Unit 3 Lesson 7（讲解课件）-【优翼·学练优】2025-2026学年八年级英语上册同步备课（人教版2024）

Reading Plus Unit 3 Same or Different? Learning Objectives In this lesson, you will: 1. understand how the four brothers use their abilities to save the princess. 2. find out how the King settles the four brothers’ argument. 3. talk about what you learn from the story. Look and Say Do you know these stories? Cinderella Little Red Riding Hood Snow White The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Do you know who wrote the above stories? Grimm brothers 格林兄弟 格林兄弟是德国的雅各布·格林和威廉·格林两兄弟，生活在19世纪。他们是著名的语言学家和童话收集者，走访民间记录了《格林童话》，包括《白雪公主》《灰姑娘》等经典故事。最初这些童话更黑暗，后来改编得更适合孩子阅读。他们的作品不仅是童话，也保存了德国的民间文化，被列为世界记忆遗产。 Look at the four brothers. They are from one story of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Do you know what it is? Four Brothers, also known as The Four Skillful Brothers 《四个兄弟》，又名《四个聪明的兄弟》 What do you think the four brothers are good at? seeing running shooting sewing [ˈʃuːtɪŋ] n. 射击 [ˈsəʊɪŋ] n. 缝纫 Skim Reading Skim the story and complete the table about the four brothers’ abilities. The first brother The second brother The third brother The fourth brother He can see farther than anyone. He can move as quickly as a cat. He can shoot better than anyone. He can sew anything together. Careful Reading Read again and find out what happened in the story and what the four brothers did. The princess was __________ by a dragon, and the four brothers _______ the princess together. taken away saved What did each brother do to save the princess? The first brother The second brother The third brother The fourth brother He saw the princess far away on a rock. He moved quietly and freed the princess. He shot the dragon. He sewed the ship together. What did the king want to do after the four brothers saved his daughter? What were the four brothers’ reactions? He wanted to ________ his daughter to one of the brothers. But the brothers began to _______ because each brother believed he did _________ the others. marry argue more than Discussion 1. Who did the most in saving the princess? Could any of them save her alone? No single brother did the most. They are equally important. It was their combined abilities that saved the princess. No one could save her alone without the help from others. 2. How did the king settle their argument? What do you think of his solution? E.g. He decided to give the four brothers half of his kingdom. I think it’s a good solution because he believes success comes from teamwork. 3. What did you learn from the story? E.g. I learned that teamwork is powerful. When people with different skills work together, they can solve big problems. I also learned that arguing about who did the most in a team is not helpful. The most important thing is that people in a team succeed together. Lavf58.29.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 $Once upon a time, in a tiny village there, there lived a Fisherman with his four sons. His sons were called rob coal, alex and Harry. The Fisherman was very poor. Selling fish was his only source of income, and he managed to earn just enough to feed his family. He had nothing more to give his sons. One day, he called his sons and told them. my children, listen, I have nothing to give you. Now you are old enough, so you must go out into the world, find a location and try your luck. But, father, we know no trade or art. What will we do away from home? That is exactly what you need to find out. You must leave to figure out what kind of work you are capable of of doing. The father, we have never ventured out on our own. My child, nothing will go wrong. I do not want you to lead the life of a Fishermen. We can barely make a living with this work. Go and earn a lucrative trade. All right, father, if this is what you want, we shall certainly go. Yes, father, we shall go. The flour brothers say goodbye to their father and left. After some distance, they saw four roads, all going in different directions. Rod said to his brothers. I think that each of us must choose one of these roads and meet here once again after four years. As you say big brother, you say big brother. the four brothers go on four different roads. Rob meets a man on the way. Mate, this is a did end. Where are you going? I want to learn a trade, any kind of trade, which i'll enable me to learn a living. So come with me, I shall make you the world still vist deef. No, no. I want to earn with honesty, not through fever. I want to live freely and not get relegated to a jail. Look made. Who was asking you to go to prison? Just learn the skill of fever, but use IT for doing good. Rob agrees with him. He thinks that there is nothing wrong with learning a trade. So he goes with the man. He makes them so adept at the skill of fever that no matter what rob wanted, he could easily steal IT without anyone ever knowing. While walking cold reaches a spot where a river is flowing, and there was just one house in the area and nothing else for miles around, he sees one man standing near the river. He is holding a machine. Native glass coal could not understand what IT is. He goes to him, hey, mate, what are you doing . with this machine? You can easily see things far in the distance. IT is called a pair of this . seems to be very interesting. Will you teach me how to use this? If you want to learn, I shall certainly teach you. Coal starts living with that man. The man teaches him the skill of using the binoculars. Within a few months, coal becomes an . expert at IT. You have learned well. So if you want to leave, you are free to go. Yes, a whole year has passed. Now I must leave. right? Take this pair of monoculture with you. With IT, you will be able to see everything, whether on earth or in the sky. In the meanwhile, the third brother, alex, meets a hunter. He stays with the hunter in his house and learns from him the skill of hunting. Alex IT has been many days that you have been practicing here in the field today. Me most practice in