Unit 2 Period 2 Understanding Ideas 课件-高一上学期英语【精彩课堂】精品课件（外研社2019必修第一册）

Unit 2 Explore English Understanding ideas food cooking plants fruit words pine + apple =pineapple ? hamburger ? ham eggplant ? egg Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about. Prediction: Activity 1 2 Read for main idea: What’s the topic sentence of the passage? Read for main idea: Activity 3 Choose the author’s purpose in writing this passage. 1 To tell us that English is very difficult to learn. 2 To give advice on how to learn English. 3 To show that English is interesting and creative. 4 To explain how English was created. Introduce the topic List some examples Draw a conclusion The author's opinion Topic/Opinion The author explains his / her opinion ( English is interesting and creative.) by giving a lot of examples. persuasive writing/ argumentation English is a crazy language. Examples to prove English is crazy. The craziness of English reflects human creativity. Structure for Opinion Examples Opinion persuasive writing Reason English is illogical and unpredictable. Language is arbitrary. 6 The author develops the text by _____ . A. stating arguments. B. making comparisons. C. giving examples. D. providing research results. C Read for information: Activity 4 no egg in eggplant no ham in __________ neither pine nor apple in ________ seasick: sick at sea ______: sick in the air ______: sick in a car BUT _______ ≠ sick at home sculpt a sculpture paint a ________ BUT ____ a photo burn up burn down fill in a form ________a form ___ the car/the taxi ___ the train/ the bus “Hard” is the opposite of soft. “_______” and “softly” are not an opposing pair. “Harmless” is the opposite of “harmful”. Shameful and _________ behaviors are the same. Seeing rain/snow, we can say “It’s ______________”. Seeing sunshine, however, we can’t say “It’s _____________”. Stars are out. They are visible. Lights are out. They are ______.