Teaching procedures: Pre-reading

Leading-in

* (Listen to an English song and Greet class)

* To show a picture and a famous saying from Francis Bacon(British Philosopher): Money is a good servant and a bad master.(金钱是善仆，也是恶主).And explain it to the stusents.

* To ask students two questions.

Q1:How much money do you get from their parents each month?

Q2:What things do you like to spend money on? (Ask several students to answer.)

* Draw into the title Your Money through Q3.

Q3 :What can 5 yuan help to do?

Background

* Show students two pictures of the Yellow River and Question5.

Q4: The water is not clear, why? Ask students to have a guess on it.

* Watch a short video and two pictures of the Yellow River,which can help them to find the answer of Q4.(Answer:soil erosion)

* Ask students to think about Question6.

Q5:What can people do to help stop soil erosion?