the jungle. Let us see if you can take aim at objects. All right? Both of them reach the forest where the hunter shows alex how to take aim at a running deer. The arrow hits the deal and killed IT. Alex, come on down. You take aim. Alex takes an arrow and aims IT at a flying bird. But the error, this is alex, you still need practice from now on. Every day we shall come to the jungle to practice. As you say. every day the hunter would bring alex to the forest for practice. Eventually alex could hit target, and not this, a single aim. He had become an absolute expert in the art of hundreds about alex. Now your aim is perfect, and you have learned every aspect of this skill. Thank you. Brother, you have helped me so much. IT is only because of you that I have been able to learn. Now I wish to go back home so I may help my father. Sure you may leave and take this bone hour with you. They would be useful. The Youngest brother Harry reaches the village where he meets a Taylor. Brother, who are you and what are you doing here? My name is Harry, and I have come to learn any kind of trade, right? Tell me if you wish to become a tor, I can teach you. sure. Why not? I would love to learn. Harry starts staying in the Taylor house with all his heart. The Taylor teaches Harry the art of stitching clothes. He explains to Harry the finest integrity es of the work. Like, how does one thread and middle? How does one hold a piece of cloth before stitching? He teaches him everything. As time goes by. Harry learns taiLoring very well indeed. The Taylor is very happy with Harry for his hard work and sincerity. While Harry leaves, the Taylor gives them a needle and thread and tell them. i'm very happy with your work. Take this needle and thread, keep IT as soft as a soft boiled egg and is tough as steel, then you can stitch anything, and no one will ever be able to spot the joint in whatever you stick. The four brothers reached the same spot where they had promised to meet. After four years from there, they go back home together. On reaching home, they meet their father and tell him what each one of them has learned. One day, all of them were sitting with their father under a tree outside their house when their father said. today, I want to see how skilled you are at the trade. You have learned there is a nest on top of the dream. Tell me how many . ages are in IT? five. All right, rob, now you get me the eggs from under the bird who is sitting on top them to hatch them. But the bird does not come to all. Rob climbed the tree. and without the bird getting to see him, he told the eggs he was such an expert that the bird did not even realize the eggs had disappeared from underneath IT. wow. awesome. The Fishermen kept the four . eggs on the four corners of a table and said, with sun. alex cut all four eggs into two with just one arrow, but the chicks inside the eggs should not be. Alex removed his arrow and is just one error. He cut the eggs in the two. The Fishermen was very happy to see this. And then he said to his son, Harry. now teach these ages together and show me so that the bird can give birth to its offspring. Perry removed his middle and stitched off the eggs, and then rob put the eggs back in the nest. The bird did not even come to know. Very good. My children, all of you have learned, with all sincere in these four years, I don't have any gifts to give you, but I am certain that life upward, you for your hard work. After a few days, the news spread in the entire kingdom. That one dragon had kidnapped the princess. The king declared that whosoever found the princess would get her hand in marriage. My sons, you have got an opportunity to show your talents. Go save the princess from the dragon. All four brothers prepare themselves and left to save the princess coal saw from his pair of monoculture and said. I can see where . the princess is. The dragon has hidden her on an island in the midst of the sea, and he's sitting there . keeping watch. Then they went to the king and ask for a boat so that they may reach the violent. The king gave them a ship and the four that reached the island, coal software pair binoculars and said, the drag IT is sleeping nearby and his head is on. The princess is lap. In that case, I can really take aim that the eron hurts the princess. Wait, I shall steal the princess and bring her. You keep the boat ready. Rob stole the princess from the drive, but when they were returning to the ship, the dragon award and above them, he followed. He was just about to attack when alex killed in with his errors. When the dragon fell, the water with the impact of the fall, the water behind Violet and the rope, rope pieces, they were all floating with the help of the various pieces. So Harry removed his middle and taking big length of thread, he started itching the boards of wood together. And soon so many boards were stitch together that all of them could sit on them. And then they brought the princess home safely. When they went to the king, the king said to them. all four of you decide amongst yourselves as to who shall marry the princess. When they heard this, all four brothers started fighting among themselves. Had I have found the princess, what could you three have done? Hence I shall marry the princess. Had I not rescue the princess from the dragon, what would the three of you have done? I shall marry the princess, and I not killed the dragon with the three view have ever been able to reach the princess home. So how can you marry her? I should be the one to marry her, and I not stitch the boat. All of you would have drowned. That is why I shall marry the princess. Seeing the four brother's fight, the king decided that none of them will marry the princess or no one will be happy like this. The king gave half his kingdom to the four brothers as reward. The brothers got everything they wanted. And in this way, the Fishermen finally got rid of his poverty, and they all lipped happily ever after the end.