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Unit 12 Better Together
Lesson 4 Theme Reading
嵩县思源实验学校
程秋娟
Lead-in The Magical Brush
Teamwork is important.
1.用略读和扫读的阅读策略快速获取语篇及段落的主旨
大意和关键信息;
2.用分析问题和解决方案思维技能梳理文本,完成图表以理解情节发展;
3.体会语篇中所体现的团队精神,并领悟到团结协作的力量,感受团队合作解决问题的魅力。
Learning Objectives
Activity 1 Pair work. Look at the pictures and talk about where the oranges in the supermarkets come from.
Before-reading
Before-reading Task1
The oranges grow up in orange gardens.
Villagers look after the oranges carefully.
When the oranges are ripe(成熟), the villagers will pick the oranges together.
After the oranges are packed(打包), they will be transported(运输) to supermarkets in different places.
Activity 2 Skim and scan the text to answer the questions.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
2. What did Zhou Dong and his freinds decide to do in the end?
Zhou and his friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown.
Zhou Dong is a hero in his hometown village.
While-reading Task1 Skimming and Scanning
Activity 3 Read the text again and complete the mian idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Zhou is _______________ in his hometown village.
Zhou's team helped solve the problem of _______________ .
Zhou's team helped solve the problem of _______________ .
Zhou and his freinds planned to help _________________ .
a hero
selling the oranges
bring more changes to their hometown
heavy water and soil loss
While-reading Task2 Skimming
Activity 4 Read the tex again and complete the problem and solution chart.
The villagers had difficulty in
__________________________________________________.
Most orange gardens _______
__________________________________________________.
Zhou and his freinds ________
__________________________________________________.
Zhou's team helped ________
______________________and_________________________.
Problems
Solutions
selling the oranges
set up an online shop to sell the oranges
were in heavy water and soil loss
change the water ways improve the soil
While-reading Task3 Thinking Skills Analyzing problems and solutions
Group work Retell the passage according to the key words given.
While-reading Task4
Para.1
a hero... an engineer... gave up... returned..
Para.2
villagers...grew oranges... tasty... sell well... sorry...last year... made up his mind... returned with... set up... try every means... get the oranges... through...sold out
Para.3
another problem... heavy water... soil loss... the taste of ... solve... change... improve...
Para.4
decided... stay...bring...
Zhou Dong is a hero in his hometown village. He was an engineer in a big company. But, last year, he gave up his job and returned home to help the villagers grow and sell oranges.
Many villagers in his hometown grew oranges. The oranges were tasty but didn't sell well. Zhou felt so sorry for them. Last year, he finally made up his mind to help them. He returened with three of his friends and set up an online shop to sell the oranges. Zhou's team tried every means to let people know the tasty oranges, and shoppers could get the oranges in just one or two days through online shopping. Soon, they sold out all the oranges.
But there was another problem for most orange gardens. That's heavy water and soil loss. Water and soil are important to the taste of the oranges. To solve this problem, Zhou's team helped change the water ways and improve the soil.
Zhou and his freinds decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown.
While-reading Task5
Group work Read the text again and find out key points
1.一位英雄;英雄(复数)
2.一个工程师
3.放弃
4.返回家
5.为……感到抱歉,遗憾,伤心
6.下定决心做某事
7.成立,建立
8.想法设法做某事
9.在(某段时间)之后
10.卖光
11.水土流失
12.对……重要
13.为了解决这个问题
14.决定做某事
15.给某人带来某物
a hero;heroes
an engineer
give up
return home
be/feel sorry for
make up one’s mind to do sth.
set up
try every means to do sth.
in+一段时间
sell out
water and soil loss
be important to
to solve the problem
decide to do sth.
bring sb.sth.=bring sth. to sb.
key Points
Activity 5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the phrases in the box.
work as give up make up one's mind to set up try every means to
1. We should try every means to help others and make the world a better place.
2. They __________________ a study group to help others.
3. He decided to __________________a volunteer in the community.
4. They __________________ help the old people.
5. He finally __________________ drinking, because drinking isn't healthy.
set up
work as
made up their mind to
gave up
Excercises
1.What do you think of Zhou Dong?
He is helpful and full of the spirit of teamwork. He loves his hometown and he has made great contributions(贡献) to his hometown.
2.What can you learn from Zhou Dong’s story?
We should study hard and make our hometown better in the future.
Post-reading Further Thinking
In this class, you learn
some new words and expressions, such as taste, hero, engineer, company, voice, discuss, have difficulty in, try every means to do and so on.
to use the thinking skills and reading strategies learnt last class to solve reading problems successfully.
the charming of working together to solve problems.
Summary
1. recite the key words and expressions after class.(Students A/B/C/D)
2. talk about group activities and feel the teamwork around you.(Students A/B)
3. try to work together with others to solve some problems in the class.(Students A/B/C/D)
Homework
下节课,再见!
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