Unit 11 grade 6: Our Greener World – Skills 1
1. Reading
Read the 3Rs Club poster about tips below, you will become “greener” (Read the 3R club poster for tips on how to live a greener life.)
3Rs Club (3R Club)
If you follow the tips below, you will become “greener” (If you follow the tips below, you will become more “green”.)
1. Talk to teachers at school about puttingrecycling bins in every classroom
2. Reuse your plastic bags.
3. Use refillable pens and pencils
4. Use reuseable water bottles instead of plastic ones.
5. Give last year’s clothes to charity instead of throwing them away.
6. Swap your clothes with your friends or cousins.
7. Grow your own vegetables.
8. Turn the tap off when you brush your teethor wash the dishes.
9. Walk more.
10. Find creative ways to reuse old items before throwing them away.
Translated:
1. Talk to teachers at school about placing recycling bins in every classroom.
2. Reuse plastic bags.
3. Use refillable pencils and pens.
4. Use reusable bottles instead of plastic bottles.
5. Give your old year’s clothes to charity instead of throwing them away.
6. Exchange your clothes with friends or cousins.
7. Grow your own vegetables.
8. Turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth or wash the dishes.
9. Walk more.
10. Find creative ways to reuse old things before throwing them away.
1.1. Task 1 Unit 11 grade 6
Find these words or phrases in the text and underline them. (Find words or phrases in the text and underline them.)
Translated:
1. recycling bins: recycle bins
4. reusable: can be reused
5. charity: charity
6. swap: exchange
10. creative: creative
1.2. Task 2 Unit 11 grade 6
Match the words with their meanings. (Match the words with their meanings.)
Guide to answer
1 – E 2 – D 3 – A 4 – B 5 – C
Translated:
1. creative – unique and interesting
2. charity – giving everything to those in need
3. exchange – give something to a person and receive something from him/her
4. Reusable – can be reused
5. recycling bin – container for things that can be recycled
1.3. Task 3 Unit 11 grade 6
Answer the questions. (Answer the following questions)
1. What will you try to put in every classroom? (What would you try to put in each class?)
2. What can you do with your old clothes? (What can you do with old clothes?)
3. What kind of pens and pencils should you use?
(What kind of pencils and pens should you use?)
4. How can you save water? (What can you do to save water?)
5. If you bring water bottles to a picnic, what type of bottles should you bring?
(If you bring a water bottle to a picnic, which one should you bring?)
Guide to answer
1. Recycling bins (Recycle bin)
2. Give the old clothes to charity instead of throwing them away.
(Give your old clothes to charity instead of throwing them away.)
3. Reflllable pens and pencils (Pencils and pens are refillable for reuse)
4. Turn off the tap when brush the teeth and wash the dishes
(Turn off the faucet when brushing teeth and washing dishes)
5. Reusable water bottles (Reusable water bottle)
2. Speaking
2.1. Task 4 Unit 11 grade 6
Work in groups. (Work in team.)
Do you think you can follow the tips for ‘going green’ ? Discuss with your group and put the tips in order from the easiest to the most difficult. (Do you think you can follow the tips for “going green”? Discuss with your group and arrange the tips in order from easiest to most difficult.)
Guide to answer
– Lower using nylon (Reduce the use of nylon)
– Plant many green trees (Plant more trees)
– Save water, save electricity (Save water, save electricity)
– Conserve wild animals,… (Wildlife protection)
– Don’t litter indiscriminately (Put garbage in the right place)
2.2. Task 5 Unit 11 grade 6
The last tip tells you to find creative ways to reuse items before throwing them away. Can you think of any creative ways to reuse: (The last tip shows you creative ways to reuse objects before throwing them away. Can you think of any other creative ways to reuse objects?)
a. old envelopes? (old envelope?)
b. used water bottles? (used bottles?)
c. used books? (used book?)
Guide to answer
a. We can use old envelopes as our wallets
(We can use the old envelope as our wallet)
b. We can decorate used water bottles into flower vases
(We can decorate used bottles into flowerpots)
c. We can use used books to wrap food instead of plastic bags.
(we can use used books to pack food instead of plastic bags)
3. Practice Task 1
Read the passage below and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE?
Good morning, I’m Alex. And today I will talk about recycling. Recycling has a lot of advantages. First, it saves the environment. Instead of cutting more trees to produce paper, we can use recycled papers. Second, recycling also saves energy. Thirdly, recycling helps reduce global warming and reduce pollution. Finally, recycling helps saving money. Recycled articles cost less than new ones. In conclusion, using recycled product is environment-friendly and money-saving. Therefore, we should put plastic bottles in recycling bins and buy recycled products.
Question 1: Recycling has a lot of benefits.
Question 2: The first reason is recycling preserves the environment.
Question 3: Recycling wastes energy.
Question 4: Recycling pollutes the environment.
Question 5: Recycling is both environment-friendly and money-saving.
4. Practice Task 2
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to answer these following questions
Glass is a wonderful substance. It can be recycled over and over again. The good thing about glass recycling is that the glass its quality. Imagine how many bottles of soda, juice and glass jars are used daily. If we simply throw them away, the environment will suffer greatly. There are many advantages of glass recycling. The first thing is that glass recycling reduces industrial pollution. Reducing industrial pollution benefits not only the environment but also the entire ecosystem. Another benefit is the recycling of glass conserves natural resources. Recycling glass saves on the need to obtain more materials to make new glass; therefore, they save existing natural resources.
Question 1: Can glass be recycled many times?
A. Yes, it can
B. Yes, it will
C. No, it can’t
D. No, it won’t
Question 2: What is the good point of glass recycling?
A. The glass its quality
B. The glass breaks
C. The glass disappears
D. The glass reduced its quality
Question 3: What are the advantages of glass recycling?
A. It reduces industrial pollution
B. It conserves natural resources
C. It is convenient
D. Both A&B
Question 4: What does reducing industrial pollution benefit?
A. both the environment and ecosystem
B. either the environment or ecosystem
C. neither the environment nor ecosystem
D. whether the environment or ecosystem
Question 5: Why does recycle glass save existing natural resources?
A. Because it saves materials.
B. Because it saves new glass.
C. Because it saves environment.
D. Because it saves recycling glass.
5. Conclusion
At the end of the lesson, students need to practice reading about the “green living” secrets of the 3R Club and doing related exercises, practicing giving other “green living” tips as well as giving ways to go green. reuse old objects instead of throwing them away; At the same time, memorize the words in the lesson:
- recycle bin: recycle bin
- refillable (adj): refillable
- water bottle: water bottle
- charity (n): charity
- throw away: throw away
- swap (v): exchange
- turn off: turn off
- litter (v): litter
- indiscriminately (adv): indiscriminately
- conserve (v): protect, preserve
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