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Home
Unit
1
East or west,
home is best.
Unit 1 Home
Reading 1
Contents
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Teaching aims
Lead in
Pre-reading
While-reading
Post-reading
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Teaching aims
通过本板块的学习,学生能够:
1、获取和梳理三位博主的住宅位置、住宅类型、家中区域及家庭活动等关键信息,形成语篇的结构化知识;
2、运用语篇中用于描述家庭的词汇和句型表达,介绍他人的住宅位置、住宅类型、喜爱的家中区域和家庭活动;
3、谈论自己喜爱的住宅类型和在家庭生活中能为父母分担的事情,深化对家的理解,增进对家的热爱。
学习目标
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Lead in
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
a modern house
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
flats
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
town houses
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
a cottage
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
a farmhouse
What types of houses are these in the pictures?
mobile homes
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Pre-reading
What is your home like?
I live in a flat in a tall building. There are four rooms in my flat. I have my own bedroom. It’s small but comfortable,
What do you like to do at home?
I like to read books with my family in te living room at the weekend.
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
What is the girl doing in the picture?
She is cooking with her parents.
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
What are the two boys doing in the picture?
They are watering the flowers.
Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
What is the boy doing in the picture?
He is picking cotton.
How do they feel?
I think they are happy because I can see smiles on their faces.
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While-reading
Read the title on Page 8 and answer the questions
Simon wants to learn about homes around the world. Here are three blog posts by students from different countries.
What do you think the three passages are about?
They may be about different homes around the world.
What type of text are the three passages?
They are blog posts.
Skim the blog posts and think :
Whose homes are the blog posts about?
The blog posts are bout Li Mengtian’s, Neil’s and Femi’s homes.
Complete the chart below with the information in the blog posts.
A
Homes around the world
Li Mengtian’s home
Neil’s home
Fenni’s home
Place
Type of home
Favourite thing
In the south of Beijing
(1) _____________
(2) _____________
(3) ____________
(4) ___________
Having fun in the garden
(5) ___________
A farm house
(6) ____________
Li Mengtian’s home
Place
Type of home
Favourite thing
In the south of Beijing
(1) ______________________________________________
(2) ______________________________________________
A flat (on the twenty-second floor)
Looking at the nice view of the city on the balcony
Neil’s home
Place
Type of home
Favourite thing
(3) ______________________________________________
(4) ______________________________________________
Having fun in the garden
In a town 15 miles from London
A house (with two floors)
Fenni’s home
Place
Type of home
Favourite thing
(5) _____________________________________________
A farm house
(6) _____________________________________________
In a village near Cairo
Collecting the eggs in the yard
Read the blog posts again and complete the table below.
Name What he / she does for his / her family
Li Mengtian (1)___________________________in the kitchen
Neil (2)___________________________in the garden
Femi (3)___________________________in the yard
(4)___________________________in the field
Helps her patents
Water the flowers
Collects the eggs
Helps (Picks cotton)
Read the blog posts again. Write a T if a sentence is true or an F if it is false. Then correct the false one(s).
B
Li Mengtian often tells her parents about her school day.
Neil has a very big family.
Femi’s family grows cotton near the Nile river.
Both Neil and Femi have a pet.
There are more people in Li Mengtian;s family than in Neil’s and Femi’s.
The three students live in different types of homes, but they all enjoy their lives.
T
F
T
F
F
T
doesn’t have a big family.
Only Neil has a pet dog.
There are more people in Femi family than in Li Mengtian’s and Neil’s.
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Post-reading
Complete Simon’s notes with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
collect eggs view next to relax have fun in the south of village yard
C
1. This is Li Mengtian at her home ___________ Beijing. She is enjoying the night __________on the balcony with her parents. The night looks bright and colourful with fireworks.
in the south of
view
collect eggs view next to relax have fun in the south of village yard
2. It’s the weekend again, the perfect time to have a BBQ in the garden and _________.Neil is helping his parents with the food. _______them, Tom is playing with their dog. The family are _________.
relax
Next to
having fun
collect eggs view next to relax have fun in the south of village yard
3. Femi lives in a farmhouse in a _________. His family keep some hens in the ________. Femi and his sister are ______________ there. Their parents are busy in the vegetable field.
village
yard
collecting eggs
(1) Would you like to live in a small family or a big one? Why?
I would like to live in a big family. There are many people in a big family, so I will never be alone. I can chat with my grandparents, play with my brothers or sisters, share my joy with my parents,…
Think about the questions below. Share your answers with your classmates.
D
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(2) How do you usually help your parents at home?
Think about the questions below. Share your answers with your classmates.
D
Let’s work in groups, and interview your group members. You can use the question 2 and write down your partners’ answers, then try to report your findings to the whole class.
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Name Thing(s) to do Place(s)
Zhang San
Helping his parents water the flowers
in the garden
Li Jun
Doing the dished with her mother
in the kitchen
…
…
…
In our group, we all like to help our parents at home. Zhang San usually helps his parents water the flowers in the garden. Li Jun often does the dishes with her mother in the kitchen…
(3) Can we change the title “Homes around the world” into “House around the world”? Why or why not?
No, we can’t. Because a house is a building for people to live in. A home is more than a house. It’s a place full of love, warmth and sweet memories. All the members of a family are kind to each other. At home, we feel safe and relaxed. Home is where the heart is.
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