Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: take a walk, seat

Oral words and expressions: can, clean-up, lid, sort…into…, take a trip

Teaching Aims:

1. Call on the students to protect the environment.

2. Think about many ways to reduce pollution.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Sum what we learn in this unit.

2. Learn the knowledge of protecting environment.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Grasp the ways to reduce the pollution.

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Let the students sum what we learn in this unit. Ask them to repeat the main idea, but not word by word.

Step2. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks according to the text.

On Tuesday, we started a school yard clean-up. We all took bags and worked _______. We picked up all the _______.

On Wednesday, Brian, Danny and I took a _______ through our neighbourhood. We _______ up any garbage we _______. Danny found a ______ car with a broken wheel. He took it home, cleaned it and ______ it.

The next day, we _______ all the garbage into plastic, metal, glass and _______.

Most of garbage was paper. People ________ a lot of paper.

Step3. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read it again and do the exercises.

Read the diary and answer true (T) or false (F).

1. Jenny learned something about geography this week.

2. On Tuesday, Jenny and her friends started a school yard clean-up.

3. On Thursday, Danny found a toy car with one broken wheel.

4. On Thursday, they took their bags of garbage to school and sorted all of it.

5. Most of the rubbish was plastic.

6. They didn’t know how garbage is recycled.

7. Today, Danny made a car out of garbage.

8. Danny used pieces of wood for the car’s body and cardboard box for the car’s seats.

Step4. Analyze the text with the students. Discuss the main idea of this text. Let the students sum some language points and practice in class.

Step5. Ask the students show what they have make out of the garbage. Present them to the class. Explain to the students how them work. Demonstrate in the class.

Step6. Talk about what do you feel about our environment. After they learn the text, what do they want to do? What are they doing these days?

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT!”

Step8. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2. Write a composition about the pollution. Remember to write: how to save the earth?

Summary:

Writing is very important in learning English. How to save the earth is a subject that has much to say. They can use the Internet when they are in trouble. The teacher helps them when they can’t express themselves.