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课件网) Developing ideas (Listening & Speaking) Unit 4 Time to celebrate (Period 3) What: Why: How: 话题涉及初中的环境保护，语篇主题是了解庆祝节日带来的环境问题。在电视新闻节目中，主持人提到庆祝圣诞节给人们带来快乐的同时也会带来礼盒包装纸的浪费、食物浪费、木材浪费与塑料圣诞树造成的污染。呼吁人们应该重新思考该节日的庆祝方式，以绿色环保的庆祝方式来庆祝。 电视新闻主持人以圣诞节前夕为背景，提出了庆祝圣诞节会带来的浪费与污染问题，旨在提醒人们，在欢乐庆祝节日的同时也要注意保护环境，思考以一种全新的保护环境为目的的庆祝方式来庆祝圣诞节。 口头语篇以英国地区人们庆祝节日时造成的浪费为例，其中使用3个大数字数字来强调浪费的数目之多，让人惊骇。摆事实，说道理，自然过渡到改变庆祝方式保护环境这个观点上。 A speech What: Why: How: Mark 和他的父母在听到新闻中的内容之后就如何以环保的形式庆祝今年的圣诞节提出了方案。他们决定不吃大餐不浪费食物、用家里的植物做圣诞树不造成浪费和污染、用旧报纸来包装礼物不浪费礼物包装纸。 语篇中的场景对于新七年级学生非常常见。学生能从Mark一家的讨论中学习到庆祝节日的方式有很多种，不是非得铺张浪费。节约资源，保护环境才能过一个快乐又有意义的节日。 语篇中，Mark 一家人用“We don’t/won’t.../Let’s.../How about... ”等来提出庆祝圣诞节新方式。用 “Ok/ No problem/All right/ I don’t agree/I am not sure about that.”等来表达自己同意和不同意 的观点。几个话轮间，听者能感受到一家人有商有量、自由表达观点的温馨的家庭氛围。 A conversation How do people in the West usually celebrate Christmas Celebrate Christmas with their families. Put up a Christmas tree. Share a large meal together. Give each other gifts. Free talk Free talk celebrate Christmas exchange gifts have a big meal hold a party decorate(装饰) the house ... plastic Christmas tree wasted paper cause pollution More creative ways. Predict: What’s the listening material about Listen to the news and choose the topic. a People shouldn’t celebrate Christmas. b Christmas chould cause waste and pollution. c All festivals create environmental pollution. What waste and pollution may Christmas cause Tip: Before you are listening, circle the key words. What waste and pollution may Christmas cause Think Get some information from the poster before listening. Listen and complete the poster. What waste and pollution may Christmas cause What kind of words do we need here numbers verbs about 365,000 throw away 120 buying think green Listen again and complete the poster. Are they facts or opinions about 365,000 throw away 120 buying think green F F F F O O Write F (fact) or O (opinion) in the boxes. think green How to read big numbers 120,000: one hundred and twenty thousand 345,120,000: three hundred and forty-five million, one hundred and twenty thousand thousand thousand million (Three numbers makes a unit. ) How to read big numbers Let’s try: 650,000: 983,600: 544,600,000 890,780,000 six hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred five hundred and forty-four million, six hundred thousand eight hundred and ninety mill ... ...
