Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: sort, metal, weight, percent

Oral words and expressions: plastic, packaging

Teaching Aims:

1. Call on the students to take actions to protect our environment.

2. Learn about the pollution problems in our life.

Teaching Important Points:

1. Offering help.

2. Learn new vocabulary for describing materials and for comparing qualities.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Describe materials and comparing qualities.

Teaching Preparation: pictures

Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Remind the students:

1. What kinds of rubbish do you throw every day? Can you name them?

2. What can be recycled?

Step2. Work in groups.

Let the students go to the dustbin to collect some garbage and take them to the classroom.

Ask the students name them and compare the qualities.

Let the students look up the books and the dictionaries when they are in trouble. Help them when they can’t express correctly.

Step 3. Listen to the tape finish Exercise 2 in the activity book.

1. Every year, each person in North America makes about 1000 kilograms of garbage.

2. Plastic makes the most garbage.

3. In just one day, Americans throw out 136 million kilograms of packaging.

4. Packaging makes the most garbage.

5. People often use packaging, and they never throw it away.

6. About the percent of packaging is plastic.

7. Each day, Americans throw out ten thousand small cars.

Step4. Read the text and check the answers.

Let the students read the text in roles. Then ask several students to act out the dialogue.

Step5. Come to “PROJECT”.

Bring the students to pick up the garbage in the school yard. Put the garbage into bags and bring it to school for our project.

Take a walk around your neighbourhood, take a bag with you and pick up any garbage you see. Wear gloves, because garbage in dirty.

Now sort the garbage into paper, plastic, metal, glass and others.

Then compare the garbage in school yard with that in neighbourhood.

Have students work in the same groups or in new groups. Each group will make a poster about what things they can do to help reduce pollution in the world.

Step6. Homework

1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.

2. Go on reading in the next book.

Summary:

We all think the garbage is dirty. In order to increase the students’ interests, we have to face the garbage and sort it in groups. When we do this, we can find many people are wasting things around us. Learn to recycle things with the students. Let’s see how many new things we can make out of it.