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Unit 3 Great Ideas
Unit 3 Great Ideas
Unit 3 Great Ideas
Thinking skills and Reading strategies
talk about life-changing inventions;
introduce inventors and invention years;
get key information from listening materials.
Learning Objectives
Lead in
What can you see in the picture?
All the things you talk about are real, clear facts from the picture.
Two boys are playing basketball.
They are both wearing blue jerseys.
Clues
...
Lead in
What do you think of the two boys?
These sentences are your feeling, judgement and idea.
They like playing basketball very much.
Both of them play basketball very hard.
Viewpoint/ Opinion
...
The author can express a viewpoint, or an opinion, either directly or indirectly, and there are always clues in the text that support or show the author’s viewpoint.
Today we’re going to learn a new thinking skill--The author’s viewpoint.
Look at the picture and use the text clues to complete the chart.
Activity 1
Text Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
Xiaoxiao practices painting day and night.
Her family buy her
all kinds of painting materials and hang her paintings everywhere!
Xiaoxiao is _______________.
Xiaoxiao’s family support her to learn _______________.
hard-working
painting
day and night日日夜夜
all/many kinds of 各种各样的
support sb. to do sth. 支持某人做某事
Look at the picture and use the text clues to complete the chart.
Activity 1
Text Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
Xiaoxiao practices painting day and night.
Her family buy her
all kinds of painting materials and hang her paintings everywhere!
Xiaoxiao is _______________.
Xiaoxiao’s family support her to learn _______________.
hard-working
painting
How can we understand author's viewpoint?
Understanding author’s viewpoint
Activity 1
一、核心概念
两个关键名词
Text Clues(文本线索)
定义:文中客观事实、事例、细节,是看得见的信息,不带主观评价。
例句:Xiaoxiao practices drawing day and night.晓晓日夜练习画画。
只是陈述事实
Understanding author’s viewpoint
Activity 1
Author’s Viewpoint(作者观点)
核心规则:
作者可以直接或间接表达观点;文本中一定存在线索,用来支撑作者的观点。
分为两种表达形式:
directly 直接表达:作者直接说出观点
indirectly 间接表达:只给出事实线索,不直接亮明想法,要读者推理
Understanding author’s viewpoint
Activity 1
解题操作步骤
Step 1 找出 Text Clues
圈出文中客观描写、事例、细节(事实信息)。
Step 2 分析线索传递的信息
思考:这条事实告诉我们什么?
Step 3 提炼作者的看法 → Author’s Viewpoint
Understanding author’s viewpoint
Activity 1
Xiaoxiao practices drawing day and night.
她花大量时间画画
Xiaoxiao is very hard-working 晓晓十分热爱绘画。
Step 1 找出 Text Clues
Step 2 分析线索传递的信息
Step 3 提炼作者的看法
Step 4 区分表达类型:
Understanding author’s viewpoint
Activity 1
Her family buys her all kinds of painting materials and hangs her drawings everywhere!
家人为她画画提供条件,欣赏她的作品
Xiaoxiao’s family supports her to learn painting.晓晓的家人支持她学习绘画。
Step 1 找出 Text Clues
Step 2 分析线索传递的信息
Step 3 提炼作者的看法
Step 4 区分表达类型:
Read and answer
Activity 2
There is a famous saying, “Need is the mother of invention.” This means that a need or a problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. For example, the need for communication brought about the telephone, and the need for entertainment led to the creation of the television. To solve the problem of seeing in the dark, people invented the light bulb.
1. How many examples does the writer give? What are they?
2. What’s the same point of the three inventions?
Three. They are the telephone, the television and the light bulb.
They were all invented to meet people’s needs and solve daily problems.
Read the text and complete the author’s-viewpoint chart.
Activity 2
• The telephone was invented because of _____________________________________.
• People needed to entertain themselves, so they ___________________________________.
• In order to solve _______________________
_______, the light bulb ______________.
Clues
Author’s Viewpoint
____________________________________________________________________________________
the need for communication
created the television
the problem of seeing in the dark
was invented
Need is the mother of invention. People’s needs
and problems lead to new inventions.
Read the text and learn the key words and phrases.
