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Starting out & Understanding ideas
2025新教材春七年级下册外研版
Unit 6 Hitting the road
CONTENTS
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02
04
06
03
05
Learning objects
Warming up
Starting out
Understanding ideas
Language points
Homework
通过本课时学习，学生能够：
（1）理解作者在旅行中的经历和感受，感知旅行的趣味；
（2）运用本课时的核心词汇和句型谈论自己对作者四川之行的感受。
Learning objects
Warming up
Enjoy the video
Warming up
New words and expression
airport
burn
expect
deep
lemon
Warming up
New words and expression
reply
surprisingly
normal
ancient
curious
Starting out
Look and say
What can you see in the picture
What does “hitting the road” mean
Why do we hit the road
I can see a boy and his father.
It means leaving or starting a journey.
We may hit the road to start a trip.
Starting out
Read the quotes and answer the questions
1. What does each quote say about travel
Quote fromm Xunzi: Travel helps you know the world.
Quote from Seneca: Travel provides you with new feelings and experiences.
Quote from Gustave Flaubert: Travel makes you realise the world is big.
2. Which quote do you agree with most
Starting out
Look at the picture and answer the questions.
Mr. Fogg, an Englishman, made a bet with a friend to travel around the world in eighty days.
Do you know the book Around the World in Eighty Days
What do you think of the ways the characters travelled in the book
By train or by elephant. I think these ways are slow, but interesting.
Starting out
Look at the picture and answer the questions.
Hot pot and things from a museum.
1. What can you see in the pictures
2. What do you expect from a trip
While-reading
Guess and read
Guess: What did the writer eat and see
Read the passage and check your answer.
The writer ate hot pot and saw cool things in the new Sanxingdui Museum.
While-reading
Tick the ideas in the passage
The weather was very hot in Chengdu.
In general, the writer enjoyed the hot pot.
The writer was curious about Sanxingdui.
The writer does not want to stay in China.
While-reading
Listen and read
While-reading
Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage.
Sichuan hot pot
my moouth
drank
enjoy
Cooking
cool
fantastic
full of fun
Post-reading
Think and share
What do you think the title means
On the face of it, Sichuan hot pot tastes really hot, and it is cool in the new Sanxingdui Museum.
At a deep level, Sichuan hot pot is so popular that many travellers want to have a try, and the new Sanxingdui Museum shows great wonders, and they seem so fantastic.
Post-reading
Think and share
Would you like to travel in Sichuan Why or why not
Yes, I’d like to travel Sichuan. Beacuse hot food and rich cultures.
Grammar rules
Read the sentences and find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage.
(a) The food was much hotter than I expected.
(b) And cooking hot pot was just as fun as eating it.
Do you want something less hot
Why are their eyes and ears much bigger than normal ones
Were ancient Shu people able to see and hear further than us
Read and summarise
形容词或副词比较级：
A is... than B， 表示 “A比B......”。
The food was much hotter than I expected.
Why are their eyes and ears much bigger than normal ones
Were ancient Shu people able to see and hear further than us
Do you want something less hot
Grammar rules
Discuss and analyse.
平级的比较：
肯定： as+原级+as,表示“和......一样......”。
否定： not as/ so+原级+as，表示“不像......那样......”。
And chooking hot pot was just as fun as eating it!
Grammar rules
Rewrite the sentences using(more/less)...than or as...as.
1. I prefer trying local food to visiting places of interest in a trip.
To me, trying local food is visiting places of interest in a trip.
2. The hotel room was very comfortable, just like my own home.
The hotel room was my own home.
Grammar rules
more enjoyable than/ better than
as comfortable as
Complete the postcard using as...as or (more)...than
bigger than
as powerful as
as beautiful as
more interesting than
as exciting as
as little as
Discuss fun thing to do while travelling and put them in the think map.
Share and improve your thinking map.
Evaluation （评估机制） Stars
Content（内容完整）
Pronunciation（发音清晰标准）
Performance （整体表现优秀）
Confidence（信心十足）
Excellent Great Good
You must do
Write a short paragraph about an interesting travel of yours.
You can choose to do
Make a short video to show your interesting travel experience.
Hope to meet you again.
