1. Reading

3. How to save water in the home
By thinking carefully about how much water you use at home and changing some water-wasting habits, it is easy to save water.
★ Wash vegetables and fruit in a bowl rather
than under a running tap, and use the leftover water for watering house plants.
★ Take shorter showers. Shorter showers will not only save water but also reduce your water heating costs.

4. ★ Put your cotton wool and tissues in a waste bin rather than flush them down the toilet.
★ A dripping tap can waste up to 4 litres of water a day. Replace broken tap washers for a quick and cheap way of saving water.

5. ★ Wash with a full load（满载）.Make sure
you use your washing machine correctly and
that you adjust （调节） the water level to
suit the size of your load, or better wait until
you have a full load. Do you know any other
ways to save water in the home?

6. Water Reading: Water talks We can't live without water. Getting ready
After you have a PE class, what do you
need most?
Water
We can't live without water.
Without water,
animals and plants can't live.

7. A What do you know about…?
Try this quiz about water.
1. You can live without water for a few
a. hours b. days c. weeks
2. When you exercise, you need water.
a. more b. less c. no
3. Water covers about of the Earth.
a. one third b. one half c. two thirds
4. About of the water on Earth is “fresh” or without salt.
a. 3% b. 10% c. 20% b a c a

8. Water on Earth Water covers 70 percent (百分之……) of
Earth’s surface (表面). There is a lot of water
on the Earth, but 97 percent is from the sea.
We can’t drink it because it’s too salty.
About 2 percent of water is in icecaps (冰盖)
and icebergs (冰山). People can only use 1
percent of the world’s water.

10. B Before you read Look at the picture below and put the following
sentences in the correct order. Write the numbers
1-5 in the boxes.
It runs into rivers.
It rises from the sea to the sky.
It runs into the sea.
It falls as rain again.
Water falls from the clouds as rain. 2 4 3 5 1

11. Water talks Reading Read fast and answer: Where was Dora?
Where did the drop of water come from?
What did Dora do at last?
She was in the bathroom.
It came from a cloud.
She turned the tap off.

12. Read aloud

13. After reading--- useful words and expressions
C1: Circle the correct answers to complete these
sentences.
1.If you turn a tap off, the water from the tap.
a. stops running b. starts running
2.The rain dropped. It from the sky.
a. fell down b. disappeared
3.When you add some chemicals to water, you the
water.
a. get some chemicals from
b. put some chemicals in a a b

14. After reading--- useful words and expressions
C1: Circle the correct answers to complete these sentences.
4. If you had a good journey, you
a. had a wonderful party with your friends at home
b. travelled happily from one place to another
5. Water is valuable. It is
a. very clean
b. useful and important b b

15. After reading--- D1 Map of the water’s journey
Write the names of the different places on the map.
Then give a short talk about the water’s journey.
clouds
river
reservoir
pipes
sea

16. Reading: Water talks 1. Why was the drop of water angry?
D2: Read the story again and complete the answers
to the questions below.
1. Why was the drop of water angry?
__________________________________
2. Why did people clean the water after it ran into
a reservoir ?
3. Why would the drop of water go into the sea
again?
4. Why did the drop of water tell Dora not to
waste or pollute it?
Because Dora was wasting water.
Because it was dirty.
Because its journey starts there.
Because water is valuable.

17. Dora’s Diary about the drop of water
12 July
Dear Diary,
I talked to a drop of water today. It was really interesting. In
the morning, I left the tap on in the bathroom. Then I heard
an angry(1)______. It told me to(2) ______the tap ______. It
was a drop of water! It told me about its(3) ________. It (4)
_____ from a cloud into a river. We could not drink this water
because it was dirty, so people had to clean it. They(5)
_____some chemicals ____the water to make it clean. Then it
travelled to my home. Water is very(6) ________. People
should not waste or pollute it.
voice
turn
off
journey
dropped
added to
valuable

18. 根据句意和所给的首字母填空。
1. The singer sings beautifully because she has a beautiful v________.
2. Books are our friends. They are v________.
3. We can make the s______ seawater f_____ so that it can be drinkable.
4. The water in cities goes t_______ the pipes under the streets.
oice
aluable
alty
resh
hrough

19. Do you think water is valuable?
*D3: Discuss in groups
Do you think water is valuable?

20. Homework Review the words and phrases in the story.
Finish the exercises in Book B.