初中英语冀教版八年级下册Lesson 44 Environment Clubs教学设计及反思

教学步骤

教师活动

学生活动

设计意图

Step1:

Before reading

Warming-up

& lead-in

1. Check the dubbing and reading homework on Ekwing. Share some students’ homework.

2. Play two short videos in which some students behave bad like throwing garbage around or wasting water/ electricity.

Ask the following questions:

1) What’s the video about?

2) What do you do when you see someone throw garbage on the ground or waste electricity?

3. Show pictures and get the students to talk more about the environment problems around us.

1.Listen to some students’ dubbing homework and

give comments.

2. Watch videos  and answer the teacher’s questions.

3. Talk about the environment problems around us.

1. To warm up and elicit the topic.

2. To initiate Ss’ speaking motivation and know the cause and effect of the  environment problems. To help the students to think about what to do to reduce pollution.

Step2:

Reading

1. Predicting

Let  the students  read the topic and the pictures and they try to  ask questions about environment clubs.

1) Who join environment clubs?

2) Why do they join  environment clubs?

3) What are their activities?

2,  Scanning

Ask the students to read the whole passage  and find out the answers for above three questions.

3. Detail reading

 Let the students  to read  the whole passage  and answer questions.

1) What does No-garbage lunches mean?

2) Who can come to school in a car on No-car days ?

3) Do you take your own bags when you  go shopping? Why?

4) How much water does a leaky toilet waste in an hour?

5) How can we  save electricity?

1. Try to ask questions about environment clubs according to  the topic and pictures.

2. Scan the whole passage and find the answers.

3. Students  read  the whole passage  and answer questions. They can discuss with their group members.

1. To help the students to predict  main idea by reading the topic and pictures.

 2. To get information about  environment clubs in North America and learn reading strategy like…

Tip1: Some marks and  the first sentence of the paragraph can help you get the idea quickly.

To help the students to improve the reading ability and learn to ask for help when they have problems.

To help the students to learn the learning strategy --- Tip2: Taking notes can help you learn better

Step3 Listening and reading

Give the listening and reading task on Ekwing. Check the result and correct the mistake.

The students  do the listening and reading task on Ekwing.

To improve the students’ listening and pronunciation.

Step4

Exercises

1.Get the students to complete the sentences with the right forms of given words.

Least/pollute/

Waste/shut/

nobody

1) The soap factory ____ the drinking water in this area.

2) Students should not ____paper.

3) _____ knows when life on the earth started.

4) He who talks the most knows the ________.

5) I couldn’t ____the window because it was stuck.

2. Ask the students

to read a Supplementary reading passage and fill in the blanks.

T: What does the passage talk about ?

Finish the exercises and talk about what they have learned from the Supplementary reading passage.

To get the students to master the important new words.

To expand the reading material and help students know more about three “Rs”----reduce, recycle and reuse

Step5

Discussion

Let the students work in groups of six talk about what they can do to stop pollution . And play another video in which the same students in the last video improve their behavior well and call on more people to stop pollution.

Have a discussion to stop pollution.

---Hi, Everyone. What can we do to reduce pollution and protect the environment?

  ---I think we can …

  ---I agree with you. And we should  / shouldn’t…

  ---How about…?

  --- It’s a good idea to…

  --- It’s important to…

To practice and use  what they have learned.

Step6

Making a poster in groups

Ask the students to make  posters about littering and recycling to call on more people to stop

pollution . 

Work in groups of three and make  posters about littering and recycling.

To help the students to cooperate well use what they have learned.

Step7

Summary

and

homework

1. Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this class.

2.  Homework:

1). Finish exercises on Ekwing.

2). Write a letter to  school headmaster, giving advice on how to reduce pollution and protect environment in our school.

Summarize what they have learnt in this class.

To make the students to put what they have learned to use.