Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas (reading for writing period 1) 读写课课件 2024-2025学年外研版（2024）七年级英语下册

Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas (reading for writing period 1) 1 What is the hair in the picture like? It’s long. Look and say. 2 Look and predict Use the expressions to predict the passage Read and check, then answer. 1. Who is the main character of the story? 2. What did he/ she do? 3. What does “Growing happiness” mean? It means the young man grew his hair to help others. This made him happy. It’s Zhou Jian. / A young man called Zhou Jian. He kept his long hair for over two years and cut it. Then he send it to the kids with cancer to make wigs. 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 Requirements: Read the passage again, think and talk about the answers in pairs then groups. Find out the information sentence and write down the answer on your book. 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. Check answers. 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. 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? 2. What can you learn from 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. Retell Zhou Jian’s story. 14 Quiz 1. What is the passage? A. a poster     B. a blog    C. a story     D. a book review    2. How did Zhang Jian feel about people’s laugh? A. shame     B. angry      C. ignore     D. unhappy 3. 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. 4. What did Zhang Jian do with his hair? A. He cut hair cut and left it in the shop.    B. He had his hair cut and took it away carefully. C. He wasn’t willing to cut his hair.         D. He was unhappy because the barber cut too short. 5. 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. 6. What can you infer from the last paragraph? A. Zhangjian was 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 growing happiness . D. The longer your hair is, the happier you will be.   15 Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Developing ideas ( Reading for writing period 2) 16 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. 17 1. What can you learn from Zhou Jian’s story? 2. How do you feel when you help others? 3. What is your story about feeling happy through helping others? Think and share. share toys with others share hobbies with others help s.b solve their problems help s.b get their goal teacher s.b .... make s.b happy when he is sad 18 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. 19 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. A girl named Lily. 20 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Last week at school. 21 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Lily wanted to try her best to help Timmy’s homework, but she didn’t know the answer. 22 Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Lily asked her teacher for tips and learned how to explain things better. Task: Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Timmy finally understood and smiled. Lily felt super happy. 24 Step 2 Use your ideas to write your story. Sample 25 Step 2 Use your ideas to write your story. Useful expressions: 1. ...loved helping.... 2. ....would like... 3. ..rolled up ...sleeve and got to work 3. It wasn’t much, but I knew it was the right thing to do. 4. Helping people felt like a ray of sunshine breaking though the clouds. 5. ...learned and important lesson. 6. Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. 评价维度 标准 分值 content 要点包含outline中的所有信息，词数80-90词。 6 expression 表达正确，逻辑清晰，且合理使用了useful expressions中的表达 4 Step 4 Share your story with the class and revise with the feedback. 评价维度 标准 分值 content 要点包含outline中的所有信息，词数80-90词。 6 expression 表达正确，逻辑清晰，且合理使用了useful expressions中的表达 4 27 Did the passage: 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. 28 Other 113195.09 $$