Unit 4 单元课件 2024-2025学年人教版八年级英语上册

Unit 4 What’s the best movie theater? The First Period Warming up 1.Do you like watching movies? 2.Which movie theater do you like best? Why? comfortable seats big screens best sound cheap new movies close to home buy tickets quickly popular Important Not Important 1a How do you choose which movie theater to go to? Write the things in the box under “Important” or “Not Important”. Qualities Movie theaters It has the biggest screens. It's the most popular near here. It's the closest to home. Town Cinema It has the shortest waiting time. It has the best sound. It has the most comfortable seats. Movie World Screen City Town Cinema Screen City Movie World Listen and match the statements with the movie theaters. 1b Practice the conversation. Then talk about the movie theaters you know. 1c A: What's the best movie theater? B: Sun Cinema. It's the cheapest. A: But I think Moon Theater has the most comfortable seats. Green City Survey 1. Which is the best clothes store? a. Miller's b. Blue Moon c. Dream Clothes 2. Which is the best radio station? a. 970 AM b. 97.9 FM c. 107.9 FM Listen to a reporter interviewing a boy. Circle the boy's answers. 2a ①Miller's ②Blue Moon ③Dream Clothes ①970 AM ②97.9 FM ③107.9 FM Clothes stores ______It's the most expensive. ______It has the best clothes. ______It's the worst store. ______You can buy clothes the most cheaply there. Radio stations ______It has the worst music. ______They play the most boring songs. ______The DJs choose songs the most carefully. ______It's the most popular. ② ① ③ ① ① ② ③ ② Listen again. Write the correct store or radio station next to each statement. 2b A: Hello! I'm a reporter. Can I ask you some questions? B: Sure. A: What's the best clothes store in town? B: I think Miller's is the best. A: Why do you think so? B: Well, Miller's has ... Student A,you are the reporter. Student B,you are the boy. Role-play a conversation using the information in 2a and 2b. 2c Greg: Hi, I'm Greg. I'm new in town. Helen: Hi, I'm Helen. Welcome to the neighborhood! How do you like it so far? Greg: It's fantastic, but I still don't really know my way around. Helen: Well, the best supermarket is on Center Street. You can buy the freshest food there. Greg: Oh, great. Is there a cinema around here? I love watching movies. Helen: Yes, Sun Cinema is the newest one. You can sit the most comfortably because they have the biggest seats. Greg: Thanks for telling me. Helen: No problem. Role-play the conversation. 2d 1.close to home离家近 close to意为“离……近”。close此处作形容词，意为“（在空间、时间上）接近”，其反义词是far，比较级为closer，最高级为closest。 e.g.:My home is very close to the school. Language Points 2.How do you like it so far?到目前为止，你认为这里怎么样？（教材第26页） (1)How do you like...?意为“你认为……怎么样？”，该句型用来询问对方对某物或某人印象、评价、看法等。其答语多是阐明自己的看法或表明自己喜欢的程度，相当于“What do you think of/about...?”。 e.g.:—How do you like Chinese food?/What do you think of/about Chinese food? —I like it very much. (2)so far为固定短语，意为“到目前为止；迄今为止”。 e.g.:So far so good. I have had no reply from her so far. 3.Thanks for telling me.谢谢你告诉我。（教材第26页） thanks for...意为“因……而感谢”，是向对方表示感谢的句型，后面接名词、代词或动名词，也可说成“Thank you for...”。 e.g.:Thanks a lot for your help. Thank you for telling me the news. 【辨析】thanks for与thanks to thanks for 因……而感谢 后接感谢的原因 thanks to 多亏，由于，幸亏 并无当面感谢的意思，有时可与 with the help of 互换 语篇填空之基础训练 comfortable, cheap, choose, good 1.There are many seats.I don't know which one to ________. 2.I want to go to Mike's clothing store.It has the _______ clothes in town. 3.It's quite __________ and fast to travel by high-speed railway. 4.You can buy clothes ________ in that store. choose best comfortable Exercise cheaply Please read the Grammar Focus first by yourselves. Warming up What's the best movie theater to go to? Town Cinema. It's the closest to home. And you can buy tickets the most quickly there. Which is the worst clothes store in town? Dream Clothes. It's worse than Blue Moon.It has the worst service. What do you think of 970 AM? I think 970 AM is pretty bad. It has the worst music. Grammar Focus 形容词和副词的最高级 1.