1. Unit 5 Encyclopaedias
Reading

2. Brain Storm What can you usually find from an encyclopedia?
What is an encyclopedia?

3. What is an encyclopedia?
An encyclopedia is a book giving information about all areas of knowledge or about different areas of one particular subject.

4. What can you usually find in an encyclopedia?
We can find information about a wide variety of subjects in an encyclopedia.

5. AMUSEMENT PARK ENGLISH
FLYING ELEPHANT 小飞象
BUMPER CAR 碰碰车
HAUNTED HOUSE 鬼屋
WATER CHUTE 滑水道
MERRY-GO-ROUND 旋转木马
FERRIS WHEEL 摩天轮
ROLLER COASTER 云霄飞车

6. Let’s learn some new words before
we get to understand the two articles.

7. dinosaur
skeleton
human being

8. These dinosaurs were gentle.
They ate leaves and plants.

9. This dinosaur was fierce and it ate meat.

10. dinosaur fossils
eggs
footprint
skeleton

11. Disneyland
cartoon characters
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
amusement park

12. deliver mail

13. Walt Disney
the creator of many famous
cartoon characters and
the Disneyland.

14. Reading comprehension:

15. 1.Scan the first articles and answer the following questions.
2.Scan the second articles and answer the following questions.

16. Questions for the first article:
1.Did dinosaurs live on Earth before people?
2.Were all dinosaurs big and kind?
3. What happened to all the dinosaurs?
4. How do people know there were dinosaurs lived
on Earth once?

17. Possible answer: 1.Yes, they lived on Earth more than sixty
million years before people.

18. Possible answer: 2.No, some dinosaurs were as small as
chickens. Others were as big as ten
elephants. Some dinosaurs were
gentle and some were fierce.

19. Possible answer:
3.They all died out suddenly.

20. Possible answer: 4.People can learn about the lives of
dinosaurs from fossils of their skeletons,
eggs and footprint.

21. Questions for the second article:
5. What is Disneyland?
6. How long did Walt Disney lived?
7. What famous Disney cartoon characters do you
know?
8. Where was Walt Disney born?

22. Possible answer:
5. It is a famous amusement park in the USA.

23. Possible answer:
6. For sixty-five years.

24. Possible answer:
7. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and
Snow White.

25. Possible answer:
8. In the USA.