Unit 6 The power of plants Starting out & Understanding ideas （课件） 2024-2025学年外研版七年级英语上册

Unit 6 The power of plants Starting out & Understanding ideas (文本解读) What is this? It’s a seed / plant. What is happening in the picture? Is it powerful? The plant is coming out of the ground. Yes. It’s powerful. Unit 6 The power of plants Importance in the natural world Uses for people Meanings in cultures What do you see in the picture? I see some bamboo. Some bamboo can grow 91 centimetres in just one day. What’s your feeling about this fact? It’s really amazing. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. She is buying some vegetables. He is working on wood. They are weighing the herbs. She is drawing trees and grass. 1 What are they doing? What can plants do for us? 2 Plants can be our food, medicine, materials for houses and objects for painting. 1. What can you see in the picture? A plant. 2. Do you know the names of its parts? 茎（n.） 根（n.） leaf 叶子（n.） 1. What do you see in the picture? Some workers in different workshops. 2. What is the picture about? The picture is about photosynthesis (光合 作用). It happens within a plant. sugar leaf sunlight water Look at the picture of a plant and match the words to it. Read the passage and check your answers. sugar leaf sunlight water leaf 阳光（n.） sunlight sugar 糖（n.） water What is Worker No. 55 going to do? sugar leaf sunlight water Are there real workers in the plant? What do the workers mean to a plant in real life? No, there is no real worker in the plant. Why does the writer use “workers” in the passage? Here the writer uses personification (拟人) to make the passage more vivid and easier for readers to understand. 将人类的特征、情感或行为赋予 非人类实体。 sunlight sugar water leaf sugar leaf sunlight water Choose another suitable title and give your reasons. a How to make sugar b How plants work c Why plants are great d Going to the green workshop 1. What does “plant” mean in this title? Does it have the same meaning as the word in “within a plant”? The word “plant” has two meanings. One is about the living thing. The other is about the place the workers work in. Pun (双关) Complete the texts with the words and expressions from the passage. rise up leaf Water sugar breathe from through 通过（prep.） rise up 上升 rise up breathe Water sugar breathe turn into 转变成 water sugar sunlight Let’s practise more. The small seed will _t_u_r_n_i_n_to_ a beautiful flower one day. Plants produce oxygen __th_r_o_u_g_h_ the process of photosynthesis. The vines (葡萄藤) rise up to get more sunlight. They give more than food and oxygen. 它们提供的不仅是食物和氧气。 Plants offer more than just aesthetic value. 植物不仅仅提供美学价值。 句中more than 意为“不仅仅，超过”。 Let’s practise more. Plants need B just sunlight to grow. many more than more What does the writer think of plants? ？ It means a lot to animals and humans. They give more than food and oxygen. The importance of plants in the natural world. 2. In what other ways do plants help the world? Plants clean the air and help stop floods. Plants provide homes for animals. Plants reduce the effect of climate change. Homework Design your thinking map to introduce the photosynthesis of plants. Make an information card about the importance of plants to the world. $$