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课件网) Unit 6 Earth and Beyond Thinking Skills and Reading Strategies Learning Objectives 通过本课的学习，学生能够： 1. 绘制比较对比表格，介绍两个事物的相似点和不同点； 2. 运用图表对关键信息进行比较和对比； 3. 利用“总结” 这一阅读策略，获取文本的主旨大意； 4. 主动观察，积极地探索宇宙的奥秘。 Thinking Skills Comparing and contrating Look at the following pictures and guess what they are. Lead-in Discussing and answering Look at the pictures and answer the following questions: What are the pictures about Can you give us more details about them e.g. The sun is a star. ... ... Earth is a planet. Reviewing To compare, we tell how things are similar. To contrast, we tell how things are different. a star in the solar system a planet Activity 1 Read the text and learn how to compare and contrast similar things. The sun is a star. It has a diameter of about 1,391,400 kilometers. It may look yellow, orange, or even red, but its real color is white. There are no living things on the Sun. Earth is one of the eight planets of the solar system. The diameter of Earth is around 13,000 kilometers. It looks blue and green, and it is the only planet with life in the solar system. type diameter color with life Read the text again and complete the table. Object Type Diameter (kilometers) Color With life Sun star 1,391,400 No Earth 13,000 blue and green white planet Yes Thinking and completing Tables are useful tools to make comparisons. For example, we can compare different traits of many things by using one table. Activity 2 Read the text and complete the table. In the solar system, the Sun is in the center, and eight planets go around it. Asteroid Belt separates the planets into two groups — the inner planets and the outer planets. The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are closer to the Sun. The outer planets include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They are farther away. The inner planets are smaller and made of rocks and soil, while the outer planets are larger and made of gas with rocks inside. belt /belt/ n.环形地带；腰带 seperate /'sep reit/ v. (使)分开；划分 include /' nklu:d/ v. (使)分开；划分 rock /r k/ n.岩石；摇滚乐 inside /' n'said/ adv. 在（或向）里面 prep.在（或向）...里 Activity 2 Read the text again and complete the table. larger Venus soil Group Planets Size Elements the inner planets Mercury, _____, Earth and Mars smaller rocks and _____ the outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune _____ gas with _____inside rocks Activity 2 Retell the text based on the table. larger Venus soil Group Planets Size Elements the inner planets Mercury, _____, Earth and Mars smaller rocks and _____ the outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune _____ gas with _____inside rocks Pair work. Discuss the differences between the inner and outer planets based on Activity 2. Discussing You may begin like this: Asteroid Belt separates the planets into two groups — the inner plan ... ...
