(
课件网) Key question What role does electricity play in our daily lives Unit objectives I can: □understand why electricity is important. □explain different ways of producing electricity. □observe safety rules for using electricity. □talk about how to save electricity. First thoughts Electricity can be used as a source of energy for transportation Don’t use electrical with wet hands. Unplug the power in time. Electricity cannot be seen with naked eye. Lightening is also a form of electricity. Use energy – efficient appliances. Check and repair appliances regularly. Section 1 Experiencing and understanding language Reading Before you read 1 How much do you know about electricity Try the quiz below. (1) Which of the following can be found in nature Which is man-made What do the pictures have in common Lightning can be found in nature, A light bulb and batteries are man-made. They are all related to electricity. (2) Below are three different ways of producing electricity. Write the correct phrases in the blanks. wind power water power solar power 2 Discuss in pairs why electricity is important in our daily lives. 举一个例子 靠电运行 Read the story and find out what Daisy’s weekend without electricity was like. A switch-off weekend by Daisy from Grade 7 Last week, our science teacher, Mrs Brown, taught us about electricity and how important it is. Then she gave us a special task: to try living without electricity for a weekend. Our family thought it sounded interesting, so we decided to do it together. 停电 上周 决定做某事 However, it turned out that it was very hard to live without electricity. 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. 证明是 get dark 变暗 看电影 一会儿 run out of 用完，耗尽 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 cereal① —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. go bad 变坏 wake up 醒来 打开 更糟糕的是 have to do 不得不 by+方式 用，凭借 take time 花时间 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 enjoyed a picnic in their garden, and we also played chess and painted pictures together. At night, we sat under the stars and listened to my grandad’s stories. This was a really interesting experience, but I cannot imagine living ... ...
