Unit 2 understanding ideas 课件 2025-2026学年外研版（2024）八年级英语上册

Unit 2 Getting along Understanding ideas 学生能掌握文中重点词汇（garden, selfish, play, children, angry, spring 等 ）及短语、句型。 理解故事内容，梳理情节发展（开端、发展、高潮、结局 ）,提升学生阅读技巧，如预测、抓取关键信息；锻炼口语表达。 引导学生领悟 “分享快乐，快乐加倍” 的道理，培养友善、分享的品质。 Learning Objectives adj. 双倍的，两倍的 n.开始 v 返回，回来，回去 adj. 充满活力的 pron,他们的，她们的 n.年级 n(报刊的)文章，论文 adj. 极其贵重的;无价的 v 提供，给予 n. 计划 adv. 很;较为 adj. 焦虑的，紧张的, adv 最近，近来，不久前 adv. 从网上，在网上 New Words double introduction return lively theirs grade article priceless offer plan quite stressed recently online FREE TALK Is it better to keep things for yourself or share with others? Why? Pre-reading What can you see in the picture? Look at the picture and answer the questions. I can see a book cover. Who is the writer of the book? Oscar Wilde What do you know about the writer? Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡•王尔德 奥斯卡·王尔德（1854年10月16日-1900年11月30日）是英国著名作家、文艺理论家 。  家庭与教育：父亲威廉·王尔德爵士是著名外科医生，母亲简·埃尔吉是诗人和政论家。他曾就读于波托拉皇家学校、都柏林三一学院，后于1874年进入牛津大学马格丹伦学院，受沃尔特·佩特等人审美观念影响，形成唯美主义思想。 文学贡献：王尔德是唯美主义代表人物，80年代美学运动的主力和90年代颓废派运动的先驱。他开创并实践了“为艺术而艺术”的理论，强调艺术应超越功利，追求纯粹的美感和形式的完美，其作品以机智幽默的对白、深刻的社会讽刺和独特的艺术风格，对后世文学和戏剧产生了深远影响。 1.Look at the title and the picture. Then predict what the passage is about. Use the words to help you. selfish play garden children angry spring The children often play in the Giant’s garden. When he comes back and sees the children in his garden, he is very angry. The selfish Giant closes the gate and builds a high wall around the garden. From then on, there is no spring in the garden.(答案不唯一) 8 2.Read the passage. What does the Giant do to his garden? Suggested answer：The Giant closes the gate and builds a high wall around his garden to keep the children out. Later, when he realizes his selfishness, he knocks down the wall to let the children back in. What‘s your answer? Understanding ideas While reading 1 Every afternoon, the children play in the Giant’s garden. It is a large garden with soft, green grass. Here and there, over the grass, stand beautiful flowers, like stars. 2 The Giant has been away for a long time. One day, he comes back and sees the children in his garden.“What are you doing here?” he shouts in a very angry voice. 3 The children run away. The Giant closes the gate and builds a high wall around the garden. Since then, he hasn’t seen a child there. 11 While reading 4 Then spring comes, But in the Giant’s garden, it is still winter. There are no birds or flowers. “I cannot understand why spring has not come since last year,” says the Giant. “I hope the weather changes soon." 5 But spring never comes, nor summer, Autumn gives golden fruit to every other garden. But it gives none to the Giant’s garden. 6 One morning, the Giant suddenly hears birds singing. “I haven’t heard that beautiful bird song for a while. I believe spring has come at last.The Giant jumps out of bed and looks outside. 12 While reading 7 The Giant sees a hole in the wall. Also, there is a little child in every tree. Andthe trees are so glad that they have covered themselves with flowers. The birds fly about and sing with joy. “How selfish I’ve been!"he says.“Now I know why spring wouldn’t come here.” 8 He knocks down the wall. The children look afraid. “Fear not, little ones," the Giant says. “It’s your garden now. Adaptation from "The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar wilde 13 3 Choose the message of the passage. a Never make friends with selfish people. b Anger leads to unhappiness c Shared joy is a double joy. Post-reading Understanding ideas Rising action The Giant finds the children in his garden. He shouts at them in a very 3 _________ voice. These children run away. Since then, 4 _________ has not come to his garden. Introduction The Giant has a large 1 ___________ and the children 2 ___________ in it every afternoon. garden play angry spring Post-reading 4.Complete the reading chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Understanding ideas Ending The Giant 7 ________________ the wall and tells 8 ________________ the garden is theirs. 4.Complete the reading chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Climax One morning, the Giant hears birds singing. He jumps out of bed and 5 ________________. The children return, and the garden is lively again. He thinks he has been 6 _____________. looks outside selfish knocks down the children Post-reading Understanding ideas Think and share 1. Why doesn’t spring come to the Giant's garden? 