The First Period Warming up & Reading

Goals:

1. Talk about nature, ecology and the environment.

2. Make the Ss know the Earth Summit and the importance of the environment.

3. Further develop students’ reading ability as well as listening and speaking abilities.

4. Make the Ss learn some useful words and expressions.

5. Arouse the Ss to take better care of the earth.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

1. Begin the class by showing some pictures of serious environmental problems.

2. Ask the Ss some questions.

What’s the biggest problem facing the earth? Why do you think so?

What causes the problem?

What can we do solve the problem? Leaders from different countries can hold a meeting and discuss how to save the earth.

Step 2 Lead in

The Earth Summit is going to be held in Johannesburg in South Africa. As Chinese journalists, all of us are invited to report this important summit.

Step 3 Skimming

Before going there, we should know some information about the Earth Summit. Do you anything about it? .

It was first held in Stockholm in 1972.Representatives discussed some of the most important problems facing our planet. Much progress has been made.

Step 4 Scanning

1. Listen to Para 1 and find one of the main themes of the summit.

Sustainable development

2. Listen to Para 2& 3 and find what topics are talked about by the speakers.

1)The Big Three -- Contaminated drinking water 7,000,000

Poor sanitation 1,200,000,000

Air pollution 3,000,000

2) Poverty, War, Violence

What’s the present problem with the global development?

Richer people get richer while the poor get poorer.

What should people do to solve this problem?

Rich countries have a responsibility towards poor countries and must do whatever they can to help others.

3. What’s purpose of the Earth Summit?

It helps people understand that there exist serious problems and that there is still time to take action.

Step 5 Future Discussion

Task 1 Interview

Four Ss get a group. Three of the members are experts at the Earth Summit. One is a journalist who is interviewing them about the way to solve the big three. You may start like this:

“Dear experts, I’m a journalist from Chinese. I’d like to know…”

Task 2 Creative Thinking

A visitor to the Earth Summit said that, “When I listened to the speakers, I realised that

many of the things I do every day are bad for the environment…”Did you do anything bad for the environment? What will do to protect the environment?

Task 3 Debate

As we know the Earth Summit is a place to find solutions for the future. Some people say that money can solve all problems, but some say knowledge. Which one do you agree? Money or Knowledge? Ss will be divided into two groups. See which group can win the debate.

Step 6 Conclusion

If we want to get knowledge, we must have better education. With better education, people will be able to build a better society in harmony with nature. With better education, much of the poverty can be wiped out. With better education, we will see less violence and fewer wars.

Step 7 Homework

1. Write a report about the Earth Summit. (100-120 words)

2. Make up a poster to arouse people to stop polluting the environment.

The Second Period Listening & Integrating Skills

Goals:

1. Further develop students’ listening and summarizing abilities.

2. Arouse the Ss to take better care of the earth.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

Show a flash about water pollution.

Step 2 Listening 1

1. Pre-listening

Ask Ss talk something about water pollution. We are going to hear part of the speech on Earth Day.

2. While-listening

Part 1 Answer questions

Why is she giving this speech?

What does she think the most serious problem is?

What does she say we should do about it?

Part 2 Write the outline of the speaker’s arguments.

3. Post-listening

What will the speaker say next? Please predict what will come next.

Step 3 Listening 2

Listen to the speech from the Earth Summit and complete the outlines below.

Step 3 Conclusion

We need action.

Step 4 Song

Listen to Heal the World and write the repeated part.

Heal the World

There's A Place in Your Heart and I Know That It Is Love and This Place Could Be Much

Brighter than Tomorrow and If You Really Try You'll Find There's No Need to Cry In This Place You'll Feel There's No Hurt Or Sorrow There Are Ways To Get There If You Care Enough For The Living Make A Little Space Make A Better Place...

If You Want To Know Why There's A Love That Cannot Lie Love Is Strong It Only Cares For

Joyful Giving If We Try We Shall See In This Bliss We Cannot Feel Fear Or Dread We Stop Existing And Start Living Then It Feels That Always Love's Enough For Us Growing So Make A Better World Make A Better World...

