Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected 大阅读 课件(共42张PPT)

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Unit 10
Life is full of the unexpected
Section B 2a-2e
Yesterday I saw a piece of news...
There will be no more tests in America!
What day is today？
April Fool's Day
How much do you know about April Fool's Day
It is celebrated on __________ every year.
People enjoy ___________ each other on that day.
Whatever the tricks, the trickster (搞恶作剧的人) usually ends up telling his victim that “ __________”.
Sometimes，people will use some __________ to fool others.
April 1st
playing tricks on
joke toys
April Fool
April Fool !
Free talk
1
Have you ever played jokes on others,especially on April Fool's Day
2
3
Have you ever been fooled by others
How did it make you feel
Time to read.
How many paragraphs are there in the text
Find out the main idea in each paragraph.
Read quickly
The first sentence
in each paragraph
can help.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
◆ The most famous trick played
◆ Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day.
◆ An introduction to April Fool’s Day
◆ A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day
Match each paragraph with the main idea.
Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage
①
②
③
④
①
②
③
④
①
②
③
④
A
B
C
How many tricks are mentioned
Careful reading
Para 1
An___________ to April Fool’s Day
introduction
popularity
ways to
celebration
It takes place in different countries
around the world.
Many people play all
kinds of tricks and
jokes on each other.
Careful reading
Para 2
Story 1
Story 2
How many stories are mentioned
Spaghetti
Special
water
Careful reading
Read story 1 in Para 2 answer the questions
Q1. What did the reporter in England annouce
Q2.What did people do after they heard the news
There would be no more spahhetti because the spahhetti farmers in Italy had stoppted growing spaghetti..
Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much as
spaghetti as they could.
Careful reading
Read story 1 in Para 2 answer the question.
What's the result of the story 1
By the time people realized
across the country had been sold out.
Careful reading
Read story 2 in Para 2 answer the questions.
Q1. What did the TV show say the special water could do
Q2.How did it make people
believe it
The special water could help people lose weight.
They said one customer had already lost a lot of weight in
just four months.
Careful reading
Read story 2 in Para 2 answer the question.
What's the result of the story 2
By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Do you want to get the special water
Do you think the two stories is funny or sad
Are all tricks funny all the time
Careful reading
Read Para 3 and find out the correct orders of the story.
Careful reading
Retell the stroy from Para 3.
once, invted ...onto
asked...to...
so happy
because...
as soon as said yes,
replied...
lost his girlfriend
was canceled
Funny or
sad
Careful reading
Read in Para 3 answer the question.
Why did the TV star's joke have a bad ending
Because he lost his girlfriend and
his show was canceled.
Why did the story have the result
Because the TV star let his girlfriend
and fans down.
Do all the jokes and tricks happen
only on April Fool's Day
Careful reading
Read in Para 4 answer the questions.
When did the most famous joke happen
In October ,1938.
What can you learn from the picture
Maybe the story have something to do with aliens.
Careful reading
Read in Para 4 answer the questions.
What did Orson Welles announce on his program
What happened after people heard the news
What had happened by the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax
Who is Orson Wells
Orson Welles
美国著名的电影导演，编剧和演员。1999年，他被美国电影学会选为百年来最伟大的男演员第16名。
Careful reading
Read in Para 4 answer the questions.
What did Orson Welles announce on his program
What happened after people heard the news
What had happened by the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax
He annouced that aliens from mars had landed on the earth.
Hundred of people believed the story,and fear spread across the whole country.
Thousands of people had left their homes.
Why did so many people believe Orson Welles
He described where they had landed
and told how they were moving across the United States.
He made it sound that hundreds of people believed the story.
Orson Wells is a famous, talented actor.
What if a hoax from a famous person or TV program caused a national wave of terror
What will happen if it really came
Probably a lot of people believe that.
It will caused a lot of
social problems.
Probably few people
believe that.
We should play tricks in the proper ways.
