Taught by Yang Yuqian

Teaching aims:

1. To provide students with some information about the relationship between human beings and nature and help them understand the passage.

2. To help students form some ideas for a debate after reading the passage and encourage them to complete the project.

3. To develop students cooperation skills and improve their spoken English by doing the project.

4. To raise students’ awareness of the importance of protecting nature.

Teaching focuses:

1. To help students understand the article by doing some tasks

2. To encourage all the students to get involved in the debate.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Lead in

Get students to enjoy a flash about environmental protection.

Step 2. Analyze the title

Get students to pay attention to the word “versus” in the title.

Step 3. Fast reading

Get students to go through the passage quickly and answer two questions.

Step 4. Detailed reading

1) Paragraph 1

Get students to report the ways people overdevelop Earth’s resources, and to find out the consequence of these actions.

2) Paragraph 2

Get students to fill in the form to realize the different attitudes towards the problem..

3) Paragraph 3

Get students to do the True or False exercises to understand paragraph3.

4) Paragraph 4

Get students to choose the best choice about the main idea of the paragraph.

Step 5. Summary

Get students to fill in the blanks according to the passage to have a better understanding of the passage

Step 6 Have a debate

Get the groups to come together to debate their topic in front of the class.

Step 7 Assignment

1. Read the passage at least three times and then underline the phrases and sentences you consider important

2. Finish the exercise on page 71 in KKL.