(共21张PPT)
Encyclopaedias
Reading:Look it up!
Module 1 Unit 1
Learning objectives
know what an encyclopaedia is
understand text about Da Vinci, Leonardo and dinosaurs by skimming and scanning;
know more about Da Vinci, Leonardo and dinosaurs
By the end of the class, you are expected to
seat-robber
霸座者
high-rise littering
高空抛物
Do you know who should be responsible for(对…负责) these matters(事件)?
Civil Code
(民法典)
—an encyclopaedia for social life
Have you ever used those search engines (浏览器) before?
Digital(数字化的)
Encyclopaedia
Pre-reading
An encyclopaedia is a collection (usually a book or set of books) of information about things humans know.
an encyclopaedia
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Da Vinci,
Leonardo
Try the quiz below. Circle the correct answers. There can be more than one answer.
1. Leonardo da Vinci was a(n)______.
a. painter b. engineer c. cook
2. Leonardo da Vinci was ______.
a. French b. English c. Italian
3. Leonardo da Vinci painted______.
a. Sunflowers b. The Last Supper c. Impression, Sunrise
b
c
a,b
Pre-reading
向日葵
日出.印象
最后的晚餐
Claude Monet
Skim the introduction,title, sub-titles and pictures. Then anawer the questions.
1. In the title,what does the phrase “look up” mean
It means look for information about something in a dictionary or an encyclopaedia.
2. What will the two articles talk about
Da Vinci, Leonardo, Mona Lisa and dinosaurs
While-reading
1. Scan the passage and correct the information.
countryside.
While-reading
inventions.
1452
√
2.Scan it again and answer the questions.
1.Who was Leonardo da Vinci
He was _____________________________
______________________.
2.What is his most famous painting
It is ________________.
an Italian painter, inventor,
musician, engineer and scientist
the Mona Lisa
be known as
(be) born
year of death
childhood
a painter
an inventor
a musician
an engineer
a scientist
contributions
1519
1452
birthplace
countryside,Italy
showed great intelligence and artistic ability
adulthood
learnt to do many different things
many inventions
famous paintings
Leonardo
da Vinci
3. Read the passage carefully about Leonardo da Vinci and complete the spidergram.
While-reading
Leonardo da Vinci's manuscript (手稿)of a flying machine
A bird?
A bat (蝙蝠)
A pterosaur (翼龙)
What does it look like?
1.Today you can find dinosaurs_____.
a.in zoos b.in museums c.everywhere
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true
a.Dinosaurs once lived on Earth.
b.All dinosaurs were very big.
c.Some dinosaurs could fly.
b
b
Pre-reading
While-reading
4. Scan the passage about dinosaurs and fill in the blanks.
What do you know about dinosaurs
Dinosaurs lived (1) _____________ on Earth over
(2) ___________ years before human beings.
Some were (3) _____ and others were (4) ____.
Some could (5) _____.
Some ate (6)______ and others ate (7) _____.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for more than (8) ______________years. Then suddenly they (9) _________.
We can learn about them from their (10)______.
everywhere
60,000,000
small
big
fly
plants
meat
150,000,000
person
died out
fossils
2 Dinosaurs
a They lived on Earth more than 60 thousand years before human beings.
b Some were small; others were huge.
c All of them ate meat.
d Some died out suddenly.
million
Some
They all
While-reading
5. Scan the passage again and correct the information.
very big
Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens.
Some could even fly.
However, some dinosaurs liked to eat meat.
We can learn about them from their fossils.
6. Read the article again. Find one or two sentences from the article to match each picture.
Dinosaurs
They lived everywhere on Earth.
Others were as big as ten elephants.
Many dinosaurs ate plants.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for more than 150 million years.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth more than 60 million years before human beings.
While-reading
1. What are the sub-titles
2. In which of the encyclopaedias
can you find the information
3. Why are they put this way
The subjects in the Encyclopaedia are put in ____________ order.
alphabetical(字母的)
Post-reading
1 Elephants _____
2 Sound _____
3 The Stone Age _____
4 Opera _____
5 Pianos _____
6 Light _____
7 Qin Shi Huang _____
8 Trees _____
In which of the encyclopaedias below can you find information on the following topics Write the correct letters in the blanks.
d
a/b
c
b
b
a
c
d
Post-reading
a
b
c
d
In which volumes can you find information about the following topics Write the correct volume numbers in the blanks.
Brains _________
Seas _________
Computers _________
Weather _________
France _________
Pandas _________
VOL. 1
VOL. 6
VOL. 1
VOL. 7
VOL. 2
VOL. 5
Post-reading
Capital letter(首字母)
2. Search on the Internet to find as
much information as possible about
any subject you're interested in,
for example a great person, a kind
of sport or instrument
1. Read the passage aloud for
3 times
Homework