Language Focus:

1. some useful expressions:

waste water; Greener China; Good idea; be afraid; a member of; a book on the environment

2. some useful sentences:

How long have you been a member of Greener China?

I’ve been with Greener China for a year.

How many English words have you learned since you came here?

About one thousand.

3. The difficult points:

现在完成时（二）现在完成时用来表示过去开始，持续到现在的动作或状态，可以和表示过去某一时刻延续到现在的一段时间的词组连用。

瞬间动词不能和表示过去某一时刻延续到现在的一段时间的词组连用

Teaching Objectives

1.    Try to understand the whole lesson and read it fluently. The pronunciation and intonation should be right.

2.    Master the following materials as four skills.

Words: pour, waste, dirty, member, join, environment

Phrases: be afraid of sth.

Sentences: How long have you been a member of Greener China?

    I’ve been with Greener China for a year.

3.    Master the use of the present perfect tense

Properties: Pictures; TV; Overhead Projector; Recorder

Teaching Procedures:

I. Organization of the class

We are going to talk about the environment of the class

Showing aims

Get the students to know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:

1. To master some useful expressions.

2. To learn the grammar: the Present Perfect Tense.

3. To make the similar dialogues freely.

4. To know that they should protect the environment and make our world more beautiful.

II . Revision

Revise the grammar; the Present Perfect Tense.

Ask: Have you ever been to the Great Wall? How many times have you been there? Get the students to ask and answer in pairs. Then ask several pairs to act out their dialogues.

III. Presentation

 Present this dialogue:

A: Where have you been?

B: I’ve been to a paper factory.

A: What did you do there?

B: I saw the worker making paper there.

Present this dialogue with one student as an example, then ask the students to practise this dialogue in pairs, and get some of them to act out the dialogue.

IV. Practice

1. Talk about the environment with the students.

2. What do you think of our environment?

 Put up a picture of a paper factory on the blackboard, get the students to talk about the factory, for example; " This is a paper factory, it makes paper, but it also makes smoke and waste water. I found the smoke was put into the air and the waste water was put into the river near it. The river has become very dirty. Lots of fish have died.” Have the students talk in groups of four and then ask some of them to read out their report to share with the whole class.

V. Read and say

1.   

A.    Unit 3 Make our world more beautiful

Lesson 9

The rivers are not clean now, why?

B.    Part 1

Listen and do wb. Ex.1

C.    Read and learn

Pour: pour some sugar into the glass

The rain is pouring down.

Waste: waste water, a waste of time

Write a story about it to …

Be afraid of …

D.    Part 2

How long has Victor been in Greener China?

What has he done?

Read Dialogue 1 and answer

Teach: be a member of…

join: join the league= be a member of the league

join in the game, join in the activity

Ask and answer in pairs by using the words in the box

Conclude the use the present perfect tense

瞬间动词不能和表示过去某一时刻延续到现在的一段时间的词组连用要进行转变，如：

open--- be opened; close--- be closed; begin--- be on; finish--- be over; join---be a member of\ be in…; die---be dead; get up---be up; come to…----be in…; arrive at\in…---be in…; reach\get to…---be in…; leave---be away; sleep---be asleep; buy--- have; borrow---keep; catch a cold---have a cold

eg: I opened the door two hours ago.

The door has been open for two hours.

The meeting began an hour ago.

The meeting has been on for an hour.

VI. Write

Get the students to act as journalists, make an interview. Interview one of their friends. Ask him or her some questions about him or her and his or her family members.

For example: How long have you been in this school?

What subject have you studied?

How many friends have you made?

What’s your fathers job?

How long has he been a … ?

What has he done since … ?

Then get the students write a report, have some students read their reports to share with the whole class.

VII. Workbook

VIII. Homework

Talk something about the environment