Welcome to the unit
What is the monkey doing?
Isn’t that interesting?
He can eat 54 hotdogs in 12 minutes
How many hotdogs can
he eat in 12 minutes?
He can make the bus move with his ears
How can he make the bus move?
We can play music for them
How can we make them grow well?
the Sun
the Earth
Which one is larger, the Sun or the Earth?
The Sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth
There are no bones in the back of elephants’ feet--- only fat .
Are there any bones in the back of their feet?
Discuss and talk about elephants
1. Are elephants the biggest living animals?
2. Are the elephants’ teeth large?
3. How much grass can elephants eat in a day?
4. How many years can elephants live?
5. How can elephants walk?
Say them in a sentence one by one.
1.Elephants are the biggest living animals on land
2.They grow large teeth --- we call them tusks
3.They can eat 100 to 1,000 pounds of grass in a day
4.They can live 60-70 years
5.They walk on tiptoe.They are big but they can move quietly
1 pound=0.454kg
Are our eyes the same size from birth?
Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
Are our nose and ears growing big ?
How do the fish sleep?
Do Humans(人)sleep like fish?
Fish sleep
with their eyes open .
Humans sleep
with their eyes closed
a
b
Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
c
Fish sleep with their
eyes open.
d
e
f
The sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth.
There are no bones in the back of elephant’s feet-only fat.
2
3
1
Fill in the blanks.
Fish sleep ____________________.
Our eyes are ______________ from birth, but our nose and ears never ___________.
The sun is about 1,300,000 _______________ the Earth.
There are no bones _______________________-only fat.
with their eyes open
stop growing
the same size
times larger than
in the back of elephants’ feet
The world is full of _______ things.
unusual strange great wonderful interesting surprising funny exciting
amazing
1. same /se?m/ 同一的,相同的
2. birth /b?:θ/ 出生;诞生
3. times /ta?mz/ 倍
4. earth /?:θ/ 地球
5. bone /b??n/ 骨头
6. back /b?k/ 后部;背部
7. fat /f?t/ 脂肪
8. fact /f?kt/ 事实
New words:
Listen and answer:
Which pictures are they talking about?
What do they think of the facts?
They are talking about Picture 1 and 4.
They think they are interesting and amazing.
A: Do you know any fun facts about the world, Amy ?
B: Yes. The sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth ?
A:That’s interesting! What about fish, Amy?
B: Fish sleep with their eyes open.
A: Oh , really ?
B: Yes. Isn’t that amazing ?
amazing cool funny great interesting wonderful
Make a new dialogue in groups.
Kitty: Do you know any fun facts
about the world?
Amy: Yes. ______________________.
Kitty: That’s ___________! What
about________?
Amy: ______________________
Kitty: Oh, really?
Amy: Yes. Isn’t that _______?
Choose and Act (替换内容角色扮演):
Good job!!
Show time
What is this?
It is a ______.
Is it amazing / surprising / strange / unusual?
UFO
Unidentified
Flying
Object
1.What does Eddie think it is in the sky?
2. Is it a real UFO? Why?
A UFO.
Yes, I think so. Because there are bright lights.
No. I think it is a plane. Because they are only the lights on the plane.
Read and learn the new words:
令人惊奇的
不明飞行物
see的过去式
昨天
明亮的
amazing
UFO
bright
yesterday
saw
Hey, Hobo. Look at that.
What is it?
It’s a UFO, Hobo.
Come on, Eddie. It’s just a plane. I saw one yesterday.
No. It’s a UFO. Look at its bright lights.
They’re only the lights on the plane.
It isn’t a plane. Look, it’s too small.
Practise reading in groups and act out the dialogue.
One day Eddie and Hobo look at the sky(天空). Eddie thinks he sees a ____ but Hobo thinks it is a _____. Because Hobo saw one _________. Eddie thinks there are many bright _____ and it is too _____, so it can’t be a plane.
UFO
plane
lights
small
yesterday
Retell the dialogue.
Do you know other amazing things?
Each stone is about 2000kg.
pyramid
Ostrich, an amazing animal
Ostrich is a kind of bird. Its head is very small. It runs fast. Ostrich is the biggest bird in the world but it can’t fly. How amazing!
100g
130kg
ostrich
the biggest bird
can’t fly
can sleep for 3 years
has more than 10,000 teeth
snail
Most polar bears are left-handed.
polar bear
1. “with+名词+形容词/介词短语”在句中作状语.
1) 我们不能开着窗户睡觉。
2) 李老师 手里拿着一本进教室。
We can’t sleep with windows closed.
Mr. Li comes into the classroom with
a book in his hand.
2. stop doing表示停止正在做的事情(只涉及到一个事件), stop to do 则表示停止正在做的事情再去做另外一件事情(涉及到两个事件)。
下课了。让我们停下来去吃午饭吧。
别哭了,我给你讲个笑话吧。
Class is over. Let’s stop to have lunch.
Stop crying and I tell you a joke.
3. Come on.
语气词, 常表达召唤、安慰、鼓励、催促、不耐烦等意思。
意为行啦!得了!来吧!好啦!
得了, 我们还有一次机会呢。
快点, 否则我们就迟到了。
Come on! We still have another chance.
Come on, or we will late.
Homework:
1.Read the dialogue on page 56 and the
sentences on page 57.
2.Try to find some more amazing things
you like. Make a poster about it.
3.Complete the exercises.