Unit 6 Developing ideas (reading for writing) 课件 2025-2026学年外研版（2024）七年级英语上册

Unit 6 Fantastic friends Developing ideas (reading for writing) 册 次：七年级上册 学 科：英语（外研社版） 《英语》（新标准）初中修订版 1 Animals are everywhere in our life. Do you know these animals? 1. We can see them in the museum. 2. They died out. 3. Humans cut down trees and hunted them. Extinct animals Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 3 Read and answer the questions. 1. What’s the name of the animal? Dodo. 2. What do you think of dodos’ story? It’s a sad story. 4 Read and complete the display board. island food animals Humans cut down hunted eggs died out 5 Read and complete the display board. How was dodos’ life in the beginning? happy peaceful safe plenty of food friendly neighbours lived on an island 6 Read and complete the display board. Why did dodos die out? Humans and their pigs, cats and dogs: cut down the trees hunted dodos ate their eggs lost their homes got smaller in number had no more children Dodos: 7 1. Why is the dodo “just a character” to some readers? 2. What do “as happy as a clam” and “as dead as a dodo” mean? Read and answer the questions. 3. What’s the writing purpose of the passage? 8 Let’s check. 1. Why is the dodo “just a character” to some readers? 2. What do “as happy as a clam” and “as dead as a dodo” mean? As happy as a clam means very happy. As dead as a dodo means completely dead. Why does the writer use the two expressions at the end of the passage? To show us the purpose of the passage. Because some people don’t see them in the real world. 9 Let’s check. 3. What’s the writing purpose of the passage? To call on people to protect animals. 10 Brainstorm and discuss. Do people’s actions influence other animals? Give an example. What can we do to help animals in danger? Write a passage to let more people know we should help animals in danger. 11 Do some research on an extinct animal. Find the following information. Homework 1. What is the animal? 2. Where did it live? 3. What was the animal like? 4. What were the habits of the animal? 5. Why did the animal die out? 12 Unit 6 Fantastic friends 册 次：七年级上册 学 科：英语（外研社版） 《英语》（新标准）初中修订版 13 Review What’s the animal? Where did it live? Why did it die out? 14 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Step 1 Do some research on an extinct animal. Use the chart to help you. 15 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Use the information you find to answer the questions in the chart. It’s... / It’s called... / The name of this animal is... It lived on / in... What is the animal and where did it live? 16 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. It was about the size of... / It looked like... / It had... / It could... What was the animal like? Use the information you find to answer the questions in the chart. (look, ability...) 17 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Use the information you find to answer the questions in the chart. It usually… / It liked… What were the habits of the animal? 18 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Use the information you find to answer the questions in the chart. cut down, hunted, ate... Why did it die out? 19 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Use the information you find to answer the questions in the chart. What’s our writing purpose? 20 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Step 2 Organise the information and write a paragraph. Sample The passenger pigeon once lived in North America. It was about 40 cm long. It lived in very large groups and could fly fast. Often, millions of passenger pigeons flew together. The animal died out because people hunted it. They were easy to shoot. The last passenger pigeon died in 1914. 建议添加范文。 21 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Step 3 Check. Did you: ☐ introduce the experience of the animal? ☐ use the words and expressions from the reading passage? ☐ give your opinion about protecting animals? 建议添加范文。 22 Write a short paragraph about another extinct animal. Step 4 Share your paragraph with the class. 建议添加范文。 23 So many fantastic animals are gone. We should do whatever we can to protect the ones that are still with us in the world. Further polish your writing after class. Homework 25 THANK YOU $$