Steps

Students’ Activities

Teachers’ Activities

Purpose

Step1 Lead in

1. Show a video about the World Observe and Food Waste;

2. Lead students to predict what’s the passage about.

1. Watch the video;

2. Try to guess the main idea of the passage by connecting the video with the title.

To improve students’ ability to predict the main idea with some background information.

Step2 Pre-reading

1. Lead students to guess the meaning of the new words by reading the sentences before and after it.

1. Read the passage and try to match the new words with the meanings.

To develop students’ ability to guess the new words’ meaning and learn some new words.

Step3 While-reading

1. Lead students to read the passage quickly and find the main idea of each paragraph;

2. Lead students to read the passage in details and get some certain information;

3. Lead students to read the passage again and draw a mind-map to show the main idea of the passage.

1. Students read the passage quickly to find the topic sentence of each paragraph, then talk about the main idea of each paragraph;

2. Students read the passage again and answer the questions;

3. Students draw a mind-map of the passage.

1. To improve students’ ability of skimming and scanning;

2. To develop students’ ability of summarizing.

Step4 After reading

1. Teacher asks the students to read the opinions of some students,and lead students to show their ideas.

1. Students read the opinions of some students,and discuss in groups to show their own ideas. Then make a conversation in groups to express their opinions.

1. To improve students’ spoken English and encourage students to share their ideas in English bravely and correctly.

Homework

Encourage students to make a poster of reducing the food waste

Make a poster to tell people the importance of reducing food waste.