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课件网) Unit 4 Time to celebrate Period Five Developing ideas Listening and Speaking 外研版七年级上册 Teaching Objectives listen and speak ways of celebrating Christmas and related pollution and understand the concepts of fact and opinion. use some expressions to agree or disagree an idea, and discuss old and new ways of celebrating Christmas with adverbs of frequency. reflect on traditional celebrations, discuss their usual ways of celebrating, and explore new ways of celebration. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: What festival is it Engagement How do people in the West usually celebrate Christmas put up a Christmas tree give each other gifts have a large meal 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. Engagement Task 1: Listen to the news and choose the topic. a People shouldn't celebrate Christmas. b Christmas could bring waste and pollution. c All festivals create environmental problems. Explanation Tip: Before you are listening, circle the key words. What’s the listening material about Explanation / / for more / / problem along / / talk short call board / / because clock what watch Explanation throw away 120 buying think green Number: hundred/thousand/million waste: materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away pollution: the process of making air, water, soil dirty /we st/ /p lu n/ What kind of waste could Christmas bring Task 2: Complete the poster. about 365,000 Exploration throw away 120 buying think green F F F F O O Support Learning to learn A fact is true for everyone. An opinion is an idea about something. When giving opinions, people often use facts to support them. about 365,000 Are they facts or opinions Welcome to News Today. Christmas is coming. It will bring joy, but also waste and pollution. In the UK, for example, people use about 365,000 kilometres of paper for gifts during the festival. There's also a waste of food. People throw away millions of turkeys each year. And they cut down nearly 120 million trees to use as Christmas trees. But after Christmas, they often throw the trees away. People 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. Tapescript Facts: figure Opinions: sb. think(s) Exploration Group discussion: What’s the features of facts and opinions Welcome to News Today. Christmas is coming. It will bring joy, but also waste and pollution. In the UK, for example, people use about 365,000 kilometres of paper for gifts during the festival. There's also a waste of food. People throw away millions of turkeys each year. And they cut down nearly 120 million trees to use as Christmas trees. But after Christmas, they often throw the trees away. People are buying plastic Christmas trees, but they can cause p ... ...
