How to incorporate environmental education into high school English vocabulary teaching

With the improvement of people’s living standards, the awareness of green and environmental protection has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people. As an English teacher, how to organically combine environmental education and English teaching in teaching is an important and necessary task. Indispensable work. To this end, I have consulted many other people's advanced examples and scientific practices and implemented them into my education and teaching work. This article is transferred from Feifei Courseware Park. Now, let me talk about some of my views, practices and experiences about this job:

1. Integrate environmental education into the classroom before class

When I see the students in the classroom full of When students turn a blind eye or don't care about the garbage on the ground, I often tell them some short stories about environmental protection. For example: When some foreigners picked up rubbish on the Great Wall, the Chinese turned a blind eye and laughed at them: They are sick! "Who is ill?"; summer camp activity, when Chinese students stayed in a hotel in Las Vegas, the United States, they were kicked out because of the loud noise and disturbing others. Apart from being sad, I lament our lack of environmental awareness. I also often find some environmentally friendly posters or ask students to make some self-made posters and place them in various places on campus. Such as "Don't touch the machines!" "Don't walk on the grass." "Don't play balls on the grass." At the same time, the students were asked, "Let's throw refuse far away! (Let the garbage stay away from us!) Students gradually realize the importance of environmental protection, establish environmental awareness, care for the environment, and protect the home where we study.

2. Integrate environmental protection education into classroom teaching.

Integrate environmental protection education into classroom teaching. In English classroom teaching, students can understand the importance of environmental protection from multiple aspects, levels, and angles, so that "environmental protection" can take root in students' hearts and truly implement it in action.

(1) Learn vocabulary and also learn environmental protection

Vocabulary teaching is one of the important components of English teaching, so in the lower grades I focus on integrating environmental education into vocabulary teaching, such as teaching New Standard English III. In the first module of the third volume at the beginning of the grade, animal words such as panda, tiger, elephant, monkey, etc. appeared. I let the students understand that the panda is our national treasure, and it is a rare animal that only exists in China. , elephants and other endangered animals, countries around the world have taken effective measures to protect them. From these vocabulary teachings, students can be educated to care for animals and protect the ecological environment.

(2) Learning sentences also teaches environmental protection.

In primary school English textbooks, sentence teaching occupies an extremely important position. For middle and senior grades, I pay special attention to incorporating the content of environmental education into sentence teaching. For example, I teach New Standard English for Grade 3 Starting Point 8. In the first module of the book, Don't touch the machines!" "Don't walk on the grass." "Don't play balls on the grass." "Don't feed the ducks." "Don't feed the pandas." I designed a self-made campus sign to see who could do it best and promote the most appropriate activities. The students were enthusiastic about doing it and publicized it seriously and timely (the campus was under construction at the time). In this way, environmental protection knowledge was spread Integrate harmoniously into the English class. The students unknowingly learned English and mastered environmental protection knowledge.

(3) Integrate teaching materials, use them flexibly, and use poems and children’s songs to infiltrate environmental education

Poems and children’s songs also play a major role in primary school English textbooks. These teaching contents are profound. Popular with primary school students.

For example, when teaching numerals, I used such a small poem: One, two, three,/It's a tree./Four, five, six,/Pick up the sticks. This time, I used this small poem to guide students to know that trees give The benefits brought by the human environment, not cutting down trees indiscriminately, and preventing land desertification, thus posing a question to students: How to plant a tree? (How to plant a tree?) Students work hard to find the answer, and they can plant trees and flowers by themselves, so that Environmental protection is implemented through action.

(4) Integrating environmental education into extracurricular homework

In addition to consolidating the knowledge learned, extracurricular exercises can also be designed to incorporate environmental education. For example, for innovative assignments during the May Day and National Day holidays, I often design several units of word combination training, requiring these words to be placed in a picture, such as reviewing bird, sky, boat, plane, girl, boy and other words. At the time, I asked the students to carefully observe, design and color the pictures: green trees and mountains in the distance, rippling clear water nearby; people were picnicking on the beach, and people were swimming freely in the water; in the sky, children were trying to fly kites and Model aircraft. What a harmonious picture of people and animals, people and plants, people and nature! Guide students to analyze such pictures, so that students can yearn for the beautiful scenery where man and nature are in harmony. The emergence of this kind of consciousness and emotion is exactly what we need in environmental education.

3. Integrate environmental education into extracurricular activities

Extracurricular English activities are an extension of classroom teaching, which can put English knowledge into practice, so that students can learn by playing and have fun while learning. , which not only enhances the interest in learning English, but also cultivates students' environmental awareness. For example, fifth and sixth grade students can combine the book knowledge they have learned to make English environmental protection slogans for campus flower beds and lawns: Don 't harm the flowers and trees! (Don't climb and break flowers and trees!) Don't walk on the grass! (Don't step on the grass)! This article in the room is reproduced from Fei. Fei Courseware. Park FFKJ.Net can be posted: Keep clean! (Keep clean!) Be quiet! (Keep quiet!) No spitting! (No spitting!) Don't throw paper! ( Don’t throw away confetti! ) and other English slogans. Enable students to use middle school English and learn environmental protection knowledge while learning English, start from small things, care for the environment, and protect the ecology.

In short, environmental pollution is a global problem that cannot be solved by one person. It requires the attention of all mankind. As primary school English teachers, it is our unshirkable responsibility to strengthen the education of students' environmental awareness in the teaching process (this article comes from the excellent educational resource network Fei. Fei. Course. File. Park). We should transform "examination-oriented education" into "quality education", integrate environmental education into English teaching, and contribute to the development of environmental education in our country and even around the world.