Module 1 Nature and environment Unit1 Reading (1) 课件2024-2025学年牛津上海版（试用本）八年级英语下册

Module 1 Nature and environment UNIT 1 TREES Reading (1) 初中英语学科(牛津版)八年级第二学期第一单元第一课 复制该页内容时,记得修改相关的数据——第X单元,第X课 1 本课时中,学生…… 通过文本阅读,理解部分核心词汇的含义及用法,知道部分拓展词汇的含义,并在作业中加以巩固; 通过略读文本理解文本的主旨(facts about trees),通过扫读文本理解文本主要话题内容(trees provide people with a lot of things, trees are communicating with each other及trees are in great danger)和相关细节信息。 2 教学目标 将教学设计中的“教学目标”粘贴在此。粘贴完后,记得用格式刷刷一下文字部分,保证字体、字号一致。或采用复制、粘贴,右下角出现一个粘贴的小图标(一个类似于文件夹的图表)后,单击该图标,选择“只保留文本”的方式,就能保证格式与原格式保持一致了。 2 Label Can you label the different parts of a tree? Word box leaf branch trunk root fruit Task 1 (Worksheet) 3 4.0 Quiz about trees Look! There is a tree on the right. Can you label the five parts on the tree? You can also find it in Task 1 on your worksheet. Let’s start! 【停顿20秒(学生完成任务单时间)】 Time’s up. 3 4 Lucas’s work Worksheet, Task 1 5.0 学生作业 Let’s take a look at Lucas’s work together. Have you got the same answers? The green part shows the leaves. We call these apples fruit. Here fruit means 果实. These apples grow on the branches. The branches are connected to the thick trunk. Finally, we come to the most important part, the root. The thicker and deeper the roots are, the stronger and healthier the trees are. 4 What are these people doing in the picture? What job does Dr Ray probably do? Dr Ray Judy Dr = Doctor Think in mind 5 scientist / sa nt st/ n. 6.0图片 Obviously, you know a lot about trees. Now, we’re going to read a text about trees. Before we read it, let’s talk about the pictures in the text first. 6.1问题1 What are these people doing in the picture? (Pause) They are talking, maybe chatting. The girl on the right has got a notebook in hand. She is writing down something while the lady on the left is speaking. 6.2人物介绍 Let me introduce them to you. The lady on the left is Dr Ray. The girl is Judy. 6.3Dr=Doctor D-R stands for doctor. Here, doctor doesn’t mean the person who makes sick people better. It refers to someone who a higher degree at university because of receiving higher education. It means ‘博士’. 6.4问题2 What job does Dr Ray probably do? (Pause) Keep your answer in mind. Let me show you two more pictures. Here are the other two pictures in the text. 6.5图片呈现 Can you guess Dr Ray’s job now? (Pause) Yes. She is a scientist. 科学家. 6.6新授词scientist Say after me, scientist, scientist, scientist. 5 Dictionary entry fighter / fa t (r)/ n. (also fighter plane) a fast plane than attacks other planes in a war • e.g. a fighter pilot, fighter bases a person who fights • e.g. Mr Wilson is a great fire fighter. a person who does not give up hope and continues trying to achieve things although there are great difficulties Scientists like Dr Ray? Students like Judy? Trees? Predict 6 7.0课文标题 Pollution fighters is the title of the text. The word fighter has several meanings in the dictionary. 7.1词条呈现 What does ‘fighter’ mean in the title, a fast plane, a person who fights or a person who never gives up? (Pause) 7.2下划线出现 From the second meaning and the example, we know a fire fighter is someone who fights fire. So a pollution fighter should be someone who fights pollution. So here, fighter means someone who fights. Say after me, fighter, fighter, again, fighter. 7.3三个文字框 Who are pollution fighters, scientists like Dr Ray, students like Judy or trees? 6 What does ‘pollution fighters’ refer to? What do they mainly talk about? Read for general ideas 7 It refers to trees. Some facts about trees. 8.0阅读任务 Let’s read through the text quickly. Find the answers to these two questions. Number 1, what does ‘pollution fighters’ refer to? Number 2, what do Judy and Dr Ray mainly talk about? 【停顿1分钟(学生浏览全文时间)】 Boys and girls, time’s up! Let’s talk about the first question. (Pause) The last sentence in the text says ‘We are destroying our best fighters against pollution. What are we destroying? (Pause) Yes, trees. 8.1答案呈现 So the pollution fighters refers to TREES. Good. What are they talking about? From the introduction, we know Dr Ray is a scientist about trees. Judy asks her some questions about trees. So they are talking about … 8.2答案呈现 … the facts on trees. 7 Introduction Who might be the readers of Judy’s project? What does Judy want to get from Dr Ray? Can she get all the information she wants from Dr Ray? Why do you think so? 8 Read for details Judy’s teacher and her classmates. Some facts about pollution. She is a scientist about trees. She may know how trees help fight against pollution but she may not know all about pollution. 