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课件网) Reading UNIT 6 Electricity everywhere Learning objectives: Identify the main idea (living without electricity) and key details (challenges and positive experiences) in the text. Summarize Daisy’s weekend without electricity by describing at least two difficulties and two enjoyable activities from the text. Write a short paragraph about a personal experience adapting without technology and compare it to Daisy’s story. Activity 1: Time for riddle We can't see it, but we must use it. We can't touch it, because it is dangerous. It can flow like water. Sometimes we waste it, but it is time for us to save it. Electricity Guess! what it is Where do we need electricity lift controller camera air conditioner bell Electric car unmanned drone cable car Electricity is everywhere! It seems that we can’t imagine life without electricity. Activity2: Time to activate 1.Can you imagine living without electricity for a whole week 2.Will you succeed in the end 3.Can you describe your new life without electricity Activity2: Time to activate While Reading Activity 4: Summarize the structure Question 2: How can we save electricity What is genre/kind of this passage Poster B. News C. Story D. E-mail Activity 4: Summarize the structure Question 2: How can we save electricity 2.In what order this story is organized A. by space B. by time cue words Last week After it got dark Tomorrow On Saturday morning By noon On Sunday At night Usual weekend (We...) Activity 5: Time to compare: Switch-off weekend (We...) use electric lights for reading and writing play video games or use tablets watch movies or TV use the fridge to keep food fresh use the air conditioner to stay cool use a washing machine to clean clothes spend time indoors using electronic devices read and write by candlelight play cards or do sports cannot watch TV or play video games buy less food use fans to keep cool wash clothes by hand spend time outdoors and listen to stories After it got dark, my little brother Benny and I could only read and write by candlelight. We usually watch a movie together on Friday nights, but the TV doesn‘t work without electricity. Instead , we played video games for a while, but then our tablet ran out of battery. "What about tomorrow " we thought. Activity 5: Time to retell: Since there wasn’t any electricity, some things in the fridge quickly went bad. When we woke up on Saturday morning, we discovered that we couldn't eat our breakfast cereal-we didn't have any milk or yogurt! By noon, it got really hot inside our apartment, but we couldn't turn on the air conditioner. Even worse, most household tasks became very difficult without electricity. For example, we had to wash all our clothes by hand, and this took us a lot of time. Activity 5: Time to retell: However, there were also nice things about living without electricity. On Sunday, we went on a bike trip and visited my grandparents in the countryside. We en ... ...