Activity 2
There is a famous saying, “Need is the mother of invention.” This means that a need or a problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. For example, the need for communication brought about the telephone, and the need for entertainment led to the creation of the television. To solve the problem of seeing in the dark, people invented the light bulb.
1. meet the need
满足需求
2. bring about
引起;导致
3. solve the problem of...
解决......的问题
= satisfy the need/fulfill the need
= cause/lead to/result in
= work out/deal with the problem of...
Pair work. List more examples about inventions to explain the author’s viewpoint in Activity 2.
Activity 3
Author’s viewpoint: Need is the mother of invention.
* The fridge
Clue: People needed to keep food fresh for a long time.
Example sentence: The need for storing fresh food
brought about the fridge.
Pair work. List more examples about inventions to explain the author’s viewpoint in Activity 2.
Activity 3
* Air conditioner
Clue: People suffered from hot weather in summer.
Example sentence: To keep cool on hot summer days, people invented the air conditioner.
Author’s viewpoint: Need is the mother of invention.
When you have a question or can’t understand something while reading, you need to stop and reread certain parts of the text.
Today we’re going to learn a new reading skill--Rereading.
定义:
阅读时遇到疑问、读不懂的地方,不要直接跳过或者凭空猜测,停下来,回头重读文本相关段落,寻找线索解答困惑。
操作四步法
定位阅读卡点:找到看不懂、产生疑问的句子 / 单词
Where I stopped
What questions can I ask myself ?
Rereading
Read the text and learn how to use rereading strategy.
Activity 1
Philo Farnsworth was an American inventor. From an early age, he showed great interest in television. He believed that machines were too slow to work with pictures. Only an electronic system could do that fast enough. In 1927, he invented the all-electronic television system.
Where I stopped:
“could do that fast enough”
What question I ask myself?
What does “that” mean?
What I reread:
“too slow to work with pictures”
What I know now:
“do that” means “ ______________”.
work with pictures
Read the text and complete the steps of using rereading strategy.
Activity 2
Can you explain how a discovery is different from an invention? Take Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb as examples. Columbus discovered the land, but the land existed long before he found it. However, in Edison’s case, there was no light bulb in the world before Edison created it. Now, do you see the difference?
Where I stopped:
_____________________________________
What question I ask myself?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
What I reread:
_____________________________________
Now I understand:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
What’s the difference between discovery and invention?
How a discovery is different from an invention
Columbus discovered land, ... created it.
A discovery is finding something that already exists in the world. An invention is creating a completely new thing that never existed before.
/dɪˈskʌvəri/ n. 发现;发觉
Pair work. Explain how a discovery is different from an invention based on Activity 2.
Activity 3
What examples of discovery and invention does the writer give?
Columbus’ discovery of America. The land was already there before he found it.
Thomas Edison’s light bulb. There was no light bulb before Edison made it.
Pair work. Explain how a discovery is different from an invention based on Activity 2.
Activity 3
Scientists discovered DNA. DNA has always been inside living things. Cai Lun invented paper. Paper didn’t exist before. It was something new created by people.
Exercise
一、写出下列短语的英文/中文 表达
理解作者观点 ________________________________
回读策略 ________________________________
线索与观点 ________________________________
需求催生发明 ________________________________
viewpoint ________________________________
clue ________________________________
rereading ________________________________
discovery ________________________________
invention ________________________________
understand the author’s viewpoint
rereading strategy
clues and viewpoints
Need is the mother of invention.
观点;看法
线索;提示
回读;重读
发现
发明
Exercise
We can find text clues to support the writer’s ___________ (viewpoint).
When meeting difficult sentences, try ___________ (reread) them carefully.
A ________________ (discover) finds things that already exist.
Many great ___________ (invent) change people’s life.
Need is the mother of ___________ (invent).
Plato’s idea gives us a clear ___________ (clue) to understand inventions.
We can get different ___________ (viewpoint) from different readers.
二、用所给单词的适当形式填空
viewpoint
rereading
discoverer
inventions
invention
clue
viewpoints
摘抄 8 个发明主题词汇,仿照课本完成线索与作者观点填空练习。
选用课文素材,按照模板完成回读策略练习,并用几句话区分 discovery 和 invention。
Homework
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