Unit 5 Fantastic friends Developing ideas（课件） 2024-2025学年外研版七年级英语上册

Unit 5 Fantastic friends Developing ideas (阅读) What’s the animal? 1 2 Look and answer. What do you think of them and why? pigeon dog amazing helpful Animals are amazing and helpful. Falkland Islands Wolf 福克兰群岛狼 passenger pigeon 旅鸽 dodos 渡渡鸟 cave bear 洞熊 die out to be extinct (灭绝) thylacine 袋狼 Do you know these animals? Look and say. 1 Where can you see these animals now? 2 What happened to them? 3 What do you think are the reasons? We can only see these animals in the museum now. They died out. Maybe because humans hunted them. People also cut down the trees in the forest and their homes were gone. Think and answer. extinct Look and say. 1 2 3 a character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland peaceful life hunting dodos in the museum Look and say. 4 an introduction to dodos the reasons why dodos died out happy old days suggestions about helping animals Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 1 2 3 4 Read and match. Why is the dodo “just a character” to some readers? 1 This is because dodos died out and people won’t see them in nature. Where can you see dodos now? 2 Now we can only see them in museums. Read and answer. Happy, peaceful and safe. Where did dodos live? 1 They lived on an island in the Indian Ocean. How was dodos’ life in the old days? 2 Read and answer. Read and answer. Why did dodos die out? Humans cut down the trees and dodos’ lovely forest was gone. They hunted dodos. Their pigs, cats and dogs ate dodos’ eggs. peaceful Retell. island Indian plenty friendly cut down humans hunted eggs What does “as dead as a dodo” mean? 1 “As happy as a clam” means very happy. 蛤蜊 low tide high tide “As dead as a dodo” means completely dead. What does “as happy as a clam” mean? 2 Read and answer. Why does the writer use the two expressions at the end of the passage? 3 to echo the title 点题 As dead as a dodo Read and answer. The writer uses them to show strong happiness and sadness. The contrast (对比) makes the different feelings much stronger. What’s more, “as dead as a dodo” is to echo the title and call on us to protect animals in need. What is the purpose of the passage? 1 The purpose is to tell people about the dodo’s story and show how people influence wild animals. Also, it’s to call on people to protect animals in need. a tip: You may find the writing purpose from the title, beginning or ending of the passage. Usually, the writer wants the readers to learn a lesson or take some action. Think and share. How do people’s actions influence animals? Give an example. Think and share. 2 Some people hunt elephants for the ivory. Think and share. As a student, what’s the best way for us to help animals? Don’t buy animal products. Don’t hunt or kill animals. Don’t cut down trees and try to protect our environment. What’s more, we can write a passage to call on more people to help animals. Homework Must do Try to retell the whole passage. Homework Choose to do Do some research on an extinct animal and find out the reasons why it died out. $$