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Unit 6 At one with nature
Developing ideas
A Love of Gardening
1.To know how to choose the topic sentence of the paragraph;
2. To understand the structure of the text;
3. To promote the awareness of being close to nature and live in harmony with nature.
What do your parents or grandparents grow in their yard?
Lead-in
Most Chinese people prefer growing vegetables to planting floweres in their yards.
Lead-in
While British people like planting flowers, vegetables, grass in their guardens.
Lead-in
A love of Gardening
Predicting
Look at the title of the passage and the picture.
Tick what you think is mentioned in the passage.
Fast reading
Choose the topic sentences and write them on the lines to complete the passage.
As well as being good for the environment, gardening is also good for the soul.
But in cities, limited space has led to people looking for new solutions.
For many people in the UK, their garden is their own private world.
This is what started the British love of gardening!
A topic sentence is a sentence that states or suggests the main idea or topic of a paragraph. Often, a topic sentence comes at the beginning of a paragraph; sometimes, it appears in the middle or at the end.
Para 4
Para 3
Para 2
Para 1
Para1 1. Which sentence can show more and more British people love gardening?
Today, millions of Brits like to say that they have “green fingers”, with around half the population spending their free time gardening.
Careful reading
Careful reading
Para1 2. What does “green fingers” mean in the first paragraph?
A.The fingers painted with green color.
B.The poor skills of gardening.
C.The fingers cut by green knife.
D.The super skills of gardening.
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Careful reading
Read the paragraph 2 and fill the form.
What people do
children
expert gardeners
common people
plant sunflowers and wait to see which one is the tallest
find the right corner for roses
grow perfect vegetables to enter into the competition
Brits like nothing better than gardening and