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Unit 5
The power of plants
Developing ideas Listening & speaking
2026新外研版七上
1. master listening skills to listen for numbers.
2. get some information about corn by listening.
3. use sentence patterns to ask for and give permission in a polite way.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson, you will be able to...
Enjoy the video: What can you see?
What plants can you see in the pictures?
Rice
Wheat
Corn
/wiːt/
Rice
Wheat
Corn
How do you usually eat them?
/wiːt/
rice noodles
oatmeal/ˈəʊtmiːl/
corn pancake
Rice, wheat and corn are the world's top three food plants. People around the world eat them in different ways. For example, rice noodles in East Asia, bread in Europe and tacos in the Americas.
There is a vlog about corn.
Let's listen to learn.
视频博客
/ˈtækəʊz/墨西哥卷饼
Lead-in
Do you know how to make the tacos?
Jason is a vlogger.
He is taking a vlog about the Sweet Corn Festival.
Look and say.
2. What is he doing?
Pre-listening
1. What festival is it?
视频博主
The Sweet Corn Festival.
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While-listening
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The important of....
...的重要性
Listen to the opening of the vlog and choose the main idea.
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Listen again and complete Jason's notes for the vlog.
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40
9,000
cooking
600
culture
Learning to learn
Listening for numbers When listening for numbers, pay attention to words and expressions like nearly, about, over, and more/less than. They usually come before numbers.
Learning to learn
(谷类植物的)穗
While-listening
几乎
大约=around
超过=more than
超过/少于
Listen and choose.
1. How long is the biggest corn?
A. Nearly 40 centimeters long. B. 400 centimeters long.
C. 40 meters long.
2. When did people start growing corn in Mexico?
A. 900 years ago. B. Around 9,000 years ago.
C. 90 years.
3. How many corn dishes are there now?
A. Over 60. B. Less than 600.
C. More than 600.
=over
=about
tea
health
traditional
(尤指谷类、果实和种子的) 外壳,外皮
Listen to the conversation and complete the sentences.
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make
What are the parts of an ear of corn?
Corn has different uses to people.
What are they used for?
Ask for permission.
Give permission.
Can you find more ways to ask for permission and give permission?
Listen again. Then talk about how people ask for and give permission.
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Think and say.
Why does Jason ask for permission like this?
It is polite.
Ask for permission:
Can I try the taco?
May I...?
Give permission:
Sure.
Certainly!
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Look and say.
What plants are in this picture?
rose cotton bamboo
What can we do with these plants?
rose tea
clothes
build house
Work in pairs. Act out a conversation about the uses of a plant.
This is a rose. We use it for rose tea.
That’s true. We can also use beautiful roses to make our houses beautiful.
What about cotton?
We can use it to make clothes and oil.
It's amazing! Could you tell me the uses of bamboo?
Sure. It's pandas' favourite food. We can also use it to build houses.
Plants are useful to people.
Listen and repeat.
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Homework
MUST DO:
Try to remember the new words and useful sentence structures about this lesson.
CHOOSE TO DO:
Choose a plant and write a short passage about the different uses of the plant.
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