Unit 1 Know yourself Study skills 课件 2025-2026学年译林版九年级（2012）九年级英语上册

译林版（2012）九年级英语上册 Unit 1 Know yourself Study skills 1.They appear in a fixed order and the cycle repeats every 12 years. 它们以固定的顺序出现，每12年循环一次。 （1） fixed用作形容词，意为“固定的”，在句中常作定语。例如： Some people live on fixed incomes. 一些人靠固定的收入生活。 （2）every 12 years 意为“每十二年”。这是“every+基数词+名词（复数）”结构，意为“每……”。例如： The World Cup takes place every four years. 世界杯每四年举办一次。 2 Millie has found this article in a magazine. Skim the article below to find the main idea. Use the following questions to help you. When skimming, read the title, the main headings, the first and last paragraphs, and the first sentence of each paragraph. This will give you a good idea of what the text is about. Attention (略读时要关注其标题、主标题、第一段、最后一段及每段的首句，以便找到重要的信息） 1.Your star sign depends on your date of birth. 你的星座取决于你的出生日期。 depend on意为“取决于；由……决定”，相当于depend upon, 后可接名词、代词或从句作宾语，不用于被动语态。例如： Health depends on food, exercise and enough sleep. 健康取决于食物、锻炼和足够的睡眠。 5 2.In Western countries, a year is divided into a cycle of 12 star signs. 在西方国家，一年被分成12个星座的循环。 “divide...into...”意为“把……分成……”。“be divided into...”是被动式，意为“被分成……”。例如： Let’s divide the rubbish into different kinds before throwing it away. 咱们在扔掉垃圾之前，把它分下类吧。 A year is divided into four seasons. 一年被划分为四个季节。 6 1. What is the article about? 2. Is it true that some aspects of your personality are formed by nature? 3. What can change your personality? 方面 Practice It’s about how your personality is formed. Yes, it is. How is your personality formed? Personality includes your thoughts, feelings and behaviours which make you different from other people. How is your personality formed? Most people believe that it is formed by both nature and the environment. Free Talk 1. There are 12 animal signs. Can you say them out? 2. Do you know what personalities these animal signs represent? Rat: Ox: Tiger: Rabbit: Dragon: Snake: Horse: Sheep: Monkey: Rooster: Dog: Pig: smart hardworking brave careful powerful wise lively gentle clever practical loyal honest Study skills Predicting To predict is to guess what comes next. It helps us understand what kinds of books or articles we are reading, and where we might find information. When we read an article, we can often predict the content from the title. We can also use the headings in an article to predict the main idea of each part. Headings are the titles of the different parts. Often, they are in bold. A. There is an article called “The trouble with teenagers”. Predict the points that will be talked about in the article and tick(√) the correct boxes. 1. making friends □ 2. life in Australia □ 3. feeling lonely □ 4. schoolwork and hobbies □ 5. how our body changes □ 13 1. worrying about tests □ 2. study, study, study □ 3. love or friendship □ TIP If a question begins with when, then the answer will be a time or date. If a question begins with why, then the answer will give a reason, often beginning with because. 14 To get a general idea of a book or an article, we should ask some basic questions. If we predict the answers that the questions might have, it will help us find the answers more quickly and easily when we read in detail. Pre-listening What is he/she like? Review and answer quiet creative active energetic modest easy serious(严谨的) kind patient careful I was born in ________. My animal sign is ______. It says I am _________. What it says about me is/isn’t true. (In fact, …) Introduce yourself What personality does he have? wise, practical, powerful, loyal, organized, humorous 忠诚的 实际的 有力的，强大的 B. Millie is reading an article in Teenagers magazine. Match her questions with your predicted answers. Write the correct letter in each blank. 1. What is it about? a. In a new school. 2. When did it happen? b. Because she moved to another city. 3. Who is it about? c. She is shy and quiet, and she has no new friends 4. Where did it happen? d. Problems with the new school. 5. Why did it happen? e. A few weeks after the new term. 6. How did it happen? f. A girl called Zoe. d e f a b c Skimming means reading the text quickly to get the main idea. It is often used when we read: newspapers (to quickily get the general news of the day). magazines (to find interesting articles we would like to read in more detail). business and travel guides (to quickily get information). Study skills 20 laugh at 嘲笑；因……而发笑 e.g. We all laugh at his funny story. 我们都因他有趣的故事而发笑。 Go ahead and practise. Nobody will laugh at you. 大胆去练，没人会笑你的。 考点1 后接名词、代词作宾语。 知识点 1 ...classmates laugh at her and call her a bookworm When skimming, read the title, the main headings, the first and last paragraphs, and the first sentence of each paragraph. This will give you a good idea of what the text is about. Study skills born in 1953 the Year of the Snake Xi’s profile It’s about how your personality is formed. Yes, it is. Study skills Thank you! $$