Unit4Reading课件2023-2024学年牛津译林版英语八年级下册

Unit 4 A good read Reading I Gulliver in Lilliput 2024.04.01 In the last lesson, we talked about different types of books and discuss the basic question： Why do we read? What can books do？ So it‘s time for you to decide what to read. If you haven’t decided, I think it‘s a good choice to choose to read the classic works. 1 Do you know any novels about adventure(冒险)? Lead-in Journey to the west Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Western: Chinese: Gulliver’s Travels [ˈɡʌlɪvə] The Adventures of Tome Sawyer If you're interested in reading novels, you can choose books like this. Look at those pictures, Which novel have you read? What’s it about? OK, today we are going to read one of the novels together. Let's see the cover. 2 Background information Lilliput 利立浦特（小人国） Brobdingnag 布罗卜丁奈格（大人国） Laputa 勒皮他（ 飞岛国 ） Houyhnhnms 慧骃国 ['brɔbdiŋnæg] [lə'pju:tə] [ˌhaʊ'inəmz] ['liliput] According to the cover, what's the name of the book? Yes, it's Gulliver Travels. And who is the writer? Yes, Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer. Well, you may notice that the book is more than 300 hundred years old. Much older than your grandparents. We should read more books about history. Do you have any ideas about this book? No? Never mind, I'll introduce some background information to you. This novel tells us Gulliver’s amazing adventures in different countries. And today we’ll not read the whole book, we’ll read an extract from Gulliver’s travels. 3 View the instruction Jonathan Swift. 1. Who is the writer of the book? [ˈdʒɒnəθən] 2. Is this passage the complete novel? No. It’s an extract from the book. [ˈekstrækt] a piece of the writting According to the cover, what's the name of the book? Yes, it's Gulliver Travels. And who is the writer? Yes, Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer. Well, you may notice that the book is more than 300 hundred years old. Much older than your grandparents. We should read more books about history. Do you have any ideas about this book? No? Never mind, I'll introduce s