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课件网) Book1 Unit 2 Exploring English Period 2 Understanding Ideas Learning objectives 1、Students can grasp the new words and expressions such as resource、comment、remind、have a frog in one's throat and so on. 2、Students can grasp the general idea for the whole passage. 3、Students will be able to use different basic reading strategies like prediction/skimming/scanning correctly in their reading process. Warming-up Your description rings a bell, but I don't think I've ever been there myself. He's extremely sure he has met the girl before, though her name doesn't ring a bell. 【ring a bell】 Something sounds familiar 听起来耳熟 Some Interesting Facts in English There is no ham in a hamburger. Ham Hamburger There is no egg in eggplant . eggplant egg Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple pine apple pineapple If you want to win the end-of-year competition, you'll have to pull up your socks. Pull your socks up and we have to try it again. 【pull up one's socks 】 make an effort to improve one’s work or behavior because it is not good enough 努力向上 She has unbelievably green fingers, she can grow anything. 【green fingers】 be good at making plants grow 园艺能手 more examples 想不到我还如此有用 rain cats and dogs a living dog is better than a dead lion hot dog lucky dogs dog days like a dog with two tails love me, love my dog Pre-reading: Prediction Look at the title of the passage and the pictures. Guess what the passage is about. food cooking plants fruit words pine + apple =pineapple hamburger ham eggplant egg Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple 1. To tell us that English is very difficult to learn. 2. To give advice on how to learn English. 3. To show that English is interesting and creative. 4. To explain how English was created. Task 2 Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage. Why do you think so Can you find examples in the passage Introduce the topic List some examples Draw a conclusion The author's opinion Learn to understand the passage. 1 Topic Fast-reading Read and finish the tasks as quickly as possible. What’s the main idea of the passage A．Trouble in learning English. B．A bad experience. C．Misunderstandings of English words. D．The benefit of learning English. Careful-reading Find detailed information Read and find the words and expressions that caused the misunderstandings.Then match the original meanings. Yancy Sophie Julien Zheng Xu have a frog in one’s throat on the first floor wicked Not bad unable to speak clearly for a short time because your throat is dry or blocked (UK) the floor of a building above the one at ground level (US) the floor of a building at ground level morally wrong and intending to hurt people; (informal) very good, fantastic pretty good, better than you expected Post-reading summary and retell What caused their misunderstandings Coming from different cultural backgrounds Not truly understanding the meanings of English words Having few ... ...
