(共18张PPT)
Unit 12 Better Together
Exploring the Topic:
Theme Reading
(Working together to develop our hometown)
掌握 hero、engineer、company 等单词以及 feel sorry for 等短语;
利用本单元所学思维技巧和阅读策略分析文本内容;
领略团队协作解决问题的魅力之处。
Free talk
Some activities that require teamwork to complete.
football match
band play(乐队演奏)
clean the classroom
Activity 1
Working together to develop our hometown
Pair work. Look at the pictures and talk about where the oranges in the supermarkets come from.
Planting
Picking
Transportation
Activity 2
Skim and scan the text to answer the questions.
Working together to develop our hometown
1. What is the main idea of the text
2. What did Zhou Dong and his freinds decide to do in the end
n. 英雄
n. 工程师;设计师
Zhou Dong is a hero in his hometown village. He was an engineer in a big company. But, last year, he gave up his job and returned home to help the villagers grow and sell oranges.
Many villagers in his hometown grew oranges. The oranges were tasty but didn't sell well. Zhou felt so sorry for them. Last year, he finally made up his mind to help them. He returened with three of his friends and set up an online
n. 公司
Working together to develop our hometown
Skim and scan the text to answer the questions.
shop to sell the oranges. Zhou's team tried every means to let people know the tasty oranges, and shoppers could get the oranges in just one or two days through online shopping. Soon, they sold out all the oranges.
But there was another problem for most orange gardens. That's heavy water and soil loss. Water and soil are important to the taste of the oranges. To solve this problem, Zhou's team helped change the water ways and improve the soil.
Zhou and his freinds decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown.
n. 丧失;损失
n. 味道
1. What is the main idea of the text
2. What did Zhou Dong and his freinds decide to do in the end
Zhou Dong is a hero in his hometown village.
Zhou and his friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown.
Working together to develop our hometown
Skim and scan the text to answer the questions.
单词(短语) 词性 释义
Words
hero n. 英雄
engineer n. 工程师;设计师
company n. 公司
villager n. 村民;乡村居民
tasty adj. 美味的;可口的
means n. 方式;方法;途径
loss n. 丧失;损失
taste n. 味道;鉴赏力
v. 有……味道;尝,品;吃,喝
difficulty n. 困难;困境
1. He becomes a for saving the baby from the fire.
由于他从大火中救出了那个婴儿,他成了英雄。
2. My father is an and he designs buildings.(engineer)
3. This is very famous.
这家公司很有名。
4. The fire caused a great to the factory.
火灾给工厂造成了巨大的损失。
5.The cake has a delicious ______. (tasty)
hero
engineer
company
loss
taste
补全句子。
Working together to develop our hometown
1. The oranges were tasty but didn't sell well. Zhou felt so sorry for them.
橙子很好吃,但卖得不好。周为它们感到很遗憾。
2. Zhou's team tried every means to let people know the tasty oranges.
周的团队想尽一切办法让人们知道美味的橙子。
feel sorry for 怜悯;同情
“every means”,意为“每种方法”。
try every means to do sth. 想方设法做某事
Working together to develop our hometown
3. Soon, they sold out all the oranges.
很快,他们把所有的橙子都卖完了。
4. I have some difficulty in writing.
我在写作上有些困难。
sell out 售完;卖完
例:The tickets sold out quickly. 票很快就卖完了。
have difficulty in 在……方面有困难
例:She has difficulty in playing the piano.
她在弹钢琴方面有困难。
Working together to develop our hometown
5. We shouldn't give up hope.
我们不应该放弃希望。
6. They made up their mind to learn a new language. 他们下定决心学习一门新语言。
give up 放弃
give up doing... 放弃做某事
make up one's mind to 下定决心做某事
Read the text again and complete the mian idea of each paragraph.
Activity 3
Working together to develop our hometown
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Zhou is _______________ in his hometown village.
Zhou's team helped solve the problem of .
Zhou's team helped solve the problem of .
Zhou's and his freinds planned to help .
a hero
selling the oranges
bring more changes to their hometown
heavy water and soil loss
Activity 4
Complete the problem and solution chart and retell the text.
Working together to develop our hometown
The villagers had difficulty in __________________________________________.
Most orange gardens
__________________________________________.
Zhou and his freinds ____
__________________________________________.
Zhou’s team helped _____
__________________and
_____________________.
Problems
Solutions
selling the oranges
set up an online shop to sell the oranges
were in heavy water and soil loss
change the water ways improve the soil
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the phrases in the box.
Activity 5
Working together to develop our hometown
work as give up make up one's mind to set up try every means to
1. We should try every means to help others and make the world a better place.
2. They __________________ a study group to help others.
3. He decided to __________________a volunteer in the community.
4. They __________________ help the old people.
5. He finally __________________ drinking, because drinking isn't healthy.
set up
work as
made up their mind to
gave up
翻译句子。
Working together to develop our hometown
英译汉:
1. They have difficulty in understanding the text.
2. He tries every means to improve his grades.
汉译英:
3. 我为他感到难过,因为他丢了工作。
4. 蛋糕在中午前就卖完了。
他们在理解这篇文章方面有困难。
他想尽一切办法(想方设法)提高他的成绩。
The cakes sold out before noon.
I feel sorry for him because he lost his job.
We learn:
some words, such as hero, engineer, company, etc.
some phrases, such as have difficulty in, etc.
the charming of working together to solve problems.
We can:
use the thinking skills and reading strategies to solve reading problems successfully.
work together to solve problems.
1. talk about group activities and feel the teamwork around you.
2. Finish the exercises.