第2/707期初一课件

作者：李玉华

Warm up

What are you going to do with the third apple?

Imagine you have 3 apples. You eat 2. The third goes rotten. What do you do?

1. Throw it away.

2. Give it to someone else.

3. ?

 

One-third of the world's food production is lost or wasted each eyar. That’s about 1.3 billion tons of food.

 

Why should we save food?

1. To feed hungry people

2. To prevent waste

3. To save natural resources

 

Pre-reading

What ways do you know to save food?

Clear your plate.

Take no more food than you need.

Take leftovers home.

 

How does a tomato come to your table?

plant   transport   SELL

It takes a lot of time, energy and natural resources.

We should respect food. How do we do so?

 

While reading

Put the numbers in the correct blanks.

15,  1.3,  760,000,  820,  35

 

1. In China, people waste _____ million tons of food each year. 

2. _____ million people are living in hunger today.

3. Every year, the world wastes _____ billion tons (吨) of food.

4. Every 100 kilometers of travel takes about _____ liters of fuel.

5. In five years, China’s first food bank saved 7 million tons of food and helped ______ people.

 

While reading

Read and check the sentences to see if they are true or false.

1. If a whole school starts to save food in their cafeteria (食堂), there won’t be  a big change.

2. The world wastes one-fourth of all the food we make each year.

 

(Paras 2 and 4 in the first part)

Read and answer the questions.

1. Why is wasting food bad for the environment?

Because it creates greenhouse gases.

Wasting food also creates greenhouse gases. So food waste is also bad for the environment.（Para 1 of Part 2）

 

Read and answer the questions.

2.What is ugly food?

Food that does not look good to eat and is sometimes not sold in stores.

Many fruits and vegetables go to waste because they look ugly (丑的). For example, about 25 to 30 percent of carrots don’t make it to the store because of their looks, the UN said. （Para 2 of Part 3.）

 

Read and answer the questions.

2. According to the “N-1” formula, how many dishes should be ordered if nine people go to a restaurant?

Eight dishes should be ordered.

Many Chinese restaurants are telling people to order dishes by using the “N-1” formula (公式). “N” stands for the number of people in your group. So if you’re in a group of six people, you should order five dishes.（Para 3 of Part 3.）

 

Post-reading

What should we do to help?

we need to think twice when we put something in our shopping trolley, and when we're at home we should make the most of the food we have – using recipes that use up our leftovers or even sharing our excess food with our friends and neighbours.

 

Words in use

Completion. Complete the sentences using the words in the box.

feed   change  waste  environment   respect

1.I think there will be a big ________ in the results!

2. It is not an easy thing to _______all the people in the world.

3. I want them to ________ me as a coworker.

4. Don’t  _____ your time on meaningless things.

5. It is our responsibility to protect the _________.

change  feed   respect   waste   environment

 

Homework:

Writing: What can we do to save food?

Wasting food is wasting life