1、Unit 8 Environment ClubsLesson 44 What do you do when you see somebody throwing garbage on the ground?Does your school have an environment club?Are you a member of an environment club?What can you do to protect our environment?Environment clubs No-garbage lunches.Environment clubs encourage students
2、 to bring their lunches in reusable bags and dishes.No-car day.On a no-car day,nobody comes to school in a carnot the students and not the teachers!Bring your own shopping bag!Environment clubs encourage students to bring their own bags when go shopping.Environment clubs Save water!In environment cl
3、ubs,students fix leaky toilets and sinks.Save electricity!The environment club asks students to turn off the lights,the television and the computer when they leave a room.Words&expressionsListen and read.In North America,many students join environment clubs.In an environment club,students work toget
4、her to reduce pollution andprotect the environment.The following is a list of their activities and advice.No-garbage lunches:How much garbage do you throw away after lunch?Environmentclubs encourage students to bring their lunches in reusable bags and dishes.The class with the least garbage gets a p
5、rize.No-car days:On a no-car day,nobody comes to school in a car neither the students nor the teachers!Cars pollute our air,so remember:Walk,skip,bike or run.Use your legs!Its lots of fun!Bring your own shopping bag!Bring your own bag when you go shopping.Its a good way to reduce packaging.Save wate
6、r!Did you know that a leaky toilet can waste 20 to 40 litres of water an hour?In a year,that would fill a large swimming pool!In environment clubs,students fix leaky toilets and sinks.Save electricity!Turn off the lights when you leave a room.Turn off the television and shut down the computer when y
7、ou are not using them.Language points1.How much garbage do you throw away after lunch?午饭后你们扔掉多少垃圾？午饭后你们扔掉多少垃圾？throw away意思是意思是“扔掉扔掉，丢弃；浪费或者错丢弃；浪费或者错过过（机会、优势或好处）机会、优势或好处）”。例如：例如：I never throw anything away.我从来不扔任何东西。我从来不扔任何东西。He threw away the old sofa.他把旧沙发扔掉了。他把旧沙发扔掉了。Dont throw away this opportuni
8、ty.不要错过这个机会。不要错过这个机会。2.The class with the least garbage gets a prize.扔掉垃圾最少的班级会获得奖励。扔掉垃圾最少的班级会获得奖励。with the least garbage为介词短语作后为介词短语作后置置定语定语修饰修饰 the class。get a prize怠思是怠思是“获得奖励获得奖励”。3.Did you know that a leaky toilet can waste 20 to 40 litres of water an hour?你知道一个漏水你知道一个漏水的马桶一小时会浪费的马桶一小时会浪费20到到40
9、 公升水吗？公升水吗？waste可作动词、形容词、名词，意思是可作动词、形容词、名词，意思是“浪浪 费；费；浪费的；废物浪费的；废物”。例如：例如：Dont throw the waste paper about.别别到处乱扔废纸。到处乱扔废纸。（形容词）（形容词）They have wasted a lot of money.他们浪费了很多钱。他们浪费了很多钱。（动词（动词）A lot of waste from the factory goes into the river.那家工厂的许多废物被排放到河里那家工厂的许多废物被排放到河里。（名词（名词）4.Turn off the telev
10、ision and shut down the computer when you are not using them.当你不用电当你不用电 视或电脑时，关掉它们。视或电脑时，关掉它们。shut down意思是意思是“完全关闭；停工；停下完全关闭；停工；停下”。例如：例如：The restaurant shut down last year.这家饭店去年倒闭了。这家饭店去年倒闭了。But the company shut down in 1995.但这家公司在但这家公司在 1995年关闭了。年关闭了。Read the lesson and answer the questions.Lets
11、Do It!1 11.Why do many students join environment clubs in North America?Because they want to reduce pollution and protect the environment.2.Why do the students take their own bags when they go shopping?Its a good way to reduce packaging.3.How do the students in an environment club save water?How do
12、they save electricity?They fix leaky toilets and sinks.Turn off the lights when they leave a room.Turn off televisions and shut down computers when they are not using them.1.The soap factory _ the drinking water in this area.2.Students should not _ paper.3._knows when life on the earth started.4.He
13、who talks the most knows the _.5.I couldnt _ the window because it was stuck.Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.2 2waste least nobody shut pollutepollutedwasteNobody leastshut In some countries of the world,people have started to reduce the amount of garbage they make.
14、How?First,they buy _ things.They try to buy only what they really need.When you buy fewer things,you throw away fewer things.Second,they reuse things.Read the passage and fill in the blanks.3 3fewerThey use things,and then they use them again!Third,they recycle things.They make old things into new t
15、hings.People call these the“three Rs”:reduce,_and _.The three Rs help us rememberthat _ is a problemreuse recycle pollutionthrow awayshut down 扔掉扔掉关闭；停下关闭；停下Exercise1.A lot of _ from that factory goes into the river.2.We should work together to make our _ clean.3.They _ all of rubbish into paper,pla
16、stic,metal,glass and others.sorted，reuse，environment，least，wasteFill in each blank with the proper word from the list.wasteenvironmentsorted4.A bike makes the _ pollution of all types of transportation.5.We can make waste things into new things.We can _ our plastic,too.sorted，reuse，environment，least
17、，wasteleastreuse1.Students should _the garbage in the school yard and put it into the dustbin.2.Wed better _ the dirty parts of the glass before our mum comes back.3.You are silly to _ this wonderful chance.4.We should _ the tap while cleaning your teeth.Fill in each blank with the expression from the list.pick up，throw away，turn off,clean uppick up clean up throw away turn off Suppose your schools environment club wants to make a poster about littering and recycling.Can you make one?Homework
