(共36张PPT)
Unit5 Amazing things
Comic strip&Welcome to the unit
Warming up
What are these What do you think of them
Can you tell us something amazing you know
crop circles
麦田怪圈
What’s amazing in the pictures
The fish is very big.
The mountain looks like a monkey.
The girl is standing on a plate.
Two giraffes are eating through the window.
Talk about
Teaching aims and demands:
1. learn something unusal and amazing.
2. use some adjectives to express their feelings and opinions.
3. can talk about amazing things that you know.
1. People can’t sneeze(打喷嚏) with their eyes open.
2. Racoons(浣熊) like washing their food before
eating.
3. There are no bones in the back of elephants’
feet——only fat.
Guess: Are they facts
the back of its feet
fact
fact
fact
Self-learning
Guess: Are they facts
4. Fish sleep with their eyes open.
5. Our eyes, nose and ears are the same size
from birth.
6. The sun is about 1,300 times larger than
the earth.
not fact
fact
not fact
The Sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth.
Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Read and match
Read & Complete
The Sun is about 1,300,000 ______
larger than the _______.
times
Earth
There are no ______ in the back of elephant's feet—only ____.
bones
fat
Our nose and ears never ____________ ,
but our______ are the same size from _____.
stop growing
eyes
birth
Fish sleep with their eyes ______.
open
1
choices
____ can consume(消耗) more calories(卡路里) than watching TV.
A. Sleeping B. Sitting on the sofa C. Eating D. Smiling
A
Learn more fun facts.
choose the right animals.
_______ can sleep for 13-14 hours a day.
_______ usually sleep standing up.
_________ follow anyone who they see for the first time.
2
Cats
Horses
Chickens
Find the information from the passage.
_______ (a kind of animals) are cleverer than dogs.
_________(a kind of animals) look like a little mouse at birth.
______ ( a kind of insects) kill more people than snakes.
3
Pigs
Pandas
Bees
amazing thing
An American has 206 bones.
A Chinese has 204 bones.
Chinese don’t have the same number of bones as Americans.
Kitty and Amy are talking about the fun facts. Listen to their conversation and finish the table.
fun facts about… their feelings
the Sun
fish
interesting
amazing
B
Kitty and Amy are talking about the fun facts in Part A. Work in pairsand talk about this topic with the words in the box.Use the conversation belowas a model.
amazing funny great interesting unbelievable wonderful
A: Do you know any fun facts about the world, …
B: Yes. …
A: That’s … ! What about …
B: …
A: Oh, really
B: Yes. Isn’t that …
amazing funny great interesting unbelievable wonderful …
Task: Talk in pairs
New words
Eddie thinks he finds something amazing.
1. Is it a UFO
No, it isn’t.
2. What do they see in fact
They see a plane.
Questions and answers
One evening, Eddie walks to the w_____ and looks out at the sky. Suddenly he finds s_________ and shouts, “L___ at that!” Hobo asks w___ it is. Eddie says it is a UFO. Hobo doesn’t believe(相信). He thinks it is just a p____. He saw o__ yesterday. Eddie says it has bright l_____, but Hobo says a plane also has lights. Eddie says a plane is very large, but this is t___ small. Hobo is surprised.
indow
omething
ook
hat
lane
ne
ights
oo
Fill in the blanks
Summary:
What have you learned in this class
Homework:
Surf the Internet and find more fun facts.
2. Finish the exercises below.
一、单项选择
( ) 1. The road is ______ longer than that ______.
A. three times; / B. three time; one C. twice; / D. twice; one
( ) 2. The teacher asked the students to stop ______ and ______ to her.
A. talking; listening B. talking; listen
C. to talk; listen D. to talk; listened
( ) 3. –Don’t feed(喂) the fish too much again.
--________.
A. Yes, I do B. No, I don’t C. Yes, I will D. Sorry, I won’t
二、完成句子
你为什么不开着灯做作业?
Why don’t you do your homework ______ the light ______
2. 冬眠前熊不停地吃以储藏足够的脂肪。
Bears never______ ______ before the winter sleep to store ______ ______.
●amazing adj. 令人吃惊的,惊人的
[观察] The world is full of amazing things.
世界充满了令人惊奇的事物。
I saw an amazing film last Sunday.
上周日我看了一部令人惊讶的电影。
[探究] amazing作形容词,意为“令人吃惊的,惊人的”,一般用来修饰________。
事物
词 汇 点 睛
[拓展] amazed 作形容词,意为“感到惊讶的”,一般用来修饰________。常见搭配:
be amazed to do sth. 做某事令人吃惊
be amazed at sth. 对某事感到吃惊
be amazed+that从句 令人吃惊的是……
人
(1)那是一座令人惊奇的古老建筑。
That's ________ ________ ________ building.
(2)昨天我叔叔听到那个坏消息感到很吃惊。
My uncle ________ ________ ________ ________ the bad news yesterday.
an amazing old
was amazed to hear
活 学 活 用
●1 Come on, Eddie.得了吧,埃迪。
[探究] come on意为“得了吧;够啦”,由“动词+副词”构成,表示知道别人说话不正确,含有指责或不耐烦的意思。
Come on. Don't sit there dreaming.
得了吧,别坐在那儿空想了。
句 型 透 视
[拓展] come on还可用来表示请求、鼓励、劝说、催促等,意为“来吧;行啦;快点儿;加油”。
Come on! Sing us a song. 来吧!给我们唱首歌。
Come on! It's getting dark. 快点儿!天要黑了。
“Come on! Come on!” shouted the audience again and again. “加油!加油!”观众一再地喊。
1.—I'm afraid there is a ghost in the tree, Daddy!
—________. There is nothing but a bird.
A.Be careful
B.Come on
C.That's OK
D.You're welcome
B
活 学 活 用
●2 Fish sleep with their eyes open. 鱼睁着眼睛睡觉。
[探究] “with their eyes open”是“with+名词/代词+形容词”构成的固定结构,在句中作伴随状语。
He stood there with his face red. 他站在那里,脸都红了。
[拓展] 以下with引导的结构也可作伴随状语:
(1)with+名词/代词+介词短语
He turned around with tears in his eyes.
他双眼噙着泪水,转过身去。
David came into the classroom with a magazine in his hand. 戴维手里拿着一本杂志走进了教室。
(2)with+名词/代词+副词
My brother stood before his teacher with his head down.
我的弟弟低着头站在他的老师面前。
2.My grandma likes sleeping ________ the window ______.
A.with; opened
B.by; opened
C.with; open
D.by; open
C
活 学 活 用
The Sun is about ________________________the Earth.
one million three hundred thousand
1,300,000 times larger than
Fun facts
the Sun
the Earth
Fun facts
How do elephants walk
Elephants walk on tiptoe.
There are no bones_____________ elephants’
feet —_________.
in the back of
only fat
Fish sleep with their eyes open.
Fun facts
How do fish sleep
with eyes open or closed
Our eyes are ______________________
but our noses and ears__________________
the same size from birth,
never stop growing.
Fun facts
5 years old
17 years old