Unit 5 Water is life第1课时 Reading 课件 2024-2025学年沪教版（2024）英语七年级下册

Unit 5 Water is life Lesson 1 Reading 英语沪教版（2024）七年级下册 Learning objectives 目录页标题 通过本课时学习，学生能够： 1. 掌握水如何从自然界进入千家万户的相关信息，并能够简单概括这一过程。 2. 读懂关于一滴水的旅程的语篇，了解水循环流程。 3. 通过角色扮演的方式复述水循环的过程。 4. 表达自己对水的看法以及分享自己的节水观点，增强学生节约用水、保护水资源的意识。 重点 重点 Think and talk Where can you see water? water in the sea in the river from the tap in a glass in the lake fall from the cloud Think and say What happens after water falls from clouds as rain? Let’s find out! Look at the picture and label some important parts with the words below. Look and label mountain cloud tree river fall rise Look and finish Look at the picture of the water cycle below and put the sentences in the correct order (1-5). 2 5 4 3 Look and describe Look at the picture and describe the water cycle according to the picture and the sentences. 2 5 4 3 The picture shows the water cycle. First, water falls from the clouds as rain. Then ... After that ... Next ... Finally ... These words make your sentences more logical. Look and guess 1. Who are the main characters of the passage? __________ and _________________. 2. What do you think the characters will talk about? a drop of water A girl Perhaps they talk about the journey of water. Look at the title and the picture of the passage. Then have a guess and answer the questions. Scan and finish Put the sentences in the correct order. a. Dripple told Du Yun about its long journey to her house. b. Du Yun rushed to her study and told her diary about this. c. Dripple asked Du Yun to turn the tap off. d. Du Yun brushed her teeth in the bathroom. e. Dripple told Du Yun it would go back to the sea again and its journey would start there. d b e a c Read and complete Read the story and complete Dripple’s journey with the information from the story. ended up in a reservoir went into a special place and got cleaned travelled through the pipes under the streets got to Du Yun’s home Read and answer Q1: Why was Dripple angry at Du Yun? Q2: How did Dripple fall down from the cloud? Because the tap was on / she left the tap on. When the wind pushed the cloud up a mountain, the cloud cooled down. Dripple turned into one of the raindrops. Then it fell down from the cloud. Read and answer Q3: What did people do with the water from the reservoir? Why did they do so? Q4: What will happen when Dripple returns to the sea? They cleaned it and added some chemicals to it. Because the water was dirty. From there it will start its journey back to the clouds again. Read and answer Q5: Why did Dripple tell Du Yun not to waste or pollute water? Because water is valuable. Think and answer In this story, the drop of water talks like a human being. This is called personification. Why does the writer use “personification”? 1. To make a story more interesting. 2. To help the reader understand the writer’s ideas more easily. Role-play Role-play Work in pairs and role-play the conversation between Du Yun and Dripple. Turn that tap off. You are wasting water. My name is Dripple. I’m a drop of water. I came from the tap. A few days ago, I was in a cloud... How did you get to my home then? I ... Is this the end of your journey? No... Who are you? Complete the diary journey drop at once tap return Complete Du Yun’s diary with the words and the phrase below. Change the form if necessary. tap drop at once return journey Share your ideas Do you think it is easy or difficult for water to get to your home? Why? Should we save water? How will you save water in the future? I think it is difficult for water to get to my home because ... We should save water. In the future, I will ... Homework 1. Review the new words and phrases in this lesson. 2. Make some sentences about the journey of a drop of water. 3. Find more information about how to save water. Bye-bye! $$