Unit 1 The secrets of happiness 课件- 2024-2025学年外研版（2024）七年级英语下册

Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas (听说) 1 1. What is in the middle of the picture? 2. How do you describe the glass of water? 3. What do the boys feel about the glass of water? A glass of water. It is half full / half empty. The boy on the left feels happy about the half-full glass, but the boy on the right feels sad about the half-empty glass. Look and say. 2 What are people’s different opinions about the same thing? Think and answer. Some people always look on the bright side of life. Other people often believe that bad things will happen. Listen to the radio programme and choose the main idea. 4 Listen again and complete the survey report. glass 200 70 30 the bright side believe 5 glass 200 70 30 the bright side believe 6 problems run a bad day Music class say sorry a wonderful morning important half full Listen to the talk and complete the notes. 7 How does Dr Zheng give examples in his talk? By using “take... for example”. Listen and talk. Phonetics in use grow cold alone hope how proud down mouth house town 9 Work in pairs. Share your advice for leading a positive life. 10 Think positively and find... How can you lead a positive life? Work in pairs. Share your advice for leading a positive life. 11 Work in pairs. Give specific examples. Present the dialogue in class. Sample A: What do you think are some ways to stay positive? B: Thinking positively is important. For example, my computer broke down yesterday. But I didn’t get sad. Instead, I learnt how to fix my computer. It was a positive experience. A: That’s true. I find that spending time with positive people helps me stay positive. B: What do you mean by positive people? A: They always look on the bright side of life, like my mum, my uncle and my best friend. When I spend time with them, I feel happy. 12 Write a short paragraph to talk about how to lead a positive life. Remember to give examples in your paragraph. Homework 13 Other 60946.867 Other 166273.64 Other 49370.637 $$Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas (阅读) 1 What is the hair in the picture like? It’s long. Look and say. 2 Look at the pictures and predict what the passage is about. Use the words and expressions to help you. What is the passage about? Maybe it is about how to gain happiness. Read and check. 1. What does “Growing happiness” mean? It means the young man grew his hair to help others. This made him happy. 2. Who is the main character of the story? Zhou Jian. / A young man called Zhou Jian. Read and answer. Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. long talked about laughed Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. kept his hair long cut it short kids with cancer Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. smiled grow happiness 1. What do you think “hope grew together with his hair” means? It means as his hair grew, more wigs would be made and more kids would be helped. He also became hopeful. Read and answer. 2. What will Zhou Jian do to “grow happiness again”? He will grow his hair long again. 3. Why does the writer use the words of Plato in the last paragraph? To tell us that the key to happiness is doing good and helping others. Read and answer. Listen and read. I feel surprised and happy for the kids with cancer. I understand why Zhou Jian grew his hair long. Think and share. 1. How do you feel when you read the letter in the passage? I can learn from the passage that helping others makes us happy. To be happy, we shouldn’t only focus on our own lives. We should think about other people, too. Think and share. 2. What can you learn from the passage? 14 Homework Retell Zhou Jian’s story. Then talk about what you have learnt from his experience. 15 Other 113195.09 $$Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Presenting ideas & Reflection 1 Do you remember...? Look and review. Make a book page about ways to be happy. Presenting ideas Search and decide. Search for information about ways to be happy. Decide which ways you will include in your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 1 Consider: • What makes you happy? • How can we help others be happy? • What is your advice for unhappy people? 4 Organise your ideas and write your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 2 Organise your ideas and write your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 2 Start with the purpose: • In this book page, we are going to introduce three ways to be happy. • A happy life means... Organise your ideas and write your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 2 List three things to make you happy and give reasons: • Love ourselves and others. Love is the key to happiness. Love can move us... • Think positively. Positive thinking can make us happy. • Try to help others more. Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. Organise your ideas and write your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 2 Give a brief summary: In a word, there are many ways people can be happy. They include loving ourselves and others, staying positive, and trying to help others more. Organise your ideas and write your book page. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 2 Happiness In this book page, we are going to introduce three ways to make us happy: 1. Love makes us happy. Love is the key to happiness. A life without love is like a sunless garden. Love can move us, change us and give us a life full of happiness. 2. It’s important to think positively. Positive thinking can help us lead a happier life. 3. Help others. Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. In conclusion, we should love ourselves and others. Remember to stay positive. And try to do something good and help others. Sample Practise and present. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 3 Practise and present your book page to the class. Vote on the best three. Presenting ideas: Make a book page about ways to be happy. Step 4 Vote on the best three book pages and the best three presentations. FLTRP: 百度图片存在版权问题，不建议使用，我们将其删除。 11 After completing this unit, I understand more about what makes us happy. positive others Reflection Reflection I still need to improve… Homework Polish your book page after class. 14 $$Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas (写作) 1 1. Who is the main character of the story? 2. What did he do? 3. How did he feel? Do you remember...? Look and review. He felt happy. He had his long hair cut and sent the hair to the City Children’s Hospital to help the kids with cancer. Zhou Jian. 2 1. What can you learn from Zhou Jian’s story? 2. How do you feel when you help others? 3. Do you have any similar story about feeling happy through helping others? Think and share. 3 Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Writing task 4 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Remember to: 1. include characters, a setting and events. 2. use the words and expressions from the reading passage. 3. give your opinion about the secrets of happiness. 5 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. 