"You must do something to make the world more beautiful."
I would make the world more beautiful by...
当涂县第一中学 汪昌兵
Some ideas about designing tasks for my plan
Goals
Teacher role
TASKS
Input
Learner role
Activities Settings
The task is a piece of meaning-focused work
※ Exchanging personal information .
※ involving learners in comprehending , producing and interacting in the target language.
Content
Tasks
Goals
Evaluation
Content and tasks are developed in tandem so that content can suggest tasks and vice versa .There is a feedback loop so that the results of the evalution can be fed back into the curriculum planning process .
Make our world more beautiful
Step 1 Look at the pictures and make dialogues .
※ Introduction :
In this step you will do a role-play to have practice in spontaneous speaking .
※ Directions:
1. Work with a partner. Take turns acting out differnt characters .
2. Have one student littering or doing some other bad things and the other asks him or her to stop littering or to do something else.
※ Model :
A: Excuse me . Look at the sign over there , please . It says “No smoking here.” Could you stop smoking ?
B: Sorry , I didn’t see that .
Step 2 Interviews
※ Introduction :
In this step you will interview your partner some ideas about the environment .
Statements Right / Wrong Reasons
1.Every year we should plant more trees and flowers .
2.We can pick the beautiful flowers in parks .
3.Students may put waste paper in a wastebasket .
※ Directions:
1. Work with a partner. Take turns reading the statements to your partner .
2. Write down your friend’s answer “right” or “wrong” ,.
3. Ask him or her to explain the reason . 4.You can carve your name on a tree .
5.We can draw pictures on public walls .
6.We should put different rubbish into different dustbins .
7.We should not throw about waste batteries .
※ Introduction :
In this task you can describe the best and the worst environment to your partner .
Bad environment Good environment
dirty
Messy
smelly … clean
tidy …
※ Directions:
1. Ask three friends of yours to describe the worst and the best environment in some places which he or she has been to .
2. Write down the adjectives
※ Introduction :
In this task above your partner described the best and the worst environment. Do you like the environment of our hometown ? If you could live anywhere , what kind of hometown would you choose ? In this task , you are going to talk to your partner about your dreamy hometown .
There is a small but clean river running throught my partner’s dreamy hometown …
※ Directions:
1. Work with your partner .
2. Ask your partner about the environment of his or her dreamy hometown .
3. Write some of your partner’s ideas in the diagram .
Step 1 Reading
One day I was visiting one of my friends in a big town . Suddenly a piece of beautiful music came to my ears . My friend’s father quickly picked up some rubbish and went outside . I asked my friend, “ What’s happening ? My friend said that there was a truck collecting rubbish outside .
“Whenever someone throws in some rubbish , it produces a piece of music . As soon as other people hear it , they go out with their rubbish and throw it in .”
“It’s a pleasant way to help keep our city clean,” said my friend .
Step 2 Writing
Read the material above and fill in the gaps using a suitable form of the words in the story . There was a kind of truck _______ rubbish in my friend’s town . _______ someone throws in some rubbish , it produces a piece of ______ . As soon as _______people hear it , they go our with their _____ and throw it in .It’s a ______ way to help keep the city clean .
※ Introduction :
In this task you can discuss how you can do something good for the environment with your partner
Activities of Protecting Our Environment
Plant trees or flowers
Visit a factory
Hand out leaflets about protecting the environment
…
※ Directions:
1. Work with your partner .
2. Work out some activities and write them down .
※ Introduction :
In this task you must make a detailed plan and carry it out with some friends .
Model:
A Project Plan
Name : Green Action
Activity : Plant trees in People’s Park
Aim: To make our environment greener and more beautiful
Participants : David , Li Lei , Han Mei
Date : 7:50 a.m next Sunday (March 12 , 2004)
Place to meet : Our school gate
Things to take : 2 spades , 1 barrels , 4 saplings（树苗） , some ropes
※ Directions:
1. Work with your partner .
2. Pick out one activity you designed in task 1
3. Make a detailed plan with your friends .
4. As they are doing an activity to help the environment, have one of the students take pictures .
5. Write a report about the activity and paste the pictures on a large piece of paper .
Step 1 Reading
Taking care of our environment is very important . Wherever you live , you can do somethingaround your neighbourhood .
Have you ever thrown any litter onto the ground ? have you ever drawn pictures on public walls ? Have you ever spat in a public place ? Have you ever cut down trees ? If your answers are “No” , it means that you have already helped protect our environment .
It is our duty to keep our environment clean and tidy . You might ask yourself , “Have I ever picked up some rubbish and thrown it into a dustbin ? Have I ever collected waste paper or bottles for recycling ?
Have I ever planted any trees or flowers in or near my nighbourhood ?” If your answers are “Yes”, it means that you have already done something useful to improve the environment .
If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment , the world will become much more beautiful .