And The Dream We Were Conceived In Will Reveal A Joyful Face And The World We Once Believed In Will Shine Again In Grace Then Why Do We Keep Strangling Life Wound This Earth

Crucify Its Soul Though It's Plain To See This World Is Heavenly Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High Let Our Spirits Never Die In My Heart I Feel You Are All My Brothers Create A World With No Fear Together We'll Cry Happy Tears See The Nations Turn Their Swords Into Ploughshares We Could Really Get There If You Cared Enough For The Living Make A Little Space To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World Make It A Better Place For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race There Are People Dying If You Care Enough For The Living Make A Better Place For You And For Me

The Third Period Speaking

Goals:

1. Make the Ss learn some useful words and expressions.

2. Further develop students’ speaking abilities.

3. Arouse the Ss to take better care of the earth.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

We have known much about pollution around. What are the problems we are facing? Which one do you think is the most important? Why?

Group 1: The lack of safe and clean water.

More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean and safe water

Providing safe and clean drinking water would save money by freeing hospital beds from patients with disease caused by dirty water.

12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12percent live in developed countries.

Group 2: Air pollution

Air pollution causes more than 2.7 million deaths in the world every year.

Most air pollution is caused by the burning of fuels like coal, gas and oil.

Each year tens of thousands of people die as a result of breathing polluted air.

Air pollution causes other diseases and may make it easier for children to get sick in the future.

Group 3: Poor sanitation

Over 2.4 billion people have no access to sanitation.

Every day, as many as half of all the people on the earth suffer from one of the many diseases caused by poor sanitation.

Without proper sanitation, efforts to improve health care are useless.

Group 4: Poverty

Half the world lives on less than two dollars a day.1.3 billion people live on less than one dollar a day.

In the year 2000, some 1.7 million children died as a result of poverty.

Almost 800 million people on the world do not have enough to eat.

Step 2 Speaking

1. As we know, coal is a valuable resource to produce energy, but it can also cause serious pollution. We will attend a meeting and discuss the issue.

2. Four Ss get a group. You are citizen, businessman, scientist and environmentalist.

Citizen: We must burn the coal so that we can get money to develop our area as soon as possible, because…

Businessman: We should burn the coal because…

Scientist: We should spend more money on science so that we can use the coal in a better way, because…

Environmentalist: We shouldn’t burn the coal because…

3. As a local leader in this area, summarize and help the speakers decide.

4. Ask the Ss use these useful expressions:

We must make sure that… It’s clear that…

I believe that we must… I’m all for…

If nothing is done…, then… I can’t imagine that…

Sure/ certainly / absolutely It would be better if we…

Is there a better way to…?

Step 3 Conclusion

We human beings should take good care of our planet, because it is the only place we can survive. Love the earth, love ourselves.

The Forth Period Language Study& Writing

Goals:

1. Make Ss learn some useful words and expressions as well as inversion.

2. Enable Ss to write a speech paragraph.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision

Ask Ss what kinds of problem we are facing?

Step 2 Language Points

take action take part in in harmony with put an end to wipe out

1. Today, people often miss the simple but beautiful days when man lived_________nature.

2. _________before it is too late. Leave a beautiful planet to the coming generations.

3. Some experts warned that global warming will _________one million species.

4. Man must________war, or war will _________man.

5. Many people__________the Earth Day activities which aimed to make people more aware of the need to protect our living environment.

Step 3 Inversion

Look at these sentences from the text.

1. Among the speaker was China’s then Premier Zhu Rongji, who stressed the need for equality and fairness in the world.

2. Only by changing the way we live can we save the earth.

3. Had I known that air conditioners cause so much pollution, I would never have bought one.

4. Not until we know more will we be able to improve the situation.

5. A better understanding of the environment is necessary, as is the willingness to act.

Step 4 Exercise

Step 5 Writing

Write a speech paragraph to tell what you think the most serious environment problem is. Explain why you think the problem is serious and what you think should be done to solve it.