9.0图片 It’s time for us to learn more about what they talk about. This time, please read the introduction … 9.1问题呈现 … and try to answer these three questions on the screen. 20 seconds to go. 【停顿20秒(学生阅读引言时间)】 Have you got the answers? Who might be the readers of Judy’s project? The readers might be … 9.2答案1 … Judy’s teacher and her classmates … because this is a class project. What does Judy want to get from Dr Ray? Yes. The introdcution says Judy is collecting some … 9.3答案2 … facts about pollution. But can Judy get all the information she wants? I don’t think so. Dr Ray is a scientist about trees. She may know a lot about trees. She may know how trees fight against pollution. But she may not know all the things about pollution. 9.4答案3 During Judy and Dr Ray’s conversation, they talk about the facts about trees. But why is Dr Ray interested in trees? How many different aspects do they talk about? 8 Interview Why is Dr Ray so interested in trees? What information does Judy get from Dr Ray? 9 Read for details 10.0阅读要求 Please read the interview carefully and try to answer these two questions. Two minutes for you. Ready? Go! 【停顿2分钟(学生阅读时间)】 9 Interview Why is Dr Ray so interested in trees? 10 Read for details They’re the biggest and oldest living things on the Earth. 11.0图片+问题 Why is Dr Ray so interested in trees? In line 3, she says, … 11.1答案 …they’re the biggest and oldest things on the Earth. That is why Dr Ray can tell Judy so many things about the pollution fighters. 10 Interview What information does Judy get from Dr Ray? What good are trees? Trees are communicating with one another. Trees are in great danger. What good are trees? = How useful are trees? one another = each other 11 Read for details communicate /k mju n ke t/ with = share information with noun 12.0图片+问题 What information does Judy get from Dr Ray? Yes. In their interview, they talk about how people use trees, how trees clean the air and cool the air. But all these facts aim at one question. What is the question? (Pause) It’s ‘What good are trees?’. 12.1What good are trees? What does this sentence mean? 12.2How useful are trees? It means ‘How useful are trees?’ 12.3圈出good What is the part of speech of the word ‘good’? Yes, it is a noun. 12.4呈现词性 In the sentence, good means ‘好处;好的地方’. What other facts does Dr Ray give? After they talk about the good things trees do people, Dr Ray tells Judy trees can help each other. Why can they do that? Yes. They are communicating with one another. 12.5They’re communicating with each other What does communicate with mean? When I communicate with a friend on the phone, we share or exchange information on the phone. 12.6communicate及释义 Communicate with means 与……联系, 与……交流. Say after me, communicate, communicate, communicate with, communicate with. What does one another mean here? It has the same meaning as each other, 相互, 互相. 12.7one another及释义 What’s Judy’s last question? … Are trees in danger? What’s Dr Ray’s answer? … In great danger. So … Finally, they talk about trees are in danger. 12.8Trees are in danger Totally they mainly talk about three facts on trees. Which fact do they spend most of the time talking about? 12.9打勾 That’s the first fact. Now let’s read about the first fact carefully. 11 Read and find out 12 Read the interview from line 1 to line 24 and tell: What do trees do for us? 13.0 阅读任务 Read the interview from line 1 to line 24 and conclude what the trees can do for us. You will have one and a half minutes to read this part. 【停顿1.5分钟(学生阅读课文时间)】 Now time’s up. 12 Read for details 13 Trees … make streets more beautiful and less noisy provide useful things wood rubber paper fruit notebook / n tb k/ clean the air cool the air natural air conditioners air conditioner / e k n d n (r)/ natural / n t r l/ adj. existing in nature, not made by man 14.0树木+Trees What can trees do for us? First, they make streets more beautiful and less noisy. 14.1树木作用1 Next? Yes. We can get a lot of things from them. 14.2树木作用2 What are they? Yes, we can get wood to make pencils. 14.3wood+铅笔 We can get rubber too. 14.4rubber Then we can get paper … 14.5paper+笔记本+notebook … to make notebooks. Say after me, notebook, notebook, notebook. You always write down your notes in your notebook. And what else? That’s right. Fruit! 