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Unit 5 Fantastic friends
Starting out & Understanding ideas (文本解读)
Look and answer.
1 What can you see in the picture?
A man and a monkey are looking at a camera.
Who are our fantastic friends?
2
Animals are our fantastic friends.
great
Look and answer.
Do you know The Classic of Mountains and Seas?
What amazing animals are there in this book?
Think and answer.
What do you think of these animals?
They are amazing!
Pigeon
Tick the words to describe pigeons.
boring fast scary clever dirty
amazing
others:
not interesting
making you feel afraid
not clean
adjectives
(形容词)
Guess and check.
opinion idea
Do you agree with this prediction (预测)?
Henry always likes pigeons.
Read and find.
Henry always likes pigeons.
views
boring dirty scary
surprising clever fast amazing
At first, Henry _d_id_n_’_t_l_ik_e_ pigeons.
But later he _ch_a_n_g_e_d_ his views.
opinion idea
Read quickly and find out the adjectives Henry used to describe pigeons.
Think and match.
scary
amazing
They just knock around ( to move without a clear plan, just spending time there) – for the whole morning!
boring
They leave droppings here and there.
dirty
Pigeons can recognise (to know the person or the thing) themselves in mirrors.
They can also fly at speeds of over 100 km per hour.
The birds are flying madly (wildly) to her.
boring
scary
dirty
amazing
They just knock around – for the whole morning!
They leave droppings here and there.
The birds are flying madly to her.
Pigeons can recognise themselves in mirrors.
They can also fly at speeds of over 100 km per hour.
views
facts
support
Think and match.
Listen, read and answer.
Listen to and read Day 1 and Day 2 in Henry’s blogs and answer the question.
How can you tell that Henry didn’t like pigeons except the adjectives we mentioned?
How can you tell that Henry didn’t like pigeons except the adjectives we mentioned?
Learning to think
We can tell people’s thoughts and feelings about animals from their words and tones (语气).
How can you tell that Henry didn’t like pigeons except the adjectives we mentioned?
Listen to and read Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 in Henry’s blogs and answer the questions.
What did Henry do then? What did he find?
If we want to know more facts about animals, what should we do?
We should do some research, such as watching them, doing some online research and reading books about them.
What did Henry do then?
What did he find?
Because he did some research to know more facts about pigeons.
Listen to and read the ending of Henry’s blogs and answer the question.
Why does Henry change his views?
Think and answer.
If we want to give views, what should we do first? We should do more research to get more facts first.
Read and choose.
Choose another suitable title and give your reasons.
Clever Pigeons
Pigeons in the Park
Amazing Pigeons
People and Pigeons
Discuss.
What do you think of pigeons after reading Henry’s blogs?
What other facts do you know about pigeons?
Homework
Must do
Read Henry’s blogs aloud.
Search for more facts about pigeons and share them with your c l assmates with the words and expressions we learnt in this class.
Homework
Choose to do
Choose an animal you are interested in and do some research. Try to watch them, do some online research and read books about them.
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