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单元素养目标
文化、思维、学习能力目标
了解中外人民与自然和谐相处的情况,了解不同民族的文化习俗,树立文化自信;能够恰当使用定语从句介绍自然景观,概括所阅读文章的大意
语言能力目标
核心单词
sheet,region,therefore,shallow,prevent,design,agriculture,replace,material,living,narrow,desert,climate,inside,publish,expert,branch,limited,benefit,energy,system
重点词块
as far as, plenty of, prevent ...from ..., wash away, in harmony with, green fingers, spend time/money (in) sth./doing sth.
单元语法
定语从句(3)
写作能力
能够写一篇语言简洁、结构清晰的概要写作
单元话题导入
[品读话题短文]
It was a village in India.The people were poor.However, they were not unhappy.After all, their forefathers① had lived in the same way for centuries.
Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived.They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere② who liked to eat frog's legs.However, they did not have enough frogs of their own③, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.
This seemed like money for nothing.There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers.All they had to do was to catch them. Agreement④ was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch⑤ and hand over the money.For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn't last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well.More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.
The villagers decided that they couldn't just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak.They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides⑥ and medicines.Soon there was no money left.
Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog.They hadn't been useless.They had been doing an important job—eating insects.Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly.They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the people are still poor.But in the evenings