2019-2020学年度第39期总第792期
New rules for garbage (P2)
湖南宁乡市第一中学 何凡招

Lead-in

What can you see in the pictures?
 
 
 
Garbage

1. What is garbage?
Waste such as food, paper that we throw away

2. Where is it from?
Waste is produced in our lives.
Waste is produced in making goods in factories.

3. How can we deal with garbage?
Here we have new rules for garbage!

Fast-reading

Read the text quickly and choose the main idea.
A. Garbage-sorting is very important for the nature.
B. Mandatory garbage-sorting is carried out in many cities in China.
C. Garbage-sorting is still a big problem in China.

Find out the main idea of each part.
 

Reading for details

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What are the four categories of household waste?
2. What has been done in Beijing to promote garbage-sorting?
3. Find out the facts mentioned in the text about good garbage-sorting practices in other cities.
4. Why is garbage-sorting still a big problem in China?
5. What do the Japanese do to deal with garbage?

1. What are the four categories of household waste?
They are kitchen, recyclable, hazardous and other waste.

2. What has been done in Beijing to promote garbage-sorting?
1) Mandatory garbage-sorting has been carried out.
2) Online guidelines have been launched to instruct residents in garbage-sorting.
3) Incentives have been introduced to encourage residents to sort garbage.
4) New ways of reusing kitchen waste as fertilizer have been explored.

3. Find out the facts mentioned in the text about good garbage-sorting practices in other cities.
1) Garbage-sorting practices have reached over 70% of housing estates in 18 cities.
2) Shanghai has had a 90% compliance rate among its housing estates.
3) Shanghai’s daily amount of recyclable waste increased by 432.8% year on year in 2019.
4) Over 90% of the public believe that garbage-sorting is important for the protection of the environment.

4. Why is garbage-sorting still a big problem in China?
1) It’s partly because many people lack the willingness to sort their waste.
2) Also, some previous garbage regulations didn’t include fines for people who failed to comply.

5. What do the Japanese do to deal with garbage?
In Japan, there is a fixed time for the disposal of each kind of garbage and litter.

Post reading

What other good ideas do you have to promote garbage-sorting?
1. Launching a poster campaign.
2. Giving a lecture about it.
…

Language study (words)

1. fine 的一词多义
1) a fine holiday       好的   adj.
2) You will be fined 200 yuan.      处……以罚款   v.
3) pay a heavy fine                   罚款   n.
2. partly  部分地，在一定程度上  adv.
He was only partly responsible for the accident.
3. must
1) I must finish the task before dark.  必须 modal v.
2) Warm clothes are a must in the mountains.  必须做的事；必不可少的事物  n.

Language study (phrases)

中英文互译
1. 实行，执行
carry out
2. in efforts/an effort to do sth
努力做某事
3. under the new regulation
根据新法规
4. be required to do
被要求做……
5. fail to do sth
未能做某事；做某事失败
6. 为了做某事
in order to do sth
7. search for sth
搜寻……
8.根据……
according to
9. the willingness to do sth
做某事的意愿
10. a must
必不可少的的事 物；必须做的事
11. aside from
除……之外
12. sort … into …
把……分类

Language study (sentences)

1. If the three Rs is a guideline to save the planet, garbage-sorting is where the efforts start.
本句中包含一个if 引导的条件状语从句，还包含一个where 引导的表语从句。
2. People who fail to sort their garbage properly can be fined from 50 to 200 yuan.
本句中包含一个who 引导的定语从句。
3. Over 90% of the public believe that garbage-sorting is important for …
本句中包含一个that引导的宾语从句。
4. It’s partly because many people lack the ...
本句中包含一个because引导的表语从句。

Homework
以小组为单位写设计一份倡导垃圾分类的海报。