Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: less, environment, throw away, least, take out, waste, fix, toilet

Oral words and expressions: reusable, pollute, leak, litre, leaky, sink, tap, recycle, save, take out, turn off, leak out

Teaching Aims:

1. This lesson focuses on the environment issues.

2. It presents some solutions to the problems that pollution poses.

Teaching Important Points:

1. It presents thought-provoking facts and figures abut pollution in North America.

2. Call on the students to take personal action to reduce pollution.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Find more solutions to protect our environment.

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT.”

Step2. Show the new words to the class. First let them read them by themselves. Then read them after the teacher. Practice the words for a while.

Step3. Talk about the questions:

Show some pictures about our environment to the class. Let the students work in three or four to finish the task.

1. What do you think our environment?

2. What can we do to reduce pollution?

3. Do you know anything about the environment in foreign countries? Can you give an example?

Step4. Listen to the tape and finish Exercise 2 in activity book.

1. In North America, many students help their school make more pollution.

2. In an environment club, people work together to make the environment clean.

3. Environment clubs encourage students to bring their lunches in plastic bags.

4. They give prizes to the classes that make the least garbage.

5. On a no-car day, only teachers come to school by car. No students come to school by car.

6. A leaking toilet can waster twenty to forty litres of water an hour.

7. In environment clubs, students don’t fix leaky toilets and sinks.

8. A hundred kilograms of recycled paper saves seventeen trees.

Step5. Read the text in silence. Check the answers. Then let the students read the text in class loudly.

Step6. Analyze the text and make a further discussion about it. Let’ s discuss its details.

1. What do people in an environment club do?

2. On no-car day, how do people come to work? How do students come to school?

3. What do you know about a leaking toilet?

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT.”

Step8. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2. Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

It is a subject that is close to the student life about how to stop pollution. We must give examples in students’ daily life. Discuss with the students: how to reduce waste paper; how to save water; how to save money.