(共18张PPT)
Unit 8 Our Blue Planet
Exploring the Topic:
Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies
(Identifying the main idea and details & Visualizing)
1.掌握useful、outside、turn into等词汇;
2.学会辨识主旨和细节, 学会使用视觉阅读信息来更好地理解文本;
3.理解水的重要性。
Read and match the following phrases with the Chinese meanings.
1. because of
2. as we all know
3. go up
4. be full of
5. be important to
充满
上升;上涨
对……重要
因为
众所周知;
正如我们所知
读一读。
/t/ / / /w / / :l/ /f/ /ɡ/ /ɑ:/ /d / /t /
根据音标和图片提示拼写单词。
/w t / _______
/br d / _______
/fa t/ _______
/t es/ _______
watch
bridge
fight
chess
Look at the pictures and read the text. Learn how the details
support the main idea.
Activity 1
Detail 1:
People and animals drink water every day.
Detail 2:
Plants need water to grow.
Main idea:
All living things need water.
The main idea gives us the most important information and the supporting details tell us more about the main idea.
生物
Activity 2
Identifying the main idea and details
Read the text and complete the main idea and detail chart.
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.
Detail 1: At home
·_______________
·_______________
·_______________
Main idea:
use water to cook
do washing
do cleaning
Detail 2: Outside home
·_______________
·_______________
·_______________
do exercise in water
travel by water
have fun with water
Water is very useful.
use sth. to do sth.使用某物做某事
useful /'ju:sfl/ adj. 有用的;有帮助的
As we all know, this is a very useful book.
众所周知,这是一本很有用的书。
wash /wpj/;/wa:∫/ v. 洗
wash our hands 洗我们的手
outside /aut'sard/ prep. 在…外面 adv.在外面
It’s cold outside. 外面很冷。
Identifying the main idea and details
Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water.
在家外面,我们可以走水路、在水中做运动并且玩水玩得很开心。
和have fun意思相同的短语还有enjoy oneself、have a good time。
其中have fun和have a good time用法相同:have fun/have a good
time doing sth.
Identifying the main idea and details
e.g. She has fun cooking new recipes with her friends.
她和朋友们一起尝试新的烹饪食谱,享受其中的乐趣。
Identifying the main idea and details
Pair work. Talk about more uses of water in your daily life.
Try to use a main idea and detail chart.
Activity 3
Water has many uses in our daily life. At home, we use it to take showers, wash our hands, and brush our teeth. Outside home, we use it for swimming, taking a boat trip, and going fishing.
Identifying the main idea and details
Detail 1: At home
·_______________
·_______________
·_______________
Main idea:
Detail 2 : Outside home
·_______________
·_______________
·_______________
take showers
wash our hands
brush our teeth
swim
take a boat trip
go fishing
Water has many uses in our daily life.
Visualizing
Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text.
Activity 1
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.
上升;上涨
变成
Visualizing
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.
What do you read
What do you see in your mind
Draw a picture
What do you understand
Visualizing
Visualizing
Read the text and underline what makes you picture something
in your mind.
Activity 2
Do you know the water cycle Water in the air gets cold,
循环
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.
当天气晴朗的时候, 水会上升到空中, 形成云, 然后再降雨。
Visualizing
Steps to visualize:
I read:
What do you read
What do you see in your mind
Draw a picture
What do you understand
Visualizing
Activity 3
Group work. Read the text in Activity 2 again and tell your
partners what you visualize, and then talk about the water cycle.
what the water cycle is.
Visualizing
I see in my mind:
Draw a picture
Now, I understand:
water in the air, clouds, water drops, rainwater, rivers, lakes and oceans.
rain come from clouds.
根据汉语提示填空和翻译句子。
1. I must _________(洗) the car tomorrow.
2. The ice (变成) water.
3.You can’t open the door from the (外面).
4. 当天气晴朗的时候, 水会上升到空中, 形成云, 然后再降雨。
When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then it rains again.
wash
要注意形式变化。
turns into
outside
Identifying the main idea and details & Visualizing
We learn:
some words, such as useful, wash, outside, etc.
some phrases, such as turn into, etc.
the importance of water.
We can:
use a thinking map to identify the main idea and details.
save water in our daily life.
1. Recite the text in Activity 2 in Reading Strategies.
2. Finish the exercises.