含义 形容词和副词的最高级用于三者或三者以上的人或物的比较， 表示“最”。 2.构成 (1)一般情况直接在单词后加-est。如：small→smallest (2)以不发音的字母e结尾，其后加-st。如：large→largest 语法拓展 (3)以“辅音字母+y”结尾的词，变y为i,再加-est。如： early→earliest (4)以重读闭音节结尾，且词尾只有一个辅音字母的词， 双写这个辅音字母，再加-est。如：big→biggest (5)多音节词和部分双音节词在其前加most。如： outgoing→most outgoing (6)部分形容词和副词的最高级为不规则变化。如： good/well→best; bad/ill→worst; many/much→most; little→least 3.句型用法 (1)“主语+be+the+形容词/副词最高级+in/of/among+范围…” 表示“……在某范围内最……”。 (2)“主语+be+one of+the+形容词/副词最高级+可数名词复 数…”表示“……是……中最……的……之一”。 (3)“主语+be+the+序数词（除了first）+形容词最高级…”表 示“……在……是第几（大，长等）……”。 (4)选择疑问句中，常用句型：Which/Who...the+形容词/副词的 最高级，A，B or C? 【注意】①形容词最高级前通常要加定冠词the。但前面若有物主代词、指示代词或名词所有格等修饰时，不能用定冠词the。 ②形容词最高级常与介词in或of 引导的短语连用，与in连用意为“在……内”，表示“某范围内”，不一定是同类；与of 连用表示属性，介词后的名词或代词与句中的主语是同一类人或物，意为“在某一类中”。 活学活用 1.She is _______________(tall) in her class. 2.This one is _______________(good) of all the cakes. 3.Mr.Zhao is _______________(popular) teacher in our school. 4.Li Lei ran _______________(slowly) in the sports meeting. 5.Li Peng studies _______________(hard) in his class. the most popular the tallest the best hardest the most slowly 1. We went to the________ (bad) restaurant in town last night. The menu had only 10 dishes and the service was not good at all! 2. Blue Moon is_______ (good), but Miller's is________(good) in town. 3. The Big Screen is______________ (expensive) than most cinemas, but Cinema City is_________________(expensive). 4. Movie City has the________(bad) service, but we can sit the _______________(comfortably) there. 5. Tom acted the_______(well) in that movie. I think he's much_______ (good) than other actors. He can always find the ______________ (interesting) roles to play. worst good the best more expensive the most expensive worst most comfortably best better most interesting Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in brackets. 3a Service best: worst: Quality best: worst: Prices cheapest: most expensive: Think of three stores that sell similar things in your town and fill in the chart. Then write six sentences using the information in the chart. 3b Restaurants Danny's How much is a meal? How far is it from your home? 10 minutes by bus Is the service good? Is the food good? Danny's is the best one because it's the closest. Think of three restaurants for lunch near your home. Fill in the chart. Then talk in your group and choose the best one. 3c I think 970 AM is pretty bad.我认为调幅970兆赫相当差。（教材第27页） pretty此处作副词，意为“相当”。 e.g.:It's pretty cold outside. I think the price is pretty high. 【拓展】pretty作形容词，意为“漂亮的；可爱的；优美的”，通常用来说明女性、小孩或较小的物品。其比较级为prettier,最高级为prettiest。 e.g.:She is so pretty. Language Points 语篇填空之基础训练 service, menu, bad, meal, pretty 1.Can I look at the _______,please? 2.How many ______ do you have every day? 3.The Wanda Cinema has the best ________ in town. 4.John acted ______ good in the TV drama. 5.The food here is ______ than Sunshine Restaurant. menu Exercise pretty meals service worse It is ... restaurant. It has ... Warming up It is ... theater. It has ... funniest most creative quietest best most boring most creative loudest worst most serious quietest best funniest Write these words and phrases next to their opposites in the chart. 1a My cousin Li Jing is the funniest person I know. Tell your partner about people you know. Use the words in 1a. 1b Eliza ______ Vera ______ Steve ______ Dennis ______ The Math Teachers ______ d a e c b Listen to people talking about a school talent show. Match the pictures with the performers. 