Period 1 Warming up & Listening

☆Teaching aims:

1. Talk about nature, ecology and the environment.

2. To listen to the given materials and do the listening practice.

☆Important and difficult points:

1. Practice supporting an opinion.

2. To encourage the students to think about the problems that we are facing.

☆Teaching methods:

Ⅰ.Warming up

Leading in : by asking a series of questions.

Hello, boys and girls. As we all know, the earth is the only home of all creatures. Do you think it is beautiful? Yes, I agree with you. Can you name some places of interest in the world? Quite right. We have a lot of places of interest, the Great Wall, the West Lake, Zhangjiajie, Jiuzhaigou, Niagara Falls. Do you think it is necessary and important for man to protect the earth? Yes, of course. Have you ever thought that the earth is also very dirty, very ugly, I mean, not beautiful? Believe it or not, the earth is getting dirtier and dirtier. Look at the pictures on page 65, rivers have been polluted, rubbish is everywhere, factory chimneys have given off too much smoke causing lots of acid rain all over the wosrld, which has damaged not only crops, but also plants. Besides, men himself also have done a great deal of harm to the environment. Now, I’d like to ask you a few questions:

1. If too many trees were cut down, what would happen?

2. Silk Road once played an important part in foreign trade in China. But now it is covered with sand. What caused it?

3. How many people are suffering from hunger? How many people die of hunger every year?

Now open your books, turn to page 65. And let’s learn Unit 9.

Task 1: Looking and discussing.

Look at page 65, boys and girls. There are 6 pictures and 6 questions. Please look at the pictures attentively, read the questions carefully and then in groups of four discuss these questions. In the end, I’ll ask some of you to report the results to the whole class.

Ⅱ.Listening

Task 1 Lead-in

To get students to think about this question: What are the most serious problems that your hometown is facing?

Task 2 Discussion

Topic: What should we do to protect our earth? The following questions may help.

1. Why can we human beings live on the earth?

2. What do you think of our living conditions? Is it good or not?

3. What are the problems that we are facing?

4. What about the water?

5. What about the air?

6. What can we do to solve these problems and make our life better?

Task 3 Listening

Get the students to listen to the tape three times and fill in the blanks on page 66.

Ⅲ The design of the Writing on the Blackboard

Unit 9 Saving the earth

Period 1 Warming up & Listening

1.If too many trees were cut down, what would happen?

2. Silk Road once played an important part in foreign trade in China. But now it is covered with sand. What caused it?

3. How many people are suffering from hunger? How many people die of hunger every year?