Unit 8 Lesson 3 Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies (20页) 2024-2025学年英语仁爱科普版七年级下册

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Our Blue Planet
Thinking skills & Reading strategies
Unit 8
Learning aims
理解并运用“Main Idea and Details”的阅读策略，能够识别文章的主旨大意和支撑细节
了解“Visualizing”的阅读策略，能够在阅读过程中进行想象，加深对文本的理解
Lead in
What do you see in the pictures
What do you know about water
Why is water important for us
Look and say
Activity 1
Identifying the main idea and details
Look at the pictures and read the text. Learn how the details support the main idea.
Main idea
All living things need water.
Detail 1
People and animals need water every day.
Detail 2
Plants need water to grow.
The main idea gives us the most important information and the supporting details tell us more about the main idea
Main idea
All living things need water.
Detail 1
People and animals need water every day.
Detail 2
Plants need water to grow.
Read the text and find the main idea of it.
Water is very useful. At home, we use water to cook, do washing or cleaning. Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water.
Main idea
_______________________
Water is very useful.
Read the text again and complete the details.
Main idea
Water is very useful.
Detail 1 At home
●__________________________
●__________________________
●__________________________
Detail 2 Outside home
●__________________________
●__________________________
●__________________________
Use water to cook
Use water to do washing
Use water to do cleaning
Travel by water
Do exercise in water
Have fun with water
Language points
1 At home, we use water to cook, do washing or cleaning.
use sth. to do sth.
用某物来做某事
I use my computer to work.
我用电脑工作。
2 Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water.
by water 走水路
by 用来表示乘坐交通工具
by car 坐小汽车
by bus 坐公共汽车
Activity 2
Visualizing
Can you describe how rain form
Read the text and use the picture to help you visualize what you read.
On sunny days, water goes up in the air and turns into clouds in the sky.
How to visualize it
Steps to visualize: I read: how water turns into clouds.
I see in my mind: some water, the sun and some clouds.
Now, I understand: clouds come from water.
Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text.
Language points
On sunny days, water goes up in the air and turns into clouds in the sky.
go up 上升
turn into 变成
The balloon is going up into the sky.
气球正在飞向天空。
So it could grow and turn into an angel.
这样他就能成长，变成一个天使。
Read the text and underline what makes you picture something in your mind.
Water Cycle
Do you know the water cycle Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then it rains again.
Do you know the water cycle Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then it rains again.
Steps to visualize:
I read: ________________________________
I see in my mind: _______________________
_______________________________________
Now, I understand: ______________________
how water cycle
water drops
rainwater
clouds
water in rivers, lakes and oceans
rain
how water cycle
Group work. Read the text again and tell your partners what you visualize, and then talk about the water cycle.
Summary
◆Thinking skills
◆Reading strategies
The main idea gives us the most important information and the supporting details tell us more about the main idea
Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text.
Homework
1 Complete the exercise in the workbook
2 List the steps of visualizing