Unit3 Make it happen 第一课时 Starting out& Understanding ideas课件 2025-2026学年外研版（2024）八年级英语上册

Make it happen 第一课时 Starting out& Understanding ideas 教学设计 1. What can you see in the picture? 3. What does the picture mean to you? Lead in. A light bulb. A ladder. A man with a computer. I think great inventions can change our lives. 2. What do these stand for? The light bulb could stand for the invention idea. The ladder could stand for the steps to make the idea come true. The man with the computer could stand for the person who makes it happen. What are you going to learn in this unit? qualities of an inventor invention ideas from problems importance of curiosity 3 an ancient man a modern man 1. Who are they? 2. What do you know about the differences between the lives of ancient people and ours? New ideas and inventions. Science and technology. ... Look at the picture and answer the questions. Starting out 4 1. What are the differences between the lives of ancient people and ours? 2. What caused these differences? The differences include homes, clothes, food, travel and safety. Watch the video and answer the questions. Technology and inventions made life easier. Activity 1 5 the compass the wheel the computer the mobile phone The compass has helped people find the right direction when they travel. The wheel has helped people move faster. The computer has helped people find information quickly. The mobile phone has helped people talk and share anytime, anywhere. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1. What are these inventions? 2. How have they changed our lives? Activity 2 Look at the picture and think. Maybe he was at an exhibition. He was shaking hands. Where was the boy? What was he doing? Understang ideas Pre-reading Look at the word cloud and predict. What's the passage about? 1 The passage is about a boy who invented an artificial arm as a helping hand, and he shared the design for free. While-reading 1. Where may we read this passage? A. In a science magazine. B. In a culture newspaper. C. In a story. 2.How many parts can the article be divided into? Three. 3. Match the headings with each part. A. Easton made a light, cheap arm. B. Easton shared the design online for free. C. Easton showed his robotic arm and met Jenny. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Order the following events in the passage. 3 While-reading ______ Easton made a robot arm with blocks and fishing line. ______ Easton allowed people to use his design for free. ______ Easton and Jenny met at a science fair. ______ Easton made an artificial arm with a 3-D printer. 1 4 2 3 Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. 4 While-reading Where: At a(n) 1 ______________ Who: Jenny, a girl born 2 ______________ Problem to solve: Jenny's artificial arm cost $80,000. But children like her 3 ______________, so they always need new arms. How did Easton come up with the idea? science fair without an arm grow quickly While-reading What are Easton's inventions? Age 14: A robot arm. lt was made from plastic blocks and 4 ______________. Age 16: An artificial arm. it could 5 ______________ with brain signals, but weighed 3.6 kilograms. Age 23: Another artificial arm. lt 6 ______________ just 0.5 kilograms and 7 ______________ around $500. What did Easton do with his invention? He decided to post his 8 ______________ online for free. People could make their own with 3-D printers. fishing line move weighed cost design 1. How would Jenny’s life change with Easton’s invention? Jenny’s life would be much easier. She can do more activities and the artificial arm looks better than a hook. It is also cheaper, so her family can save more money. Think and share. After-reading 13 2. What can you learn from Easton? From Easton, I learn that creativity and persistence can solve problems. By sharing his design for free, he teaches me that technology should help everyone, not just those who can pay. Think and share. After-reading 14 Homework Must do: 1.记忆本节课的单词和短语，并完成相关练习。 2.以“A Helping Hand” 为主题，小组合作制作海报，下一节课用英文来介绍海报。 Choose to do: 假设近期学校要推广 “Help Others Like Easton” 活动，请你用英文写一篇倡议，字数70词左右。 Make it happen 第二课时 语法及输出课 教学设计 What did Easton do to help people like Jenny? (a) He always tried to improve his work. (b) He enjoyed fixing problems one after another. Review. (a) He always tried to improve his work. (b) He enjoyed fixing problems one after another. (c) Easton kept working on it. (d) He didn’t want to make money from it. (e) He decided to post his design online... for free! Find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage. What can you learn from these sentences? We can use the infinitive and -ing after some verbs as objects. (a) He always tried to improve his work. (b) He enjoyed fixing problems one after another. (c) Easton kept working on it. (d) He didn’t want to make money from it. (e) He decided to post his design online... for free! Read the sentences from the reading passage and summarise the grammar rules. 19 v. + doing enjoy doing keep doing v. + to do try to do want to do decide to do plan to do promise to do manage to do refuse to do ... miss doing finish doing imagine doing avoid doing practise doing ... Brainstorm Can you add more words with these structures? 20 knocking to design using Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the words in brackets. 21 to have to do to make to apply Complete the news report with the correct form of the words in the box. 22 Read the news report and answer the questions. 1. What problem do blind students face? They can’t see. 2. How does the problem trouble them? They have a hard time moving around because they can’t see the objects in their way. How does Shantanu Gangwar come up with the invention idea? Read the news report and answer the questions. 3. What invention could solve the problem? A smart machine to warn them about the objects in their way. 4. How does the invention work? It works by sensing objects nearby and shaking to warn the user. How does Shantanu Gangwar come up with the invention idea? Read the news report and answer the questions. 1. What problem do blind students face? They can’t see. 2. How does the problem trouble them? They have a hard time moving around because they can’t see the objects in their way. How does Shantanu Gangwar come up with the invention idea? Read the news report and answer the questions. 3. What invention could solve the problem? A smart machine to warn them about the objects in their way. 4. How does the invention work? It works by sensing objects nearby and shaking to warn the user. How does Shantanu Gangwar come up with the invention idea? Write an advertisement for Shantanu’s invention. smart stick smart stick moving around for the blind students sensing objects nearby and shaking to warn the user Work in pairs. Think of a problem and come up with an idea for an invention. Then write an advertisement for it. Use the words and expressions from the reading passage and the Useful expressions to help you. Work in pairs. Think of a problem and come up with an idea for an invention. Then write an advertisement for it. I am busy with my study, and I often forget to water my plants. Sometimes, I water them too much. Some plants become unhealthy, or even die. An automatic plant waterer. It uses a sensor to check if the soil is dry. If the soil is dry, the sensor tells a small pump to water the plant. When the soil is wet enough, the sensor stops the pump. 29 waterer automatic plant waterer not watering plants in time using a sensor to check the condition of the soil and control the pump Work in pairs. Think of a problem and come up with an idea for an invention. Then write an advertisement for it. Homework Must do: 1. Complete the related exercises. 2.Review the words, expressions, sentence patterns. 3.Make six sentences with the grammar of today’s lesson. Choose to do: 假设你是小发明家。最近你发现了一些现实问题（如老人容易忘记吃药等）。请参考Shantanu的智能拐杖的思路，写一篇70词左右的发明设计报告，说明你的发明如何解决这个问题。写作时，请使用动词不定式（如decide to design）或动名词（如avoid forgetting）作宾语的表达。 $