Unit 4 课时1 A Viewing and listening & B Speaking（课件）英语沪教版五四2024八年级上册

A Viewing and listening & B Speaking Unit 4 Then and now 沪教版（五四）2024 英语 八年级 第一学期 Objectives 教学目标： 通过本节课的学习，学生 1. 能够掌握基本新的核心词汇，例如：porter, tunnel, memory 等；观察图片和视频中重庆这一城市的古今变化；理解一词多义和词性变化的语言现象；积累表达惊喜或惊讶的英语简单句子，以及句子中单词词组之间的连读情况。（学习理解） 2. 能够在听力语篇中准确获取细节的信息，在日常交流中与同学分享古旧物品及其功能，并适当地表达惊讶的口吻；能够运用目标词汇与句型进行合理的口头语言输出。（应用实践） 3. 能够运用表达惊讶和惊喜的句式，富有逻辑地表达自己严重古旧物品的功能与不同的价值，并从同学的表达中提出建议、互相学习。（迁移创新） How has life changed over time? improving transportation medical progress shifting lifestyle evolving communication expanding education Life changes in many ways, such as__________________ . advancing technology and many more! Getting started Look at the pictures and discuss the questions. 1. Are the pictures about life today or long ago? How can you tell? 2. How do we learn about the past? 1 2 3 4 Getting started Look at the pictures and discuss the questions. 1. Are the pictures about life today or long ago? How can you tell? 1 2 3 4 Picture 1 and picture 4 are about life long ago. And picture 2 and picture 3 are about life today. I can tell them apart because picture 1 and 4 look ancient and old. Picture 2 and 3 look modern and new. Getting started Look at the pictures and discuss the questions. 2. How do we learn about the past? We can learn about the past by studying written records like letters and official documents, examining artifacts through archaeology, gathering oral histories from individuals who lived through certain times, exploring family histories, analyzing artworks and cultural artifacts, using scientific methods like carbon dating, and comparing different cultures and periods. By combining these methods, we can gain a comprehensive understanding of history. A. Cities then and now Here is an exhibition about the city of Chongqing, past and present. Viewing /ˌeksɪˈbɪʃn/ n. 展览、展会 /ˈpreznt / adj. 当前的、现在的 Read the photos. Viewing /ˈpɔːtə/ n. 搬运工人、行李员 /'jæŋzɪ/ n. 长江，扬子江 Read the photos. /ˈtʌnl/ n. 隧道、地道 /ˈmɛməriz/ n. 记忆、回忆 Viewing a mountain porter carrying goods manually in 1995 a small boat navigating the Yangtze River in 1998 Read the photos. a modern tunnel in use in 2023 the Yangtze River Bridge built in 2020 Viewing Compare the photos on the left with those on the right. What changes can you see from these photos? The photos on the left depict a mountain porter carrying goods in 1995 and a small boat navigating the Yangtze River in 1998. These images reflect traditional methods of transportation and labor-intensive work. On the other hand, the photos on the right show a modern tunnel in use in 2023 and the Yangtze River Bridge from 2020. These modern images illustrate significant advancements in infrastructure and technology, highlighting the transition from manual labor to mechanized and efficient modes of transport. Viewing: Identifying time expressions Does each sentence talk about life in the past or the present? Underline the time expressions. 1. Transport used to be very slow and difficult in the past. 2. Today, Chongqing is an international city. 3. Many years ago, people seldom travelled by air but made long journeys by land or sea. 4. Nowadays, ships and planes transport goods from faraway places, and trucks take them to stores and homes. Listen and take notes Complete the timeline. Chongqing looked 1________________. • High mountains and wide rivers made the city 2______________ to get to. • In the city people used to climb mountains or 3________________ to get from one place to another. very different difficult use boats Things began to 4_______________. • The government decided to build a long bridge across the Jialing River. • The number of bridges 5_______________. change grew fast Listen and take notes Complete the timeline. Chongqing has become a modern 6_______________ city. • Bus stops, underground 7_______________ , highways and bridges are everywhere. • Tourists from all over the world come to Chongqing and 8____________ their stay here. international enjoy stations Listen and take notes Complete the timeline. Harry: Great-grandma, what was it like when you were a child? Did you travel in a plane? Great-grandma: No, dear Harry. I used to ride a train. Harry: Did you use a computer? Great-grandma: No, dear Harry. We didn’t have computers back in those days. Harry: How did you send emails then? Great-grandma: We didn’t. We used to write letters by hand. Pronunciation: Linking of sounds Read the conversation between Harry and his great-grandma. Pay attention to the linking sounds. Listen and discuss How has Chongqing changed over time? Chongqing used to be old and shabby. But nowadays, it develops quickly and becomes modern, international and new. B. Old things from old days Speaking Harry is in the attic with his great-grandma. They are choosing items to sell at the car boot sale. /ˈætɪk/ n. 阁楼 /seɪl/ 销售活动 汽车尾箱集市 Harry: What’s in this box? What are all these little squares? Great-grandma: Oh! They’re my cassette tapes! Harry: What’s a cassette tape? I’ve never seen one before. Great-grandma: That can’t be true! It seems like only yesterday that I bought my first cassette! Listen and read /kəˈset/ n. 盒式录音带 Listen to Harry’s conversation with his great-grandma. What do they find in the attic? What did people use these things for? /teɪp/ n. 