1c Names What people say Eliza best, Steve Vera Dennis The Math Teachers excellent, great funniest creative, most creative worst, terrible loudest Listen again. What do the people say about the performers? Fill in the chart with the adjectives you hear. 1d A: Who was the best performer? B: Eliza was the best performer. Look at the information in 1d and make a conversation. 1e 1. most creative最有创造力的 creative形容词，意为“有创造力的；创造性的”，其动词形式为create 创造；创作。 e.g.:The man is a creative singer and he often creates new songs. Language Points 2.Who was the best performer?谁是最佳表演者？（教材第28页） performer是可数名词，意为“表演者；演员”，是由动词perform加-er构成的名词。 【助记】巧记后跟不带to的不定式作宾语补足语的动词或短语。 三看，两听，一注意，加上三个小使役，半个帮助莫忘记。 三看：look at,see,watch;两听：hear,listen to;一注意：notice;三个小使役；have,let,make;半个帮助；help(后接不定式作宾语补足语时to可有可无) 一、根据句意，用句中画线单词的对应词填空 1.She is the_________to come to school and the last to go home. 2.I think April is the best month and November is the________month in a year. 3.—Do you have more than 100 dollars? —No,I have________than 100 dollars. 4.Jay and Ted are in the same class,but they are in________groups. 5.—Is the supermarket closed or________at 9:00 yesterday? —It was closed then. first worst less different open Exercise 二、语篇填空之基础训练 1.I think Mark _______ the best in the TV series. 2.102.1 FM plays the _______ music of all the radio stations.I don't like it at all. 3.I like living in the countryside.Because the air is _______ than that in the city. 4.Are you sitting ___________? Why not sit on the sofa? 5.We have three _________ a day. acts fresh comfortable act meal bad worst fresher comfortably meals Please describe the talent show using the words funniest, best, most creative, etc. Warming up Please describe the talent show using the words funniest, best, most creative, etc. A: I think ... is the most talented person. B: What can he/she do? A: He/She ... Who is the most talented person you know? What can he/she do? Tell your partner about this person. 2a Who’s Got Talent? Everyone is good at something, but some people are truly talented. It's always interesting to watch other people show their talents. Talent shows are getting more and more popular. First, there were shows like American Idol and America's Got Talent. Now, there are similar shows around the world, such as China's Got Talent. Read the passage.Which three talent shows are mentioned? 2b All these shows have one thing in common: They try to look for the best singers, the most talented dancers, the most exciting magicians, the funniest actors and so on. All kinds of people join these shows. But who can play the piano the best or sing the most beautifully? That's up to you to decide. When people watch the show, they usually play a role in deciding the winner. And the winner always gets a very good prize. However, not everybody enjoys watching these shows. Some think that the lives of the performers are made up. For example, some people say they are poor farmers, but in fact they are just actors. However, if you don't take these shows too seriously, they are fun to watch. And one great thing about them is that they give people a way to make their dreams come true. 1. What do talent shows have in common? 2. Who decides the winner? 3. Why do some people not like these shows? They try to look for the best singers,the most talented dancers,the most exciting magicians,the funniest actors and so on.All kinds of people join these shows. The people who watch the show decide the winner. They think that the lives of the performers are made up. Read the passage again and answer the questions. 2c 4. Why do some people like these shows? 