Clean up your butts and bags.doc

Clean up your butts and bagsI.Teaching aims:Knowledge aims: 1.to learn the following useful news words and expressions 2. To understand the passageAbility aims: 1. Enable the students to improve the abilities of reading skills. Emotional aims: 1.To raise the students environmental awareness and protect the environment.II.Teaching difficult and important points: 1. to learn new words and understand the passage.2 . How to improve the students writing abilityIII. Teaching Procedures:Step I. Greetings and WarmingRaise a question and ask the student to answer “do you know rubbish items?” then lead to Toms essay on the environmental problems of plastic bags and cigarette butts.Step II. First-reading1. Glance at the title and pictures, read Toms essay on environmental problems, and think about the main point of view of the essay. (Class Work)2. Find out Toms solutions about plastic bags and cigarette butts. (Individual Work)Step III. Second-reading1. Let students think about the structure of the essay, and fill in the table on the Students Learning Plan. (Individual Work)2. Help students understand the structure and deal with language points at the same time.StepIV .discussion1. Our environment is in great danger. Can you think of other problems she is facing? 2. What can you do?Step V. Homework1.Use Toms essay as a model to write their owns after class. Students Learning Plan1. Think about the structure(结构) of the essay and fill in the blanks of the table.First paragraphPoint of view Second paragraphFirst point of the argument Evidence1. _ cigarettes are smoked each year in China. Many of the butts become litter. (L6) 2. Worldwide, 4.5 trillion(万亿) butts _ every year. (L8)3. Butts _ of the environment. (L9) 4. Butts contain _. These get into the water supply, _ the quality of the water and _ living things. (L10)5. Butts take up to 5 years to _, so the toxic chemicals _ a great amount.(L13) Third paragraphSecond point of the argument Evidence1. Plastic bags are made from _ resources. If they are not _, these resources are lost to us. (L18)2. In China, 2 billion plastic bags are used every day. _ these become litter. (L20)3. Plastic bags _ from 20 to 1,000 years in the environment. (L21)4. They _ easily in air and water and travel long _. (L22)5. They kill up to one million seabirds, 100,000 _ and _ fish each year worldwide. (L24)6. When the animal dies and breaks down, the plastic bag can _ again to kill another animal. (L26)Forth paragraphPoint of view 2. Use Toms essay as a model and write an essay of your own.The p