Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.Section A (1a-2d)课件(共39张PPT)

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Unit 6
An old man tried to move the mountains.
人教版八年级英语下册
Section A 1a-2d
Do you like to listen to stories
Have you ever heard of these stories
Jing Wei Determines to Fill up the Sea
Kua Fu Chases
the Sun
Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
Have you ever heard of these stories Can you tell them to your partners
Nu Wa Repairs the Sky
Chang E Flies to the Moon
Have you ever heard of these stories Can you tell them to your partners
Yu Gong Moves a Mountain
To learn the story Yu Gong Moves a
Mountain.
To learn new words: shoot, stone,
weak, god, remind, bit, silly…
To learn how to tell stories.
Objectives
shoot
stone
weak
god
remind
bit
a little bit
silly
instead of
v. 射击；发射
n. 石头
adj.虚弱的；无力的
n.神；上帝
v.提醒；使想起
n.一点；小块
有点儿；稍微
adj.愚蠢的；不明事理的
代替；反而
Words & expressions
Look at the four pictures
b
d
a
c
Match the story titles with the pictures
[a-d].
______ Journey to the West
______ Yu Gong Moves a Mountain
______ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
______ Nu Wa Repairs the Sky
b
d
a
c
1a
Do you know this story
Listen and check ( ) the facts you hear.
Which story are Anna and Wang Ming
talking about
___The two mountains were very high and big.
___ A very old man tried to move the
mountains.
___ A man told Yu Gong that he could never
do it.


1b
Discuss the questions with your partner.
1. How does the story begin
2. What happened next
3. Where would they put all the earth
and stones from the mountains
1c
Listen and number the pictures [1-4] in
order to tell the story.
1
2
3
4
2a
Listen again and circle the words you hear.
1. A man saw Yu Gong and his (children / family)
when they were working on moving the mountains.
2. He told Yu Gong he could never do it because he
was old and (poor / weak).
3. As soon as the man finished (talking / speaking),
Yu Gong said that his family could continue to
move the mountains after he died.
2b
4. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that
he sent (two / three) gods to take the mountains
away.
5. This story reminds us that you can never
(know / see) what’s possible unless you try to
make it happen.
Look at the pictures in 2a and tell the
story in your own words.
Once upon a time, there was a man called(叫做) Yu Gong. He wanted to move two high and big mountains…
2c
How to
tell a story
How does the story begin
Why was that
structures
What happened
(next、at last)
Who is the main
character
Role-play the conversation.
Teacher: So what do you think about the story
of Yu Gong
Wang Ming: I think it’s really interesting. Yu Gong
found a good way to solve his problem.
Claudia: Really I think it’s a little bit silly. It
doesn’t seem very possible to move a
mountain.
2d
Wang Ming: But the story is trying to show us that
anything is possible if you work hard!
Yu Gong kept trying and didn’t give up.
Claudia: Well, I still don’t agree with you. I
think we should try to find other ways
to solve a problem.
Wang Ming: But what could Yu Gong do instead of
moving the mountains
Claudia: Well, there are many other ways. For
example, he could build a road. That’s
better and faster than moving a
mountain!
Teacher: You have different opinions about the
story, and neither of you are wrong.
There are many sides to a story and
many ways to understand it.
Interview
Suppose you’re a reporter. You can ask your partner some questions about the story. Then have a report.
The questions you can use:
Who’s the main character in the story
How old is him/her
What did he/she do
What do you think of his/her activity
You can have a report like this：
This is a story about *** . He …. But I don’t agree with him. I think we should…
This story reminds us that you can never know what’s possible unless you try to make it happen.
remind 意为“提醒；使想起”。
remind sb of/about sb/sth 意为“使(某人)想起
(相似的人或物)”。
remind sb. to do 提醒某人做某事
remind sb. + that/what 从句
Language points
我想让你想一想学校的纪律。
I want to remind you of the school rules.
请提醒我寄信。
Please remind me to post the letter.
你能提醒一下他咱们的会议取消了吗？
Would you please remind him that our meeting has been put off
提醒她明天上午早点来。
Remind her to come earlier tomorrow morning.
I think it’s a little bit silly.
a little bit 有点儿；稍微
例：往这边挪一挪。
Move over this way a little bit.
对我来说，这本书有点难。
This book is a little bit difficult for me.
silly 愚蠢的；不明事理的
你太傻了，这么大的太阳，不戴帽子就出去了。
It was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
在这个问题上他们相当愚蠢。
They’re quite silly on this subject.
… and neither of you are wrong.
neither 两者都不 ，谓语动词用第三人称单数
Neither of them likes football.
他们俩都不喜欢足球。
Neither of them has a job now.
他们俩目前都没有工作。
But what could Yu Gong do instead of moving the mountains
instead of 介词短语“ 代替；反而”，后面
接名词，代词，动名词等。
你替我赴宴好吗
Will you go to the party instead of me
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。
We went to the Biology class instead of attending
the English lesson.
remind sb. of sb. / sth. 使某人想起
remind sb. to do sth. 提醒某人做某事
a little bit 有点儿；稍微
silly 愚蠢的；不明事理的
neither of 两者都不
instead of 代替；反而
Summary
walk _______ live ______
pick _______ stop ________
watch ________ push _______
notice _________ hurry __________
I. 写出下列动词的过去式。
walked
lived
picked
stopped
watched
pushed
noticed
hurried
Exercises
1. She was _____________ (有点儿) frightened.
2. Life was harder then because n_________ of us had a job.
3. I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name. Can you _______ me
4. She was too w______ to stand.
5. Don’t make a move or I’ll ________ (开枪).
6. How can you explain such a ________ (愚蠢的) remark
II. 根据提示完成句子。
a little bit
either
remind
eak
shoot
silly
III. 翻译下列句子。
1. 你为什么不参加踢足球而只是看热闹？
2. 我的两个哥哥都不能来晚会了。
3. 提醒他打电话给我。
Why don’t you play football instead of just looking on
Neither of my brothers could come to the party.
Remind him to call me.
Snow White ________(walk) in the forest and
_______(pick) some flowers. Soon she ____ (be) lost. She ______(look) around her. Then she _______(notice) a little house. She _______ (hurry) to the
house. She ________(knock) on the door. It____(be)
open. She ______ (look) and ________ (listen).
IV. 用所给词的适当形式填空。
walked
picked
was
looked
noticed
hurried
knocked
was
looked
listened
There ____ (be) no one there, so she _______ (enter) the house. Snow White_______ (look)
into a small room. On a table she _______ (count) three bowls. But she didn’t ______ (like)
the big bowls. She _________ (finish) all the food
in the little bowl.
entered
looked
counted
like
finished
was
（2019·黑龙江）
It’s not good for you to smoke so much, you’d better ________.
A. give up it B. give them up C. give it up
中考链接
C
【解析】
句意“对于你来说，抽太多的烟是不好的，你最好戒掉它”。give up放弃，在“动词+副词”构成的短语中，若宾语为人称代词宾格，则要将人称代词宾格放中间，即“动词+人称代词宾格+副词”，排除C。且根据smoking可知，不可数名词，用it，故选C。
（2019·山东）
They’ll succeed in working out the problem because they never ________.
A. wake up
B. give up
C. look up
D. make up
B
【解析】
句意：他们会成功地解决这个问题，因为他们从没放弃。考查动词短语辨析。A. 醒来；B. 放弃；C. 查找；D. 编造。because因为，表原因；根据They’ll succeed in working out the problem可知ACD三项意思都不合句意，故选B。
Homework
Practice with your classmates to tell more interesting stories. Then role-play them.