Unit 5 Water is life Section 1 Reading课件 -2025-2026学年沪教版英语七年级下册

Unit 5 Water is life 沪教牛津版七年级下册 Where does water come from? Key question Reading I 主题范畴：人与自然 “Listen! Who is crying？” Lead in I’m Dripple, a drop of water. I'm alone. I can't find my family and friends. water What do you know about water? ✹About 70% of the Earth’s surface is water. ✹Life cannot exist without water. [ɪɡ'zɪst] v.存在 ✹Only 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater.  ✹It takes 3 forms--liquid, solid and gas. liquid solid gas Where can we find water in our everyday life? Think and talk water in the sea in the river from the tap in a glass in the lake fall from the cloud [tæp] n.水龙头 Put the sentences in the correct order (1-5). P68 Describe the picture to the class. 流入 2 3 4 5 The picture shows the water cycle. First, water falls from the clouds as rain. Then ... After that ... Next ... Finally ... 1 the water cycle Dripple was travelling happily with his family and friends. Dripple P69 ? Du Yun Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Underline the questions. Who are you? Are you from the tap? How did you come into my house then? They cleaned you? Why? So is this the end of your journey? Again? Scan and finish Put the sentences in the correct order. a. Dripple told Du Yun about its long journey to her house. b. Du Yun rushed to her study and told her diary about this. c. Dripple asked Du Yun to turn the tap off. d. Du Yun brushed her teeth in the bathroom. e. Dripple told Du Yun it would go back to the sea again and its journey would start there. d b e a c Read and complete Read the story and complete Dripple’s journey with the information from the story. ended up in a reservoir went into a special place and got cleaned travelled through the pipes under the streets got to Du Yun’s home P70 [ˈrezəvwɑː(r)] n.水库；蓄水池 Read and answer Q1: Why was Dripple angry at Du Yun? Q2: How did Dripple fall down from the cloud? Q3: What did people do with the water from the reservoir? Why did they do so? Q4: What will happen when Dripple returns to the sea? Because the tap was on / she left the tap on and water was being wasted. When the wind pushed the cloud up a mountain, the cloud cooled down. Dripple turned into one of the raindrops. Then it fell down from the cloud. They cleaned it and added some chemicals to it because the water was dirty From there it will start its journey back to the clouds again. go back Q5: Why did Dripple tell Du Yun not to waste or pollute water? Because water is valuable. [ˈvæljuəbl] adj.宝贵的 Why did Dripple say so? Do you think so? Discuss Think and answer In this story, the drop of water talks like a human being. 1. To make a story more interesting. 2. To help the reader understand the writer’s ideas more easily. This is called personification. Why does the writer use “personification”? Role-play Who are you? Are you from the tap? How did you come into my house then? They cleaned you? Why? So is this the end of your journey? Again? I’m Dripple, and I’m _____________. Yes. I was in a cloud a few days ago. Then I became one of the raindrops. I _______ _________ and ended up in a reservoir. Then I went to a special place. There, people ____________ and added some chemicals to me. Because I was ___________. ___________. People will clean me one more time. Then I’ll ____________, and after that, I’ll ________________ again. Yes. My journey back to the clouds _____ there. a drop of water fell into a bit dirty No go into a river return into the sea starts cleaned me a river Turn that tap off. You’re wasting water!(angrily) Let’s enjoy! Let’s watch a video to learn about water cycle! Bye-bye! Can you describe how water gets into your home? 1. in a cloud 2. the wind pushes it up a mountain 3. cool down; raining 4. into a river 5. in a reservoir 6. a special place; clean 7. through the pipes 8. into the house Post-reading Do you think it is easy or difficult for water to get to your home? Why? What did you learn from the story? I think it is easy / difficult for water to get to my home because it first ... Then ... I learnt that ... We should / shouldn’t do... We can / can’t do... We must / mustn’t do... How will you save water in the future? at home at school ... Vocabulary practice 1 The words and phrase in italics are from the story on page 69. Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences. P71 journey drop at once tap return 2 Complete Du Yun’s diary with the words and the phrase in italics from Exercise 1. Change the form if necessary. 3 Make sentences about the journey of a drop of water with the words and expressions below. Du Yun was in the bathroom and the tap was on. null 16927.266 EVCapture4.2.2软件录制 Lavf57.25.100 本视频由湖南一唯信息科技开发的EV录屏软件录制，www.ieway.cn $