内容正文:
Unit 8 Green Living
Lesson 1 Roots and Shoots
Teaching Objective:
· To read and talk about green living
· To read for general understanding of the institution
· To read for specific information and understanding words in context
Difficult points
· Students may need time to answer the comprehension questions.
· Students may need to know how to use the vocabularies.
· Students may need help to figure out the difficult sentences.
Teaching Process:
Step 1:Lead-in
1.Show students three pictures and let them predict what will be learnt in this lesson.
There are three pictures. What do you see in these pictures? The first one is about a waste of time. The Second one is about a waste of electricity. The person in the third picture throws litter around.
2.Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
· What is happening in each picture?
· What other similar behaviors do you know?
· Have you ever done any of these things?
· What would happen if everybody did the same things?
(
Leave the tap running while you brush your teeth.
Leave a light on when you go out.
Drop a piece of litter and cannot be bothered to pick it up.
)
Step 2:Pre-listening
(
Shoots seem small and weak, but they can
break open brick walls to reach the light.
Roots move slowly under the ground to make a firm foundation.
)Look at the title of the passage — “ROOTS & SHOOTS”, and guess what the passage is about.
Step 3:While-listening
Fast-reading:
1.Read the text carefully again and match the main idea of each part.
(
Para.1 A. The meaning of its name.
Para.2
B. What is “Just-me-ism”?
Para.3
C. The establishment of Roots & Shoots.
Para.4 D. A call to action
)
2.What’s the genre(体裁) of this passage?
A. An argumentation(议论文)
B. A narrative
C. A news article
D. An exposition(说明文)
Careful-reading:
1.Read the first paragraph of the text. Discuss the questions
· What is Just-me-ism?
· Why is