Unit 12 Theme Reading 课件 2025-2026学年仁爱科普版英语七年级下册

Unit 12 Better Together Exploring the Topic Theme Reading Unit 12 Better Together 通过本课的学习，学生能够 : 1. 掌握文中重点词汇和短语，如 give up，make up one’s mind to，set up，try every means to 等。 2. 理解文本内容，梳理出周东和他的朋友们帮助家乡村民解决橙子销售及水土问题的过程。 3. 培养团队合作精神和家乡建设意识，激发为家乡发展贡献力量的愿望。 Look and say Look at the pictures and talk about how the oranges come to the supermarkets. They are planted in the orange gardens in the village. Villagers pick them . They are sent to the supermarkets by truck or plane. The oranges are tasty but don’t sell well.What should they do? tasty/ˈteɪstɪ/ adj. 可口的 /ˈvɪlɪdʒə(r)/ n. 村民 Look and say What’s the video about? She is a hero for villagers. /ˈhɪərəʊ/ n. 英雄 Today, we’ll read a passage about another hero. Skimming Skim the text to answer the questions. 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 returned 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 friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown. 1. What is the main idea of the text? __________________________________________________________ Zhou Dong is a hero in his hometown village. Skimming 2.What’s the structure of the passage？ Skimming Scan the text and complete the main idea of each paragraph. Zhou is ________ in his hometown village. Zhou's team helped solve the problem of ____________________ . Zhou's team helped solve the problem of ____________________ . Zhou's and his friends planned to help _______________________ . a hero selling the oranges bring more changes to their hometown heavy water and soil loss Scanning hero 的复数 heroes Read Par. 2 and Par. 3 and complete the problem and solution chart. 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 returned 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. 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 have difficulty/problems/trouble in doing sth 做某事有困难 Read Par.1 and answer the questions. 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. 1. What was Zhou Dong’s job before ? _______________________________________ 2. Why did he give up his job? _______________________________________ He was an engineer in a big company. To help the villagers grow and sell oranges. Careful reading give up (doing) sth 放弃(做) 某事 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 returned 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. How did Zhou’s team sell out all the oranges? Knowledge extension They set up an online shop. They tried every means to let people know the tasty oranges. Shoppers get the oranges in just one or two days through online shopping. Read Par.2 and answer the question. try every means to do sth 想法设法做某事 make up one’s mind to do sth 下定决心做... 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. As an old saying goes,“An orange tree bears oranges in the south of the Huai River,but bears trifoliate[traɪ'foʊlɪet] oranges in the north.” 中国有句谚语，“橘生淮南则为橘，生于淮北则 为枳” Knowledge extension Why? Because water and soil are important to the taste of the oranges. /ˈteɪst/ n. 味道，鉴赏力；v. 尝起来 Read Par.3 and understand better. 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 returned 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 friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown. What did Zhou Dong and his friends decide to do in the end? __________________________________________________________ He and his friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown. Careful reading Read Par.4 and answer the question. Exercises-Activity 5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the phrases in the box. 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 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 returned 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 friends decided to stay and help bring more changes to their hometown. Post reading Read the passage fluently. Post reading Retell the story based on the pictures. Retell the passage. Zhou Dong is a _______ in his hometown village. He was an __________ in a big company. Last year, he ______________ and returned home to help the villagers _____________ oranges. The oranges were _________ but _______________________. He returned with three of his friends and _____________________________ to sell the oranges. Shoppers could get the oranges in just one or two days through online shopping. Soon, they _____________ all the oranges. hero engineer gave up his job grow and sell tasty didn't sell well set up an online shop sold out Retell the passage But there was another problem for most ___________________________. That's ______________________ and ___________________. Water and soil are important to _________________ the oranges. To solve this problem, Zhou's team helped _______________________________ and improve the soil. Zhou and his friends decided to ______________________________________________ to their hometown. orange gardens heavy water soil loss the taste of change the water ways stay and help bring more changes Deep thinking What do you think of Zhou Dong and his team? Brave Smart Helpful Hard-working Caring Selfless Deep thinking What made them sell out all the oranges? Teamwork Technology（技术） Love for hometown They worked together and made great contributions to their hometown village.We should learn from them. Promote development of our hometown 促进家乡发展 A single orange needs roots to grow. A hometown needs hearts to glow. 一个橘子需根深方能生长。故乡需心暖方能辉煌。 Summary In this class, you learnt 1. some new words and expressions, such as taste, hero, engineer, company, voice, discuss, have difficulty in, try every means to do and so on. 2. to use the thinking skills and reading strategies learnt last class to solve reading problems successfully. 3. the charming of working together to solve problems. Homework You should review the key words and expressions after class. talk about group activities and feel the teamwork around you. try to work together with others to solve some problems in the future. You may find more information about working together and write down a story. Lavf58.46.101 $