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 Starting out + understanding ideas Free Talk Let’s read a poem together. What’s the poem about？ What's special about the poem? The first letter together means: Happy Happiness is a kind of feeling. How do you think these people feel? Why? They wear big smiles on their faces. They feel happiness. Free Talk What do you think is the key to happiness or the secret of happiness? They live in a small house. But all the people smile brightly. Why? happy family moments love each together family is the happy place the key to happiness the secret of happiness Pre-reading What can you see in the picture? some candies some chocolates some sweet things What do you think the writer will write ? His happy childhood His happiness of eating chocolates Now let’s read a passage and learn more about it. Tip 1: The pictures sometimes can tell us the information. Fast reading How does the writer organize? 1).What’s the structure of the passage? A. B. C. D. 2). Match the headings with the paragraphs. √ A: Charlie’s poor family. B: Love, the key to happiness. C: A magic book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory D:The family enjoy their happy moments. Tip 2: The first sentence or the last sentence usually tells us the main idea. Careful reading Read Para 1 and tick( √ ). 1). What may be the passage? A. a story poster B. a notice C. a book review D. an introduction 2) Why does the writer say “ But Charlie’s happy family was the most magical part of the story.” A. To make people interested in the topic. B. To praise Charlie’s happy family. C. To introduce the magic story. D. To persuade the readers that the book was full of magic. The comments on the book Careful reading Read and choose the correct answer. 1. How many people are there in Charlie’s family? A. five. B. six. C. seven D. eight 2) What do they always eat for dinner? A. cabbage rice B. cabbage soup C. water and rice D. cabbage noodles 3) Why does the writer use “ watery” to describe the soup? A. To prove the family likes drinking water. B. To make the soup much more delicious. C. To persuade readers the family was really poor. D. To get more beautiful words to describe soup. The description of Charlie’s family Careful reading Read and choose the correct answer. 1. How did the writer feel when he finds the poor family were all happy together? A. glad. B. shocked. C. unhappy D. relaxed 2) Why can the room become a happy place? A. Because all the family members cherish the time together. B. Because they are no longer poor. C. Because the jokes are very funny. D. Because the stories make them forget hungry. The theme of the book Careful reading Read and answer the questions. 1. Do you agree that “ happiness comes form things like money”? Why or why not? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What do you think the words of Oscar wilde in the last paragraph of the passage mean? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Make a sentence just like this: “ A life without .... is just like ......... The theme of the book No, I don’t. Because in fact, love is the key to happiness. The more love we have, the happier we will be. Love is the most important thing in the world. It can change us and enrich our life! A life without love is just like a life without a sun! Post reading 1). Choose the best title for the passage. A. Money cannot buy everything. B. Poor in things, rich in love. C. A family with magic power. D. The richer you are, the happier you will be. Do a summary! happy family exciting story small the floor enough food listened to a happy place their hungry and poor life Love happiness Post reading Do a report with your partners. The comments on the book The description of Charlie’s family The theme of the book Post reading Share something about your understanding of happiness. A: Have you ever read the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? B. Yes. I kept going over .....in my heart. ...was the most magical part of the book. A. I agree with you. His family was really poor, but to my surprise, ...... The whole family ...... This touched me greatly. B. From this, I learnt ....... I believe that a life without love is just like ...... A. You are right! Love is the key to happiness. It can move us, .... and ......！ Period 2 Grammar 1.通过复习课文，识别并总结过去时态的用法并运用过去时态谈论自己的感到幸福的经历。 2.运用所学的过去时态完成自己的经历的文章，并总结关于经历的文章结构。 3.结合所学的过去时态和思维导图，从时间、地点、人物、感受、习得（评价）五个维度谈论不同的经历的表达，并使用所学的谚语来升华主题。 Free Talk After reading, what did you think of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? It was amazing. It was full of magic. do---did is---was Why did you think the book was full of agic? The family never had enough food. To my surprise, the family were happy together. Read the sentences and summarise the grammar rules. have---had make---made task-circle Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 1. Sarah ________(be) happy to play chess with herr brother yeasterday. 