Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Lesson 1 A Sea Story
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about a sea story
2. read for general understanding
3. read for specific information and understand words in context
4. learn about and practise synonyms and antonyms
5. learn about and practise relative clauses
【学习重难点】
1. reading for specific information
2. using relative clauses
【学习过程】
1. Talk about sea stories.
(1) What sea stories do you know? Share it with your partner. Use the following questions to help you organise your story.
a. Who are the main characters in your story?
b. When and where did the story happen?
c. What happened in your story?
d. How did the story end?
(2) Look at the pictures on page 30. Use the words and phrases below to describe the pictures.
a fisherman a fishing boat a whirlpool waves
to escape to survive a storm to float wild
2. Read the Fact File on page 30 and answer the questions.
(1) What is a “Moskoe-strom”?
(2) Who wrote the story?
(3) What do you think will happen in the story?
3. Read the text and discuss the questions.
(1) Who are the main characters in the story?
(2) Who is telling the story?
(3) When and where did the story happen?
(4) What effect did the terrible experience have on the storyteller?
4. How did the storyteller overcome his fear and struggle to survive from the whirlpool?
5. Retell the story, using time words such as when, suddenly, then, and finally.
6. Group Work: Thank and share.
(1) What were the three observations the storyteller made?
(2) Why did the storyteller survive while his elder brother didn’t?
(3) What does the storyteller mean by “it took only six hours to break my body and soul”?
(4) What lessons have you learnt from the story? Give your reasons.
(5) What is the story trying to say about the relationship between humans and nature?
7. Find synonyms or antonyms from the text.
Synonyms Antonyms
terrible black
amazing less
cried out top
frightened old
single
dark
edge
calm
8. Talk about yourself using relative clauses.
(1) I’ll never forget the day _________________.
(2) I was born in a city/town _____________________.
(3) I’ll never know the reason ______________________________.
【精炼反馈】
I. 请从方框中选择恰当的单词或短语，并用其适当形式填空。
on the edge of survive be curious about pick up at great speed
1. The train was travelling ______________.
2. She is ______________ despair.
3. Many birds didn’t ______________ the severe winter.
4. The bus ______________ passengers outside the airport.
5. They ______________ the people who lived upstairs.
Ⅱ. 在空白处填入一个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. We shall never forget the days ______________ we lived together.
2. After living in Paris for 50 years he returned to the small town ______________ he grew up as a child.
3. That was the reason ______________ she looked old.
4. The plane crashed in the areas of dense jungle. There were no ______________ (survive).
5. Women have yet to achieve full ______________ (equal) with men in the workplace.
6. Children show ______________ (curious) about everything.
Ⅲ. 请根据课文内容，填入恰当的单词或短语使文章完整。
About three years ago, something terrible 1. ______________ me. Those six hours of terrible experience have broken my body and soul. One day, my brothers and I were coming back from the islands, our boat full of fish. 2. ______________ the sky was covered with dark clouds and in less than a minute we were in a terrible storm. A huge wave covered our boat and my younger brother 3. ______________ the sea. My elder brother put his mouth close to my ear, and 4. ______________ the terrifying word “Moskoe-strom!”
We went round and round, nearer and nearer to the 5. ______________ of the whirlpool. After a while, I made three important 6. ______________. Based on what I had found, I tied myself to a barrel to help me float.
As you see, I did escape. Some time after I left the boat, with my brother in it, it 7. ______________ into the bottom of the whirlpool. Then it became less 8. ______________. In the end, a boat 9. ______________. The fishermen were my old friends, but they were 10. ______________ me.
Ⅳ. 请结合本课所学语法项目补全下面的文本。
John and Tom are talking about their vacations. Look at what they are talking and try to fill in the blanks with the help of context as well as the Chinese given.
John: Hi，Tom. Are you going anywhere on vacation this summer？
Tom: Yes, we’re going back to a national park in Califormia 1. __________________________（去年夏天我们去野营的地方）.
John: How nice! We’re going to California too. How about your last trip？
Tom: Oh, we had a terrible experience. It happened on the day 2. ________________________
（我搭起帐篷的那天）. In the afternoon 3. ______________________________（我们钓完鱼回来的时候）, it became windy. During the night 4. _______________________（雨开始下得很大的那个晚上）, I got out of my tent and went into my parents’ trailer. The next morning 5.______________________（我起床的第二天早晨）, I found that my tent was gone.
John: That’s really annoying. Then why do you still go there this summer？
Tom: The reason 6. ___________________________（我们还回加利福尼亚的原因）is that we have many close friends there. We plan to go hiking with them.
John: Sounds good. When are you coming back?
Tom: I don’t know the exact date, but I’ll call you on the day 7. ___________________（我回到家的那天）.
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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Lesson 2 Professional Rescue Team
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about professional rescue teams
2. listen for understanding
3. recall information previously heard
4. maintain, interrupt and end a conversation
【学习重难点】
1. listening for specific information
2. maintaining, interrupting and ending a conversation
【学习过程】
1. What natural disasters do you know?
2. Group Work: Have you experienced any natural disasters? Use the following questions to help you.
(1) What happened?
