(共14张PPT)
Reading
What do you know about elephants
They eat grass.
They have long ivory.
Most of them come from Africa and Asia.
Who writes the passage
Why does he/she write it
The students from Thailand.
They want to save the elephants.
Read and find the topic sentence of each paragraph.
p1
p2
p3
p1
Careful reading
Elephants are __________ in Thailand.
important
How
Our first flag had a white elephant on it.
This is a symbol of good luck.
P1. the importance of elephants
p2 Read and answer.
Why do they think so?
play soccer or music
2. draw
3. an elephant
never forgets
walk for a long time and never get lost
remember places with food and water
P2 the abilities of elephants.
P3 the facts of elephants.
P3
1.The writer support his opinion by __________________.
2.Why are elephants are in great danger
3.How to save elephants
listing numbers
1.
2.
1.
2.don’t
3.
a white elephant
good luck
cut down
ivory
only about 3000..
100,000
soccer or music
draw
remember
tress
buy
March 13th
来自泰国的学生
想要拯救大象
…之一
大象从不忘事
长时间行走
迷路
记住有水和食物的地方
处于极大的危险之中
砍到
失去某人的家园
拯救树木
象牙制品
students from Thailand
want to save the elephants
one of+名词复数
An elephant never forgets.
walk for a long time
get lost
remember places with water and food
be in great danger
cut down
lose one’s home
save the trees
things make of ivory
Language points
1. The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols.
大象是泰国的象征之一。
one of +复数名词… ……中的之一
Robin is one of the members in my family.
罗宾是我家的成员之一。
One of the apples is bad.
其中的一个苹果坏了。
People say that “an elephant never forgets”.
人们说“大象从不遗忘东西”。
forget作动词, 意为“忘记”, forget+名词/代词意为“忘记某物/某人”。
forget to do sth. 忘记要做的事情(未做)
forget doing sth. 忘记做了某事(做过但是忘了)
【学以致用】
①别忘了关窗户。
Don’t forget the door.
②汤姆忘记已经把教室的灯关了。
Tom forgot the lights in the classroom.
to close
turning off
3. Elephants can walk for a long time and never
get lost.
1) lost 作为形容词,表示“走失的;迷路的;
失散的”、“丢失的;遗失的”,常与系动词get
或be 一同构成短语,表示“丢失;走失;迷路”。例如:
My keys are lost again.
我的钥匙又丢了。
I got lost on my way here and had to ask the police for help.
2) lost 还经常直接用于名词之前,作定语修饰名词。例如:
a lost child 走丢了的孩子
the lost tourists 迷了路的游客们
a lost watch 被人遗失的手表
Elephants are in great danger. 大象正处在很大的危险中。
【学以致用】 消防员常常处于很危险的境地。
____________________________.
大夫们说现在他脱离了危险。
_______________________.
人们在那条河里游泳是很危险的。 ____________________________.
Firefighters are often in great danger.
The doctors say he’s now out of danger.
It's dangerous for people to swim in that river.
danger 为不可数名词,意为“危险”, (be) in danger表示“面临危险”。英语中,常用形容词big或great与danger搭配,表示“巨大的危险”。 in great danger意为“处于极大危险之中”,其反义词组为out of danger “脱离危险”。
danger (n.)危险→dangerous (adj.)危险的