5. What do you think of these shows? They are fun to watch.And they give people a way to make their dreams come true. I think these shows are very interesting.I like them very much,because these shows give some ordinary people a chance to make their dreams come true. best singer: In my class, Tom is the best singer because he can sing fast songs very well. ___________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Underline all the superlatives in the passage. Then write sentences using at least four of them. 2d Talents Classmates' names How many students agree? the best chess player the most talented dancer the most interesting writer the fastest runner Who's got talent in your class? Add more talents and write a classmate's name for each talent. Find out how many students in your group agree with you. 2e 1.Talent shows are getting more and more popular.才艺表演变得越来越受欢迎。（教材第29页） “比较级+and+比较级”意为“越来越……”，其后无比较级的标志词than;多音节形容词表示“越来越……”时，用“more and more+形容词/副词原级”来表示。 e.g.:Our country becomes more and more stronger. Language Points 2. All these shows have one thing in common...所有的这些节目有一个相同特征……（教材第29页） have...in common意为“有相同特征”，common作名词。 e.g.:He and his brother have nothing in common. 【拓展】common作形容词时，意为“共同的；共有的；普通的；一般的；常见的”。 e.g.:We have common interests and hobbies. His name is Hansen,a common name in Norway. 3. That's up to you to decide.那由你来决定。（教材第29页） be up to sb.意为“是某人的职责；由某人作出决定”。 常用到的结构为：It's up to sb.to do sth. e.g.:It's up to me to help you with English. Whether we will go to the zoo is up to your father. 【拓展】(1)be up to意为“忙于；从事”，其中to是介词，后接名词、代词或动名词。 e.g.:What are you up to now? (2)be up to意为“能胜任；适合”，通常用于否定句或疑问句中。 e.g.:He isn't up to the job. Do you think Jim is up to doing it by himself? 4.When people watch the show,they usually play a role in deciding the winner.当人们看这样的节目时，他们通常发挥着评判获胜者的作用。（教材第29页） play a role意为“发挥某种作用；扮演某一角色”。若要进一步引出具体内容，后面应用介词in，表示“在某事或某方面起到作用或承担某种角色”。 e.g.:He plays an important role in the TV play. Maria plays the leading role in the film. 5.Some think that the lives of the performers are made up.有些人认为这些表演者的生活是编造的。(教材第29页) make up意为“编造（故事、谎言等）”，此处be made up是被动语态。 e.g.:The story is made up. Don’t make things up. 【拓展】make sb./oneself up意为“给某人/自己化妆”。 e.g.:She makes herself up every morning. 6.For example,some people say they are poor farmers,but in fact they are just actors.例如，一些人说自己是贫穷的农民，但事实上他们只是演员。（教材第29页） for example意为“例如”，用来列举某一论点或情况，一般只列举同类人或事物中的一个，在句中做插入语，并且用逗号与前后隔开，可用于句首、句中或句末。 e.g.:For example,he often speaks to others in English. A lot of people like playing soccer—Bill,for example. 辨析：for example与such as for example 一般用逗号隔开，只以同类事物或人中的“一个”为例，做插入语，可置于句首、句中或句末 He,for example,is a good student.例如，他是个好学生。 such as 用来列举同类人或事物中的几个例子 Some of the European languages come from Latin,such as French and Spanish. 有些欧洲语言来源于拉丁语，例如法语和西班牙语。 一、用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空 1.The teacher says Lily is a _________(create) girl. 2.Who is the ________(win) of the game? 3.Many ________(visit) come to China every year. 4.The bus is ________(crowd). Let's wait for the next one. 5.I think driving is ______________(difficult) activity of all. creative winner visitors crowded the most difficult Exercise talent, magic, everybody, serious, prize 1.Jack is a ________. He can change the hat into a bird. 2.You must take the thing ________ and deal with it as soon as possible. 3.I like to watch people show their _______ on TV. 4._________ is here. Let’s begin our meeting. 5.Lisa won the first _______ in the singing competition. magician seriously talents Everybody prize 二、语篇填空之基础训练 What’s your favorite place to go to on weekends? And why? Warming up Read the article about Greenwood Park. Fill in the blanks with the correct superlative forms of the adjectives and adverbs in the box. 3a Greenwood Park is the best place to go to on weekends. I always finish my breakfast _______ on Saturdays because I want to get to Greenwood Park before 10:00 a.m. to meet my friends. The park is _______________ place on weekends because almost everyone goes there to see the street performers. Some people think they are boring, but I think they are _______________ people. However, the place where you can enjoy your time ___________ is at one of the small coffee shops near the park. You can read or relax there. There is something for everyone at Greenwood Park. crowded creative good fast quietly fastest the most crowded the most creative most quietly Best places/things in my town Why? best middle school No. 1 Middle School Because it is the most beautiful school in my town. Think about some of the best places/things in your town. Why are they the best? 3b ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Write about your town and the best places/ things there. 