Unit 2 The environment
Period 6 Project
Teaching aims
Help the students learn how to write a report about other things that China is doing to protect the environment and how to prepare an oral report to present to the class.
Teaching procedure
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Have a free talk with the students about the Yangtze River by asking the following questions.
What do you know about the Yangtze River?
What are the first and the second longest rivers in the world?
The River Nile The Amazon
If you have a holiday during the National Day on October, which part of the Yangtze River would you like to visit?
The Three Gorges
Do you know a kind of rare animals living in the Yangtze River?
2. Work in groups and find out the provinces and important cities does the Yangtze River run through.
Qinhai Tibet Yunnan Sichuan Chongqing Hubei Hunan Jiangxi Anhui JIangsu Shanghai
Step 2 Reading for general ideas.
Ask the students to scan or skim the text and then work in groups. Try to match the number of the paragraph with its topic.
P1 Many people have recognized the importance of protecting the Yangtze River and many environmental organizations and projects have been set up.
P2 The environmental problems of the Yangtze River have raise concern.
P3 The second project is a nature reserve for white flag dolphins.
P4 The environmental situation of the Yangtze River is improving.
P5 Two special governments under way to protect the river. One is the water and soil preservation project.
Step 3 Reading for details
1. Get the students to read the passage again and find out the facts for the following numbers.

Facts
Third longest

23.4 billion tons

Green River Organization

In 1989

White-flag dolphins

2. Ask the students to read the questions again and answer the questions below.
Why has the environmental problems of the Yangtze River raised concern both nationally and internationally?
What does the green river Organization do?
What problems do the to government projects focus on?
What do the farmers have to do under the water and soil preservation project?
What does the second project concern?
Step 4 Discussion
Get the students to work in groups, and discuss the questions below.
Do you think the environmental situation of the Yangtze River is getting better? Why?
What else can we do to protect the Yangtze River?
Step 5 Group Work(finish project)
1. Planning
In the groups of four, choose a topic for their group’s survey and prepare an oral report.
2. Preparing
Work in small groups. You want to survey people to determine how attitudes between boys and girls differ on a certain topic..
favourite food hobbies the future family school subjects music
My own topic _____________3.Producing
discuss and agree on an each of the following questions:
What is the primary purpose of our survey?
How many questions will we ask?
Who will take our survey?
decide which group members will be responsible for each task.4.Presenting
write multiple-choice questions that can be answered quickly and are easy to total when the survey is complete.
Conduct the survey and calculate the results. Briefly discuss the conclusions the group has drawn, based on the survey results.
Step 5 Homework
Finish the project after class.
Revise the contents of this unit.
Comments:
In teaching this lesson I find the sentencestructure in the reading text is a little bit complicated due to too many attributives and adverbials. So it is necessary to give the students some explanations.

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