Unit 4 Friends Forever Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 5 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 新 课 导 入 Video: Pets in the UK 1. What are the most popular pets in the UK? 2. What is the most important animal charity in the UK? 课 堂 学 习 Cats and dogs. The RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). 1 Watch the video in the Lead-in and answer the questions. Starting out 2 Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1. What are the relationships between the people and the animals? pet owner and pet blind people and guide dog horseman and horse owner and livestock I often interact with ________. lover, companion, partner, close relatives… We are best friends. 2. What animals do you often interact with? What is your relationship with them? Understanding ideas 1 Look at the pictures and choose the animals that migrate. d e f a monarch butterfly b Siberian crane c Atlantic salmon red panda Killer whale African lion √ √ √ √ 1. What is the main idea of the passage? A. The monarch’s migration. B. The way how the monarch butterflies migrate. C. Mexico’s monarch. 2. What mystery have the scientists solved? The scientists have solved the mystery of how monarch butterflies manage to travel a long distance and find their way to their destination. The main idea of a passage can be found from its title, the topic sentence, or even the pictures. Go through the passage quickly and answer the following three questions: √ 1 Many animals move from one place to another at certain times of the year. This annual movement is called migration. They migrate to find food, seek a partner, or in search of warmer weather. One of the most wonderful migrations in nature is that of the North American monarch butterfly. 2 Every autumn, millions of these beautiful insects with fine black and orange wings begin a long and difficult journey. Somehow they manage to travel around 4,000 kilometres south and find their way to California or Mexico. However, until recently no one knew how they di