a contribution to. . . .

conclusion

1. harm   2. There is sb. doing sth.   3. whenever\ wherever  4. help do sth.  5. throw litter onto the ground  6. draw…on public walls  7. spit on public place   7. cut down  8. protect

VI. Workbook

Exercise 3. In pairs, have the students make dialogues for each picture. Ask some pairs to read their dialogues to share with the class.

VII. Summary

Exercises for class

Write a passage about how to make our city beautiful. Using the following verbs:

Throw, spit, cut down; pickup, collect, plant, protect

VIII. Homework

Finish off the exercises in the workbook.