Unit 2 Reading 课件 2023-2024学年牛津上海版英语八年级上册

Module 1 Unit 2 My life Work and play Period 1 Reading What is the girl doing? What job might she do? A1 Look at the pictures and answer the questions Before you read In the first picture, she’s making a phone call in the car Perhaps she’s playing computer games or looking for information on the Internet. Can you guess what job might she do? Is she a student? She looks like a student. Some of you may think she has a job because she’s wearing formal clothes. Now we’re going to read a passage about the girl. Her name is Wendy. You’re sure to find the answers after reading it. Title Introduction Parallel paragraphs Pictures A2 Read and find out the features of the text Before you read Let’s take a whole look at the passage. This is the title, it’s usually put on the top We call this part introduction. It gives brief information of the passage Parallel paragraphs: they all begin with time phrases 以时间短语开头的平行段落 They support the idea in the introduction. Pictures can help us better understand the passage -Who wrote these paragraphs? -Wendy -How do you know that? -Because the sentences all begin with I . It’s something like a diary. How about the introduction part? Did Wendy also write it?. No, because it is the third person This passage is a _ . a) newspaper report b) magazine article c) story an introduction How do you know? What does it mean? successful /sək‘sesfl/ adj. having become popular or made lots of money business /ˈbɪznəs/ n. a company or a factory that makes or sells things whizz-kid /'wɪzkɪd/ n. a clever child or young person who is very good at sth. B1 Read the title, infer the meaning of word While you read Read …. And … and get to know about Wendy. What’s the meaning of Whizz-kid? Maybe you can’t figure out the meaning right now, let’s move on to the introduction to get more information. Is she an ordinary student like you -No -Why? -Although she’s still at school, she has written several successful computer games She has her own business and her family wo