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Unit 6 Nature in words
Topic Integrated Revision: Man and Nature
Learning objectives:
(After this class, you will be able to…)
1. Comb expressions related to nature and use them in specific contexts to form your vocabulary network.
2. Express your own opinions using words and expressions learned in this unit.
Step 1 导入
1. Many students have difficulties with continuation writing, especially when it comes to describing nature and environment.Let’s keep in mind some words and expressions.
2. Build a framework.
wind
weather
Nature
sun
sky
Task 1: topic-related words and lexical chunks.
weather
wind
sun
water
sky
environment
Step2 知识重建
Task 2. Review the passage in your textbook and fill in the blanks.
First Snow
It is the first time that I 1. __ (see) snow this year.It is not only an event but a magical event.You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find 2. (you) in another completely different.The secrecy and 3. (quiet) will make it more magical.When I got up this morning,I found the world dead white and pale blues.The light 4. (come) through the windows was very strange,5. made the familiar business of splashing,shaving,brushing teeth and dressing strange too.When the sun came out,the snow became pink.The plum tree stood in full sunlight.An hour 6. two later,everything was a cold sparkle of white and blue.The little Japanese prints had disappeared.The ground went on and on,the sky was thick grey,and all the trees were black and in 7. (threaten) shapes.Now the snow is falling 8. (heavy) in great soft flakes so that you can hardly see across the shallow valley.The 9. (roof)are thick and the trees are all bending.I can see the children 10. (flatten) their noses against the window.
Task3. Review the reading passage in the unit and try to translate the sentences into English.
1.离我上次欣赏到这银装素裹的世界,着实过了些时日了。
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2.太阳的光彩