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课件网) Starting out & Understanding ideas Unit 6 The power of plants Starting out 1 Look at the picture and answer the questions. 教材原图 The amazing world of plants! 1 What facts about plants do you know 2 Do you think plants are amazing Why or why not 2 Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1 What are the people doing 2 What can plants do for us sunlight Understanding ideas 1 Look at the picture of a plant and match the words to it. sugar leaf sunlight water 1 _____ 2 _____ 3 _____ carbon dioxide oxygen 4 _____ stem root sugar water leaf 2 Read the passage and check your answers. Within /w ' n/ a Plant 1 It’s quarter /'kw t / past seven. ① Here's Worker No. 55 in his green uniform. He's going to start work in the plant. 2 He works in Workshop 1001 in the Leaf /li f/. ② There are 20 to 100 workers in each workshop /'w k p/. They collect /k 'lekt/ sunlight /'s nla t/ and CO2 during the day.③ Now workers from the Root /ru t/ send /send/ up water. ④ number的缩写形式 温馨提示：此符号表示“考点精讲点拨”链接。 The water will rise /ra z/ up to the Leaf through the Stem /stem/. ⑤ Then workers in the Leaf will mix /m ks/water, CO2 and sunlight. 3 What are they going to produce /pr 'dju s/ Most importantly (for them), there will be sugar /' ɡ /! It's useful for the growth of the plant. Another product /'pr d kt/ will be oxygen /' ks d ( )n/, but the plant doesn't need much of it. ⑥ It means a lot to animals and humans, though/ /—they need it to breathe /bri /!⑦ 4 The workers work hard. Soon it's going to get dark /dɑ k/. They will take a rest /rest/.⑧ 5 There are millions of plants on earth. ⑨ They give more than food and oxygen. Without plants, the natural /'n t r l/ world would be very different! ⑩ 3 Choose another suitable title and give your reasons. a How to make sugar b How plants work c Why plants are great d Going to the green workshop b Think and share 1 What does “plant” mean in the title 2 In what other ways do plants help the world Learning to think for question 1 A pun is a word with more than one meaning. It's a clever way to make the passage more interesting. 4 Complete the texts with the words and expressions from the passage. Sunlight and CO2 enter /'ent / the 1 _____. Water from the root will 2 _____ to the leaf through the stem. 3 _____, CO2 and sunlight will turn into 4 _____ and oxygen. Oxygen is important to humans—they need it to 5 _____ . plants rise up Water sugar breathe 5 Read the sentences from the reading passage and summarise the grammar rules. (a) He's going to start work in the plant. (b) They will take a rest. Now find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage. 一般将来时结构：will/be going to do sth. 6 Complete the sentences with the simple future tense. 1 The sunflower /'s nfla / seeds /si dz/ _____ grow /gr / into tall plants. 2 We _____ learn different parts of plants tomorrow. 3 The leaves _____ change into differen ... ...