14.6fruit+水果 What else do trees for us? They clean the air. 14.7树木作用3 They also cool the air. 14.8树木作用4 What does Dr Ray call the trees? 14.9空调+natural air conditioners Yes. She calls them natural air conditioners. 14.10air conditioner Say after me, air conditioner, air conditioner, air conditioner. Why do we call them natural air conditioners? Yes, they cool the air but they don’t need to use any electricity. We don’t need to pay for the cool air. So they are natural. 14.11natural It means 自然的;天然的. Say after me, natural, natural, natural. 13 Read for details 14 take release C O O C O O C O O natural air cleaners release /r li s/ v. let … out 15.0树木 How do trees clean the air? They take harmful gases form the air. 15.1take+CO2 One of the harmful gases is the carbon dioxide. In chemistry, we write it as C-O-2. Then what do trees do? 15.2release+O2 Good, they release oxygen. That is O-2. What does release here mean? 15.2release及释义 It means let something out. So trees let oxygen out into the air. Say after me: release, release, release. Can you compare the trees to an electrical appliance? 你觉得这里你可以把树木比作哪一种家用电器呢? 15.3空气净化器 Yes. Trees are like air cleaners. They clean the air for us. We don’t need to pay for the clean air either. They are natural air cleaners. 14 Read for details 15 Read the interview from line 25 to the end and tell: What do trees do with one another? Why are trees in great danger? 16.0 阅读任务 We have finished talking about the first face. Now, let’s talk about the other two. Read the rest of the interview and think about the two questions on the screen. Ready? Go! 【停顿1分钟(学生阅读课文时间)】 15 Read for details 16 warn their neighbours pass food and water join roots together Do you think trees are ‘clever’ plants? They protect themselves first then warn others. How? nasty / n st / adj. very bad or unpleasant chemical / kem kl/ n. something made by chemistry 17.0图片 What do trees do with each other? Yes. Sometimes they can warn their neighbours. 17.1warn their neighbours What do they warn their neighbours for? (Pause) For insects. Insects may attack them. What else do they do? (Pause) They pass food and water to each other. 17.2pass food and water These are two important things they live on. Why can they do these things with each other? 17.3圈出树根部分 Look at their roots. What happens to the roots? 17.4join their roots together Yes, they join their roots together. 17.5呈现问题 Some people say trees are clever plants. Do you agree? Before they warn their neighbours, what do they do? 17.6呈现答案 They must protect themselves and then they can warn their neighbours. 17.7呈现问题 How do they protect themselves? They produce a chemical that makes leaves taste nasty. It’s a nasty chemical. So it tastes terrible. 17.8nasty、chemical If something is nasty, you think it’s bad and makes you feel ugly or terrible. Say after me, nasty, nasty, nasty. One more word, chemical, chemical, chemical. Here chemical is a noun, it means … 化学物质, 化学制品. 16 Read for details 17 burn /b n/ v. (burnt/burned, burnt/burned) destroy or kill by fire destroy /d str / v. damage something so badly that it no longer exists 18.0空白 Although trees do a lot of good things for us, do people treasure them? No. They even do a lot of bad things to the trees. What do people do to them? 18.1图片组合 People cut down and burn millions of trees every year. 18.2图片 People are destroying the best fighters against pollution. 18.3burn及释义 If you burn something, you kill or destroy it by fire. It means 烧毁. Read after me: burn, burn, burn. The past and past participle forms can be either burnt or burned. 18.4destroy及释义 If you destroy something, you damage it and you won’t see it any longer. It means 损坏,损毁. Say after me: destroy, destroy, destroy. In today’s lesson, we have talked about the three facts about the trees. From all these facts, we can conclude that it’s our duty to protect the trees and forests. Tomorrow, we will talk more about the text. 17 第一课时Homework sheet(阅读:Pollution fighters 1) Copy the new words and phrases you learned in today’s lesson. Then read them aloud after the recording and memorize them. Complete the sentences with proper words you learned. Read the interview aloud after the recording. Complete Exercise D1 and D2 on pages 4 and 5, Student Book. 18 Homework 19 19.0 作业 Today’s homework. 所有需要完成的作业内容都已经列明在下发的Homework sheet上。抄写和选词填空的作业请完成在作业单上,另外你还要完成的是课本上第4和第5页上的练习D1和D2。 This is the end of today’s class. See you next time! 18 $$