Teaching aims:
1.To learn words related to the environment.
2.To learn some compound nouns relevant to the environment.
3.To enlarge students vocabulary beginning with 'eco'
.Important and difficult points:
To focus on some compound nouns and phrases that are used to talk about the environment.and problems associated with it.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead in
Ask the following questions:
Who do ecotourists refer to?
What are they interested in?
What type of energy does the hotel Ecoville use?
How does the hotel wash the sheets?
What other features does the environmentally friendly hotel have?
Step 2 Vocabulary learning
1. Ask the students to read the instructions on page 26 so that they understand what kind of vocabulary they will learn in this section.
2. Ask students to look at Part A, Students will read a brochure about an environmentally friendly hotel. First ask students to look at the photo. Then ask the following questions:
Do you think this looks like an environmentally friendly hotel ?
Does it look like the picture you had in your head of an environmentally friendly hotel ?
Which parts do not look like the picture you had in your head?
3. Then ask students to read the introduction. Ask them the following questions to check understanding:
According to the brochure, what kind of tourists will be particularly interested in this hotel?
What are the characteristics of Ecoville?
4. Ask students to describe the pictures in part B.
5. Write the following words on the blackboard and asks students to explain the meanings in simple English.
Clear-cut logging opencast mining slash and burn farming ozone layer acid rain global warming
6 Ask students to match the pictures with the phrases. If time permits, ask them to discuss the negative results of each of these things. After that, check the answers as a class .
Step 3 Vocabulary extension
1 Ask students to focus on Part C on page 27. Ask students to complete the exercise first, and then ask several students to each read a sentence. Check for mistakes and mispronunciation.
2.Ask the following questions to check students’ understanding of the passage.
Who thought of the idea to build an environmentally friendly hotel?
What made him decide to build this type of hotel?
Where did he get his inspiration?
What are the differences between Ecoville and other hotels?
3. Ask students to think of as many words as possible beginning with “eco-”.
Eg. eco-activity eco-friendly ecodevelopment ecology eco-disaster eco-tourism
Step 4 Homework
Ask students to first complete the note in Part A on page 104 in Workbook,