Unit 2 Reading 课件 2025-2026学年译林版（2024）英语八年级上册

Unit 2 School life Reading Describe the three pictures. (the countries, the schools and the reasons) Revision What type of articles are we going to read? What are they about? Who wrote the posts? Lead-in Read the rubrics on page 22. TIP Blog posts usually use conversational language and a relaxed tone. Writers often share their personal opinions or experiences. Pre-reading Answer the two questions below. 1. What is your school life like? 2. What is special about your school life? It is colourful/enjoyable. We have interesting lessons, such as Biology and PE. There are all kinds of clubs for students to choose from. We can choose the clubs we are interested in. While reading Read the first blog post and tell the structure of it. Introduction to herself and her school Subjects and what’s special about her school Nancy’s feelings about her school life 1 2 3 4 Subjects and what’s special about her school Introduction to herself and her school Nancy’s feelings about her school life While reading Para. 1—Introduction to herself and her school My name is Nancy. l am at Woodland Secondary School near London. Our school is small, so we have fewer students and smaller classes than most schools. Nancy’s school _ Features of her school A _ school with _ and _ Woodland Secondary School small fewer students smaller classes While reading Para. 2—Subjects and what’s special about her school We go to different classrooms for different lessons. There are many interesting subjects to choose from, such as drama and foreign languages. To us, learning Chinese may not be as simple as learning French or German, but I am looking forward to having a go. What interesting subjects does Nancy mention? Is learning Chinese easy for the students? Does Nancy give up learning it? While reading Para. 3—Subjects and what’s special about her school The arts are as important as languages, Maths and Science at our school. We have a special building just for art, music and drama lessons. Being creative is great and it helps us study better in other subjects. What subjects are as important as languages, Maths and Science at the school? Where do the subjects take place? Why is it great to be creative? While reading Para. 4—Nancy’s feelings about her school life Time flies when we are enjoying school! How does Nancy like her school? Enjoyable. Practice The UK fewer subjects the arts Complete the table below about Nancy’s school. While reading Read the second post and find out the structure. Introduction to himself and his school Subjects and what’s special about his school 1 2 3 4 Subjects and what’s special about his school Introduction to himself and his school Name School Grade While reading Para. 1—Introduction to himself and his school I am Tomoya from Japan, a Grade 8 student at Gekko Middle School in Tokyo. Tomoya Grade 8 Gekko Middle School Why does Tomoya's school offer different safety programmes? What does Tomoya get from safety programmes? While reading Para. 2—Subjects and what’s special about his school Japan is one of the countries with the most earthquakes in the world, so our school offers different safety programmes to teach us how to survive in the face of danger. We get plenty of hands-on experience from these programmes. What does Tomoya’s school also pay attention to? What’s the benefit of it? While reading Para. 3—Subjects and what’s special about his school Our school also pays a lot of attention to food education. We learn how to cook meals and eat well. In this way, we are more aware of the importance of a healthy diet. While reading Para. 4—Subjects and what’s special about his school Cleaning is another important tradition in Japanese schools. Every day at school, we clean classrooms, toilets and other school areas carefully by ourselves. This helps us develop good habits from an early age. Cleaning education who what place how often what benefits students classrooms, toilets, and other school areas every day at school help develop good habits from an early age Japan safety Food cleaning Practice Complete the table below about Tomoya’s school. Nancy’s school is small, and it is in London. _ Nancy thinks Chinese is easy to learn. _ Nancy likes going to school. _ Tomoya’s school has different programmes to help students stay safe. _ Tomoya does not know how to cook. _ Every day at school, Tomoya and his classmates only need to clean the toilets. _ F T F F F near doesn’t think knows T Post-reading classrooms, toilets and other school areas Finish Part B on page 24. hands-on Finish Part C on page 24. Post-reading creative environment offered aware plenty of looking forward to pay attention to Post-reading $