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Animal Friends
Unit1
The Amazing Octopus
Reading Plus
Learning Objectives
能从有关章鱼的语篇中提取关键信息和整理、概括主要内容;
能够利用思维导图复述语篇内容;
了解动物对人类的重要性,培养热爱动物的情感,增强保护动物的意识。
Review:
Q1:What’s your favorite animal Why
Q2:What does it look like
Q3:Where is it from
Q4:What does it usually eat
Q5:What can it do
How can we describe animals
We have learned about some animals in the zoo. Now we will explore the sea world.
Lead in:
turtle
Look and say:
shark
Look and say:
whale
Look and say:
dolphin
Look and say:
starfish
Look and say:
clownfish
Look and say:
jellyfish
Look and say:
octopus
Look and say:
Free talk:
What do you know about octopus
Pre-reading:
Prediction:
Title
Picture
+
1. What kind of text is it
A: exposition(说明文)
B: argumentation(议论文)
C: narration(记叙文)
2. What does the passage mainly talk about
It may talk about some amazing facts about octopuses.
Which word should we pay more attention to
amazing
Fast-reading:
1. How many paragraphs are there in the passage
2. Read and find the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Four paragraphs.
Tip:
Topic sentence is often at the beginning or end of the paragraph.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Fast-reading:
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
The amazing abilities of octopuses.
The octopus is strange and unusual.
The interesting body of octopus.
The importance of studying octopuses.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Fast-reading:
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
The amazing abilities of octopuses.
The octopus is strange and unusual.
The interesting body of octopus.
The importance of studying octopuses.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Careful-reading:
The octopus is strange and unusual.
Para.1
Among the many amazing animals in the world, few are as
strange and unusual as the octopus. There are around 300
different kinds of octopuses, and they come in all sizes!
The smallest is only around 2.5 centimetres long, but some
octopuses can grow up to more than five metres long. There
was even an octopus over nine metres long!
They are ________ and _________.
What does the writer think of the octopuses
What can we learn about octopuses
There are around __________ different kinds.
The smallest is only around _______cm long.
Some can grow up to over _______ meters long.
There was even one over ______ meters long.
strange
unusual
300
2.5
5
9
The writer uses ________ to show the octopuses are strange and unusual.
numbers
Watch and learn:
Careful-reading:
Para.2
The octopus’s body is very interesting. All octopuses have
eight arms. Their brain is not just in their head, but also in their arms. This helps
them to think about and do more than one thing at once. Octopuses can also fit into
small places because they do not have any bones! And did you know that octopuses
have three hearts These hearts work with different parts of the body.
The interesting body of octopus.
The interesting body of octopus.
1. Eight arms
2. The brain is not only in the head, but also in the arms.
They have no bones.
Why
No bones helps them to __________ small places.
fit into
Watch and learn:
Careful-reading:
Para.2
The octopus’s body is very interesting. All octopuses have
eight arms. Their brain is not just in their head, but also in their arms. This helps
them to think about and do more than one thing at once. Octopuses can also fit into
small places because they do not have any bones! And did you know that octopuses
have three hearts These hearts work with different parts of the body.
The interesting body of octopus.
The interesting body of octopus.
1. Eight arms
2. The brain is not only in the head, but also in the arms.
They have no bones.
1.Three hearts
2. They work with different parts of the body.
Why
Careful-reading:
Para.3
Octopuses can also do many amazing things. Most of them can change their colour
and shape to look like plants or other sea animals, and they can also make ink. They
keep it inside a very small bag in their body. When they produce ink, the ink makes
it hard for other animals to see them. This helps octopuses to get away fast. What’s
more, when an octopus loses an arm, it can grow it back!
The amazing abilities of octopuses.
They can change their colour and shape to look like plants and other sea animals.
They can also make ink.
They can grow the arm back when they lose one.
The amazing abilities of octopuses.
Careful-reading:
Para.4
Studying amazing animals like the octopus is important because we can learn a lot
from them. But they also show us how wonderful nature is and why it is important to protect it!
The importance of studying octopuses.
Why is it important to study amazing animals
Because we can learn a lot from them.
They also show us how wonderful nature is and why it is important to protect it.
What does “it” refer to
It refers to “nature”.
example
We learn from the octopus’s arm to make a chuck (吸盘).
Studying amazing animals like the octopus is very ____________.
important
Summary
1
Read again. Choose six amazing things about octopuses to complete the mind map.
The octopus
The interesting body of octopus.
The amazing abilities of octopuses.
