Make our world more beautiful

Teaching aims and demands

1. 1. words

(1) give the new words English meanings:

pour: to make a liquid flow from or into

rubbish: things that you throw away because you do not want them

litter: pieces of paper and other waste that are left in public places

spit: to force out the liquid in your mouth

dustbin: a large container for rubbish kept outside your house

collect: to get things from different places and bring them together

recycle: to put used paper, glass, plastic, etc. through a process so that it can be used again

contribution: something that you do to help produce or develop something, or to help make something successful

(2) Find the new words in the passage:

As a middle school student, you should pick up some rubbish and throw it into a dustbin, you should spend your part time collecting waste paper or bottles for recycling, you’d better plant trees or flowers in your schoolyard as many as possible. If you do those, it means that you have already done something useful to improve the environment.

As a middle school student, you shouldn’t throw any litter onto the ground, you shouldn’t draw pictures on public walls, and you shouldn’t spit anywhere and cut down any trees. If you don’t do those, it means that you have already helped protect our environment.

2. expressions

(1) The factory was pouring wastewater into the river near it.

(2) Businessmen are afraid of newspapers and TV stations.

(3)How long have you been a member of Greener China?

(4) If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment, the world will become much more beautiful.

(5) Have I ever collected waste paper or bottles for recycling?

(6) Have you ever cut down trees?

3. grammar

The present perfect tense

for 12 weeks = since 12 weeks ago

Teaching steps

Lesson 9

“Greener China”

1. revision

(1) could you say something about the youngest swimmer to cross the Qiongzhou Channel on his birthday?

(2) Exercise:

Fill in the blanks:

Li lida, failed _____ ______ the Qiongzhou Channel in 2000, but his dream _____ _____ on May 17, 2001, his ______, he became the youngest person to swim _____ the channel _____ Hainan Island _____ the mainland. He _____ _____ the South China Sea _____ a beach _____ Guangdong ______ 6:02______ the morning. It took him 9 hours and 58 minutes ______ ______ his ______. His parents and his teacher were ______ ______ him on the beach in Haikou. They were all very ______ ______ him. He is ______ ______ the pride of their school, ______ ______ the pride of all the people in Hainan.

2. Read and say

(1) Look at the pictures in lesson 9

1. what can you see in picture 1?

2. and what is the factory doing now?

3. does pouring waste water into rivers harm the environment?

4. do you think we can do something about it?

Listen to the tape and tell me what things Victor and Hu lan are going to do about it.

(2) Let’s act it out

(3) Questions

1. what is “ greener china”?

2. is there a paper factory pouring waste water into the river near it in your hometown?

3. do you think the idea in the dialogue a good one?

4. do you like to do it as they will do to protect the environment?

(4) Let’s do the following exercises

1. A: I called you yesterday, but you weren’t in. where were you?

B: I have _____ _____ a paper factory.

2. . A: where is Ann?

B: she isn’t here. She ______ ______ ______ the library.

3. A: how long have you ______ ______ the factory?

B: ______ three years.

4. A: how long have you ______ ______ the farm?

B: ______ I became a farmer.

3. Presentation

Learn to use “for” and “since”.

4. Ask and answer

Change the phrases in part 2 lesson 9 into the following to make the dialogue more interesting.

(1) a member of Greener china / a member of the League

(2) how long have you / has your father been at this factory?

(3) How long have you / has Ronaldo been in the football team?

(4) How long have you / have 動(dòng)力火車 been in the band?

(5) How long have you / has Mr. Lee been an English teacher?

5. Workbook

exercise 1: the answers to some of the questions may be:

(2) if the students use the sentence in the book: the factory was pouring waste water into the river near it. It’s not very fit. The right answer should be: the factory has poured waste water into the river near it.

(6) because good environment can be good for our health, and if the environment is very bad, it can harm the earth and the people living on it.

(7) the answer to this question may be:

1. don’t smoke

2. don’t pour waste water into the rivers or throw about waste paper and bottles everywhere

3. don’t spit in the public place or draw pictures on the public walls

4. don’t cut down the trees

6. Homework

(1) get ready to have a dictation of the new words in unit 3

(2) recite part one with your partner

(3) finish the work in workbook and the exercise book

Lesson 10

Make our world more beautiful

1. Revision

（1） To ask the class some relative questions:

How long have you studied in this school?

How long hove you learnt English?

How long have you been a league member?

How long has your father worked in his factory?

How long has your mother worked in the hospital?

How long has your sister studied in the college?

（2） To act the dialogue out in lesson 9.

2. Enter/ Pre-read

Talk about the following questions:

（1） What things can harm the environment?

（2） What do you think we should do to improve our environment?

3. read

（1） Questions

Listen to the tape carefully, and find out the answer to the questions:

What things can you do to deep the environment clean?

Don’t throw litter on the ground, don’t draw pictures on walls, don’t spit in a public place, and don’t cut down trees.

What things can you do to improve the environment?

Pick up rubbish and throw it into a dustbin, collect waste paper and bottles for recycling, plant trees and flowers.

（1）Explaining the new words:

Rubbish: things people don’t want to use again

Litter: things people throwing in the public place

Rubbish means trash in the USA.

Produce means making something

Recycle: collect waste things for reuse.

Neighborhood: a group of people lived together

（1） Listen and repeat and then do exercise 1 in the workbook.

（2） Talk about how to protect the environment with the last three questions in exercise 1

（3） Exercises:

A piece of beautiful music came to my ears.

I _______ a piece of nice music.

There was a truck _______ rubbish outside.(collect)

________ care of our environment is very important. (take)

What makes the man very sad? _______ his purse. (lose)

If everyone makes a contribution to ________ the environment, the world will become much more beautiful. (protect)

4. Workbook

Exercise 4, write a report in the exercise book.

5. Homework

Recite the text.

Dictation for the new words in it.

Lesson 11

The more trees we plant, the better our hometown will be.

1. Revision

(1) Have a dictation for the new words in lesson 10 and 11.

(2) Ask some of the students to give a short talk about the environment.

(3) Do exercise 1 in lesson 10 to revise the story about the environment..

2. read and act

(1) Listen and answer: why has ling feng gone to plant trees again?

(2) Practice in pairs and then act it out in front of the class.

3. ask and answer

(1) act it out with some of the students and then ask others to act it out as we did.

4. guess the riddles

(1)Shoes

(2) The letter at the beginning of the word, or a hill is hard to go up and a pill is hard ot get down.

(3) Your name

5. Workbook

Finish all the exercises in it .

6. homework

do exercise 1 and 2 in the exercise book.

Lesson 12

Let’s do more, and say less!

1. Revision

(1) Interview some people with the present perfect tense such as:

How long have you learned English?

How long has you father been teacher in the school?

(2) Revise the forms of the verbs by doing the exercise 1 in lesson 11.

2. Listening

Read the words first and the listen to the tape, listen again after giving the class a few minutes to write down their answers.

Check the answer at once.

3. Ask and tick

Ask a friend or your partner these questions in the questionnaire. Then tick his /her answers.

4. Write

Write a short report about your friend based on the questionnaire.

5. Read and match

Work in pairs and find the right picture the sentence described.

6. Checkpoint 3

Go through it

Make sentence with the useful expressions

7. Test

Write a short experience of your own with the present perfect tense.

My name is Jim. I live at 152-jianguo street, not far from center of the city, I have lived there since 1999. I go to no. 14 middle school. I’ve been a student there for nearly two and a half years.

8. Workbook

9. homework

(1) a dictation for all the words in the unit.

(2) A test for the unit.