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 Past tense: yesterday, last night, last .... this morning, ... task-circle Complete the post with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. made found was tried decided made likes makes Past tense: present tense: Where can we read the passage? On the blog. On the webpage. task-circle Our love makes her a happy princess! What do you think of the sentence? A life without love is just like a life without a sun! Love is the most important thing in the world. It can change us and enrich our life! Love can move us, change us and give us a life full of happiness. Keep love in our heart. The more love we have, the happier we will be! Show Time Do you think love can make us happy? Talk about your experience. Use the words and expressions from the reading passage and the useful expressions to help you. Step 1. Your experience: When / Who /Where... Step 2. Your feelings: How did you feel? Step 3. What you learn from it? Checklist (10) Content include all the ideas from Step 1 (3) use the words and expressions from the reading passage (3) give your opinions about the experience(2) speech loud, clear, fluent (2) Useful phrases or sentences: I kept going over ... in my mind. That made him/ her feel ... To my surprise, ... This touched me greatly. From this, I learnt ... I believe that.... Love is the key to happiness. Share vote on the best three presentations according yo the checklist. Homework Must do: 1. Polish your presentation of the topic. 2. Write your story in you notebook and share with your partners. Choose to do: 1. Combined (结合）with the content of the book page, make a video to share your story with others. Free Talk How do you describe the glass of water? Is the glass half full or half empty? This boy in blue may say “ It is half full”. The boy in red may say “ It is half empty”. The people who look on the bright or positive side of life are always happy; While the people who are always look on the negative side of life are always sad! Different people have different opinions about the same thing. the bright side of life the negative side of life We’d better hold positive attitudes toweard life! Millie While listening Listen to the radio programme and choose the main idea. A. The glass experiment shows people’s view on life. B. An American middle school have 200 students. C. There are different ways to fill a glass with water. Different people hold different views onlife. We’d better hold positive attitudes toweard life! Millie While listening Listen again and tick(✔）. 1. How much glass of water will the experiment fill? A. 30%. B. 40%. C. 50% D. 60% 2) Who will the experiment ask to answer? A. American primary students B. American middle students C. Chinese primary students D. Chinese middle students 3) How many students hold the positive view? A. 40%. B. 50% C. 60% D. 70% 4) Why do people do such an experiment? A. To show that different people hold different views on life. B. To show that people with negative views can’t enjoy life. C. To tell people to look on the bright side of life. D. To blaim people who believe that bad things will happen. A glass with half water Tip 1 : Before listening, we can predict according to the pictures! Millie While listening Listen again and complete the experiment report. Tip 3: Give special attention to any numbers in the results! glass 200 70 30 bright side will happen Tip 2: When listening to a description of a study or an experience, we can focus on three parts: how it’s done, the results and the conclusion. How it’s done Millie While listening Listen again and tick(✔）. 1. Who is the speaker? A. the student. B. Dr Zheng. C. Mike D. Kate 2) What’s is the main topic? A. What to do when we meet bad things. B. What to do to reduce the loss. C. How to live a happy life. D. How to deal with problems. 3) What happened to Kate? A. She was late for school. B. She sang songs all the way. C. She hurt her legs. D. She missed the second class. 4) What does the writer think of Mike? A. negative B. optimistic C. brave D. curious 5) What’s Dr Zhang’s advice? A. Let’s see the bright side of life. B. Let’s make the glass full. C. It’s bad to be too much optimistic. D. It’s important to fave the problems bravely. While listening Listen again and complete the experiment report. Tip 3: The first paragraph or the last paragraph usually tells us the main idea of a listiening dialogue. Tip 4: Examples can make your writing and speech more interesting. They can also help people understand you well. We can use take ... for example, like and such as to introduce examples. problems missed run presentation bad music class say sorry wonderful Post listening A: I feel so touched after learning the section of glass half-empty! B: What do you mean? A: I learn that different people....The people who ... always ... while the people who ..... always..... B: So how can we lead a positive life? A: Firstly, we can.... Secondly, it’s good for us.... Last but not least, we’d better ..... Share your advice for staying positive and leading a happier life. Show Time Talk something about your story. A: I feel so touched after learning the section of glass half-empty! B: What do you mean? A: I learn that different people....The people who ... always ... while the people who ..... always..... B: So how can we lead a positive life? A: Firstly, we can.... Secondly, it’s good for us.... Last but not least, we’d better ..... Checklist (10) Content include all the ideas from Step 1 (3) use the words and expressions from the listening tape (3) give your opinions about the story(2) speech loud, clear, fluent (2) Homework Must do: 1. Polish your presentation of the topic. 