(2) How did you feel?
(3) Did you need help?
3. Listen to the first part of an interview. Answer questions.
(1) What is the interview about?
(2) Who is the interviewee?
(3) Which two disasters are mentioned?
4. Pair Work: Work out four questions you may ask according to the information from the first part of the interview. Then ask and answer the questions.
Questions Answers
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
5. Listen to the second part of the interview. What advice does Mr. Wang give about surviving an earthquake when you’re outdoors, indoors or trapped? Do you have any other advice that might be helpful?
6. Can you find more ways to politely interrupt or end a conversation?
To interrupt To end
7. Pair Work: Role Play.
Situation 1: Two friends talking on the phone Friend 1: talking about his/her worries for the next day’s presentation Friend 2: needs to end the conversation so as to catch a train Situation 2: An English teacher and a student in an English class English teacher: explaining how to use relative clauses Student: needs to interrupt so as to ask a question
【精炼反馈】
I. 请从方框中选择恰当的单词或短语，并用其适当形式填空。
run out interrupt breathe in take part vehicle
1. His illness is a result of _____________ much smoke over these years.
2. How many countries _____________ in the last Olympic Games?
3. Sorry to _____________, but there’s someone to see you.
4. Conditions are getting worse and supplies are _____________.
5. Are you the driver of this _____________?
Ⅱ. 请用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. What skills are needed to _____________ (operation) this machine?
2. Take a deep _____________ (breathe) and don’t be nervous.
3. He asked to be put under police _____________ (protect).
4. Many companies are _____________ (suffer) from a shortage of skilled staff.
5. Accurate _____________ (measure) is very important in science.
Ⅲ. 根据课文内容，填入恰当的单词或短语使文章完整。
Hello, everyone! Today I would like to introduce the rescue team’s job. Rescue teams are the people who work in 1. _____________. As we know, natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and landslides can cause death and 2. _____________.
In the rescue attempts, rescue teams’ first and most important goal is to 3. _____________. They use 4. _____________ and trained dogs to look for anyone who is still alive. It is a 5. _____________ process. For example, in one of the rescue attempts of the Nepal earthquake, over sixty members of China International Search and Rescue Team 6. _____________. They were there for twelve days, rescuing two people and 7. _____________ to over2,000 people.
It was a battle 8. _____________. And the team members are under much 9. _____________. But they know it’s their duty to try their best to reduce 10. _____________.
Ⅳ. 请用下列单词中的至少3个创编一个对话或短文。
rescue trap attempt operation disaster
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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Lesson 3 Race to the Pole
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about the difficulties that explorers face
2. read for deep understanding
3. summarise information
4. learn about and practise suffixes
【学习重难点】
1. reading for specific information and deep understanding
2. summarising a text
【学习过程】
1. What do you know about Antarctica?
2. Exploring Antarctica.
(1) If you are going to explore Antarctica, what difficulties do you think you may face there?
(2) What preparations do you need to make?
3. Read the text and find out.
(1) When did the two journeys begin?
(2) What happed to the two teams?
4. Read again and complete the chart.
Scott’s team Amundsen’s team
Nationality of the two teams
Before the journey
Journey to the destination
Arrival at the destination
The return journey
5. Group Work: Read and discuss.
(1) How did Scott’s team feel at the beginning of the journey?
(2) How did they feel at the end?
(3) Why do you think this changed?
6. Imagine you witness the following unrelated situations—what can you infer about each one?
Situations Inferences
(1) You see a woman pushing a baby stroller down the street.
(2) You are at a corner and see two parked cars at an intersection, and the driver in back starts honking his horn.
(3) You are walking down the street, and suddenly a dog comes running out of an opened door with its tail between its legs.
7. Read the underlined sentences from Scott’s diary and letter. Write your inferences.
line 21 _____________________________________________________________
line 26 _____________________________________________________________
line 33 _____________________________________________________________
line 42 _____________________________________________________________
8. Group Work: Think and share.
(1) Would you say that Scott and his team were losers? Why or why not?
(2) How do you understand Amundsen’s saying about Scott’s death “Captain Scott left a record, for honesty, sincerity, for bravery, for everything that makes a man”?
9. Pair Work: Read the sentences from Scott’s diary and letter again.
(1) Discuss what he was trying to say in each one.
(2) Highlight the parts that impress you most and explain why.
10. Pair Work: Discuss.
(1) Why do you think the writer of the text used the word “race” in the title?
(2) Why was the world shocked by Scott’s death?
11. Search online and share.
(1) Search online the main events in China’s Antarctica exploration.
(2) Why do people try to explore the toughest part of the Earth?
【精炼反馈】
I. 从方框中选择恰当的单词或短语，并用其适当形式填空。
in preparation for break down anxiously run out of be based on
1. He ___________ and wept when he heard the bad news.
2. We ___________ fuel, so we had to go to the gas station.
3. His paper ___________ his professor’s previous researches.
4. We are ___________ waiting for the exam results.
5. The couple is very busy recently as they are ___________ their wedding.
II. 用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. __________ (explore) of Mars by the newest robotic system will begin next month.
