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Unit 8 Green Living
Lesson 1 Roots and Shoots
Teaching Objective:
· To read and talk about green living
· To read for general understanding of the institution
· To read for specific information and understanding words in context
Difficult points
· Students may need time to answer the comprehension questions.
· Students may need to know how to use the vocabularies.
· Students may need help to figure out the difficult sentences.
Teaching Process：
Step 1：Lead-in
1.Show students three pictures and let them predict what will be learnt in this lesson.
There are three pictures. What do you see in these pictures The first one is about a waste of time. The Second one is about a waste of electricity. The person in the third picture throws litter around.
2.Look at the pictures. Discuss the following questions.
What is happening in each picture
What other similar behaviors do you know
Have you ever done any of these things
What would happen if everybody did the same things
(
Leave the tap running while you brush your teeth.
Leave a light on when you go out.
Drop a piece of litter and cannot be bothered to pick it up.
)
Step 2：Pre-listening
(
Shoots seem small and weak, but they can
break open brick walls to reach the light.
Roots move slowly under the ground to make a firm foundation.
)Look at the title of the passage — “ROOTS & SHOOTS”, and guess what the passage is about.
Step 3：While-listening
Fast-reading:
1.Read the text carefully again and match the main idea of each part.
(
Para.1　　 A. The meaning of its name.
Para.2
B. What is “Just-me-ism”
Para.3
C. The establishment of Roots & Shoots.
Para.4 D. A call to action
)
2.What’s the genre(体裁) of this passage
A. An argumentation(议论文)
B. A narrative
C. A news article
D. An exposition(说明文)
Careful-reading:
1.Read the first paragraph of the text. Discuss the questions
What is Just-me-ism
Why is Just-me-ism a problem
Do you have any suggestions on how to solve the problem
2.Read the rest of the plete the table or use your own graphic organizer to illustrate what you have found about Roots & Shoots.
Step 4：Post-listening
Group work.
1. Prepare a presentation to introduce Roots & Shoots with the following information. Then give your presentation in class.
When and why it was established
The meaning of its name
The contribution it makes to society
After reading the passage，please fill in the following blanks.
Most people suffer 1. what is known as “ just-me-ism”. Actually, it is 2 (harm) to the world. 3 (inspire) young people to take action for the environment. animals and their community, Roots& Shoots 4 (establish ). The organization is called Roots & Shoots because roots move 5 (slow) under the ground to make a firm 6 (found) and shoots can break open brick walls 7 (reach) the light. The value and importance of each individual is 8 Roots Shoots is all about. Dr. Jane Goodall thinks each individual has a role
9 (play) and every individual makes 10 difference.

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