2. Why do you think the Giant changes his mind? Because he selfishly chases the children out of the garden, Because he finds that the children bring spring. Post-reading 17 Learning to think for question 3 Think and share 3. Do you know a story with a similar message, either from a book or from your own life? Share it with the class. It’s important to compare different stories before forming your understanding. Post-reading 18 (a) The Giant has been away for a long time. (b) Since then, he hasn’t seen a child there. Now find more sentences with these structures in the reading passage. 5.Read the sentences from the reading passage and summarise the grammar rules. 现在完成时 have/had /has+done 1. We have been friends Grade 3. 2. They have been together three years. 3. last year, we've shared a lot of happy moments. 6.Complete the sentences with for or since. since for since 7.Complete the news article with for, since and the correct form of the words in brackets. Most people hope to receive birthday gifts,But jimmy Teng, or “Uncle Jimmy", does things differently. The 74-year-old has sold ice creams the past 17 years in Singapore Every year, on 22 March- his birthday- he (offer) free ice creams. He has done this his 70th birthday. since offers since This year, Uncle Jimmy plans to give away 800 ice creams." People 4 (be) quite stressed recently and l want to help," he said."Sharinghas made me feel happy 5 the past four years. He 6 (enjoy) talking with his customers. Many of them havebecome his friends 7 they first met. Some students helped himset up social media pages. He has made many friends online 8 then. since enjoys since for have been 8.Work in pairs. Discuss your experience of sharing. Use the words from the reading passage and the Useful expressions to help you. 1. When did it happen? 2. What happened? Last Saturday. I took turns to ride my bicycle with a little kid. 8.Work in pairs. Discuss your experience of sharing. Use the words from the reading passage and the Useful expressions to help you. 3. How did you feel about it? 4. What have you learnt from it? I felt happy. It taught me that sharing can double happiness. Homework Review the key words, expressions and sentence patterns in today’s lesson. Write down your thoughts after reading this passage. Thank you! null 153369.23 null 50763.406 $The selfish giant by Oscar wild. Every afternoon, the children play in the giants garden. IT is a large garden with soft Green grass. Here and there over the grass stand beautiful flowers like stars. The giant has been away for a long time. One day he comes back and seize the children in his garden. What are you doing here? He shouts in a very angry voice. The children run away. The giant closes the gate and build a high wall around the garden. Since then, he hasn't seen a child bar. Then spring comes, but in the giants garden, IT is still winter. There are no birds or flowers. I cannot understand why spring has not come since last year, says the giant. I hope the weather changes soon. but spring never comes. No summer. Autumn gives golden fruit to every other garden, but IT gives none to the giants garden. One morning, the giant suddenly his bird singing, I haven't . heard that beautiful birds on for a while. I believe spring has come at last. The giant jumped out of bed and looks outside. The giant sees a hole in the wall. Also, there is a little child in every tree, and the trees are so glad that they have covered themselves with flowers. The birds fly about and singing with joy. How selfish i've been. He says, now I know why spring wouldn't come here. He knocks down the wall. The children look afraid. fear, not little joys. It's your god now . adaptation from the selfish giant BIOS wild. When did IT happen? IT happened . last year. IT was our school trip to city park. What happened? My classmates lin may forgot to bring her lunch. SHE was hungry and sad. That's really bad. Who helped her? I shared . my fried rice with her two other classmates, share their fruit and milk with her. you are really kind. How did you feel? It's made me feel happy. What have you learned from IT? Sharing really brings us closer as friends. Since then, i've also shared many things with other friends. That's very nice.