Unit 8 Lesson 43: Let’s Clean Up
Teaching aims
Knowledge: To master words and phrases: attention, rubbish, pollution, explain and clean up, draw one’s attention, pick up, a bit of.
To know the words: schoolyard, garbage
Ability: To talk about how to make the schoolyard clean.
Emotion: To make the environment around us clean at school and arouse students’ awareness of protecting the environment.
Important points
Vocabulary: attention, rubbish, pollution, explain.
Phrases: clean up, draw one’s attention, pick up, a bit of.
Difficult points
To know garbage and rubbish are uncountable nouns.
Difference between a bit of and a bit.
Teaching method
Task based teaching learning in doing
Teaching aids
Text book Multi-media
Teaching procedure
Step1: Warming-up
1: Talk about the World Environment Day with Ss.
2: Watch a video of cleaning up our schoolyard.
At the end of the video, the five students ask us to join them, to clean up together.
Elicit the topic “Let’s Clean Up”.
Step2: Listening
Listen to the dialogue and tick the correct answers.
1. Where are they talking
( ) In the market. ( ) In the schoolyard
2. What are they talking about
( ) Picking up garbage. ( ) Playing soccer
3. What is the class project about
( ) Environment ( ) Pollution
Step3: Skimming
Read the lesson and write true (T) or false (F)
1. Jenny, Brian and Danny are going to do something on World Environment Day. ( )
2. They are studying geography this week. ( )
3. They are going to pick up the garbage on the street. ( )
4. Jenny found Danny’s homework. ( )
Step4: Scanning
Read and find out the language points.
1. There's a lot of rubbish in the schoolyard. We should pick up the garbage!
2. Each student could clean up a bit of the schoolyard.
3. It would take too long.
Aims: For the Ss to get some basic information about the topic.
They are helpful for them to learn the main concept.
After learning and understanding, give the Ss chances to use the language to do things.
Step5: Tasked Reading (Pairwork)
Read the dialogue and answer the flowing questions
1. World Environment Day is a special day ________ to the environment.
2. Why do Jenny, Brian and Danny ask their classmates to help pick up the rubbish in the school yard
3. What do they wear and carry to pick the rubbish
4. Each student could clean up a bit of the schoolyard.(translate)
Step6: Practice
Complete the dialogue with the correct forms of the words in the box.
pollution rubbish schoolyard agree clean attention
Jeff: Look at the sky! It’s always grey. We can’t even see the sky clearly.
Marina: If this goes on, the birds will fly away and never come back.
Jeff: Our river used to be very clean. But now look at the water! There is too much __________ left by the factories.
Marina: If this goes on, the fish will die. People should do something to stop the ___________.
Jeff: I _____. Let’s do something to draw people’s ________ to this problem. How about putting up a poster
Marina: Good idea. Jeff, I think our __________ is also quite dirty. Let’s call our classmates to help clean it before the new term starts.
Jeff: OK. We should finish ________ in an hour!
Step7: Summary
World Environment Day
pick up
a type of pollution ,
clean up
explain…to
agree to do sth
in an hour
draw one’s attention to
finish doing
a bit of
Step8: Retelling (Groupwork)
Step9: Watch a video of World Environment Day. (Progress)
Let them know more about World Environment Day and its theme.
Elicit the final task for the Ss to do. What can we do to clean up the world How can we protect the environment
Homework
Writing a composition
习主席提出了“绿水青山就是金山银山”(Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.)这一中国生态文明建设的目标,请你根据以下提示写一篇短文。
提示: (1) What should we do to protect the environment?
(2) Why should we do that
教学反思:在教学过程的设计上,结合今天6月5号世界环境日展开讨论,并让学生通过观看同学们清扫我们校园的视频导入本课。课上学生通过听,读(skimming, scanning, tasked reading),retelling,一问一答,小组合作交流的形式学习教学内容; 在教学的全过程中,我始终以提问、引导的方式鼓励学生大胆回答,提高学生的英语听说能力;教学内容的升华——通过幻灯片、视频向学生展示环境污染的严重性,希望学生们切记6月5号世界环境日,今年的主题:蓝天保卫战,我是参与者(Beat Air Pollution)以及如何保护环境。最后的作业是以习主席提出的“绿水青山就是金山银山”(Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.)这一中国生态文明建设的目标,写一篇短文,号召学生们身体力行参与环保活动,提高环境保护的意识。不足之处应该给学生留出时间完成作文草稿。
Board design
Lesson 43 Let’s Clean Up
Let’s protect the environment !
Let’s beat air pollution!
World Environment Day
June 5
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