6 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. … often volunteers at a children’s hospital. 7 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. It happened at / last... 8 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. … found the children there really needed... … felt pity for the children because... 9 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. … tried his / her best to make them happy / less lonely. … taught them... Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. … felt... to help the children. Helping others is one of the secrets of happiness. 11 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Step 2 Use your ideas to write your story. Write your story. 12 Last Saturday, Ma Yang went to the park with his mum. He played with his new toy car. He felt happy. However, there was a boy crying. “What’s wrong with him?” Ma Yang asked his mum. “That boy’s family is poor, and he doesn’t have any toys to play with.” Ma Yang felt sad for the boy. Then he had an idea. “Would you like to play with my car?” he asked the boy. “Really? Thank you!” The boy smiled, and they started playing together. Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Sample 13 When it was time to go home, Ma Yang asked his mum, “Can I give my toy car to the boy?” “Yes, Yangyang, you can. That’s very kind of you.” Ma Yang handed the car to the boy. “You can keep it, and we can be friends,” he said. The boy was very happy. Ma Yang learnt an important lesson that day. Helping others is one of the secrets of happiness. Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Sample 14 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. 1. include characters, a setting and events? 2. use the words and expressions from the reading passage? 3. give your opinion about the secrets of happiness? Step 3 Check. Did you: Check your story. 15 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Step 4 Share your story with the class. Share your story. 16 Homework Further polish your writing according to the evaluation criteria. 17 $$Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Starting out & Understanding ideas (文本解读) 1 2. How do you think she feels? Why? 1. What is the girl doing? Look and say. Planting a tree. She feels happy. Because there is a big smile on her face. 2 What is the poem about? Happiness. What’s special about the poem? The first letters of each line make up the word “HAPPY”. Read the poem and answer the questions. 3 1. What stories do you know about happiness? 2. What can you learn from them? Look at the picture and answer the questions. 4 1. What can you see in the picture? 2. Do you think everyone is happy? 3. What do you think makes them happy? small house the only bed family together poor love key to happiness happy place We can see a poor (having very little money) family getting together on the only bed in a small house. Look and answer. 5 1. What is the passage?  A book report  A book review 2. What do you think makes them happy? Love. Read and check. 6 a Money cannot buy everything b Poor in things, rich in love c A family with magic power Choose the best title for the review. 7 Complete the thinking map with the words and expressions from the passage. 1. exciting story 2. happy family 3. small 4. the floor 5. enough food 6. listened to 7. a happy place 8. their hungry and poor life 9. Love 10. happiness 8 Listen and read. 9 1. Do you agree that “happiness comes from things like money”? Why or why not? Think and share. No, I don’t. Money can make life better in some ways. However, it doesn’t always make us happy. In my experience, having good relationships with others can bring me happiness. 10 2. What do you think the words of Oscar Wilde in the last paragraph of the passage mean? Think and share. To me, the words mean that love makes life good and enjoyable. 11 Talk about your opinions on happiness. Discussion What makes you happy in your life? 12 Write a short paragraph about your feelings on the book review and your opinions on happiness. Homework 13 Other 122326.664 $$Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Understanding ideas (语法学习) 1 1. What is the book review about? It is about a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 2. What do you think of the book? The book was full of magic. Let’s review. 2 Let’s review. 3. What was the life of the boy’s family like? The family was poor and they never had enough food. 4. Were the family happy or sad? To my surprise, the family were happy together. 3 (a) The book was full of magic. (b) The family never had enough food. (c) To my surprise, the family were happy together. Read and observe. Try to fill in the blanks. be动词 原形 am is are 过去式 was was were 行为动词 原形 have 过去式 had 4 (a) The book was full of magic. (b) The family never had enough food. (c) To my surprise, the family were happy together. Can you find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage? 5 Can you find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage? 6 Can you find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage? 7 动词 原形 过去式 原形 过去式 have put eat keep sweep stay sit forget listen touch join become say Can you fill in the blanks? had ate swept sat listened joined put kept stayed forgot touched became said 8 一般过去时的定义 1.表示过去某个时间发生的动作或存在的状态。 When I was in primary school, I often played football after school. I was happy yesterday. 2.表示过去的习惯或经常发生的动作。 We visited the museum last week. 主语 + was / were 主语 + 行为动词过去式 It rained heavily yesterday. She made a cake last week. We were together just now. be 动词 行为动词 I / He was tired yesterday. 一般过去时的句型结构 情况 变化规则 示例 规 则 变 化 一般情况 加-ed work worked listen listened 以字母e结尾 直接加-d live lived receive received “辅元辅”结构 双写词尾辅音字母加-ed stop stopped chat chatted 以辅音字母加y结尾 变y为i，再加-ed study studied 以元音字母加y结尾 直接加-ed enjoy enjoyed 不规则变化 do did have had become became 动词过去式的变化规则 I (go) to Paris. went Where did you go last month? 12 What did you do there? I ____ (go) to the museum. I _____ (ride) a bike. I _______ (watch) the Olympic Games, too. went rode watched 13 1. Sarah ____ (be) happy to play chess with her brother yesterday. 2. Emily _____ (make) a cake for her grandpa last night for his 70th birthday. 3. Last weekend, our family trip to the park _____ (fill) us with happiness. was made filled Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 14 3. was 5. decided 6. made 7. likes 8. makes Complete the post with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 1. made 2. found 4. tried 15 What makes the cat Duanwu a happy princess? The love of Guozi’s family. Do you think love can make us happy? Think and share. Work in pairs. Talk about your experience. Do you think love can make us happy? Work in pairs. Talk about your experience. Sample A: Yesterday, I lost a football match and felt down. I sat in my room and didn’t want to talk at all. B: I’m sorry to hear that. A: Then my little sister came in. She hugged me and put a candy in my mouth. B: Wow! That’s lovely. A: Yes, her sweet love made me feel warm. B: Family love is the key to happiness! Do you think love can make us happy? Make a short video to talk about your opinions. Homework 19 $$