2. He has prepared to go to any lengths to fulfil his __________ (ambitious).
3. The beach is within walking __________ (distant) of my house.
4. He felt a great sense of __________ (sad) and loss.
5. Everyone is feeling pretty __________ (hope) about the future.
Ⅲ. 请根据课文内容，填入恰当的单词或短语使文章完整。
On 1st June 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott left London to begin his journey to Antarctica. While he was 1. __________ to Antarctica, he received a message from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen which said he was going south, too. Then the 2. __________ to the South Pole began!
During the polar summer, both teams organised food bases 3. __________ the coming journey. The journey was not smooth at the beginning. First, two sledges 4. __________ and the horses began to have 5. __________ difficulties with the snow and the cold.
The return was doomed. They were soon 6. __________ and were 7. __________ food. Then disaster soon came. Edgar Evans died after a bad fall. The next to go was Captain Oates, who was having great difficulty in walking. He finally 8. __________ the end with the spirit of gentlemen. The rest of them 9. __________ and got within eleven miles of one of their food bases. But the storm put an end to the story. They 10. __________ to win the race to the Pole, but they were still considered heroes.
Ⅳ. 请用下列单词中的至少3个创编一个对话或短文。
preparation base ambition explorer prove
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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Topic Talk
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about the relationship between humans and nature
2. listen for general understanding
3. read for specific information and understanding words in context
【学习重难点】
1. listening for general understanding
2. talking about relationship between humans and nature
【学习过程】
1. Pair Work: What comes to your mind when you see the word “nature”?
2. Preview the text in the Text Builder. Match.
(1) wildlife (2) comment (3) crowded (4) landscape (5) living (6) climate (7) ecology a. alive b. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings c. a verbal or written remark expressing an opinion or reaction d. all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal e. full of people, leaving little or no room for movement f. wild animals collectively g. the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period
3. Talk about natural environment near the place where you live.
Use the following questions to get more ideas.
a. Do you have areas of nature close to you?
b. Do you have a garden?
c. Is there wildlife close by?
4. Talk about relationship between humans and nature.
Use the language you have learnt to talk about your understanding of the relationship between humans and nature.
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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Viewing Workshop
【学习目标】
Students will be able to
1. read and talk about the universe
2. view for understanding
3. summarise information
【学习重难点】
1. talking about the universe
2. summarising information from the video
【学习过程】
1. What do you know about the universe?
2. What do you want to know about the universe?
3. Watch the first part of the video and complete.
(1) The universe is about __________ years old.
(2) The observable universe is about _________ light years across in diameter.
(3) Today the distant objects like stars that we can observe are a bit more than ____________ light years away.
4. Watch the rest of the video. Complete the table.
Questions Observable Universe Whole Universe
(1) How big is it?
(2) Is there an edge?
(3) Is there a centre?
(4) Is it getting bigger?
5. Watch again and discuss.
(1) What is the Earth compared to? Is the comparison useful in understanding the infiniteness of the universe?
2) What methods does the presenter use to enable viewers to understand this piece of knowledge in physics?
6. Find more and share.
(1) What have you learnt about the size of the universe?
(2) Find more information online and share with the class.
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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Writing Workshop
【学习目标】
Students will be able to
1. read and talk about writing a brochure about surviving a disaster
2. read for writing
3. summarise information
4. write a brochure about surviving a disaster
【学习重难点】
Writing a brochure about surviving a disaster
【学习过程】
1. Pair Work: Discuss and decide.
(1) Which disaster do you want to write about?
(2) What advice would you give on surviving it?
2. Read the brochure on page 41. Underline what you should do when you’re indoors, outdoors and in a car.
3. Read again and complete the table.
How to Survive an Earthquake
Situation 1: ______________ 1.1 _________________________________
1.2 _________________________________
Situation 2: ______________ 2.1 _________________________________
2.2 _________________________________
2.3 _________________________________
Situation 3: ______________ 3.1 _________________________________
3.2 _________________________________
3.3 _________________________________
4. Please write your own dos and don’ts.
Dos Don’ts
5. Compose your writing.
(1) Outlining
(2) Drafting
(3) Editing
Edit your brochure in pairs. Then share what you have written in class.
Use the Peer Editing Sheet on page 90.
【精炼反馈】
假设你叫李华，你打算制作一个介绍北京的小册子，让外国朋友更加了解北京。请根据以下提示，用英语完成小册子上的内容。
1．整体介绍：北京是中国的首都，国家的政治、文化中心；
2．人口面积：人口超过两千万，面积大约16000平方千米；
3．景点：长城、故宫、颐和园等；
4．文化活动：品尝北京烤鸭，欣赏京剧等。
注意：
1．词数不少于80；
2．可适当增加细节，以使内容连贯、丰富。
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