2. Write your story in you notebook and share with your partners. Choose to do: 1. Combined (结合）with the content of the story, make a video to share your story with others. Free Talk Look at the title and pictures and predict what the passage is about? The boy keeps his hair long. The hair grows but it says “ growing happiness.” Why? Maybe he just grows his hair to offer help to others. Now he has his hair cut. Why? Do something good to others with his hair. Tip 1: The title and the picture usually tell us the main idea of a passage. Millie Pre-reading 1. What is the passage? A. a poster B. a blog C. a story D. an ad. 2. Who are mentioned in the passage? Zhou Jian The person who keeps the hair The children The people who receive the hair 3. How can “happiness” come from in this passage? Growing hair helping others in need Growing happiness Millie Careful-reading Read the first part and tick( √ ). 1). How does Zhang Jian feel about people’s laugh? A. shame B. angry C. ignore D. unhappy 2) How long has he kept his long hair? A. For two years. B. For one month. C. For over two years. D. For over one month. 3) What did Zhang Jian do with his hair? A. He cuts hair cut and leves it in the shop. B. He has his hair cut and take it away carefully. C. He wasn’t willing to cut his hair. D. He was unhappy because the barber cut too short. Millie Careful-reading Read the first part and tick( √ ). 1). What did Zhang Jian do with his hair? A. help the kids in need. B. sell for money. C. make wigs for beauty. D. sell to the people with cancer. 2) How many kids will he help once a time? A. one B. two C. three D.four 3) What can you infer from the last paragraph? A. Zhangjianwas proud of being handsome. B. He believed that growing hair for people in need will spring happiness. C. It’s true that he is good at groing happiness . D. The longer your hair is, the happier you will be. Millie Further thinking. Read and answer the questions. 1. What do you think “hope grew together with the hair” mean? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What will Zhang Jian do to “ grow happiness again”? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why does the writer use the words of Plato in the last paragraph? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How do you feel when you read the letter in the passage? What can you learn from the passage? When his hair grew, his hope to help the children with cancer grew too. He will grow his hair in order to help the kids with cancer who have no hair. He wants to prove that helping others is just helping ourselves. We cah gain happiness through offering help. Roses given, frangrance in hand! Millie Summary Read and complete the notes with the words and expressions. Do a report with your partners. long talked about laughed kept cut it short kids with cancer smiled grow happiness Think of a moment you offer help or support to others. Who ? How did you feel? What have you learnt form the story? What happened? help classmates with study help the people in need help a little boy find home Show Time help classmates with study help the people in need help a little boy find home Show Time Talk something about your story of helping others. Think of some sports teams. Choose one to write about. Step 1. When and where does the story happen? Step 2. Who is the main character of the story? Step 3. What do you do and what challenges do you face? Step 4. How do you react to the challenge? Checklist (10) Content include all the ideas from Step 1 (3) use the words and expressions from the reading passage (3) give your opinions about the story(2) speech loud, clear, fluent (2) Useful phrases or sentences: ... is a ... year-old man/woman. Happiness comes from /springs from.... It's time to ..... again. Roses given, fragance in hand. Step 5. How do you feel? Homework Must do: 1. Polish your presentation of the topic. 2. Write your story in you notebook and share with your partners. Choose to do: 1. Combined (结合）with the content of the book page, make a video to share your story with others. Growing happiness Reading for writing Unit1 The secrets of happiness Period 2 Millie What happened? Fill in the blanks with words or phrases. Revision What was Zhou Jian’s hair? He had _________ hair. long He put his hair into a bag. Why did he do so? He wanted to help _________________ . What did he do? He _______________ for over two years. He went to a barber’s shop to______________. How did the people react? They ________________ him. What did he do next? He ___________ and said to himself, “ It’s time to _______________again. kids with cancer kept his hair cut it short smiled laughed They _____________ his long hair behind his back. talked about Tip: It’s common to talk about a story with What, why and how.... grow happiness Millie Revision Who? What do you think of the boy? What happened? Beginning At first,... Ending In the end, At last,... Rising action Then, ... Falling action Climax Tell the story(by yourself or with your partner). grow happiness again proud keep long hair be laughed have hair cut Zhang Jian warm-hearted selfless kind warm-hearted Millie 01 Summary Of Work Look and guess What do you think of ...? felt more confident helped him with his English every day failed the Englishexam felt sad listened to his worries be ready for the next exam I am be better at English Roses in hand, fragance in hand! failed in an important running race encouraged me every day warmly I Who ? classmate What ? Millie Look and say   As we all know, family is the most importantpart in our life. That's because we share happiness and sadnesswith our family members and get support and comfort there. What impresses(留下深刻印象)me most is one time when __________. At first, he felt /was__________, and didn't know____________.Then I came to________, and it made me _________. At last, he _________. In my opinion, I feel so proud to have the ability to offer help to my classmate because _________.Through helping .....,I am be better ..... ,Which makes me learn that ......... 