Unit 1 Section B 2 (Reading plus + Project) 课件- 2024-2025学年人教版英语七年级下册

UNIT 1 Animal Friends In this unit, you will: talk about different animals introduce your favourite animal use adjectives to describe animals explore the meaning of caring for animals How are animals part of our lives? SECTION B BIG Question Why are animals important? Project: Design a zoo Reading Plus: The Amazing Octopus Warming up 1 SECTION B Click here to start game: Animal Guessing Game - Gameshow quiz (wordwall.net) Project (3a-3c) 2 SECTION B Guess the animal. What am I? I am a bird. I can swim but I can’t fly. I am black and white. I live in Antarctica. I eat fish. In groups, take turns to think of an animal. Describe it. 3a You can describe the animal from the following aspects: What does it look like? Where does it live? What food does it eat? What can it do? What animal is it? Looks Home Food Ability Guess one another’s animals and write them down in the table. 3a Land Water Sky ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ You’re going to design a zoo. Choose some of the animals from 3a for your zoo. Give your reasons. 3b Water ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ penguin I’d like to keep penguins in the zoo, because … they’re cute and curious. they’re friendly to people. You can pet and feed them in the zoo. … You’re going to design a zoo. Choose some of the animals from 3a for your zoo. Give your reasons. 3b Land ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ I’d like to keep ______________ in the zoo, because … ______________________________________ ______________________________________ You’re going to design a zoo. Choose some of the animals from 3a for your zoo. Give your reasons. 3b I’d like to keep ______________ in the zoo, because … ______________________________________ ______________________________________ Sky ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ - Welcome to our zoo! - This is ... / These are … - Here you can see ... - There is/are ... - These animals are ... - We like ... because they are ... Draw a map of your zoo and present it to the class. Use the map and the expressions in the box to help you. Vote for the zoo you like. 3c Welcome to our zoo! - This is ... / These are … - Here you can see ... - There is/are ... - These animals are ... - We like ... because they are ... Over to you How often do you visit the zoo in your city? How do you plan your visit to the zoo? How long does it usually take for you to explore the zoo? Are visitors allowed to bring their own food and drinks to the zoo? Singapore Zoo Map Reading Plus 3 SECTION B Reading Plus Unit 1 The Amazing Octopus Before you read, watch a video about octopus. The Amazing Octopus Among the many amazing animals in the world, few are as strange and unusual as the octopus. There are around 300 different kinds of octopuses, and they come in all sizes! The smallest is only around 2.5 centimetres long, but some octopuses can grow up to more than five metres long. There was even an octopus over nine metres long! The octopus’s body is very interesting. All octopuses have eight arms. Their brain is not just in their head, but also in their arms! This helps them to think about and do more than one thing at once. Octopuses can also fit into small places because they do not have any bones! And did you know that octopuses have three hearts? These hearts work with different parts of the body. Octopuses can also do many amazing things. Most of them can change their colour and shape to look like plants or other sea animals, and they can also make ink. They keep it inside a very small bag in their body. When they produce ink, the ink makes it hard for other animals to see them. This helps the octopuses to get away fast. What’s more, when an octopus loses an arm, it can grow it back! Studying amazing animals like the octopus is important because we can learn a lot from them. But they also show us how wonderful nature is and why it is important to protect it! Para 1 Octopuses are strange and unusual. Reread the text and complete the diagram for each paragraph. Fact 1: There are around ______ different kinds of octopuses. Fact 2: Octopuses come in all sizes. The smallest is ___________________. The large one can grow up to __________________. 300 2.5 centimeters long over 5 meters long Para 2 Interesting facts about the octopus’s _____. Reread the text and complete the diagram for each paragraph. They all have ______ arms. Their brain is in their _______ and ______. They _______(do/don’t) have bones. They have _______ hearts. body eight head arms don’t three Para 3 Other facts: Most of them can change ______ and _______. They can make ________. Their arms can __________. What is the function of ink? __________________________________ colour Reread the text and complete the diagram for each paragraph. shape ink It helps the octopuses to get away fast. grow again Para 4 1. What can we learn from studying octopuses? _________________________________ 2. How do octopuses demonstrate the wonder of nature? _________________________________ 3. Why is it important to protect animals like octopuses according to the text? _________________________________ Reread the text and complete the diagram for each paragraph. Read the text. Choose six amazing things about octopuses to complete the map. 1 The octopus Body ______ ______ ______ Ability ______ ______ ______ Think of some other amazing animals. Discuss them: 2 What are they like? What can they do? What is amazing about their bodies or abilities? Amazing animals The African grey parrot is known for its high intelligence. It is capable of learning over 100 words. Although a popular pet, the species is now endangered in the wild. The capybara is the world's largest rodent. It is found in every country in South America apart from Chile. It is also found in Central America, and has even been spotted in Florida! Amazing animals The cheetah is the world's fastest land animal. It can reach speeds of up to 75 mph (121km/h) in pursuit of its fast-moving antelope prey. The emperor penguin is the world’s largest species of penguin. It lives in Antarctica. The emperor penguin makes up for not being able to fly by being the world's deepest diving bird. Amazing animals Queen Alexandra's birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world. It is found in Papua New Guinea. The brown-colored females are bigger than the striking green and black males. The Queen Alexandra's birdwing is endangered, and is only found in a 100 sq km area of rainforest. 32 Summary 4 SECTION B Summary Unit 1 Animal Friends Section B: Project & Reading Plus Project: Design a zoo Review questions: • Which animals would you like to have in your zoo, and why? • What animals do you think shouldn't be in a zoo? Reading Plus: The Amazing Octopus Review questions: • What did you learn from this passage? • What other amazing animals would you like to learn about? Homework 5 SECTION B Design your own zoo and share it with classmates. Research and write a passage about an amazing animal you would like to learn about. UNIT 1 Animal Friends Thank you! Lavf58.29.100 Bilibili VXCode Swarm Transcoder v0.7.28 null 96184.43 $$