1) Do you know of a city has a serious smog problem?
2) What can the local government do to deal with the
problem?
3) What can the citizen do in their daily life to help?
Section C
Practical Writing:Writing Memos
教学活动安排建议
Leading In and Exploring the Topic
Guide the Ss to do the Exploring the Topic exercise on P118 of SB. Then give them five minutes to discuss the following three questions:
One representative from each group share his group’s difficult sentences with the class. Explain those sentences to the class.
Give the class 6 minutes to find the answer to the following questions and write down the answers in their own words:
单元
主题
Pollution
课时安排
8
教育
教学
目标
(学生)
Todo volunteer work ofprotecting the environment in your daily life.
Tosearch online to find out more examples like the cleanup project of the Thames and make your own plans to clean some rivers or cities in China.
4)Are s will get better in the future?
Ask some students to read aloud their answers in class. Give them help where necessary.
1)How serious is the smog situation in the city?
2)What change has occurred in the attitude of the government toward theproblem?
3)What is the cause of the problem?
block out; get rid of; give off;
bring…into place; stop…from; be
satisfied with; compared to
Grammar
1) How to use participle clauses to replace non-restrictive relative
expand, compare, elsewhere,
decade, environment, beyond
Phrases and
Expressions
set the tone for (something);
check up on; run out; play down;
to the contrary; at all costs; resultin; come to terms with; turningpoint; sea of change
plain, publish, main, growth,
widespread, power, supply,
industry, economic, unlikely
sewer, industrial, block, reduce,
shift, tide, highly, declare, contain,
Tolearn rules of using conjunctions and adverbials of comparison and contrast.
Tolearn to write memos.
教
学
设
计
教学
内容
Section A
Text A:Smog in My City
Section B
Text B:The Thames Cleanup: An IncredibleAchievement
4)Tell the class the process of the Thames cleanup in no more than five sentences.
Ask each groupto finish its task in class. Give help when necessary.
Section A Reading Through
Show the students the text structure provided on P241-242 of TB and ask them to read through the text with the help of the text structure.
Give the students 10 minutes to read the text carefully by themselves and write down the sentences that they can’t understand.
Divide the class into several groups and ask them do discuss their sentences in groups and find those sentences that are difficult for all the group members.
Basic Writing Skills
1)Prepare a PPT with sentences of the exercise on P127 and P128 of SB.
2)Ask some students to tell their answers to the class and explain why.
Search online to find a Chinese Memorandum and change it into an English one, using the form learned in this unit.
课后
总结
与
反思
Allow the class 5 minutes to discuss the following two questions:
1)What can we learn from the cleanup process of the Thames?
2)What can we do to clean a local river in our hometown?
Section C Practical Writing
Guide the students to finish the three exercises on P135 to P136 of SB according to the samples given.
Search online to find a Chinese Memorandum and change it into an English one, using the form learned in this unit.
To be able to make sentences withresult in, be related to, come to terms with,andrun out.
To be able to rewrite sentences after models, usinga participle clause to replace a non-restrictive relative clause or an adverbial clause.
课后学习设计
作业
Finish all the exercises in Unit Seven.
Read the passage in Reading Out on Page 122of SB and recite it.
Write a proposal to the local government, stating your plan of dealing with the pollution problem in your city.
To be familiar with the context meaning and the use of those vocabulary of the two texts listed in the above table.
To be familiar with the collocation of those phrases and expressions listed in the above table.
1)Introduce the Thames briefly to the class;
2)Tell the class the pollution problem occurred in the history of the Thames;
3)Introduce the Victorian sewer system to the class;