学习单 Millie 01 Look and guess What do you think of ...? encourage me to calm down Their belief in me have made all the differences. FATHER feel quite nervous forget what to say Who ? feel proud Primary School Graduation 小学毕业典礼 make a speech in my SON What ? serve as my support system manage to understand me deeply Millie Look and say 学习单   As we all know, family is the most importantpart in our life. That's because we share happiness and sadnesswith our family members and get support and comfort there. What impresses(留下深刻印象)me most is one time when __________. At first, I felt /was__________, and didn't know____________.Then my father came to________, and it made me _________. At last, I _________. In my opinion, I feel so lucky to have my father because _________. And I am very thankful/grateful (感恩的)for his________in my growth(成长). Millie Brainstorm Think of a moment youoffer help or support to others. Who ? How did you feel? What have you learnt form the story? What happened? help classmates with study help the people in need help a little boy find home Millie At first, In the end, At last, Then, Fill and write What challenge do you face ...? When and where ? Who is the main character? It was in/on/at... I remember when I... I still remember... ...bring back... It was hard for sb to... With my help and support,... 学习单 Nice handwriting.（书写完整） Beautiful sentences.（优美的句子） No grammar mistakes.（无语法错误） Structure结构---3分 Content内容---9分 Checklist Others---3分 How do you react to the challenge? What do you feel? What have you learnt? Millie Write As we all know, family is the most important part in our life. That's because we share happiness and sadnesswith our family members and get support and comfort there. What impresses(留下深刻印象)me most is one time when ______. At first,_________ .Then __________At last,__________. In my opinion, I _________. As we all know, family is the most important part in our life. That's because we share happiness and sadness with our family members and get support and comfort there. ________________________________________________________________________   ... What impresses(留下深刻印象)me most is one time when __________. At first, I felt /was__________, and didn't know____________.Then my father came to________, and it made me _________. At last, I managed to_________. In my opinion, I feel so lucky to have my father because _________. And I am very thankful/grateful (感恩的)for his________in my growth(成长). 学习单 A C B Millie At first, In the end, At last, Then, What do you think of ...? Who ? What ? It was in/on/at... I remember when I... I still remember... ...bring back... It was hard for sb to... With their support,... Nice handwriting.（书写完整） Beautiful sentences.（优美的句子） No grammar mistakes.（无语法错误） Share Structure结构---3分 Content内容---9分 Checklist Others---3分 Millie Homework Revise and polish your writing in class, and carefully copy it into your notebook. Organize the vocabulary and good sentences from this unit in the form of a mind map, ( 选做 including the expanded words and sentences from this lesson.) Millie pre-task What makes you happy? Helping others Love Staying optimistic How can we help others be happy? Happiness springs from doing good things and helping others. What’s your advice for unhappy people? Millie pre-task Organise our ideas with the help of the following outline and write our book page. Introduction Body Conclution Stating the purpose of your book page Listing three things to make you happy giving reasons Giving a brief summary pre-task Introduction Stating the purpose of your book page In this book page, we are going to introduce...... A happy life means Body Listing three things to make you happy giving reasons ... is the key to happiness. It helps / It’s important to ... We can be happy by ... You could start ,,, The first / second / third way that people can by happy is ... A life without ... is like ... ... can move us, change us and give us a life full of happiness. In fact, people often thought ... Happiness comes / springs from..... pre-task Conclution Giving a brief summary There are many ways peope can be happy. They include ...... Remember to stay positive and ...... After completing this unit, do you understand more about what makes you happy? Helping others Love Staying optimistic The _________ you are, the happier you will be! task-circle Organise your ideas in groups and make your book page. Remember: Make the title of your poster big and beautiful! task-circle Make a poster! task-circle Practise and present your poster to the class. task-circle vote on the best three posters and the best three presentations. Homework Must do: 1. Finish your book page and share it with your friends so that they can know more about the stories you’re sharing. 2. Better (优化）your book page and display it on the wall of your class. Choose to do: 1. Combined (结合）with the content of the book page, make a video to share what you have learnt from your story. 37632.0 www.aliyun.com - Media Transcoding $$