课程内容

《The Earth--Writing, More practice, Culture corner》
Writing:Protect the Earth
A In pairs,look at the photos in your book and discuss the problems with your classmate.What can we do to solve these problems?
Pairwork:
---What's the problem in picture 1/2/3/4?
---People...
---What can we do to protect the earth?
---We must stop...
People /catch a lot of fish every day/fewer and fewer fish in the sea each year
People/burn things to make energy/pollute the air.
People/throw away a lot of rubbish everyday/pollute the land
People/put waste into rivers and seas/pollute the water
B Use the information in A to complete the report below.
PROTECT THE EARTH
What problems   do we have?
People catch a lot of fish every day.
There are fewer and fewer fish in the sea each year.
People burn things to make energy.
This pollutes the air.
People throw away a lot of rubbish every day.
This pollutes the land.
People put waste into river and seas.
This pollutes the water
What can we do to protect the Earth?
We must stop catching a lot of fish every day.
We must stop burning things to make energy.

More practice
It has no smell.
It has no taste.
But when the wind blows,
You feel it on your face.

Read after the tape.Pay attention to the tones.
Air
Air has no smell.
Air has no taste.
But when the wind blows,
You feel it on your face.
Look at a kite.
Or a plane in the air.
How do they stay there?
They ride on air.
How does a balloon.
Rise in the air.
And lift people up?
It uses hot air.
We need air to breathe.
We need air to survive.
And when we breathe it.
It keeps us alive.

Comprehension exercise
A Read  the poem and complete the sentences below.
1.Air has no smell and no taste,when the wind blows,you feel the air on your face.
2 A kite or a plane rides on air to stay in the sky.
3 A balloon uses hot air to rise in the air and lift people up.
4 "We need air to survive"means "Air keeps us alive".

Practice the skill
Read the contents and complete the sentences below.
1.There are _______(how many?) parts and _______(how many?)chapters in this book.
2.In part ________.Chapter _______.We can fidn out about different types of fish.
3.We can find out why the sea is crying in Part ________.
4.We can find information about how to save the sea in Part _________.
5.In Part _______.Chapter ________.We may find information about where oil comes from.
 
Culture corner
The story of the ten suns
Look at the title and the picture.Can you describe the picture?
A long time ago,there were ten suns in the sky.The weather was very hot.Plants could not grow.
Animals could not live long.
There was a man.His name was suns out of the sky.
In the end,only one sun remained.The weather got cooler,Plants could grow.People were happy.
1.How many suns were there in the sky a long time ago?
There were ten suns in the sky a long time ago.
2.Who shot nice suns out of the sky?
Houyi.
3.What was the weather like after one sun remained?
The weather got cooler.

The story of the ten suns
Retell the story in your own wards.Pay attention to the use of the simple past tense.
There were...
There was...
In the end,...
Plants...Animals...
He...
The weather...Plants...People...

Discussion
Do you want to have one sun or ten suns in the sky?GIve your reasons.
No,...
Yes,...

Homework
1.寻找与海报文字材料相匹配的图片，进一步合作完成海报制作。
2.完成一篇更为详尽的保护地球的报告。
3.上网寻找2-3个古今中外的神话故事，以小组合作的形式制作一份小报。