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课件网) Time to celebrate Time to celebrate 4 U n i t 第3课时 (Developing ideas — 听说) 外研·七年级上册 What can you see in the picture A Christmas tree A big meal A family Lead-in Do you know what festival they are celebrating In the West, people usually celebrate Christmas with their families. They put up a Christmas tree at home, share a large meal together, and give each other gifts. Nowadays, there are also some creative ways to celebrate Christmas. What problems do the pictures show to us Pre-listening traffic jam (交通拥堵) littering wrapping paper (乱扔包装纸) food waste (食物浪费) forest destruction (森林破坏) plastic pollution (塑料污染) food burning (食物着火) Christmas is coming. A news presenter is broadcasting (播报) a piece of news about this festival. Listen to the news. What problems does Christmas bring 1 While-listening Look and say After listening to the news, the Students’ Union of Wood Middle School made a poster. What’s the poster about It tells the students to take actions to celebrate Christmas in a green way. What do these pictures show Paper waste Food waste Wood waste Pollution They show the waste and pollution Christmas brings. use too much paper for gifts throw away too much turkey after the big meal cut down too many trees as Christmas trees throw away plastic trees Listen again and complete the poster. 2 millions 365,000 120 buying think Green Are they facts or opinions Learning to learn Listening for facts and opinions A fact is true for everyone. An opinion is an idea about something. When giving opinions, people often use facts to support them. Then write F (fact) or O (opinion) in the boxes. 2 millions 365,000 120 buying think Green F F F F O O Listening material Presenter: Welcome to News Today. Christmas is coming. It brings joy, but also waste and pollution. Each year, for example, people in the UK use about 365,000 kilometres of paper for gifts. Around the world, people throw away millions of turkeys. What’s more, people cut down nearly 120 million trees to use as Christmas trees. But after Christmas, they often throw the trees away. Some families are buying plastic Christmas trees, but they can cause pollution, too. We should think about new ways of celebrating. Let’s have a “green Christmas” this year. Think and share Experts are asking people to have a green Christmas. Can you think of some green ways to celebrate Christmas Send e-cards instead of paper cards. Plan meals carefully to avoid wasting food. Choose a sustainable Christmas tree. … Let’s not have a 1_____ meal. We don’t want to waste food. And this year, we won’t have a Christmas tree. Let’s make a tree from old 2_____. Maybe we can 3_____ a tree on the wall. How about using the 4_____ in the living room But we’ll wrap the gifts in 5_____ newspapers. big boxes draw big plant old Listen to the conversation and complete the ideas. Then match the ideas to the people. 3 Let’s n ... ...
