Unit 4 Section B 2a-2e 阅读课件 2024-2025学年人教版八年级英语下册Unit 4 Why don't you talk to your parents?

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Why don’t you talk to your parents
Section B 2a-2e
Unit 4
学习目标
掌握 skill, compete, typical, training, stress, continue, development, compare ...with等词汇。读懂对孩子参加课外活动看法的语篇。
语言能力
学会根据上下文猜测词意。
运用各种阅读策略，通过议论文阅读，提高综合阅读能力。
学习能力
了解目前中学生们普便存在的问题。能够针对学生参与课外活动表达自己的观点和看法。
文化意识
在日常生活中，当与家长意见不一致时，学会换位思考。学会放松，缓解压力。
思维品质
Free talk
Do you do after-school activities
What after-school activities do you know
Lead-in
Look and say
hang out with friends
play sports or exercise
use the Internet
do homework
watch TV
have after-school lessons
Brainstorm
Should kids take many after-school lessons
Different people have different opinioins.
helpful
stressful
Pre-reading
What can we get from the title
a piece of advice
for teenagers
problems—busy/pressure
......
Maybe you should learn to relax!
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②
③
④
1.What does paragraph 1 tell us
Great pressure on students.
Why do they have so much pressure
Reading tip: We can get the main idea from the ____________________.
first/last sentence
1. Keep on happening
2. Last for only a short time
3. Make something happen
4. Usual or common
5. Encourage someone to do something or to work hard
6. Getting better or bigger
7. Looking for differences and similarities between things
2c
Guess meaning
√
2. What are the following paragraphs about
Cathy Taylor
Linda Miller
Dr. Alice Green
Successful
children
Happy
children
Writer’s opinion
Different opinions on students’ pressure
How do they support their opinions
Characters Opinion Supporting details
Cathy Taylor (Para.2) Successful children
Linda Miller (Para.3) Happy children
Dr. Alice Green (Para.4) Happy children
What does she do to
make her children successful
What does she do to make her children successful
The Taylors are a typical American family. Life for Cathy Taylor's three children is very busy. "On most days after school, " Cathy says, "I take one of my two boys to basketball practice and my daughter to football training. Then I have to take my other son to piano lessons. Maybe I could cut out a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children's future. I really want them to be successful. " However, the tired children don't get home until after 7 p. m. They have a quick dinner, and then it's time for homework.
Reading tip: Underline the words or sentences help you.
The Taylors are a typical American family. Life for Cathy Taylor's three children is very busy. "On most days after school, " Cathy says, "I take one of my two boys to basketball practice and my daughter to football training. Then I have to take my other son to piano lessons. Maybe I could cut out a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children's future. I really want them to be successful. " However, the tired children don't get home until after 7 p. m. They have a quick dinner, and then it's time for homework.
Reading tip: Underline the words or sentences help you.
Does Cathy Taylor think it’s important for kids to join after-school activities And why
The Taylors are a typical American family. Life for Cathy Taylor's three children is very busy. Maybe I could cut out a few of their activities, but I believe these activities are important for my children's future. I really want them to be successful. " However, the tired children don't get home until after 7 p. m. They have a quick dinner, and then it's time for homework.
1. Keep on happening
2. Last for only a short time
3. Make something happen
4. Usual or common
5. Encourage someone to do something or to work hard
6. Getting better or bigger
7. Looking for differences and similarities between things
2c
Guess meaning
√
√
How do they support their opinions
Characters Opinion Supporting details
Cathy Taylor (Para.2) Successful children These after-school activities are _________for her children’s___________future.
Linda Miller (Para.3) Happy children
Dr. Alice Green (Para.4) Happy children
important
successful
Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy What’s her opinion
Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy What’s her opinion
Linda Miller, a mother of three, knows all about such stress. "In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get older, " she says. "Mothers send their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always comparing them with other children. It's crazy. I don't think that's fair. Why don't they just let their kids be kids People shouldn't push their kids so hard. "
Reading tip: Underline the words or sentences help you.
