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Unit 8 Green Living
Lesson 1 Roots and Shoots
Teaching objectives:
1. Knowledge objective:
Students can know the language points and main idea of the passage and learn about Roots and Shoots.
2. Ability objective:
Students’ reading ability can be improved by answering questions and analyzing mind maps . Students can also learn some knowledge about protecting the environment .
3. Emotion objective:
Enhance students' awareness of environmental protection and social responsibility, and understand that everyone is a part of the earth and everyone can contribute to the protection of our planet.
Teaching key points:
Students can know the main idea of the passage.
Students can master the establishment time, founder, purpose, name and meaning of the environmental protection organization Roots and Shoots.
Teaching difficult points:
Talking about and expounding the founding purpose and social contribution of the environmental protection organization "Roots and Shoots"
Guide students to think independently and stimulate their sense of social responsibility.
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Lead-in
(1)Watch the video and answer the following two questions:
Q1: What are the boys doing in the video?
Q2: Why did the boy in yellow bring his own cup?
(2) Suppose: Suppose the boy in the video uses a plastic cup this time, what will happen?
【Purpose】Video is vivid and easy to attract students’ attention. Design questions and supposing can also stimulate students' related cognition which can pave way for the following learning.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Teacher leads the students to look at the illustrations and titles of the passage and asks them to guess the meanings of "root" and "shoot".
【Purpose】By analyzing the illustrations and titles, exercise the students' ability to guess the main idea of the article.
Step 3 While-reading
Firstly, students read the passage quickly to get the main idea of the passage and complete the following mind map.
Link to the college entrance examination :
典例1 [2020课标全国Ⅲ卷,C片段]
With the young unable to afford to leave home and the old at risk of isolation (孤独), more families are choosing to live together.
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It’s hard to tell exactly how many people agree with him, but research indicates that the numbers have been rising for some time. Official reports suggest that the number of households with three generations living together had risen from 325,000 in 2001 to 419,000 in 2013.
31.What is the text mainly about?( )
A.Lifestyles in different countries. B.Conflicts between generations.
C.A housing problem in Britain. D.A rising trend of living in the UK.
Secondly, learning detailed information through carefully reading and further improve the following mind map.
Teacher divides the students into three groups, who are responsible for the content of a section in turn. When thinking, they can discuss with the members of the group, and finally raise their hands in groups to answer questions.
【Purpose】First sort out the general idea of the paragraph, and then analyze the content of the article in depth. This arrangement is gradual, which not only conforms to the students' cognitive level, but also helps students form their own reading logic. Group cooperation and thinking can promote the exchange and collision of ideas between students.
Step 4 Summary
Teacher shares some active pictures of Roots and Shoots organization.
Call on students to establish "Roots and Shoots" environmental protection organization in our school and design slogans together.
Students summarize what they learn today. Teachers provide students with mind maps, and students can fully explain the contents of this article themselves.
【Purpose】Showing pictures can make students know more about the activities of root and bud organizations and set an example for students' daily environmental protection actions. Establish "Roots and Shoots" environmental protection organization in our school, call on students to take action and participate in environmental protection activities, so as to achieve the goal of applying what they have learned and integrating knowledge with practice.
Students summarize what they learn, which can improve their speaking and expressing skill and the teacher can know Students’ learning level.
Step 6 Homework
1 Please fill in the following blanks.
Most people suffer 1. what is known as “just-me-ism”. Actually,it is 2 (harm) to the world. 3 (inspire) young people to take action for the environment, animals and their community, Roots& Shoots 4 (establish ). The organization is called Roots & Shoots because roots move 5 (slow) under the ground to make a firm 6 (found) and shoots can break open brick walls 7 (reach) the light. The value and importance of each individual is 8 Roots Shoots is all about. Dr. Jane Goodall thinks each individual has a role 9 (play) and every individual makes 10 difference.
2 draw a mind map of the passage
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