When we play jokes on someone，
Don't bring harm to others.
01
Don't cheat friends in the emotion.
02
Don't let freiens have financial loss (经济损失).
03
Don't bring bad influence to the socity.
04
Everything is done on the basis that everyone is happy.
05
Time Place Trick Result
On ________
On_________
On April Fool's Day
In __________ 1938
In England
In_________
In __________
There would be
___________
The special water would help people___________
A famous TV star asked his girlfriend
_____________
____________
laned on the earth.
All of the spahetti
was __________
More than
10,000 people
___________
The TV star lost ______________
Thousand of people
___________
Retell the passage , and fill in the blanks
April Fool's day
no more spaghetti
sold out
April Fool's day
England
lose weight
had phoned the TV station to find out...
to marry him
his girlfriend and show
October
the United
State
Aliens from Mars
had left their homes
2d Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
陈述过去发生的事，故用一般过去时。
appeared
rushed
found out
had disappeared
ended
had called
ended
had lost
told
had run away
2e Tell your funny story from 2a to the class.The class will vote for.
A: What's your story
B: Well, last year, on the first day of school,
my sister put a piece of paper on my back
that said “Please say hello.” All morning at
school...
a.the funniest joke
b.the most embarrassing joke
c.the most creative joke
embarrassed ： 尴尬的
embarrassing ：令人尴尬的
Language
Points
Para 1
celebration n.庆典，仪式
celebrate v. 庆祝
定从，修饰先行词 a celebration
take place in 发生（有计划的）
happen 发生（偶然性的）
定从，修饰先行词 a day
play tricks on sb. 捉弄某人
play jokes on sb. 开某人的玩笑
kinds of 各种各样的
Para 2
不再
stop to do sth. 停下来去做另一件事
stop doing sth. 停下正在做的事
动词+ as + sth. + as they can / could 某人尽可能的做某事
as + adj./adv. + as possible 尽可能...
全国，作spaghetti的后置定语
sale out 卖光
...的发现
减肥
到...为止
end up （doing）最终...
end up as 最终成为
曾经
marry sb.嫁/娶某人
marry sb.to..把某人嫁给...
get/be married 结婚
get/be married to sb.和...结婚
was canceled
cancel v. 取消，终止
过去式/过去分词 canceled
名词：cancelation
Para 3
Para 4
one of + the +形容词的最高级+ 名词复数
而不是
登陆
成百上千的
蔓延；传播
过去式/过去分词 spread
成千上万的
hundred，thousand， million，billion等数词用法。
1.当前面有具体数字修饰，表示确切数目时，不加s，也不和of 连用
如；
three hundred
five thousand
2. 若表示一个不确切的数目，即模糊数字时，
前面没有具体数目时，其后加s，与of 连用
hundreds of
thousands of
Key Phrases
1. 愚人节 April Day’s Day
2. 发生 take place in
3.捉弄某人 play tricks on sb.
4. 开某人的玩笑 play jokes on sb.
5.不再 no more
6.停止正在做的事 stop doing sth.
7.某人尽可能做某事 动词 + as + sth. + as they can/could
8.全国 across the country
9. ...的发现 the discovery of
10. 减重 lose weight
Key Phrases
11. 到...为止 by the end of
12. 最终 end up
13. 嫁给某人 marry sb.
14. 与某人结婚 get married to sb.
15. 其中之一 one of
16. 而不是 rather than
17. 登陆 land on
18. 成百上千 hundreds of
19. 成千上万 thousands of
1．Do you know that the Earth is home to _____ animals
A．million B．millions
C．million of D．millions of
2．He ________for ten years.
A．has been married B．married
C．got married D．had married
3．It was such an ________ joke that everyone felt really
________.
A．embarrassing；embarrassed
B．embarrassed；embarrassing
C．embarrassed；embarrassed
D．embarrassing；embarrassing
4. We have worked so long.Shall we stop _____a rest
A.have B.having
C. to have D.to having