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课件网) Unit 5 Love Mother Nature! Thinking Skills & Reading Strategies 学习目标 1 2 运用看图猜词的阅读策略，理解文本中的生词； 运用比较和对比的思维技能，介绍两种事物的异同点。 新课讲授 1. What landform is shown in the video The forest/the rainforest. 2. What kind of animal is mainly talked about in the video The bat. Watch and answer 1. What’s this 2. What color is it 3. What size is it 4. Is it active in the day or at night It’s a bat. It’s brown. It’s small. At night. 1. What’s this 2. What color is it 3. What size is it 4. Is it active in the day or at night It’s a bird. It’s blue. It’s small. In the day. Activity 1 Read and find out the features. Bats and birds can fly. Most bats are active at night and most birds are active in the day. can fly active at night active in the day the same different different Bats and birds can fly. Most bats are active at night and most birds are active in the day. can fly active at night active in the day To compare, we tell how things are similar. To contrast, we tell how things are different. Pandas live in the mountains of China. A panda has four legs and a short tail. Most of them are black and white. Their favorite food is bamboo. Read the texts and find out the key information. Activity 2 Brown bears live in the forests of North America. They are brown in color. They have four strong legs. They eat grass, fish and many other things. Pandas Living place: _____ _____ Color: _____ Food: _____ Brown bears Living place: _____ _____ Color: _____ Food: _____ _____ mountains of China black and white bamboo forests of North America brown fish and many other things They have four legs. Complete the comparison and contrast chart. My name is Toby. I am from Africa. I have a long nose and two very big ears. My tail is long. I eat grass and leaves (树叶). Hello! I am Oscar. I am from China. I have a small face and a long tail. I eat bananas and many other things. Elephant Living place: _____ Body: _____ Food: _____ Monkey Living place: _____ Body: _____ Food: _____ Africa a long nose and two big ears grass and leaves China a small face bananas and many other things They have long tails. Read and complete Draw a comparison and contrast chart about two animals you know, and then share it with your partner. _____ Living place:_____ Body:_____ Food:_____ _____ Living place:_____ Body:_____ Food:_____ Activity 3 Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1. Where can you see so many trees 2. Do you think these trees have flowers In a forest. Yes. Activity 1 Read the text and guess the meaning of the underlined words by using the pictures. There are lots of pine trees in Daxing’anling. They can grow very tall. They bloom in May and June and the flowers are red. pine trees: 松树 bloom: 开花 [gr u] v.（使）生长 Activity 2 Look at the pictures and read the text, and then guess the meaning of the underlined words. Shunan Bamboo Forest is in Yibin, Sichuan. I ... ...