3c I live in Beijing.It’s a big city.There are many place of interests,such as the Summer Palace and the Palace Museum.The Summer Palace is my favorite place to go to. In winter,I can see beautiful snow everywhere in it … Which is the best town/city? ... has the best... ... is the best because ... ... is better than ..., but ... is the most ... I think Qingdao is the best city in China because it is the most beautiful. But I think Beijing is the most popular city for visitors. Discuss the towns/cities in China with a partner. Tell the class which town/city you think is the best. 4 1 Fill in the blanks with the superlative forms of the words in the box. 1. Dumpling House is___________ restaurant in the city. You can get a big plate of dumplings for only five yuan. 2. Spring Park is ______________ place in the city on weekends. Many families go there with their young children. Lots of old people like to take walks there, too. 3. You can rest ______________ at Flower Hotel. Their rooms are clean and big. 4. 109.9 FM plays________ music. The songs are always boring and too loud. Self Check good cheap popular comfortably bad the cheapest the most popular most comfortably the worst 5. PEP High School is _______ school in this town. They have big classrooms, fantastic teachers and an excellent sports center. 2 Read the information. Then correct the mistakes in the sentences below. A movie ticket at Town Cinema is $12.00. It is $10.50 at Screen City, and $10.00 at Movie World. Screen City is always very crowded. Many people go to Movie World, too. But you can always get a ticket at Town Cinema. The seats at Movie World are very comfortable. The seats at Screen City are a little hard. The Town Cinema seats are very uncomfortable. the best 1. Movie World is the most expensive. 2. Screen City has the cheapest tickets. 3. Town Cinema is more popular than Screen City. 4. Movie World is the most popular. 5. Town Cinema has the most comfortable seats. Town Cinema is the most expensive. Movie World has the cheapest tickets. Screen City is more popular than Town Cinema. Screen City is the most popular. Town Cinema has the most uncomfortable seats. 1.crowded拥挤的 crowded形容词,意为“人多的；拥挤的；挤满的”，反义词为uncrowded。 e.g.:The supermarket is very crowded on weekends. The park is the most crowded place. Language Points 2. ...is at one of the small coffee shops near the park. ……是在公园附近的一个小咖啡馆。（教材第31页） one of... 意为“……之一”，后接名词或代词的复数形式；“one of the+形容词的最高级+可数名词的复数形式”意为“最……的……之一”。如： one of my friends =a friend of mine 我的一位朋友 one of the boy's habits =a habit of the boy's 这个男孩的一个习惯 e.g.:He is one of my friends. Li Hua is one of the most famous basketball players in China. 按要求完成下列各题 1.Lin Tao is taller than any other student in his class.(改为同 义句) Lin Tao is _______ _______ student in his class. 2.I think Jack's is the best clothing store in town.(改为否定句) I _______ _______ Jack's is the best clothing store in town. the tallest don't think Exercise 3.This bookstore is less popular than that one.(改为同义句) This bookstore is _______ _______ popular ______ that one. 4.Kaixin Restaurant is the best in our city.(改为同义句) Kaixin Restaurant is ________ ________ any other restaurant in our city. 5.When we go depends on you.(改为同义句) When we go is _______ _______ you. not as as better than up to $$