课件23张PPT。Unit 2 Great People Lesson 7
What Is the Meaning of Life? 九年级英语上 新课标 [冀教]dialoguen. 对话；对白successfuladj. 获得成功的；
有成就的missingadj. 缺少的；丢失的surveyn. 调查 v. 调查neighbourn. 邻居 Some new phrases
think about 考虑
the meaning of… ……的意思
for example 例如
try one’s best to do sth. 尽某人最大 努力去做某事
be good to… 对……好/友善
live a happy life 过着幸福的生活Read the text and find out main phrases and main sentences.Main phrases:
·deep in thought
·think about
·write downMain sentences:
·What is the meaning of life?
·Do you ever wonder about that?
·For example,why are great people so successful?
·And how can we succeed in life?
·And how do you know if you’ve succeeded?
·I’m not sure how to answer them,but I think we should try our best to live a good and happy life.
·That sounds right to me.
·My dad always says that we should be good to others.
·I agree.☆教材解读☆
1.After the history class,Li Ming sits in the classroom,deep in thought.
deep in thought意为“深思,沉思”,还可以用lost in thought表示。其中thought为名词,意为“思考,思索”。
【拓展】 thought是动词think的过去式和过去分词,意为“想,认为”。
2.What are you thinking about?
think about意为“考虑”,一般可与think of互换,后接名词、代词、动词-ing形式,也可接“疑问词+动词不定式”结构或宾语从句。
【拓展】 (1)think of意为“考虑,想起,认为”,后接名词、代词或动词-ing形式,常用于疑问句中,与what连用。
(2)think over意为“认真考虑,仔细考虑”,后接名词或代词作宾语,当接代词时,应将代词放在think与over之间。
3.What is the meaning of life?
meaning为名词,意为“意思,意义”。the meaning of…意为“……的意思/意义”。
【拓展】 (1)mean为动词,意为“意欲、打算”。mean to do sth.意为“意欲/打算做某事”。
(2)询问“……是什么意思?”的常用句型:
What does…mean?
What is the meaning of…?
What do you mean by…?4.Do you ever wonder about that?
wonder在本句中用作不及物动词,后搭配介词about表示“想要知道,感到疑惑,觉得好奇”,后搭配at表示“感到惊讶”。
【拓展】 (1)wonder作动词时,后常接由疑问词或whether,if引导的宾语从句及“疑问词+动词不定式”的结构。
(2)wonder还可作可数名词,意为“奇观,奇人”。
(3)wonder的形容词为wonderful,意为“极好的”。5.For example,why are great people so successful?
◆for example意为“例如”,用于举例说明,一般只举同类人或物中的一个为例。作为插入语,可置于句首、句中或句末,要用逗号隔开。
【拓展】 such as意为“例如”,用于列举同类人或事物中的几个为例,置于被列举的事物与前面的名词之间,其后不能用逗号。
◆successful为形容词,意为“成功的”,可作表语,也可置于名词之前作定语。它是由名词success加后缀-ful构成,后缀-ful常与名词一起构成形容词。其名词为success,动词为succeed。6.And how can we succeed in life?
succeed为动词,意为“成功”,常用结构succeed in sth./doing sth.,意为“在某方面/做某事很成功”。
7.And how do you know if you’ve succeeded?
本句中的if为连词,意为“是否”,用来引导宾语从句,与whether同义。
I don’t know if it will rain tomorrow.
我不知道明天是否会下雨。
【拓展】 if还可以表示“如果”,引导条件状语从句。一般情况下,主句用一般将来时,条件状语从句用一般现在时。9.That sounds right to me.
sound为系动词,意为“听起来”,后面常接形容词作表语,有时也可接like构成短语sound like,意为“听起来像”。
【拓展】 sound还可作名词,意为“声音”,指自然界中所有的声音。
10.My dad always says that we should be good to others.
◆本句中that引导的宾语从句作says的宾语。
◆be good to意为“对……好/和善/慈爱”,后接表示人或人格化的词,与be friendly to意思相同。
【拓展】 (1)be good for意为“对……有益”,其反义短语为be bad for,意为“对……有害”。
(2)be good at表示“擅长,在……方面做得好”,at后跟名词、代词或动名词。11.I agree.
I agree.意为“我同意”,是英语中的常用口语,表达同意对话者的意见。
12.Let’s write these questions down and then survey our parents,friends and neighbours about their thoughts.
◆write down意为“写下,记下”,是由“动词+副词”构成的短语。write down的宾语如果是名词,放在down前后均可;如果是代词,必须放在down之前。
◆本句中的survey为及物动词,意为“(对……做)民意调查”。Read the lesson and fill in the blanks.
After the history class, Li Ming is deep in thought. Wang Mei comes in, and they start
a ________. Li Ming wonders about the ________ of life. He has many questions about his purpose in life. Wang Mei thinks those questions are________ to answer. They decide to ________ their questions ________, and then ________ their parents, friends and neighbours about their thoughts.dialoguemeaning difficultwritedownsurveyListen to the passage and tick the ideas mentioned.Become famous.
Attend a good university.
Have a satisfying job.
Have a happy family.
Make other people happy.
Be rich.It’s said that happy people can live longer.What do you need to be happy?Fill in the mind map.Then give a reason for each thing you list.Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
success purpose survey wonder neighbour
1.Work hard and you will be in the future.
2.I who he was,but nobody could tell me.
3.What is the of your visit?
4.One of our helped us look after our dog while we were away.
5.We 500 people and 75% of them were in favour of the plan. successfulwonderedpurposeneighbourssurveyedPractice Ⅱ.用所给词的适当形式填空
1.What’s the (mean)of life?
2.Why are great people so (success)?
3.How can we (success)?
4.I’m not sure how (answer)them.
5.We should try our best (learn)English well. meaningsuccessfulsucceedto answerto learnⅢ.根据汉语意思完成句子
1.如果海伦尽力,她也能过上幸福生活。
If Helen ,she can live a happy life,too.
2.你知道这个词是什么意思吗?
Do you know ?
3.你认为我们的城市怎么样?
What do you our city?
4.我确信他最后会成功。
I am he will succeed at last.
5.从这些成功人士的成功中,我们能学到许多。
We can learn a lot from
the people’s . tries her bestwhat this word meansthink ofsure thatsuccessfulsuccessHomework
1.Finish off the remaining exercises in the activity book.
2.Read the next reading in the student’s book.
