Teaching approch: cooperative learning, task-based language learning, communicative learning
Teaching aids: blackboard, multi-media facilities
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Lead-in
a video about pollution and get the students to answer “How many kinds of pollution did you see in the video?”(write the key on the Bb)
2. Show some pictures about food and ask the studens to have a quick discussion about the question “What food do you think is safe food without being polluted?”
Step2 Scanning and skimming
cture and paragraph development
Listen to the tape and have the students use one sentence to summarize the text and use phases or key words to sum up the main idea of each paragraph.
for details
1) Read the first paragraph and answer the following questions:
How many ways do people deal with rubbish?
Do people solve the problem of rubbish? Why?
2) Blank-filling
Ask the students to read Para2 and find detailed words to fill in blanks about agricultural pollution.
3) Summary
Get the students to read Para3 and summarize the forms of noise pollution.
4) Picture-talking
Have the students look at the picture on Page216 and descible what is happening in the picture.
Look at the picture on PPT and guess, then let the students describe the feeling of the wife.
Step3 Post-reading activities
1. Tell us about any noise which you know has caused a major problem.
2. “ The only way to reduce noise pollution is to fine offenders very heavily.” is this a practical proposal? What do you think?
