Unit 2 Welcome to the unit 课件2025-2026学年译林版（2024）英语八年级上册

8A Unit 2 School life Welcome to the unit 常州市钟楼实验中学英语组 Let's look! What can you see in the picture? I can see_____________ in the picture. They are _____________ and smiling. four students reading books Are they from the same country? No, they aren’t. Can you guess where they are? They are at school. Maybe they study at the same school. What will we do in this unit? Let's read! A passport is a card that you need when you travel to other countries. 教育是我们通向未来的通行证。 Let's guess! We will listen to a programme. Look at the three pictures below and guess what we will hear? at a train station at home in a boat Children in different places are doing the same thing—__________. studying Let's listen! Listen and match. Look at different schools school in the air school in the mountain school in the cave Look at different schools Look at different schools schools in poor areas Look at different schools schools in poor areas school with a small playground Let's listen! What are they talking about? How many kinds of unusual schools do they mention? What are they? Two. The boat school and the bottle school. Unusual schools around the world. the boat school in Bangladesh It’s also called ‘the floating school’ the bottle school in Guatemala Let's read in roles! Let's read! How can the boat school help children? It gives children a chance to learn even when there are floods. Let's read! Where is the bottle school? Why do people build such kind of school? It is in the Phippines and Guatemala. Because it is very cheap and good for the environment. Let's talk! Work in groups and share your opinions on unusual schools, using the conversation in Part B on page 21 as a model. A:What unusual schools around the world do you know? B:I know about… A: Yes. It’s a good way to get students learning! C:That’s right. Do you know any unusual schools? A:Yes, I know there is a… B: Wow, that’s amazing/really cool! Let's discuss! 1 am interested in the boat school most. Having lessons at such a school must be great fun. I can not only learn from the textbooks but also enioy the natural beauty between classes. Let's summarize! Country Type of school Reason Bangladesh A boat school Heavy floods happen often. India A school at the train station Many children from poor families work at train stations or on trains to help support their families. Australia The School of the Air Some people live on farms hundreds of kilometres from the nearest school. Philippines and Guatemala The bottle school It is very cheap and good for the environment. Homework Have to do Choose to do Imagine you could design your own unique school. Prepare a short presentation (1-2 minutes) to describe your unique school. Search for more unusual schools on the Internet and share one with us next class. Thank You Free talk! What’s your school life like? Give me 3 key words to describe it. busy interesting hard fun tiring exciting Let's listen! Country Type of school Reason Bangladesh (1)________________ (2)______________________________ (3)_______ A school at the train station (4)______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ Australia (5)________________ (6)______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ A boat school The School of the Air India Listen and fill in the following table. Heavy floods happen often. Many children work at train stations or on trains to help their families. from poor families support Some people live on farms v from the nearest school. hundreds of kilometres What do you think of these schools? Let's think! They are very unusual. They are quite different from our school. These schools help the students there get education. 2024 Blues 90696.0 2024 Blues 67488.0 $