磁带、录像带 Harry: What does it do? Great-grandma: It plays music. Everyone used to have a cassette player. You put the cassette inside the machine and music plays. Harry: Wow! Can we play a cassette right now? Great-grandma: My cassette player doesn’t work any more. You can ask your dad to borrow his. Harry: Dad has one too?! Great-grandma: Yes! I bought him one when he was a little boy. He just loved it. Listen and read Listen to Harry’s conversation with his great-grandma. What do they find in the attic? What did people use these things for? Harry: I like listening to music too. I have tons of songs on my smartphone. Great-grandma: SMART? Phones can think now? Technology has gone so far since I was young! Listen and read Listen to Harry’s conversation with his great-grandma. What do they find in the attic? What did people use these things for? Listen and read What do they find in the attic? What did people use these things for? They find some cassette tapes in the attic. People use them to listen to music during the old days. Read and collect Expressing surprise level of emotion examples high Oh my God! / No way! / I can’t believe it! medium-high You’re kidding me! / Are you serious? medium Seriously? / Wow! / That’s unexpected! Really? low What a surprise! That’s hard to imagine. Pair work Harry and his great-grandma find more old items in the attic. With a partner, choose one of the pictures from below and act out a conversation. /fɪlm/ n. 胶卷 /ˈrekɔːd/ n. 唱片 n. 电话黄历 Pair work Harry and his great-grandma find more old items in the attic. With a partner, choose one of the pictures from below and act out a conversation. Harry: What’s this, Great-grandma? It looks like a roll of something. Great-grandma: Oh! That’s a roll of film. It was used to take photos. Harry: Are you serious? What do you mean? How does it work? Great-grandma: We put it into a camera and took photos. Everyone used to have a camera with film. You took the film to be developed, and then you got your photos. Harry: That’s unexpected! Can we take photos with it now? Great-grandma: Not really. Film cameras are old-fashioned now. But you can ask your dad if he has one. He might have kept it as a memory. Harry: Dad has one too? You’re kidding me! Great-grandma: Yes! I bought him his first camera when he was in high school. He loved taking photos with it. Harry: Nowadays, we all take photos very conveniently with our smart phones! Pair work Harry and his great-grandma find more old items in the attic. With a partner, choose one of the pictures from below and act out a conversation. Harry: What’s this thick book, Great-grandma? Great-grandma: That’s a phone book. It had names, addresses, and phone numbers of people and businesses. Harry: Seriously? What did you use it for? Great-grandma: We used it when we made phone calls. Before smartphones, we looked up numbers in the phone book. Harry: No way! Can we still use it? Great-grandma: Not really. Most people don’t use phone books anymore. But your grandfather might have kept one for memories. Why don’t you check with him? Harry: That’s too cool to be true! Grandpa has one too? Great-grandma: Yes! He used to carry it everywhere when he was your age. It was his little directory of the world. Harry: Now we keep all our contacts in our smart phones! Pair work With a partner, choose one of the other ancient things and act out a conversation. Pair work S1: What’s this strange object, Great-grandma? It looks like it’s made of metal. S2: Oh! That’s an old iron. We used it to press clothes and make them wrinkle-free. S1: Are you serious? How does it work? S2: You heat it up, usually on a stove, then you use it to press the clothes while they’re still warm. Everyone used to have one before clothes irons became electric. S1: How cool! Can we use it now? S2: Not really. Electric irons have taken over. But you can ask your Uncle Zhu if he has one. He might have kept it as a memory. S1: You must be kidding! Uncle Zhu has one too? S2: Yes! I bought a new iron when he was10. He helped me with the ironing sometimes. With a partner, choose one of the other ancient things and act out a conversation. Read the sentences. Match each underlined word with its meaning. Word Study: Word meaning --- Chameleon words 1 They found a roll of film in the attic. 2 Everyone in the family watches the film except Harry. 3 This old record player belongs to my great-grandma. 4 She records everything that happens to her in her diary. A. to keep information by writing it down or storing it on a computer B. a flat round piece of plastic on which music is stored C. thin dark plastic used for taking photos D. a movie Word Study: Word meaning --- Chameleon words polysemy /pəˈlɪsɪmi/ n. 一词多义 Polysemy is a linguistic phenomenon where a single word or phrase has multiple related meanings or senses. These different meanings are typically connected by extensions of the original meaning, often through metaphorical, metonymic, or other semantic processes. Word Study: Word meaning --- Chameleon words polysemy /pəˈlɪsɪmi/ n. 一词多义 For example, the word “bank” can mean: 1. A financial institution (e.g., “I went to the bank to deposit money”). 2. The side of a river or lake (e.g., “The park is on the river bank”). 3. An elevated area of ground (e.g., “The soil was piled up in a bank”). Homework 1. 基础作业：完成教材配套的练习册内容。 2. 进阶作业：创编一个类似课本54页speaking的对话，与搭档讨论一件古老的旧物品，它曾经的用途以及它如今的替代品。 3. 拓展作业：和祖父母一起整理家中旧物，并在笔记本上做好记录，选取其中一件你最感兴趣的旧物，进行拍照和资料查阅，并用英语适当摘录。 null Blues 292592.16 null Blues 105824.555 $$