内容正文:
Book 3 Unit 1 Nature in the balance
Extended reading
祁阳市第四中学
张晓方
Teaching aims
By the end of this section, students will be able to:
1.understand the TV show transcript about a polluted city.
2.summarize the main viewpoints of the host and three guests.
3come up with their own ideas about how to fight pollution.
4.grasp the characteristics of TV show transcript.
Welcome to today’s program.Please watch a video first.
What can you see in the video?
Pollution
Today I invite some guests to talk about pollution in Norgate .Let me introduce our guests today.
There are______ people in the TV show
four
host
James Smith
a local resident
Vincent Brown
a senior manager of a local factory
Julie Archer
chief of Norgate Environmental
Protection Committee
Figure out the standpoint of each guest
Smith (local resident): Line 9-14
Opinon/Standpoint
For health and safety reasons alone, heavy industry _____________.
He _________________ heavy industry.
Why?
Reason 1: The river ___________________________________
Reason 2: The smog ___________________________________
Reason 3: ____________________________________________
has to go
protested against
is dirty and smelly
in the air has colored the sky a smoky grey
It’ve given me a cough that I can’t get rid of.
Brown (senior manager of a local factory): Line17-27
Opinon/Standpoint
1. Factories also try to ______________________________________ and they are deeply ________________________________;
How
We’ve taken various measures, including ____________________
_________________________________________________________.
2. Factories have brought _________________ to Norgate.
How?
We’ve ___________________________________________________
.
control the amount of pollution we produce
concerned about the environment
the use of new technology
economic benefits
created many jobs for local residents and helped the city’s economy grow
to reduce pollution in the production process
Do you think the industry factories should be moved out of Norgate? Why?
VS
Thinking and presentation
Heavy industry has to go.Factories make the river dirty and smelly. The smog in the air has coloured the sky a smoky grey.Pollution causes harm to our health and our planet.
Factories have brought economic benefits.They created many jobs for local residents and helped the Norgate's economy grow.
Archer (chief of the Norgate Environment Protection Committee):Line 32-45
Opinon/Standpoint
We have to ____________________ between environmental protection and economic development.
How?
For government&factory:
(1) ______________________________________________________
(2) ______________________________________________________
However, fighting pollution isn’t just a task for factories and the government.
achieve a balance
make environmental policies for businesses to observe
work hand in hand with other branches of government
For individuals: _______________________________
follow the golden rule
Everyone’s joint (共同的) effort
reduce,reuse and recycle
eg: strick clean-up requirements
Discussion
What else can we students do to fight pollution?
1.No littering
2.No plastic bags
3.No one-off chopsticks
4.ride a bike or walk to school
5.Garbage sorting
6.turn off lights when we leave home or classroom
7.Plant trees
......
8.take the bus or the subway
9.use the bike-sharing system
protect the environment while we aim for economic development.
leave a better, cleaner and healthier planet to our children.
inseparable
Conclusion
Opinon/Standpoint
The fortunes of our environment and our economy are ___________.
How?
It’s our duty to .
It’s our duty to .
It’s our duty to .
build a human community with a shared future.
Host:Line 46-53
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Role play
News
How to Fight Pollution in Our City
a chief
How to Fight Pollution in Our City?
?
a factory manager
a student
Role play
I want to invite four students in one group to make a role play. Each of you can choose one of the four roles——a host, a chief, a factory manager and a student to express your opinion about how to fight pollution.Please use the transcript patterns.
a host
Role play
Host: Today, we invite three guests to our show. Let's talk about how to fight pollution in our city. (name of the chief),what's your opinion?
Chief: As a chief, I need to .
Host: Thank you! How about you, (name of the factory manager)?
Factory manager: As a manager, I will .
Host: Thank you! What view do you hold, (name of the student)?
Student:As a student, I can .
Host: Thank you.It’s our duty to protect the environment.Everyone should work together to make our city cleaner. That’s all for today’s News that Matters. Thanks again to all of our guests.
Show Time
News
How to Fight Pollution in Our City
A Version of Role play
Host: Today, we invite three guests to our show. Let's talk about how to fight pollution in our city. (name of chief),what's your opinion?
Chief: As a chief, I need to .
Host: Thank you! How about you, (name of factory manager)?
Factory manager: As a manager, I will .
Host: Thank you! What view do you hold, (name of student)?
Student:As a student, I can .
Host: Thank you.It’s our duty to protect the environment.Everyone should work together to make our city cleaner. That’s all for today’s News that Matters. Thanks again to all of our guests.
Mr Archer
make environmental policies and work with other
branches of government
Mr Brown
strongly demand factories use new technologies to reduce pollution
Smith
walk to school or use the bike-sharing system
Lucid(透明的) waters and lush(茂盛的) mountains are invaluable assets(资产).
—President Xi
Homework
Writing
环境污染问题日益严峻,作为中学生,我们应该为环境保护贡献自己的一份力量,请以“How to Protect the environment”为题,写一篇不少于80词的英语短文,就目前环境存在的问题谈谈你的看法和建议。要点包括:
1.目前环境存在的问题。
2.作为中学生应该采取的措施(至少三条)。
3.号召和呼吁大家共同行动。
Thank you!
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