Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came_Section B 2a-3b课件+学习任务单+课后练习2023—2024学年人教版英语八年级下册

Section B 2a-3b Objectives 1. To understand the passage and summarize the main idea of it 2. To be able to talk about an event you remember well 3. To learn the new words and expressions: shocked, in silence, take down, at first, so … that ... , remember doing sth We always remember what we were doing when some important events happened. China defeated Serbia 3-1 to win the women’s volleyball gold at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 20, 2016. What were you doing when you heard this exciting news? Look at the pictures in the passage and answer the questions. 2a 1. Who is the man in the left picture? 2. Do you know the building in the right picture? What happened to the building? What do you think the passage is about? Read the passage and answer the questions. 1. What are the two events in the passage? 2. When did they happen? 1) Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. 2) The World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists. Dr. Martin Luther King was killed on April 4, 1968. The World Trade Center was taken down on September 11, 2001. 2b Read the passage again. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F), or is the information not given (NG)? __ 1. Everyone in America remembers who killed Dr. King. __ 2. Robert Allen was eating lunch when Dr. King was killed. __ 3. Robert’s parents were shocked to hear the news. __ 4. Kate Smith was watching a movie when a plane hit the World Trade Center. __ 5. Kate didn’t think her friend was telling the truth about the event. 2c F F F T T Some people dinner working in office Underline sentences from the passage with similar meanings to the ones below. 1. Not everyone will remember who killed him, but they can remember what they were doing when they heard that he got killed. 2. No one said anything for the rest of dinner. 3. September 11, 2001 -- the date alone means something to most people in the US. 4. I had trouble thinking clearly after that because I was very afraid. 2d 1 2