1. Eight arms
2. The brain is not only in the head, but also in the arms.
They have no bones.
1.Three hearts
2. They work with different parts of the body.
They can change their colour and shape to look like plants and other sea animals.
They can grow the arm back when they lose one.
They can also make ink.
Group work:
Retelling
GM1(组员1): 1. Para.1
GM2(组员2): 2. Para.2
GM3(组员3): 3. Para.3
GM4(组员4): 4. Para.4
How well can you do these things
Very well OK Needs work
1. Loud, fluent and correct;
2. Body language and emotions.
3. Everyone involved.
How well can you do these things
Very well OK Needs work
1. Loud, fluent and correct;
2. Body language and emotions.
3. Everyone involved.
2
Think of some other amazing animals. Discuss them.
What are they like
What can they do
What is amazing about their bodies or abilities
2
Think of some other amazing animals. Discuss them.
What are they like
What is amazing about their bodies or abilities
What can they do
Bees’ are very small, only 8-20 millimetres(毫米) long. Their colour is yellow-brown or black-brown. They have a pair of wings.
Bees can collect honey from different plants and help them reproduce(繁殖). They can keep ecological(生态的) balance.
Bees’ eyes have thousands of small parts. They lets them see a wide area. Besides, bees can build complex(复杂的) honeycomb(蜂巢) with many six-sided cells. The structure of honeycomb is widely used in our daily life.
What are they like
What can they do
What is amazing about their bodies or abilities
Your turn:
Make a report to introduce an amazing animal.
How well can you do these things
Very well OK Needs work
1. Include the three questions;
2. Loud, fluent and correct;
3. Body language and emotions.
4. Everyone involved.
How well can you do these things
Very well OK Needs work
1. Include the three questions;
2. Loud, fluent and correct;
3. Body language and emotions.
4. Everyone involved.
Think further:
WHY it is important to protect animals
WHAT can we do
We should:
Protect their habitats (保护栖息地)
Plant more trees(植树)
Protect environment (保护环境)
Stop illegal hunting (禁止非法捕猎)
Raise public awareness about the importance of animal protection (提高公众对动物保护重要性的认识)
Write posts about how to save animals (制作有关保护动物的海报)
Stop watching animal shows (停止观看动物演出)
.......
Language Points
Language points.
Para.1
Among the many amazing animals in the world, few are as strange and unusual as the octopus. There are around 300 different kinds of octopuses, and they come in all sizes! The smallest is only around 2.5 centimetres long, but some octopuses can grow up to more than five metres long. There was even an octopus over nine metres long!
在...中;...之一
(三者及以上)
as+adj./adv.原级+as
和...一样
there be 有(就近原则)
不同种类的
大约
各种尺寸
厘米
grow up to .... meters long长到...米长
不止;超过(over)
adj. 令人大为惊奇的(修饰物)
→amazed adj. 大为惊奇的(修饰人)
→amaze v. 使惊奇；使惊愕
adj. (表否定)很少的;
几乎没有
Language points.
Para.2
The octopus’s body is very interesting. All octopuses have eight arms. Their brain is not just in their head, but also in their arms. This helps them to think about and do more than one thing at once. Octopuses can also fit into small places because they do not have any bones! And did you know that octopuses have three hearts These hearts work with different parts of the body.
不仅...而且...(就近原则)
指代上文
思考;考虑
over超过
此处意为 “同时”
适合某个位置的大小或形状,进入;适应
宾语从句
和...(协同)工作
Language points.
Para.3
Octopuses can also do many amazing things. Most of them can change their colour and shape to look like plants or other sea animals, and they can also make ink. They keep it inside a very small bag in their body. When they produce ink, the ink makes it hard for other animals to see them. This helps octopuses to get away fast. What’s more, when an octopus loses an arm, it can grow it back!
...中的大部分
看起来像...
keep...inside... 把...保存在...里
vt.生产
make it + adj.+(for sb)+to do sth
意为 “使做某事(对于某人来说)是...的”(此处的it为形式宾语,真正的宾语为后面的to do sth)
离开;逃脱
而且;更重要的是;此外
Language points.
Para.4
Studying amazing animals like the octopus is important because we can learn a lot from them. But they also show us how wonderful nature is and why it is important to protect it!
动名词作主语(表单数概念)
引导原因状语从句
从...中学到很多
show sb sth=show sth to sb 给某人看/展示某事
感叹句作宾语从句
why引导的宾语从句
并列连词,连接两个宾语从句
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