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Unit 5 Fantastic friends
Uderstanding ideas
Learning Objectives
After completing the unit, you will be able to:
Use words and expressions in the unit to describe our relationship with animals.
Use the present continuous tense to talk about animal behaviours.
Explain the need to protect our animal friends.
recognise
themselves
mirror
itself
maybe
several
kilometre
get lost
speed
amazing
v.认出;认识;辨认出
pron.他们自己;她们自己;它们自己
n.镜子
pron.自己,自身
adv.也许,大概,可能(表示不肯定)
adj.几个,数个,一些
n.千米,公里
迷路
n.速度,速率
adj.惊人的;了不起的
New Words
What is your favorite animals
pigeon
beaver
monkey
camel
dog
dodo
现在进行时
the present continuous tense
定义: 表示动作正在进行和发生或存在的状态。
关键词:look, listen, now, ssh, it’s + 时刻,
at this monment,at the monment,
1.Tick the words to describe pigeons.
boring fast scary others: ,
clever dirty amazing
2 Read the blogs and find out the words Henry used.
Pigeon surprise
We’re studying birds for Bird Week at school. Some lucky kids got penguins. But I have to write about... pigeons!
Day 1
21 Sep 2023
2 Read the blogs and find out the words Henry used.
Pigeon surprise
I’m watching pigeons in the park now. They just knock around- for the whole morning! They leave droppings here and there.Pigeons are BORING and DIRTY!
A girl is feeding them. Argh! The birds
are flying madly to her. They’re SCARY!
Day 2
22 Sep 2023
1. kid:n.孩子、小孩 2. penguin:n.企鹅
3. knock around:闲逛、漫游(表示漫无目的)around:adv.闲散地、无目的地、循环往复地、来来回回地
4.for the whole morning:持续整整一上午for+时段:表示动作持续的时长 5.leave:v.扔下、丢下、留下
6.dropping:n.掉落物(此处之鸽子从空出排出并落下 的便)leave droppings:排便drop:v.掉下、落下
7.here and there:到处、处处(近义词:everywhere)
8. feed:v.喂养、喂食 9. Argh! 啊!
10.madly:adv.疯狂地、发狂地mad:adj.疯狂的、发狂的、气愤的、生气的、痴迷的
get mad/go mad:发疯、生气be mad about:对..着迷madness:n.疯狂、愚蠢的行为
2 Read the blogs and find out the words Henry used.
I’m doing some online research. Pigeons can recognise themselves in mirrors.
How surprising! Are they so clever
I’d better go and watch them again...
I’m back at the park again. Oh! That pigeon is looking at itself in the water! Maybe I was wrong about pigeons.
Day 3
23 Sep 2023
Day 4
24 Sep 2023
1.research:v./n.调查、研究researcher:n.调查员、研究员
2.recogise:v认出,识别出,分辨出,承认
recogition:n认出,识别出,,承认,赞誉
3. mirror:n.镜子in mirror:在镜中/镜中的look into the miror照镜子
4.had better:最好...(用于提建议)
had better do:最好做某事
had better not do:最好别做某事
2 Read the blogs and find out the words Henry used.
I’m reading in the library now. Oh, there are over 200 kinds of pigeons. Some can fly several thousand kilometres and don’t get lost. They can also fly at speeds of over 100 km per hour. That’s as fast as my dad’s car!
Well, pigeons aren’t boring or scary. They are AMAZING - I just didn’t know enough about them!
Day 5
25 Sep 2023
1.over:prep.比比..更多、超过同义词;more than
2.kind:n.种类kinds of:多种的 a kind of...:一种
3.several:adj.几个
4. thousand:num.千 one thousand 1千two thousand 2千thousands of:数干、好几千
5.kilometre=kilometer公里、千米
6.get lost:迷路、迷失
7.at speeds of.:以..的速度
8.per:prep,每、每一
9. as fast as...:和..一样快as+形容词或副词原级+as和....一样
10.enough:adj.足够的、充足的adv.足够地、充分地
3 Choose another suitable title and give your reasons.
a Clever Pigeons
b Pigeons in the Park
c Amazing Pigeons
d People and Pigeons
√
4 Complete the flow chart with the words and expressions from the passage.
dirty
leave
droppings
are fiying
4 Complete the flow chart with the words and expressions from the passage.
200
get lost
Amazing
5.Read the sentences from the reading passage and summarise the grammar rules.
(a) We’re studying birds for Bird Week at school.
(b) I’m watching pigeons in the park now.
(c) That pigeon is looking at itself in the water!
Now find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage.
6 Read and complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.
stand watch follow
1 Look! The dolphin a ship.
2- The horse is sleeping.
- I can’t believe it. It . Can it sleep like that
3 Ssh! I the cat in the tree.
is following
is standing
am watching
7Complete the passage using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
The new camera looks like a real beaver! We put it by the river. Now we1 (watch) the beavers. Look! One beaver 2 , (cut) a tree with its teeth and the other two 3 (put) the sticks in the river. They want to create a pond. But what’s it for Oh, I see!
They4 (build) their home in it.The pond will protect them from wolves, foxes, etc.This is amazing!
Now the work is done! Two beavers 5 (swim) in the pond. The other one 6 (try) to catch fish. It's such nice work. No wonder beavers are called “nature’s engineers”!
are watching
is cutting
are putting
are building
are swimming
is trying
8 Find a video and do your own voice-over for it. Use the words from the reading passage and the Useful expressions to help you.
Example
Amazing animal
What animal is it
.
What is it doing
.
What is special about it
.
What do you think of it
.
Elephant
It is drinking water.
It has long nose .
It can remember lots of information
一、汉译英
错误的
发狂地
认出
have to
wrong
had better do sth.
knock around
penguins
madly
recognise
必须,不得不
最好做某事
悠闲地度过
企鹅
超过
和...一样快
迷路
over
as fast as
get lost
Homework
Remember all the words and expressions we’ve learned today;
2. Do the exercise on page 93.
Thank you!