高中英语Unit 1 The world of our senses(1)

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1 / 3 Unit 1 The world of our senses

Wele to the unit

(The first period)

Step 1 Lead-in

Almost everyone has five senses and uses them all the time.

Do you know what they are? (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch)

Well, in our daily lives —

1. With what do we see and hear?

(We see with our eyes and hear with our ears.)

2. How do we know whether a dish is delicious?

(We taste it with our tongues.)

3. If a flower has a pleasant smell, how do we know it?

(We smell it with our noses.)

4. If we want to know whether the water in the basin is hot or cold, what do we do?

(We put our hands in the water to feel it.)

5. How do we know about the world around us?

(We usually use our five senses.)

(Ask students more questions if time allows. While doing this, you can write down the following words on

the blackboard. Students will be familiar with some key words or new words in the short passage.)

We … With … The sense …

see eyes sight

hear ears hearing

taste tongue taste

smell nose smell

touch / feel hands / feet / skin touch

If someone lost one or two of his senses, what would happen?

(You can use the following questions to elicit students’ ideas.)

As we all know, almost everyone has five senses, which are used everywhere and all the time. We learn

about the world through the five senses. We use the five senses to study, work and relax, but there are some people

who have lost one or more of their senses.

A person who cannot see is blind and someone who cannot hear is deaf.

Do you know how blind people can read? (They can read by touching raised dots which represent (= stand

for) numbers and letters. This system is called Braille.)

How do the deaf municate with each other?

(They use body language or sign language.)

Step 2 Reading

Read the instructions and the short passage to see if there are any sentences that you don’t understand.

Then I will give you five minutes to describe the four pictures with your own words.

Picture 1: What can you see? word

2 / 3 (If we look at the white part, we can see a vase. If we look at the black part, we can see two faces.)

Picture 2: How do you find out the two lines are of the same length?

(We can use a ruler to measure the two lines. Or we can use two pieces of paper to cover both ends

of the two lines.)

Picture 3: How do you know it?

(We can place a ruler next to the line. Or we can also use a ruler to draw more straight lines which run

parallel to the two lines.)

Picture 4: How do you read the symbols in line b?

(The symbols in line b can be read as the letters K, B, E, M , or K, 13, R, M.)

Step 3 Discussion

1. Why are people misled by their own eyes?

(Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes. Also, what we expect to see can change what we see.

But in fact, what is really confused is the brain, not the eyes.)

2. Then read the three questions. I will put you into groups of four to discuss the three questions.

Then you will be asked to report your answers.

Question 1: Do you use one of your senses more than the others? Give an example.

We often use one or two of the five senses more than the others when we need to.

For example, ①in the darkness, the sense of hearing and the sense of touch bee more sensitive, because we

can’t see anything. ②When we listen to our favorite music, we will close our eyes and just listen with our ears.

③When we read a very interesting book, we’ll lose ourselves in it, and hardly hear anything around us. ④When

we eat something, we not only taste or smell it, but look at it as well.

Question 2:Some people cannot remember something until they have seen it. Other people only need to

hear something once or twice before they can remember it. Which sense helps you learn best? How does it

help you?

I think that when learning English, the sense of sight and the sense of hearing help me a lot. I usually listen to

thetape before I read. While I’m listeningto the tape, I’ll look at the text. And Ioften read the English text aloud.

Thebination (= state of being joined or mixed together) of these two senses besthelps me remember what I have

learnt.

Question 3: Do you know of any people who have made great achievements even if they have lost one of

their senses? What did they achieve?

There are quite a few people who havemade great achievements even whenthey have lost one of their

senses. TakeBeethoven, the great Germanposer, as an example. He began tolose his hearing in 1797 and was

partlydeaf by 1803. In 1818 when he waspletely deaf, Beethoven pletedhis most famous symphony, the