Unit 4 SectionA（2a-2e）课件2025-2026学年人教版（2024）英语八年级上册

Amazing Plants and Animals Unit 4 Section A 第2课时 Learning objectives 通过本节课的学习，学生能够： 1. 在情境中理解和使用新单词folding; fan; bamboo; popular; goodness; tool; actually; shoot。 2. 通过听读对话，准确识别并归纳竹子的关键信息。 3. 在语境中操练重点句型“It’s one of the most useful…; It’s a symbol of goodness.”等，运用最高级来谈论传统文化中的动植物形象。 4. 认识与理解中国传统文化的魅力，做好中国故事的讲述者和中国传统文化的传播者。 重点 Listen and guess Listen to a piece of music. Guess what the instrument is. It's a Chinese bamboo flute. Look and say This is a Chinese bamboo flute. What is it made of? ? bamboo Free talk What do you know about bamboo? What is amazing about it? Say something about bamboo. Look and read Let’s learn something about bamboo. Bamboo is one of the most popular plants in China. It’s a symbol of goodness in Chinese culture. Besides flutes, it can be made into many useful things. Chinese people like to live with bamboo. Look and say Look at the picture and answer the questions. 1. What can you see in the picture? Bamboo. 2. How do you feel if you walk in it? Relaxed/... 3. Do you know what place it is? Yes.../No... Bamboo Sea, Sichuan Listen and choose Chen Jie and Ella are talking about Bamboo Sea. Listen and find out: A. What does Chen Jie have? B. C. Listen and fill Listen to the conversation and fill in the blanks. Ella: Oh, what’s that, Chen Jie? It’s so beautiful! Chen Jie: Thanks. It’s a folding fan. I bought it last year. Ella: Oh! It has a painting of bamboo on it. Chen Jie: Yeah. Bamboo is one of the most popular subjects in Chinese paintings. It’s a __________ of goodness in Chinese culture. Ella: I didn’t know that before. So, where did you get that fan? Chen Jie: At the Bamboo Sea in Sichuan, the _______ and _______ bamboo forest in China. I learnt lots of interesting things when I was there. Ella: Really? Like what? Chen Jie: Well, bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants. Some bamboo can grow almost one metre in one day. Also, it’s one of the ______________ plants in the world. People can use it to build houses and make tools and instruments. Ella: Oh, that’s interesting. I remember pandas love to eat bamboo too, right? Chen Jie: Exactly! Actually we eat bamboo shoots too. They’re really delicious. symbol largest oldest most useful Read and answer Read the conversation and answer the questions. 1. What does Ella see on the folding fan? 2. Why does bamboo often appear in Chinese paintings? 3. Where is the Bamboo Sea? 4. What do people use bamboo for? 5. Is Ella interested in bamboo? How do you know? A painting of bamboo. Because it is the symbol of goodness in Chinese culture. In Sichuan. People use it for many things, such as building houses, making tools and instruments. Yes. She asked a lot about it and she said “Oh, that’s interesting”. Read and complete Complete the mind map with the information from 2a. the Bamboo Sea largest oldest goodness almost one metre houses tools instruments people pandas Let’s retell Retell the story with the help of the mind map. On Chen Jie’s folding fan, there is a picture of bamboo. She got the fan at the… Listen and role-play Listen to the conversation again. Then role-play it. Read and learn Ella: Oh, what’s that, Chen Jie? It’s so beautiful! Chen Jie: Thanks. It’s a folding fan. I bought it last year. Ella: Oh! It has a painting of bamboo on it. Chen Jie: Yeah. Bamboo is one of the most popular subjects in Chinese paintings. It’s a symbol of goodness in Chinese culture. Ella: I didn’t know that before. So, where did you get that fan? 2. bamboo /ˌbæmˈbuː/ n. 竹；竹子 1. folding /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ adj. 折叠式的；可折叠的 3. yeah /jeə/ interj. 是的；对 吴老师在我们学校最受学生欢迎。 Mr. Wu is the most popular teacher among the students in our school. 5. goodness /ˈɡʊdnəs/ n. 美德；营养 folding fan 折扇 4. popular /ˈpɒpjələ(r)/ adj. 广受欢迎的；流行的 Read and learn Chen Jie: At the Bamboo Sea in Sichuan, the largest and oldest bamboo forest in China. I learnt lots of interesting things when I was there. Ella: Really? Like what? Chen Jie: Well, bamboo is one of the fastest- growing plants. Some bamboo can grow almost one metre in one day. Also, it’s one of the most useful plants in the world. People can use it to build houses and make tools and instruments. Ella: Oh, that’s interesting. I remember pandas love to eat bamboo too, right? Chen Jie: Exactly! Actually we eat bamboo shoots too. They’re really delicious. 7. tool /tuːl/ n. 工具；手段 6. one of … 其中之一（后面接形容词最高级和名词复数形式） 它是今年最受欢迎的歌曲之一。 It is one of the most popular songs this year. 8. actually /ˈæktʃuəli/ adv. 实际上；居然 9. shoot /ʃuːt/ n. 幼苗；嫩芽 v. (shot /ʃɒt/) 开（枪）； 射击 Talk and act Imagine you are a tour guide at the Bamboo Sea and your partner is a foreign tourist. Make up a conversation about bamboo and its importance. A: Welcome to the Bamboo Sea! I’m your tour guide today. I’d love to share all the interesting things about bamboo with you. Please feel free to ask me any questions you have. B: Bamboo seems to be a very popular plant in China. Can you tell me why the Chinese people like bamboo so much? A: Well, … Discuss and share Bamboo is called “one of the Four Gentlemen of Plants”. Why do Chinese people love it so much? Discuss and share your ideas. Think and say What plants are the other three “Gentlemen of Plants”? How much do you know about them? plum blossom orchid chrysanthemum Think and say Choose one of them to give a report. The following expressions may be useful. one of the most popular subjects the most beautiful the symbol of Chinese culture plum blossom orchid chrysanthemum bamboo Think and share If you have a folding fan, what amazing animal or plant do you want to draw on it? Why? Think and give your idea. I want to draw a tiger on it. Tiger is one of the strongest animals. It is also the symbol of strength and luck in Chinese culture. Practice 1．在中国文化中，竹子是美德的象征。 In Chinese________, bamboo is the _______ of __________. 2．这是房间里最漂亮的画之一。 This is one of the _________ _________ __________ in this house. 3．实际上，这种工具并不是最有用的。 __________, this kind of tool is not the __________ __________. 竹子是最受欢迎的绘画主题之一。 Bamboo is one of the ________ ________ ________ in Chinese paintings. Put the Chinese sentences into English. culture most useful symbol Actually most beautiful pictures most popular subjects goodness Summary memorize the new words. describe amazing plants. know how plants and animals are amazing in our Chinese culture. It’s one of the most useful…; It’s a symbol of goodness. 知识点1相交线 folding; fan; bamboo; popular; goodness; tool; actually; shoot After learning this lesson, I can Homework 1. Read the conversation again. 2. Try to know more important plants or animals in our culture and choose one to make a poster about it. Thank you! 痴情冢 (竹笛版) 书领了吗 , track 99999, disc 0 201285.3 null 76773.555 $