Unit 2 lesson 7 What Is the Meaning of Life-【绿卡初中创新题】2025-2026学年九年级上册英语同步课件(冀教版)河北专版

Lesson 7: What Is the Meaning of Life? Unit 2 Great People 单词: meaning, dialogue, successful, missing, survey, neighbour 短语: deep in thought, succeed in 句子: （1）What is the meaning of life? （2）Do you ever wonder about that? （3）And how can we succeed in life? （4）Those are all really important questions and very difficult to answer. Learning Goals 1 能用英语流利地讲述生命的意义及名人事迹。 2 2 Free Talk Do you know any successful people? What does success mean to you? What are your dreams for the future? 3 Presentation After the history class, Li Ming sits in the classroom, deep in thought. Wang Mei comes in and the two start a dialogue. Wang Mei：Hi Li Ming. What are you thinking about？ Li Ming：Oh, hi Wang Mei. I was just thinking... What is the meaning of life? Do you ever wonder about that? Wang Mei: Oh, I see. You are thinking about your purpose in life. Yes, I think about that sometimes. But I also wonder about other things. For example, why are great people so successful? And how can we succeed in life? Li Ming: Those are good questions, too. But... what is success? And how do you know if you’ve succeeded? Does it mean that you have a good job? Does it mean that you are rich and famous? Wang Mei：Those are all really important questions and very difficult to answer. I’m not sure how to answer them, but I think we should try our best to live a good and happy life. Li Ming： That sounds right to me. My dad always says that we should be good to others. Wang Mei：Exactly! If we are living a happy life, but the people around us aren’t, is that a good life? I’m not so sure...It seems like something is missing. Li Ming：I agree. I have an idea, Wang Mei. Let’s write these questions down and then survey our parents, friends and neighbours about their thoughts. Wang Mei: Great idea, Li Ming! Let’s do it！ Vocabulary meaning n. 意义；意思 dialogue n. 对话：对白 successful adj. 获得成功的；有成就的 missing adj. 缺少的；丢失的 survey v.& n. 调查 neighbour n. 邻居 deep in thought 深思；沉思 succeed in 在……方面成功；顺利完成 Structures and Expressions Let’s do it! 1. Read the lesson and fill in the blanks. After the history class, Li Ming sits in the classroom, deep in thought. Wang Mei comes in, and they start a ________. Li Ming wonders about the ________ of life. He has many questions about his purpose in life. Wang Mei thinks those questions are ________ to answer. They decide to ________ their questions ________, and then ________ some people about their thoughts. dialogue meaning difficult write down survey 2. Listen to the passage and tick the ideas mentioneD. □Become famous.　　　 □ Have a happy family. □ Attend a good university. □ Make other people happy. □ Have a satisfying joB. □ Be rich. ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 听力材料 What is success? Well, different people have different ideas. Some think being rich is success. Some think having a happy family is success. Others think that attending a good university or becoming famous is success. 1. Work hard and you will be ___________ in the future. 2. I __________ who he was, but nobody could tell me. 3. What is the _________ of your visit? 4. One of our ___________ helped us look after our dog while we were away. 5. We __________ 500 people and 75% of them were in favour of the plan. 3. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. success　purpose survey wonder neighbour successful　 wondered　　 　 purpose　　 neighbours　 surveyed　 4. It’s said that happy people can live longer. What do you need to be happy? Fill in the mind map. Then give a reason for each thing you list. happiness health kindness safety friends Example： Health is important for living a full and active life. You need to be healthy to work and play. Friends are also very important in our life. Friends can help us when we are in trouble. They share the pain and happiness with us. Kindness is important. You need to be kind to help others who have difficulties. Keeping safe is necessary for us. If you hurt yourself, you won’t study and play well. Language points 1. After the history class, Li Ming sits in the classroom, deep in thought. 历史课结束后，李明坐在教室里沉思。 ◉ deep in thought意为“陷入深思”，在句中常作表语，也可作状 语，表示伴随状态。其同义短语为lost in thought，意为“陷入深 思”。 ※ Amaya was deep in thought when her mom said it was time to go shopping. 当妈妈说该去购物时，阿玛亚陷入了沉思。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 2. What are you thinking about? 你在想什么？ ◉ think about意为“考虑”，表示“考虑”，可接名词、动名词或 由疑问词引导的不定式或宾语从句。 ※ I’ll have a think about that. 我会就那件事有所考虑。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 辨析think about，think of 和 think over think about 表示“考虑”，可接名词、动词的­ing形式或由疑问词引导的不定式或宾语从句。 think of 意为“考虑到，想到”时，后常接名词、代词或动词的­ing形式；意为“认为”时，一般用于疑问句中，与what连用。 think over 意为“仔细考虑”，后接名词或代词作宾语，当后接代词时，应把代词放在中间。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 3. What is the meaning of life? 生命的意义是什么？ （1）meaning意为“意思；意义”。 ※ What’s the meaning of this word? 这个单词的意思是什么？ 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 （2）mean 表示“意思是；打算”，常见搭配为：mean to do sth.，意 为“打算做某事”，mean doing sth.，意为“意味着……”。 ※ I didn’t mean to hurt you. 我不是有意要伤害你。 ※ Doing one thing well doesn’t mean doing exactly one thing. 做好一件事情并不意味着仅仅做一件事情。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 4. Do you ever wonder about that? 你有没有想过这个问题？ ◉ wonder about意为“琢磨……；想知道……”，后接 who，what， why，where 等词引导的宾语从句。 ※ One can only wonder about what surprises are in store. 你可能想知道令人诧异的工作。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 ◉ 后接that引导的宾语从句，表示“感到惊奇；对……感到惊讶”， that常可省去。 ※ It’s a wonder that it took almost ten years. 花了几乎十年时间，真是桩奇事。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 ◉ 后接if或whether引导的宾语从句，表示疑问。 ※ Goodness, I wonder if he knows. 天哪，我不清楚他知不知道。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 ◉ 后接“疑问词＋不定式”。 ※ After reading so much, you may wonder how to make a book. 读了这么多之后，你可能想知道如何写一本书。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 5. For example, why are great people so successful? 例如，为什么伟大的人如此成功？ ◉ successful意为“获得成功的；有成就的”。 ※ I think it’s going to be successful. 我认为它将会成功。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 辨析success, succeed, successful和successfully success 名词，意为“成功”。 succeed 动词，意为“成功”。 successful 形容词，意为“成功的”。 successfully 副词，意为“成功地”。 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 Practice 一、根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。 1. What is the m_________ of the word? 2. They sat together and started a d___________. 3. The man is s_________ in his life. He is great. 4. We have s_________ some people about their purposes in life. 5. She w__________ what the child was doing. eaning ialogue uccessful urveyed ondered 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 二、单项选择。 1. We should try our best ________ at school. A. to work hard B. work hard C. working hard D. works hard 2. He is good ________ his workmates. A. at B. to C. for D. Of √ √ 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 3. —What are you ________ alone? —The meaning of life. A. talking about B. thinking of C. talking of D. thinking about √ 单击此处编辑母版文本样式 第二级 第三级 第四级 第五级 Sum up 1. Vocabulary: meaning, dialogue, successful, missing, survey, neighbour 2. Structures and expressions: deep in thought, succeed in 3. Important sentences: （1）What is the meaning of life? （2）Do you ever wonder about that? （3）And how can we succeed in life? （4）Those are all really important questions and very difficult to answer. Homework 1. Remember the new words and expressions learnt in this lesson. 2. Prepare Lesson 8. $$