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Unit 6 Fantastic friends
Understanding ideas (2)
英语外研版七年级上册
Learning objectives
通过本课时学习,学生能够:
1. 归纳、总结现在进行时的句型结构,掌握现在进行时的标志词,
了解该时态的用法和意义。
2. 分析、获取现在分词的变化规则。
3. 正确使用现在进行时来描述某个正在发生的动作。
4. 对某一动物的形态、习性、行为活动等进行描述,参考范例进行趣配音。
重点
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Revision
What animal does Henry write about for Bird Week?
Pigeons.
What does Henry think of it on Day 5?
Amazing.
Read and find
Read the sentences from the reading passage and summarise the grammar rules.
Now find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage.
am/is/are + doing…
Watch and answer
What’s the amazing animal in the video?
It’s the monkey.
Here is another amazing animal.
It is ______________.
eating fruit
a
b
c
It is ______________.
jumping
It is _______________.
climbing trees
They are _______ in a hot spring.
sitting
d
Look and fill
Circle and think
It is eating fruit.
It is climbing trees.
It is jumping.
They are sitting in a hot spring.
They are not sleeping.
Can you circle “be + doing” in these sentences?
We use “be + doing” to express something in progress:
1. S. + _____________ + doing…
2. S. + __________________ + doing…
be(am/is/are)
be(am/is/are) + not
Present continuous tense
Look and match
a. — What are the two monkeys doing?
1. _________
— It’s climbing trees.
2. ________
— It’s looking at itself in the water.
3. _________
—They are sitting in the water.
b. — What is the monkey doing?
b
a
c. — What is the pigeon doing?
c
Observe and learn
1. — What is the monkey doing?
— It’s climbing trees.
2. — What is the pigeon doing?
— It’s looking at itself in the water.
3. — What are the two monkeys doing?
— They are sitting in the water.
Can you find the question sentences?
What is/are + S. + doing…?
How can you answer these questions?
S. + am/is/are + doing…
________________________________
________________________________
Look, ask and answer
it / sleep / now
It isn’t _________ now.
sleeping
— Are the pigeons flying madly to her?
— Yes, they are.
—Be (Am / Is / Are) + S. + doing…?
—Yes, ____________ /
—No, _____________
S. + be.
S. + be + not.
—Is it eating fruit now?
—Yes, it is.
Can you change this sentence into a yes-no question?
It is eating fruit now.
the pigeons / flying / madly / her
________________________________
—____ it sleeping now?
—No, it isn’t.
Is
The pigeons are flying madly to her.
1
2
3
Read, fill and observe
It is eating fruit.
It is jumping.
He is watching pigeons in the park.
They are leaving droppings here and there.
She is writing.
He is swimming.
The boy is running.
They are sitting in the hot spring.
He is lying on the bed.
verb v.-ing
eat eating
jump
watch
leave
write
swim
run
sit
lie
jumping
watching
leaving
writing
swimming
running
sitting
lying
most verbs + ___
Rules
ing
________
- e + ing
________ the last
letter + ing
change “ie” to ____ + ing
y
double
Read and fill
6. Read and complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.
stand watch jump
1. Look! The rabbit one metre high!
2. —The horse is sleeping.
—I can’t believe it. It . Can it sleep like that?
3. Ssh! I the cat in the tree.
is jumping
is standing
am watching
Read and complete
The new camera looks like a real beaver! We put it by the river. Now we 1. ____________(watch) the beavers. Look! One beaver 2. __________(cut) a tree with its teeth. And the other two 3. _________ (put) the sticks in the river. They want to make a pool. But what’s it for? Oh, I see! They
4. __________(build) their home in it. The pool will protect them from wolves, bears, etc. This is amazing!
Now the work is done! Two beavers 5. ____________(swim) in the pool. The other one 6. _________(try) to find food. It’s such nice work. Beavers are really “nature’s engineers”!
are watching
is cutting
are putting
are building
are swimming
is trying
7. Complete the passage using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Now we are watching the beavers.
Look! One beaver is cutting a tree with its teeth.
Ssh! I am watching the cat in the tree.
Think and circle
Try to circle the marker words of the present continuous tense in these sentences.
Listen, at the moment,
right now, at present, these days, ...
Can you say more marker words?
now
one more time
Look!
Ssh!
看!
at the moment
Choose and knock first! And then make sentences with the words and pictures.
Choose and make sentences
Example:
Look! The monkey is eating a banana.
now
one more time
Look!
Ssh!
看!
at the moment
Choose and make sentences
Choose and knock first! And then make sentences with the words and pictures.
now
one more time
Look!
Ssh!
Listen!
at the moment
Choose and make sentences
Choose and knock first! And then make sentences with the words and pictures.
now
one more time
Look!
Ssh!
Listen!
at the moment
Choose and make sentences
Choose and knock first! And then make sentences with the words and pictures.
Watch again and say
What is special about the monkey?
1. It eats small animals.
2. It can sit in the hot spring as humans do.
3. It can run and jump very fast in the tree.
4. ...
What do you think of it?
I think it is very clever/...
8. Show your video and do your own voice-over for it. Use the words and expressions from the readind passage and the Useful expressions to help you.
Do voice-over
Amazing animal
What animal is it?
What is it doing?
What is special about it?
What do you think of it?
It’s a ...
It can ...
It eats ...
It loos like ...
It has long/ big...
Useful expressions:
It’s amazing/clever/...
Look, it’s...
People call it...
How surprising/amazing! ...
Let’s share
Amazing Animal
Look, it's an elephant. It has a long trunk and big ears. It's in the water now. It can spray water with its trunk to cool off. How amazing! Elephants are very clever. I think it's a wonderful animal.
Summary
be + doing
—What is/are + S. + doing…?
—S. + am/is/are + doing…
Answer: Yes, S. + be.
No, S. + be + not.
Be (Am / Is / Are) + S. + doing…?
S. + be (am/is/are) + (not) doing…
Marker words:
now, Look, Listen, Ssh...
1. Do more research and polish your voice-over.
2. Use more sentences to describe the animals’ actions in present continuous tense in your video.
Homework
Bye-bye!
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