Teaching aims:

1. Read a feature story about the importance of sustainable development and some particular forms of renewable energy.

2. Help students use what they have leant to finish a project by working together.

Important points & difficult points:

Teach them how to write a passage using what they learnt.

Teaching Methods:

Analyze and use.

Teaching Aids:

1. The multimedia

2. The blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Show pictures to lead in.

1. In order to improve people’s lives and to reduce poverty, it is important for countries to develop. However, sometimes development can be bad for a country and can do more harm than good. In order to avoid this, the idea of sustainable development has been introduced.

Do you know some particular forms of renewable energy?

2. 北京排水集團污水處理廠將實現城市污水處理率90%、再生水回用率50%.

Water is invaluable and important resource for human being, people can not live without water, but it is said that only 1.5/millionth of the water existing on earth has been utilized for mankind.

Step 2 Part A

1. Read a feature story on Page 14, focus on the title first and discuss the questions.

●What is the gift for the future?

● What do you think we can give for the future?

2. Skimming

Skim the article and find the main idea of this article and how it is organized.

title (A gift for the future)

(paras1~3) importance of sustainable development

(paras4~10) sources of energy including fossil fuels and renewable energy

3. Read the article carefully and complete the exercises below.

(1)Answer the following questions.

1) What do you think of development in the past?

---It polluted the environment and wasted natural resources.

2) Compared to development in the past, what are the advantages of sustainable development?

---It is long-term planning which focus on the environment and preserving natural resources. It is all about creating better health care, education, housing and improved standards of living for everyone.

3) What might happen in the future to the current sources of energy?

--- Our future and the lives of our children and grandchildren will be in danger. There will be an increase in pollution, global warning and acid rain.

(2). Fill in the chart, please.

Forms of energy What we can do with the energy Advantages

Step 3 Part B Reporting on sustainable development

Discuss the following questions in groups of four the write a report.

1. What is sustainable development?

2. Why is it important to look after the environment?

3. Why should we use renewable energy?

4. What areas of sustainable development will you research ( recycling, reforestation, pollution control, etc.)?

5. Where can you get information on the areas sustainable development you will research?

6. Who will you interview? Who will conduct the interviews?

7. Who will write the report?

8. Who will present the report to the class?

Homework:

1. Review new words and expressions in this unit.

2. Finish the exercises in Wb.