Unit4 Reading Plus 课件2025-2026学年人教版（2024）八年级英语上册

该初中英语课件围绕信鸽Amy的救援故事展开，核心知识点包括比较级、最高级用法及on one’s way to等短语，通过“Look and share”图片提问和“Predict”故事预测环节导入，搭建从词汇学习到阅读技能的支架，帮助学生衔接新旧知识。 其亮点在于运用“故事山”视觉工具分析情节结构，结合语境应用练习强化语言能力，通过预测、扫读任务培养学习能力。例如用故事山划分开端、发展、高潮和结局，提升思维品质，语境化练习巩固短语应用。学生能在真实故事中提升阅读策略，教师可借助清晰结构提高教学效率。

Amazing Plants and Animals UNIT 4 Reading Plus 1.learn the story about the homing pigeon and the main idea of it. 2.try to undersatand what happend and answer the related questions. 3.Know how the home pigeon can find the way back home. 4.cultivate the reading habits and grasp the skills of prediction and scanning. Look and share What kind of bird is it? /ˈpɪdʒɪn/ 鸽子 How can a pigeon become a hero? Predict What happened? Listen and read the story, find out the sentences with comparative and superlative forms. Do you know these words and expressions? 大西洋 n. 船长;队长 v. 叹气 adj.厚的;浓密的 n. 发动机;引擎 把……系到……上 立刻；马上 n. 便条,短笺 不再…… n. 标志;符号;迹象 n. 翅膀 n. 碗 n. 公司 越过海洋 While-reading 1. What was the captain’s problem ? He didn’t know where to go.The engine stopped working. While-reading Ten hours ago, ____________ ____________ Now, ______ ____________ Big Blue ____________ ____________ Arny____________ ________________________________ ________________ Billy heard ____________ ____________ ____________ people __________ __________ The captain left New York the engine stopped working. flew up and returned right away send help to the ship and around,higher and higher. Soon, it was away from the ship the sound and saw the note. He asked the company office for help. flew around 2. When did the captain’s problem start? The captain’s problem started when the engine stopped in foggy weather. While-reading 3. How did the captain send a message to Billy? He tied a message to the leg of a homing pigeon called Arny. That means the bird flew higher and higher. then, it was away from the ship and the captain couldn’t see it anymore. While-reading Why did the captain say “That’s a good sign”? What does “That” refer to? Because Arny flew away from the ship and that meant he might be on the way to deliver the message. Did Arny succeed in delivering the message? While-reading Why was Arny so thirsty? Because Arny had flown for more than four hours through fog and over the sea to deliver the message. It’s almost 340 kilometres away! That’s why Arny went straight to the water bowl. Complete the reading chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Problem increases The most exciting part story end Characters, setting, background info climax Rising action Beginning Ending Beginning A ship is ________ in thick _____ and its ________ has stopped working. The captain is ________ . Rising action The first pigeon named Big Blue _____. Then, he ______ the message to Arny's leg and threw him into the fog. climax Arny __________ into the fog. This action creates ______ that the ________ might be delivered. trapped fog engine worried failed tied disappeared hope message Ending Arny is very _______. Billy took the ______ and ran to the ______. The help is sent to the ship, the captain praises Arny as an ________ hero. amazing office note thirsty 故事山Story Mountain 是一种帮助梳理故事情节或故事结构的视觉辅助工具，将故事情节的发展曲线比作爬山。适合于虚构类故事。“故事山”将情节和结构划分为清晰的阶段或部分，有助于对语篇形成逻辑性的理解，提升阅读理解深度。 一般由五个部分组成： 1. Beginning What causes the problem? / How does the story begin? 