Unit 10 Section B 2a-2c 课件2023-2024学年人教版英语七年级下册

Birthday Food Around the World Unit 10 Section B reading Prediction The passage is about_________ A. birthday party B. birthday food. 2. What can you get from the picture? Reading skill: The title and the picture can help us to get the main idea of a passage. 2 Read and match the main ideas. Birthday food in many countries. Different foods, the same idea. People eat differently on their birthday. Birthday food in China. Reading skills: How to find the main idea of a paragraph? The first or the last sentence is usually the main idea Para 1. 1. How does the writer begin the passage? A. By telling a story. B. By asking a question. C. By giving an example. D. By showing numbers. 2.In which part of the newspaper can we find the passage? A. Sports. B. Culture. C. Art D. Time. Birthday food in many countries Para 2 in many countries in the UK People eat birthday cakes_____________ People put a _______ in a cake __________________is the person’s age. __________candles makes a wish________ The child with the candy is ______. with candles candy The number of candles Blowing out lucky come true 5 Find the information you are interested in and ask questions about it. What How Why ... Birthday food in China Para 3 Ask and answer questions in pairs. 1. What does “They”refer to? It refers to ________________. 2. What is the same idea? Birthday foods Bring good luck to us Para 4 Post-reading 1. What is the structure of the passage? 2. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To tell people the birthday food in the UK. B. To ask people to eat long noodles on their birthdays. C. To tell people birthday foods have special meanings. D. To tell people to have cakes with candles. A. ① ②③④ B. ① ② ③ ④ C. ①②③ ④ D. ① ② ③ ④ Food and culture 送张送张盥赴举诗 唐·刘禹锡 尔生始悬弧，我作座上宾。 引箸举汤饼，祝词天麒麟。 催宗文树鸡栅 唐·杜甫 吾衰怯行迈，旅次展崩迫。 愈风传乌鸡，秋卵方漫吃。 noodles eggs Other traditional Chinese food? Supplementary reading Birthday Customs Around the World Read and underline the birthday custom(习俗) of each country. Birthday Customs Around the World People in every country celebrate their birthdays. And they celebrate them in many different ways. In Brazil, the special birthday food isn’t cake. People eat special food like candles. In Argentina, parents and friends will put on the birthday person’s ears several times. If you are seven years old, they pull on your ears seven times. In Holland, children not only give gifts, but also give things out. They give cakes, cookies and candles to their classmates and teachers on their birthdays. In Mexico, it’s good luck to give birthday greetings early in the day. So, it’s usual for the birthday child to be woken up at midnight by friends singing birthday songs. In Israel, on the child’s birthday, parents will throw the children in the air and then catch him on her. In Thailand, two tall candles are lighted the night before the birthday. One is as tall as the birthday person. If it goes out early, it’s bad luck. Another custom of Thailand is that they buy live fish and birds for the birthday person and then the birthday person frees the animals, and it brings good luck. In many countries, birthday customs are changing. Old customs are giving way to western style of birthdays, with candle topped cakes. But one thing never changes---birthdays are special days for everyone! Group work: Report What’s Your Favorite Way of Celebrating Your Birthday? Discuss the ways in groups of four and then make a report. One of you will be the reporter. You may start your report like this: Hello, everyone! In my group, we celebrate our birthdays in different ways.... Summary Birthday Food Around the World All the birthday foods carry out best wishes. In many countries In China Different birthday foods, the same idea Homework Level A: Explore and do a survey Why do people eat cakes and put candles on it? Level B: Write a passage Ways of celebrating my birthday Level C: Retell the passage with the key phrases $$