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Unit 2 Remember three words: Reduce, reuse and recycle.
· Warm up by finding out environmental problems.
Hello, class. How green is your home? How green is our school? How green is our city? What environmental problems do we have at our home, in our school and in our city? Now look around and think hard to make a list of all the environmental problems.
1. The Natural wonders are disappearing.
2. The temperature is rising.
3. The ground is sinking.
4. The natural resources are wasted.
■ Read the passage and complete the table.
Read the passage on page 44 and page 45.
While reading, try to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. (阅读过程中,断开/意群,观察谓语构成,圈出连词,摘录短语搭配。)
Useful expressions (有用的短语搭配)
care about…, protect the environment, save energy, try the questions, walk to school, ride a bike to school, buy new clothes, the latest fashions, open a window, instead of…, turn on air conditioning, buy things, be produced locally, be made abroad, take one’s own cloth bag, use plastic bags, sort the waste, throw…away, need a healthy environment, produce waste, every day, do harm to…, do something to help, in fact, even the simplest everyday activities, make a real difference to…, some ideas for…, use less, waste things, save money, reduce pollution, go into the environment, buy something new, think whether…, really necessary, the old one, be just as good, choose local products, if possible, try not to do something, buy too many…, from abroad, use again, use…for as long as possible, make sure that…, last a long time, look after…, repair…, instead of, throw… away, use a paper cup, a paper bag, use a china cup and a lunch box, change…into something else, take energy to do something, throw…away, burn…, find out…, in one’s neighbourhood, take part in…, a recycling programme, buy products made from recycled materials, recycled paper, help save trees
· Turn the text into a conversation an