Unit 8 “探索”板块 Thinking Skills&Reading Strategies课件 2025-2026学年仁爱科普版七年级英语下册

Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies Unit 8 Our Blue Planet Exploring 学习目标 To learn how to identify the main idea and details； To visualize with pictures and talk about the water cycle. Part 1 Thinking Skills Identifying the main idea and details Brainstorming： What is the relationship between the main idea and details? The main idea gives us the most important information and the supporting details tell us more about the main idea. ... ? 1. Who need water? 2. Why do they need water? Look at the picture and answer the questions. Lead-in Plants, animals and people. Water can keep them alive. Look at the pictures and read the text. Learn how the details support the main idea. Activity 1 Main idea: All living things need water. Detail 1: People and animals drink water every day. Detail 2: Plants need water to grow. Thinking Skills Identifying the main idea and details 生物 Water is very useful. At home, we use water to cook, do washing or cleaning. Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water. Main idea: _____________________ Detail 2: Outside home ________________ ________________ ________________ Water is very useful. cook travel do exercise have fun Activity 2 Read the text and complete the main idea and detail chart. Detail 1: At home ________________ ________________ ________________ do washing do cleaning Read the text and take some notes. Activity 2 Water is very useful. At home, we use water to cook, do washing or cleaning. Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water. use sth.to do sth.使用某物做某事 do cleaning = do some cleaning 打扫卫生   do washing = do some washing  洗衣服 乘船 在家 do exercise=do sports做运动 玩得开心 have fun doing sth. 做某事很开心 Activity 3 Pair work. Talk about more uses of water in your daily life. Try to use a main idea and detail chart. Main idea: _____________________ Water is very useful. Detail 1: _________________ _________________ Detail 2: _________________ _________________ Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text. Part 2 Thinking Skills Visualizing ['vɪjʊəlaɪzɪŋ] 想象、设想 Visualizing Reading Strategies Activity 1 Read the text and use the picture to help you visualize what you read. On sunny days,water goes up in the air and turns into clouds in the sky. Steps to visualize: I read: ________________________ I see in my mind: _______________ ______________________________ Now, I understand: _____________ ______________________________ how water turns into clouds. some water, the sun and some clouds clouds come from water. Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text. go up  上升 turn into... 变成…… Activity 2 Read the text and underline what makes you picture something in your mind. Do you know the water cycle? Water in the air  gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then it rains again. Water Cycle 水循环 变冷 进入 上升 Group work. Read the text in Activity again and tell your partners what you visualize, And then talk about the water cycle. Activity 3 Do you know the water cycle? Water in  the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then it rains again. Steps to visualize: I read: ____________________________________________________ I see in my mind: ___________________________________________ Now, I understand: _________________________________________ Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. cold water, clouds, water drops rain comes from clouds Then talk about the water cycle. Free Talk 课堂总结 We learn: 1. how to identify the main idea and details. 2. visualize with pictures. We can: 1. ask and answer about uses of water in our daily life. 2. talk about the water cycle. Reflection I can learn how to identify the main idea and details visualize with pictures and talk about the water cycle Homework 1. Review and memorize the new words and phrases as well as sentence patterns in the lesson. 2. Review the thinking skills of identifing the main idea and details and the reading strategies of visualizing. You should Retell how water cycles with the help of visualizing. You may Thank you ! 17 $