Unit 5

The Animals Know

Deborah Soong

The Animals Know

Teaching Activities

Index

Teaching Activities1st period 1. Warm-up

2. The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 1-3

3. Reading - Paragraphs 1-32nd period 1.

The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 4-6

2. Reading - Paragraphs 4-63. Post-reading

3rd period 1. Word File2. Sentence Patterns3. Expansion4. Writing Practice

4th period Part II Oral & Listening - Unit 4

Warm-up

Vocabulary Idioms & Phrases

Paragraphs 1-3

Do you believe that animals

know an earthquake is

about to happen? Back

Listen to paragraphs 1-3

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Now, answer the following questions.

Before an earthquake, how do the following animals act strangely?

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

c. do not stop barking

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

g. stare at things no one else can see

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

d. suddenly lay eggs

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleeph. wake up early from their winter sleep

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

b. kick at barn walls

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

a. run up and down

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleepe. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

a. run up and down

b. kick at barn walls

c. do not stop barking

d. suddenly lay eggs

e. run out of their holes

f. leave their fields near the sea

g. stare at things no one else can see

h. wake up early from their winter sleep

In the hours before an earthquake, animals sometimes act strangely. Dogs bark and bark. Horses kick at barn walls.

sometimes = at times; (every) now and then 有時；偶爾act strangely: have strange behaviors

Cats stare at things no one else sees.

stare at things: look at things with wide-opened eyes for a long time

People all over the world have seen animals do such things.

all over the world = throughout the world世界各地

感官動詞 + O +

I saw him swim in the pool/do the jobyesterday.

Peter saw two cars bump into eachother on his way to school.

原形動詞現在分詞過去分詞

Those animals seem to know that something is about to happen.

S + seem to V→It seems that S + V 似乎…

He seems to know a lot about music.→It seems that he knows a lot about musi

c.be about to = be going to 即將；正要Please sit down. The movie is about to start.

One woman’s pet turtle suddenly laid an egg. It had never done that before.

suddenly = all at once = all of a sudden 突然注意下列各字的動詞三態及現在分詞 說謊 lie lied lied lying 躺 lie lay lain lying放置；產卵 lay laid laid laying 同一句中，過去完成式表示先發生的事，過去簡單式表示後發生的事。I lost the book I had bought yesterday.I didn’t know him, because I had never s

een him before.

The next day there was a quake. After the quake, the turtle ate its egg! A man woke up hungry one night.

hungry 當主詞補語修飾 a man.類似的用法有： After a day’s work, he often comes hom

e tired.I’m glad to know that they have reached

there safe and sound.

He got up to get something to eat. get up : rise

to = in order to; so as to 為了；以便表示「目的」，有時可置於句首用來強調。He has to get up early to catch the first b

us.To go to a nice school, every student stud

ies day and night.

不定詞當形容詞，用來修飾前面的名詞。He isn’t a man to tell lies.It is time to go to bed.

And he saw that his pet fish were jumping. Two fish even leaped straight out of the bowl.

he saw that his pet fish were jumping= he saw his pet fish jumpingleap: jump

straight: directly

A few hours later a quake hit the town.

a few hours later →after a few hours

In Alaska some brown bears woke up early from their winter sleep.

wake up early from their winter sleep= wake out of their hibernation

They came out of their holes on the run. No one had ever seen them do that. A day later there was a quake.  

At times there are quakes under the sea. Then a great wall of water may wash over the land.

At times there are quakes under the sea.= Sometimes quakes happen beneath the

sea.

then= next; after that; afterward 然後

a great wall of water 巨浪；海嘯= large ocean waves; tsunamis

Animals seem to sense the danger. In one place, the birds flew away from the water. Cows left their fields near the sea. They moved to the hills. Soon the fields were flooded.  

It seems that animals feel the danger of a coming earthquake.

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