Q1 ： Do you get pocket money from your parents?

Q2:What things do you like to spend money on ?

How about buying a tree instead?

Your can have so much effect?

Read the text ( P12 )

Yes

All this started with 5 yuan

When Less Is MoreWhen Less Is More

?Try to guess: What do you think will be talked about in the text?

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Look at the titles and pictures.Read the paragraph in italics. ( 斜体字段落 )

Task 2: Fast reading

Read the text fast and

match the topics with each

paragraph.

Task 2: Fast reading

Read the text fast and

match the topics with each

paragraph.

Reading

a. A successful tree-planting programme and the importance

of your 5 yuan.

b. Everybody plays an important role in stopping Yellow River erosion.

c. It is a huge job to control Yellow River erosion.

d. It tells us the cause of Yellow River erosion and bad effects.

Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 4

1. Which river is being talked about in the text?

Task 3 : Read and listen to the passage. Answer the questions in Ex.4 on P12.

The Yellow River

2. What’ s the problem with the Yellow River?

1. Every year, about

___ billion tons of

sand flows into the

Yellow River.

2. Over time, the

removal of sand

has caused serious

__________.

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soil erosion

3. In which area has soil erosion almost destroyed farming land?

In some areas in Shanxi Province

4. What can people do to help stop soil erosion?

Plant trees

5. Why does the writer say 5 yuan is

important?

Why?

Because we can use it to buy a tree, which helps prevent erosion.

6. Which example is given to show that 5

yuan can help to develop a local economy?

Jiuchengong Valley

Some information about Jiiuchengong Valley

　 内蒙古九成功村于 1997 年被列入黄河中上地重点流域治理和 98 年生态重点治理流域。经几年治理，推广植树计划后，原来 12.8 平方公的五荒地变成了“林草繁茂有山正绿，沟渠打坝水皆清，种植、养殖兴旺发展，人与自然和谐荣”的生态园。在这个优雅环境里，庄园外观朴，内设舒适典雅，游人在这可垂钓、采摘鲜娱乐休闲度假，同时体会东胜人民战胜恶劣生环境的毅力，尽情领略大自然的风光。　 •

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7.Do you know the meaning of the title “when less is more” ??

Chinese is also ok!

积少成多according to the text

1. With the money of selling trees ,

farmers can buy goods or services.

2. Jiuchengong Valley has been

changed into a green homeland.

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Task 4 : Decide True, False, or

No Information ( NI )

3. Now government has taken

measures to make everyone buy a

young tree with 5 yuan.

4. Five yuan is too little, you can give

more money to plant more trees.

5. Planting more trees reduces soil

erosion and makes soil stay on the

land.

T

NI

F

Task 5: Vocabulary learning

approximately, soil, contain,

remove, erosion, view, crops,

puzzled

Read these words together

Find out in which line each word is and match them with their meanings. ( 根据句子语境猜词 )

Match the words with their meanings. 1. about 2. Plants such as wheat, rice or fruit grown by farmers 3. being worn away by water, wind or sand. 4. Unable to understand sth. 5. opinion 6. Have something inside 7. The top part of the earth in which plants grow 8. Take something away from the place

approximately

crops

erosion

puzzled

contain

view

soil

remove

Post-reading: Consolidation of the text Close your books and fill in the blanks.

Beginning:

Showing a question

-- What can you do with 5 yuan?

-- ____ ____ ____ along the banks of the Yellow River.

Para. 1: Explaining the reason for doing this

Erosion of the land along Yellow River is serious and it has forced ____ ____ to leave their homeland.

Para. 2: Who should be responsible for controlling Yellow River erosion?

Government, international organisations and___________

of us.

Buy a tree

Local farmers

everyone

Post-reading: Consolidation of the text Close your books and fill in the blanks.

Para. 3:

Your role in stopping

Yellow River erosion

Buy a tree→Help soil

______ on the land →

Farmers can grow

crops → Develop local

economies.

Para. 4:

The effect your 5 yuan

can have

Create a _____ _____

for our motherland.

stay

green future

Voice your opinion: How to use pocket money in a more meaningful way?

a charity

forest plantation

the disabled Hope Project

home for the aged beggars

Orphanage( 孤儿院 ) hospital

Homework: writing ----an environmental report

Make a survey about the local environment you live in. And think about what you and your friends can do to improve it?