Linda Miller, a mother of three, knows all about such stress. "In some families, competition starts very young and continues until the kids get older, " she says. "Mothers send their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always comparing them with other children. It's crazy. I don't think that's fair. Why don't they just let their kids be kids People shouldn't push their kids so hard. "
1. Keep on happening
2. Last for only a short time
3. Make something happen
4. Usual or common
5. Encourage someone to do something or to work hard
6. Getting better or bigger
7. Looking for differences and similarities between things
2c
Guess meaning
√
√
How do they support their opinions
Characters Opinion Supporting details
Cathy Taylor (Para.2) Successful children These after-school activities are _________for her children’s___________future.
Linda Miller (Para.3) Happy children It’s________ and_________to let children join all kinds of class. People _________push their children so hard.
Dr. Alice Green (Para.4) Happy children
important
successful
crazy
unfair
shouldn’t
Does Dr. Alice Green agree with Cathy or Linda What does she say
Does Dr. Alice Green agree with Cathy or Linda What does she say
Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child's development. Doctor Alice Green says all these activities can cause a lot of stress for children. "Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves, too. Although it's normal to want successful children, it's even more important to have happy children. "
Reading tip: Underline the words or sentences help you.
Does Dr. Alice Green agree with Cathy or Linda What does she say
Doctors say too much pressure is not good for a child's development. Doctor Alice Green says all these activities can cause a lot of stress for children. "Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves, too. Although it's normal to want successful children, it's even more important to have happy children. "
1. Keep on happening
2. Last for only a short time
3. Make something happen
4. Usual or common
5. Encourage someone to do something or to work hard
6. Getting better or bigger
7. Looking for differences and similarities between things
2c
Guess meaning
√
√
How do they support their opinions
Characters Opinion Supporting details
Cathy Taylor (Para.2) Successful children These after-school activities are _________for her children’s___________future.
Linda Miller (Para.3) Happy children It’s________ and_________to let children join all kinds of class. People _________push their children so hard.
Dr. Alice Green (Para.4) Happy children Too much pressure is _____________ children’s development. Kids ______ have time to relax and think for themselves.
important
successful
crazy
unfair
shouldn’t
not good for
should
Group work
What do you think of after-school activities (agree or disagree)
And Why
Successful
children
Happy
children
Check list
1. Everyone should take part in.
2. Show your opinion clearly and loudly
3. Using supporting details
4. Use should or shouldn’t
★
★
★
★
What can we do to relax
Successful
children
Happy
children
Check list
1. Everyone should take part in.
2. Show your opinion clearly and loudly
3. Using supporting details
4. Use should or shouldn’t
★
★
★
★
Structure of argumentation(议论文)
Topic: Students’ pressure
Side 1: Successful children
Side 2: Happy children
Do you want to live a successful but stressful life, or a happy but common life
Thinking
Learn to relax and live a happy life.
Enjoy life to the fullest.
Emotion
Summary
reading
strategies
Enjoy life to the fullest
predict by title, guessing the words’ meaning
structure
Para 1: The topic
Para 2-4: Opinions
Children should learn to relax.
words and expressions
skill, compete, typical, training, stress, continue, development, compare ...with等。
Homework
1. Recite the words and expressions in Section B (2a-2e).
2. Try to write a new passage to share your opinions about after-school lessons.
Exercise
一、单项选择1．The Queqiao satellite(卫星) will form a ___ bridge between controllers on Earth and the far side of the Moon.
A．contribution B．communication C．celebration D．competition
2．____I have lost everything in this terrible earthquake, I have not lost my life.
A．Because B．So C．Although D．If
3．—It’s said that drinking coffee____ cancer. Do I have to give it up
—Relax! In fact, a coffee a day keeps the doctor away.
A．causes B．has caused C．caused D．had caused
B
C
A
二、多句选词填空（用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空）
skill; develop; compare; hang out; push; argue; typical
1．Many foreign friends are surprised at the fast _____________ of China.
2．Our English teacher taught us some reading ________.
3．He is a __________ Englishman.
4．Don’t ___________ yourself with others. You should just be yourself.
5．Tony ____________with his friends in the street last Sunday.
6．The car broke down, so we had to _______ it to the side of the road.
7．I _________ with my best friend last week.
development
skills
typical
compare
hung out
push
argued
Homework
1. Recite the words and expressions in Section B (2a-2e).
2. Try to write a new passage to share your opinions about after-school lessons.