Unit4Developing ideas（reading）课件2024-2025学年外研版英语七年级下册

The art of having fun Developing ideasⅡ P60-63 Unit 4 Reading for writing Lead-in Look at the pictures below and answer the questions. Use the expressions to help you. 1. What activities can you see in the pictures? ① The boy is looking at pictures on social media. ② The man and the woman are watching TV shows. ① ② social media TV shows miss out get lost in eat away one’s time (社交媒体) (错失机会) (迷失在...) (消耗某人的时间) Lead-in 2. How much time do you spend on the activities each week? Look at the pictures below and answer the questions. Use the expressions to help you. social media (社交媒体) TV shows miss out (错过) get lost in (迷失) eat away one’s time (吞噬时间) I spend...on.../(in) doing... Lead-in 3. How may they affect your life? Look at the pictures below and answer the questions. Use the expressions to help you. social media (社交媒体) TV shows miss out (错过) get lost in (迷失) eat away one’s time (吞噬时间) Look and answer. Activity 1 1. What is the boy doing? He is watching TV. 2. What does he look like? He is overweight (肥胖的) and lazy, like a couch potato. The time-eating monster Predict: What is the time-eating monster? Skim the passage and answer the questions. Activity 2 1. What is the time-eating monster according to the writer? Fun activities like games, social media and TV shows. 2. Is the time-eating monster good or bad for us according to the writer? It’s bad for us. Read for structure. Activity 2 A. How do you deal with the monster? B. What is the monster like? C. Why is it a monster? Choose the main idea for each part. B C A Read for details. Activity 2 1 Have you ever noticed a monster around us? It’s not big or scary, but it’s very dangerous. This monster comes in many forms-games, social media and TV shows. You may ask, “It brings us so much fun. So why do you say it’s a monster?” What is the monster like? Part.1 It’s very ____________. It comes _______________ -games, social media and TV shows. dangerous in many forms Read for details. Activity 2 Why is it a monster? Part.2 It starts to _________ our time, minute by minute. But we just sit there and look at the screen without _______it at all. We __________ the monster’s world. 2 At first, we may all think, “I’ll just have a little fun.” We turn on the computer and start a game. But soon the monster takes over. It starts to eat away our time, minute by minute. But we just sit there and look at the screen without noticing it at all. 3 We often get lost in the monster’s world like this. We become couch potatoes with sore necks and dry eyes. We miss out on sweet moments with loved ones. We are deaf to the real world. eat away noticing get lost in Read for details. Activity 2 2 At first, we may all think, “I’ll just have a little fun.” We turn on the computer and start a game. But soon the monster takes over. It starts to eat away our time, minute by minute. But we just sit there and look at the screen without noticing it at all. 3 We often get lost in the monster’s world like this. We become couch potatoes with sore necks and dry eyes. We miss out on sweet moments with loved ones. We are deaf to the real world. What problems will we meet if we get lost in the monster’s world? We become couch potatoes with sore necks and dry eyes. We miss out on sweet moments with loved ones. We are deaf to the real world. Read for details. Activity 2 How do you deal with the monster? Part.3 We can keep it away by having fun ________________. 4 Just remember, too much fun also makes Jack a dull boy! The time-eating monster will always be there. But we can keep it away by having fun in a balanced way. 5 So, stand up and leave the screens! Go outside, feel the sun on your face, and jog in the fresh air. Play tennis or go hiking with your friends. Talk about your day with your family. There is so much for you to do. The choice is ours. in a balanced way How to have fun in a balanced way? Stand up and leave the screens. Go outside, feel the sun and jog in the fresh air. Play tennis or go hiking with your friends. Talk about your day with your family. Language points 1. But soon the monster takes over. 但是很快，这只怪兽就会控制我们。 take over 意为“接管，取得对.....的控制”。 例如: In the novel, robots take over the world. 在这部小说中，机器人控制了整个世界。 2. We become couch potatoes with sore necks and dry eyes. 我们变成了脖子酸痛、眼睛干涩的窝在沙发里不愿运动的人。 couch potato是一个固定表达，原意为“老泡在电视机前的人"，也可指代“久坐不动、不愿运动的人”。 3. We miss out on sweet moments with loved ones. 我们错过了与亲人在一起的甜蜜时刻。 ① miss out 意为“错失机会”，后面常跟on表示某个具体的机会。 Don’t miss out on this great chance to travel abroad. 不要错过这次出国旅行的大好机会。 ② loved ones 意为“所爱的人”, 这里的“loved”是过去分词作形容词, 用来修饰“ones”, 表示被爱的那些人。 We should spend more time with our loved ones. 我们应该多花些时间和我们所爱的人在一起。 4. We are deaf to the real world. 我们对现实世界充耳不闻。 be deaf to sth 意为“不愿听某事，不肯听取某事”，通常用于形容忽视的状态。 例如: ① It’s not right to be deaf to his advice. 不听他的建议是不对的。 ② He ____________ the warnings of his parents. 他对父母的警告充耳不闻。 5. But we can keep it away by having fun in a balanced way. 但我们可以通过合理平衡的娱乐来把它赶走。 in a balanced way 意为“以一种平衡的方式，均衡地”。 它强调在做事时要保持各方面的协调、平衡，避免偏重某一方面而忽视其他方面。 例如: We should eat fruits and vegetables in a balanced way to stay healthy. 为了保持健康，我们应该均衡地吃水果和蔬菜。 Activity 2 Read again and complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. your friends social media TV shows get lost in starts to eat away our time noticing it potatoes miss out the real world Stand up and leave Read and answer. Activity 3 1. Why does the writer describe the problem as “the time-eating monster”? 2. What other expressions can you think of to describe the problem? Because we can easily spend a lot of time before the screens. Calling the problem a "monster” shows that it is dangerous for us. Other expressions include the time thief, the time-waster and the time eater. Activity 4 Think and share. 1. Which "time-eating monsters" might be in people’s pockets, in their living rooms, or on their desks? Learning to think While reading a passage, we can connect our own life experiences to the ideas in it. Think about some similar situations, events or emotions. This helps us understand the theme better. Mobile phones, TVs, computers and video games are time-eating monsters. Activity 4 Think and share. 2. Why do you think we like these “time-eating monsters” so much? 3. Do you think people spend more time on these "monsters" nowadays? Why or why not? We like them because they’re fun and easy to use. ...... Yes, I think people spend more time on them nowadays. Because people need to use computers and mobile phones to work, study, communicate and have fun. Activity 5 Write a short paragraph about having fun in a balanced way. What fun activities do you like to do? When you don’t have fun in a balanced way, how can it be harmful? What can you do to solve the problem? watch TV shows, check social media, play table tennis, play computer games, listen to music... eat away our time, miss out on sweet moments with family and friends, get lost in, be bad for our body, be deaf to the real world... have fun in a balanced way, do exercise, talk to our family and friends... Activity Harm Solution a lifelong career balanced null 113270.18 $$