课件44张PPT。A Answer the following questions. What is an encyclopaedia?An encyclopaedia is a book that gives
you information about a lot of things.B In which of the following encyclopaediaswould you look for information on these topics? Write the numbers for each topic.Wikipedia– an encyclopaedia on the Internet gives information on different subjects. A Read the title and introduction on page 75. Then answer the questions. EncyclopaediaContents pageEarth historyGreeceCartoonA What are these?C1 You are going to read the first articleabout dinosaurs. Try this quiz before you read it.You can find dinosaurs in zoos.a true b false
Dinosaurs are all dead.a true b false
Ancient men ate dinosaurs.a true b false
Dinosaurs were all large and fierce animals.a true b false
Some dinosaurs can fly.a true b false How much do you know about dinosaurs? Saysomething about them. If you do not know much, you can look it up in an encyclopaedia.Why did dinosaurs die out suddenly?EncyclopaediaContents pageEarth historyGreeceCartoon A thinker in Greece— DiogenesA thinker is someone who thinks or reasons in a certain wayDiogenes lived in Greece.
Do you know where Greece is?
□ In Asia
□ In Africa
□ In Europe
May is reading the encyclopaedia article about a thinker — Diogenes. But she doesn’t know about him at all. So she surfed the Internet and found some more information about him.A lot of people laughed at him because he always lived in his …. But he didn’t mind at all.
□ house
□ jar
□ bagEncyclopaediaContents pageEarth historyGreeceCartoon May is very interested in cartoons. She has collected many pictures of cartoon characters. Do you know their names? Who created these cartoon characters?What else did Walt Disney create?is an amusement park.C1 How many Disneyland parks are there in theworld?There will be another Disneyland park inShanghai soon. What do you think it will be like?Among these cartoon characters, which one
do you think is the most famous ?Mickey Mouse.Was Mickey a real mouse?It was Walt’s pet mouse. He sold newspapers and delivered mail .A Do you know how people learn about dinosaurs’ lives in the past? B May is listening to the article about dinosaurson CD-ROM. Listen carefully and help her complete the following notes for her school project.Dinosaurs lived on the Earth (1)__________ over (2)__________ years
Some were (3)__________ in size and others were (4)__________ in size
Some had (5)__________ and could (6)__________
Some ate (7)__________ and others ate (8)__________
Dinosaurs all died out (9)__________C1 May is reading the article now.Dinosaurs lived on the Earth over sixty million years ago. This was a long time before people existed. Dinosaurs lived everywhere. Some were as small as chickens. Others were as big as ten elephants. Some dinosaurs even had wings and could fly.Many dinosaurs were harmless. They were as gentle as sheep and ate plants.Others were harmful. They were fiercer than tigers and ate meat.Dinosaurs all died out suddenly. Nobody knows
why.We know about the lives of dinosaurs from the skeletons, eggs and footprints they left behind. (See Earth History)A May is listening to the article about Diogenes on CD-ROM. Listen carefully and help her complete the following notes for her school project.… was a (1)__________.
… lived in
… was born about (2)__________ years ago.
... taught people to be by owning as (3)__________ things as possible.
… owned a (4)__________, a , a and a (5)__________.
… threw away his when he sawa boy drinking water from his and became even (6)__________.
B May is reading the article now.Diogenes was a famous thinker. He
lived in Greece about two thousand
years ago. He taught that the way to be happy was to own as few things as possible. All he owned was a big jar that he lived in, a coat, a bag and a cup. He was very happy. One day, Diogenes saw a boy drinking water from his hands by a fountain, so he threw away his cup and became even happier. (See Greece)A May has read the encyclopaedia article about Walt Disney. She would like to give us quizzes. B This is the first quiz. May wants us tocomplete the paragraph with the words you have learned in ‘Before you read’.Disneyland is an (1)__________ in the USA. Disneyland was created by (1901 – 1966), who is famous for his cartoon
: Mickey (2)__________, Donald , Goofy, (3)__________ White and many .C Now the second quiz. May has mixed thesentences together. Try to put them in the correct order.Disney was born in the USA. After leaving school, he sold newspapers and delivered mail. At the same time, he studied art at night. Finally he got a job that he really liked—drawing cartoons for films.Disney’s most famous cartoon character, Mickey Mouse, was a real mouse. It sometimes sat on Disney’s desk while he was working. Disney drew the mouse and put it in a cartoon. Soon Mickey became a star and Disney became rich and famous. (See Cartoons)Answer the questions below:1. Disney wasn’t an American, was he?2.He sold newspapers and delivered mail.
At the same time, he studied art at night.
From these, we know that he was very
_______________.Assignment1. Read three articles at home
2. Surf the Internet and find more information about Dinosaurs, Diogenes and Walt DisneySometimes you cannot find a subject in an encyclopaedia. This may be because it is part of a larger subject. Here are two examples:D Match the subjects in Column A below withthe larger subjects in Column B.C2 May found these pictures on the Internet.Can you find sentence(s) in the article to match each picture?Retell the ‘Diogenes’Diogenes was…He lived…agoHe taught that…All he owned was…One day, he saw…, so he threw…and became