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Unit 7: A Switch-off Weekend (Daisy from Grade 7)
Class: ___________ Name: __________ Date: ___________
🎯 Learning Objectives (学习目标):
Language Competence (语言能力): Understand new words (e.g., cereal, candlelight, battery) through context and extract details about the switch-off weekend.
Learning Strategy (学习策略): Apply the 'Making Predictions' strategy using titles, headers, and first sentences.
Thinking Quality (思维品质): Contrast life with and without electricity, and dialectically evaluate modern technology vs. natural life.
Step 1: Before You Read (感知与预测)
Task 1: Brainstorming (头脑风暴)
Look at the pictures on Page 84. Match the ways of producing electricity by writing letters (a-c) in the blanks.
( ) 1. solar power ( ) 2. water power ( ) 3. wind power
Task 2: Reading Strategy: Making Predictions (预测策略体验)
Read the title "A switch-off weekend", the writer "Daisy", and the first sentence of each paragraph. Then guess:
1. What is the story mainly about?
[ ] A. How to save electricity.
[ ] B. A weekend without electricity.
[ ] C. Daisy’s favorite weekend.
2. How will Daisy feel in the end? (Circle your guess)
Happy / Angry / Mixed (百感交集的)
Step 2: While You Read (探究与梳理)
Task 1: Finding the Traces of Time (寻找时间的痕迹)
Read the text quickly. Scan and circle all the time words/phrases in the story (Paragraphs 2, 3, 4), then list four of them below:
• ____________________ (Para 2) • ____________________ (Para 3)
• ____________________ (Para 3) • ____________________ (Para 4)
Task 2: Careful Reading & Contrast (生活大比拼)
Read Paragraphs 2 & 3 carefully. Complete the table to contrast life with and without electricity.
Time
Usually (With electricity)
This Weekend (Without electricity)
How did they feel?
Friday night
Watch a movie together
Read and write by 1. _______________
Tablet ran out of 2. _______________
Boring / Hard
Saturday morning
Eat breakfast cereal with milk/yogurt
Food in the fridge went 3. ___________
No 4. _______________ or yogurt
5. _______________
Saturday noon
Turn on the air conditioner
It got really 6. _______________ inside
Uncomfortable
Household tasks
Wash clothes by machine easily
Had to wash all clothes by 7. _______
Took a lot of time
Tired
Task 3: Reading for Turning Points (反转的星期天)
Read Paragraph 4. Was the whole weekend terrible? Find out the GOOD things they did on Sunday.
• Action 1: Went on a ____________________ trip.
• Action 2: Enjoyed a ____________________ in the garden.
• Action 3: Played ____________________ and ____________________ pictures together.
• Action 4: Sat under the ____________________ and listened to grandad's stories.
• Daisy's Final Feeling on Sunday: She felt it was a r____________________ nice experience.
Step 3: After You Read (深化与输出)
Task 4: Emotion Curve (情感变化曲线)
How did Daisy's feelings change during the weekend? Draw a line to connect her emotions from Friday to Sunday, and be ready to explain your reasons.
😊 High (Excited/Happy) --------------------------------------------------
😐 Middle (Okay) --------------------------------------------------
☹️Low (Sad/Tired) --------------------------------------------------
Friday Night Saturday Sunday
Task 5: My "Switch-off" Plan (我的“断电”计划)
If your teacher gives you the same task, what will you do for a switch-off weekend? Discuss in groups and write down your ideas using the scaffolds below:
I think a switch-off weekend is ____________________ (interesting / terrible / boring).
Without electricity, I can't _____________________________, but I can _____________________________ instead.
On Saturday or Sunday, I will go to ___________________ with __________________.
We can ________________________________________________________________.
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