Step 2 Questionnaire
※ Introduction :
In this step you will interview your partner according to the questions in the text and you should give him or her some pieces of advice.
Actions Yes No
1. throw any litter onto the ground
2.draw pictures on public walls
3.spit in a public place
※ Directions:
1. Work with a partner.
2. Make a chart and write down the actions in the text
3. Ask your partern the question and tick “yes” or “no”.
4. Give him or her some pieces of advice according to your suvery.
5. Write a short report about your friend based on the questionnaire . 4.cut down trees
5.pick up some rubbish and throw it into a dustbin
6.collect waste paper or bottles for recycling
7.planted any trees or flowers
Your advice : My friend
※ is doing very well in protecting the environment
※ is doing OK in protecting the environment
※ needs to do better in protecting the environment
※ Introduction : Now that you should understand you must do something to make the world more beautiful . How can you help prevent pollution ,starting at home? Now you'll have a chance to create your own Home Pollution
Prevention Plan. If you've conducted the survey " Are
there any hazardous materials in my home?", you've
already identified potential hazardous products and
practices in your home.
※ Directions:
Complete these steps for the hazardous products that you identified
in your home survey.
Step 1
List the main ingredients（成分）for each of the products.
Step 2
Identify how your family presently disposes（处置）of each product.
Step 3
Try to find the code which shows how each product should be properly disposed of. ( Maybe a book with a name of "Best Way to Dispose of Products")
Step 4
Identify alternative products which may be used. Refer to the chart "Alternatives at Home".
Step 5
Discuss the results with your family. Then decide which action you and your family will take for each product. If your family is not already following the "best way to dispose" will you switch to this method or consider using an alternative（替换）product?
Home Pollution Prevention Plan
Kitchen
Product Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Ingredients
Present
Disposal
Method Best Way
To
Dispose Alternative
Product Pollution
Prevention
Plan
Oven
Cleaner
Window
Cleaner
Dishwasher Detergent
Furniture
Polish
Floor
Care
Cleaner
Sink
Cleaner
Other
Bathroom
Product
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Ingredients
Present
Disposal
Method Best Way
To
Dispose Alternative
Product Pollution
Prevention
Plan
Tub/Tile
Cleaner
Hair
Spray
Shampoo/
Conditioner
Drain
Cleaner
Toilet
Cleaner
Nail Polish
and
Remover
Other
Step 6
For each of the potentially (潜在的) harmful practices which you identified in My Home Survey of Hazardous Products and Practices, discuss with your family ways that you can eliminate（消除）them.
Pet Waste
Fertilizers on lawn and/or garden
Grass clippings, leaves, sticks/branches
Septic system
Storm drain
Step 7
Recycling Materials
Are you and your family recycling all possible materials?
In our previous activity, " Are there any hazardous materials in my home?", we asked you to verify the materials that your family recycles.
How does this list compare to what your community recommends?
Does your community allow you to recycle all the materials on your list, or are there materials that your community recycles that you are not currently recycling?
Be informed and become a better global citizen!
Which of the following materials does your family recycle?
____ newspaper
____ cardboard
____ white paper
____ plastic bags
____ _________ ____ aluminum cans
____ glass containers
____ tin cans
____ steel cans
____ _____________
By having a plan and checking your progress on it every month, you and your family should be able to make a difference in protecting the environment.
Mark your calendar for one month from today (date)_______________, to review your Home Pollution Prevention Plan with your family to see how you're doing.
Grammar : Talking about unique experiences
※ Introduction :
Have you ever done anything to harm the environment ? Have you ever done anything to improve the environment ? If so , let’s share your unique experience .In this task you will learn something new about your classmates . You will learn about interesting and unique experences they have had in the past .
※ Directions:
1. The teacher will list some words or phrases on the board . Each word or phrases describes a unique experience one of your classmates has had in the past . (Everyone should write down his or her unique experience and hand it in before the class .The teacher should divide the whole class into several groups .)
2. List these words or phrases in the chart below .
3. Try to find out which classmate has had each unique experience .
4. When you find the person who has had the experience , write his or her name in the chart below .
5. When you have finished filling out the chart , take it to your teacher .
※ Chart
Unique Experience Classmate’s Name
1 Carve my name on a bamboo David
2 Pick up waste batteries
3 … …
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
※ Model :
Your conversations with your classmates may follow the pattern below .
(Student 1 is trying to figure out who has carved his or her name on a bamboo .)
Student 1 : Have you ever carved your name on a bamboo ?
Student 2 : No , I haven’t .
Student 3 : I would never do anything like that .
Student 1 : What about you (talking to students 4) ? Have you ever carved your name on a bamboo ?
Student 4 : Yes, I have , but I was only 6 years old .
Bibliography
David Nunan , Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom
Carolyn Dirksen , Ph.D. and Melissa Smith , Ph.D , Educators’ English