第一部分为故事的开头，通常呈现故事的背景、人物以及人物概况。 2. Rising actions What happens on the way to the climax? 矛盾冲突开始出现，气氛开始紧张起来。为转折点的到来做铺垫。这个逐步靠近故事高潮的阶段就像爬山一样。 3. Climax  What is the biggest problem? /  What is the most exciting part? 故事最精彩之处，也可能是问题最尖锐之处，也是故事的转折点。高潮过后故事将进入收尾阶段，问题也会迎来解决之路。 4. Falling actions  What happens on the way to the end of the story? 在这一阶段，故事逐渐收尾，问题也会进入解决阶段。 5. Ending How is the problem solved? / How does the story end? 故事到此结束，问题得到解决。这个故事带给人们的启发或是当事人的感受。 Post-reading Do you know how can a homing pigeon find the way back home? Do you know any stories about animals that helped people? share a story with partner. I know a story about a gorilla that helped a young boy. The five-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure at a zoo and hurt himself badly. A large male gorilla called Jambo came to help him. He stood by him and stroked him, and then made all the other gorillas move away so people could come into the enclosure and take the boy to safety. Do you know any stories about animals that helped people? share a story with partner. The ship was on its way to Europe. 船正在驶向欧洲。 on one’s way ...在某人……路上，可以跟副词(短语)或带to的介词短语等。 on one’s way back from ...在某人从……返回的路上 on one’s way to ...在某人去……的路上，此短语后接副词时要省略介词to。 e.g. My bike doesn’t work on the way to school. 我的车子在上学路上坏了。 On my way home, I meet my good friend, Li Ping. 在放学回家的路上，我遇到了我的好朋友李平。 【语境应用】请根据汉语意思补全句子，每空词数不限。 1) 记得在你回家的路上买些鸡蛋。 Remember to buy some eggs ________________. 2) 昨天在去学校的路上，我们看到了一场事故。 We saw an accident ___________________ yesterday. 3) 在从桂林返回的路上，我遇到了一个以前的同班同学。 _________________________, I met an old classmate. on your way home on our way to school On my way back from Guilin 2. Soon, the bird was away from the ship, and the captain couldn’t see Arny anymore. 很快，这只鸟就飞离了船，船长再也看不见Arny了。 not… anymore 不再；不复 与no longer同义，not通常位于实义动词之前，助动词、情态动词或系动词之后。 e.g. Jack is no longer a student. = Jack isn’t a student anymore/ any longer. Jack不再是个学生了。 【语境应用】 Ⅰ. 完成句子，每空一词。 我不再住在这儿了。 I ________ ________ ________ here. Ⅱ. 同义句转换 They are no longer young.  no longer live They are not young anymore/ any longer. The ship was on its way to Europe. 船正在驶向欧洲。 on one’s way ...在某人……路上，可以跟副词(短语)或带to的介词短语等。 on one’s way back from ...在某人从……返回的路上 on one’s way to ...在某人去……的路上，此短语后接副词时要省略介词to。 e.g. My bike doesn’t work on the way to school. 我的车子在上学路上坏了。 On my way home, I meet my good friend, Li Ping. 在放学回家的路上，我遇到了我的好朋友李平。 【语境应用】请根据汉语意思补全句子，每空词数不限。 1) 记得在你回家的路上买些鸡蛋。 Remember to buy some eggs ________________. 2) 昨天在去学校的路上，我们看到了一场事故。 We saw an accident ___________________ yesterday. 3) 在从桂林返回的路上，我遇到了一个以前的同班同学。 _________________________, I met an old classmate. on your way home on our way to school On my way back from Guilin 2. Soon, the bird was away from the ship, and the captain couldn’t see Arny anymore. 很快，这只鸟就飞离了船，船长再也看不见Arny了。 not… anymore 不再；不复 与no longer同义，not通常位于实义动词之前，助动词、情态动词或系动词之后。 e.g. Jack is no longer a student. = Jack isn’t a student anymore/ any longer. Jack不再是个学生了。 【语境应用】 Ⅰ. 完成句子，每空一词。 我不再住在这儿了。 I ________ ________ ________ here. Ⅱ. 同义句转换 They are no longer young.  no longer live They are not young anymore/ any longer. Animals are our friends. Protect them is to protect ourselves! I CAN 通过文学作品中描述的经历，了解事件发生的过程。 通过阅读巩固单元知识内容。 熟练运用所学语法知识和词汇，清晰叙述事件，提升表达的准确性。 Must-do 必做 Retell the story in 100 words. Choose to do 选做 Find another story about animal hero. Homework 125000.305 $