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Guessing Game:Guess what words they are.A B
gentle nobodyplant
wing
everywhere suddenly
fierce
over
dinosaurs
Unit 5
Dinosaurs—Revision
Dinosaurs lived on the Earth over _______ years ago.
A. sixty hundred B. sixty million
C. sixty thousand D. sixty
When did dinosaurs live on the Earth?
B
million
★数字( one… ) million
★millions of
…百万
百万
数百万
★ hundred(百) , thousand(千) , billion(十亿)
★ There are _______ people in the city.
A. millions of
D. million ofC. sixty millions of
B. sixty millions
★ There are over ________ students on the playground.A.two hundreds B. two hundred ofC. two hundred D. hundred of
A
C
Translate:
数百个学生 _________________ 二十亿人 ________________
三千本书 ___________________
hundreds of students
three thousand books
two billion people
数百万年 ________________ millions of years
We can know something about dinosaursfrom ________.encyclopaedias
• May got an encyclopaedia from her father and she found some beautiful pictures about dinosaurs. Let’s have a look.
skeleton(S)
footprint (s)
dinosaur egg(s)
Important nouns
million
skeletondinosaur
footprint
encyclopaedia(an)
dinosaur egg
In this passage, we also learnt some important verbs.
★ The Roman Empire ________(lives) for several centuries. existed
die out
★ I ___________ mind) him, but I've never met him.
(have information about something in your
★ What have we _________ (be left after one’s death)after going away?
★ Elephants would ________ if men were allowed to shoot as many as they wished
(stop existing)
left behind
know about
May wants to know something more about dinosaurs .
She found a video about dinosaurs on the internet . Now let’s watch it and please find something about dinosaurs’ food , weight, size and their characters(品质、特征 )?
food:Some dinosaurs ate_____, other dinosaurs ate ______.
=others
Some …, others….
meat
plants
size:
Some dinosaurs were as_____ as ________, others were as______ as __________.
Some _____, others ______.
ten elephants
chickens
big
small
weight:
Some were…, others….
Mouth:
Describe dinosaurs’ appearance(外貌 ) with ‘some…others…’
Horn( 角 ) :
Wing:
Characters:
Some were as _______ as_________ and ate______. So they were _________.
Others were _______ than __________ and ate_____. So they were ________.
sheepplants
meattigers
harmless
harmful
gentle
fiercer
as…as… harmful---harmless
Some… others…
as as… 和…一样…
1. Some dinosaurs were as ______ as sheep. (gentle, gently)2. English is used as ______ as possible. (wide, widely)3. You must drive as _______ as you can. (safe, safely)4. The box is as _______ as a stone. (heavy, heavily) 5. Mike doesn’t do his homework as________ as Mark. (careful, carefully)6. He can’t do the calculations as _________ as you. (accurate, accurately)
adj./adv.
gentle
widelysafely
heavycarefully
accurately
They are suffixes(后缀 ). –ful is a definite(肯定的 ) suffix , -less is an indefinite (否定的 ) suffix 。
careful ---- careless useful–-- useless helpful --- helpless homeless(无家可归的 )
harmful---harmless
Complete the sentences with ‘harmful’,‘harmless’, ‘careful’, ‘careless’, ‘useful’, ‘useless’, ‘helpful’ or ‘helpless’.
1 ________ people may cause hill fires in forests.
2 A dictionary is really a ________ tool book.
3 The map is really ________ in the village. It helps a lot.
4 You should always be ________ when crossing a road.
5 The knife is blunt. It’s ________ now.
6 It’s ________ to your eyes to read in the bus.
7 He is as ________ as a baby.
8 The dog seems fierce, but it’s ________.
Important structures and adjectives:
Some…,others…as…as…fierce, fiercer than…harmful--harmless
... sixty million years ago.Some… . Others… (size)harmless…as gentle as… ateharmfulfiercer than… ate…die outknow about…from…leave behind
Retell the passage with the following words and phrases:
• What can we do to save endangered animals?
Discuss :
★ Use laws to stop people killing endangered animals. ★ Protect the our environment. ★ Call on people not to eat them. ★ Call on people not to buy or wear the clothes made
of those animals. ★ Protect homes and food of endangered animals.
……
endangered(濒临灭绝的 ) animals
Homework
• 1. Write a composition about what can we do
to save endangered animals.
• 2. Recite the key words and phrases.