内容正文:
Parents’ love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending.
父母的爱像一个圆,无止无境。
Unit 2
Parents and Children
Whom did you like to play with when you were a little boy/girl?
…when you grow up?
What about now?
What do you think of the relationship
between the parents and kids?
Enjoy a touching story
Getting-ready
1. Arrange the pictures in correct order according to your understanding of the text.
order__________.
C, D, A, E, B
2. Find some key words /expressions in the text to match with the pictures.
A: house, chop off branches, lonely
B: tree stump, to have a rest,
smile with tears
C: huge, climb, play with, take a nap,
happy
D: teenager, pick, sell, sad
E: relax, trunk, boat, sail away, show up
Retell the story to your partner with the help of the pictures and the key words. You may begin like this:
Once upon a time, a little boy ________________________
Tips:
When you tell a story, you can do it according to the time sequence. In other words, you can tell the story step by step.
Reading
A Boy and His Tree
Nap probably means ______.
A. a short sleep B. a short break
Chop off means _______.
to take off B. to cut off
The trunk of a tree_______.
A.its branch B. its main stem
Dying means ________ in Chinese.
The root from of dying is_______.
垂死的
die
skimming
In this story, the writer means to tell us that_____
A.children can never really understand how much their parents love them until they themselves become parents
B.parental love is always selfless, endless and unconditional
C.children's love in return for their parents' love is far from enough
1
Read the text quickly to decide the main idea of the text.
2
Read the stoty carefully and
complete the following table.
grew up, picked and sold all the apples, left happily
sad
Scanning
when What the boy needed