Unit2 understanding ideas 课件2025-2026学年外研版（2024）八年级上册

该初中英语课件围绕《The Selfish Giant》展开，通过图片提问导入，结合预测填空、整体阅读匹配与问答，以故事山（Story Mountain）为支架梳理开端、发展、高潮、结局，帮助学生构建故事脉络与细节理解。 其亮点在于借助故事山结构培养思维品质（分析情节层次），通过Giant情感变化（angry到happy）提升语言理解与表达能力，结合“孔融让梨”阅读渗透文化意识。采用预测、多层阅读等方法，学生能深化主题认知，教师可高效落实“分享增情谊”的人际交往教育。

The selfish giant by Oscar Wilde Please open your book and turn to page 20. This story is called——? Yeah! "The Selfish Giant". The author is——? Oscar Wilde. Learning Objectives 1.通过预测、多层阅读，梳理《The selfish giant》故事发展路线，获取细节信息； By guessing what happens next and reading step by step, figure out how the story of The Selfish Giant goes and find key details. 2.通过分析the Giant的情感变化，树立“分享=双倍快乐” 的人际交往意识 By analyzing how the Giant’s mood changes, understand the rule for getting along with people: sharing makes happiness double. 3.借助worksheet和故事山结构曲线，简述故事情节 With worksheets and the "story mountain" chart, tell the plot of The Selfish Giant in a simple way. Class begins, good morning boys and girls. Today, we will move on to the reading part of Unit 2. Are you ready for today’s class? Great! Lead in What can you see in the picture? A giant Some children [ˈdʒaɪənt] characters place In a forest/garden writer title Prediction(预测) In _______,many ________ ________ in the giant’s ________,he feels very ________.Oh, he doesn’t want to share it with them. What a _______ guy!  /'selfɪʃ/ garden spring selfish play children angry Just by looking at the title and the picture, what do you think the story might be about? Use the words on the slide to help you! [Pause for students to predict] Student (Sophie): "Maybe it's about a giant who doesn't want children to play in his garden." Student (Alex): "I think the giant might be angry because it's always winter." Good predictions! The title and the picture do give us some clues about the story. Let's read the story together and find out what the Giant does to his garden. Global reading Read the passage and match the right order Tips：pay attention to the key words，such as time and verbs. 3 1 4 2 顺序 1.What is the passage type? A. A story B. A news 2. How does the writer tell the story? B A Story Mountain Read and answer . Global reading Beginning（开端） Rising action（发展） Climax（高潮） Ending（结局） Story Mountain  [ˈklaɪmæks] （Para.2-5） （Para.1） （Para.6-7） （Para.8） Stories don't just happen—they're carefully built by authors step by step. Now, let's think about how the author develops the story. To figure out the plot of a story, we'll use a tool called the story mountain to help us visualize this. As you can see, a typical story has five stages: Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Ending. Let's read the story again and fill in the story mountain on your worksheet. Great job identifying the main characters and setting, and noticing how time changes in the story. Now that we have a sense of when events occur, let's dive deeper into the story's plot. We'll use a tool called the story mountain to help us visualize how the story unfolds. The story mountain is a graphic organizer that maps out the high points and low points of a story, just like the peaks and valleys of a mountain range. It helps us see the beginning, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the ending. Read Part 1 and answer Beginning 1.What is the garden like when the Giant is away? It is beautiful and lively . It is a large garden with soft, green grass and beautiful flowers. Rising action 1.Why does the Giant shout？ 2.Then what does the Giant do to his garden? 3. What is the garden like after that？ Because he sees the children in his garden. The giant closes the gate and build a high wall around the garden. There are no children, birds or flowers, no golden fruit and it is still winter. Read Part 2 and answer angry Sad &Lonely Climax 1.What does the Giant hear and see one morning？ 2.Then what does the Giant say？ He hears birds singing and sees a hole in the wall , a little children in every tree. Read Part 3 and answer He said “How selfish I’ve been!”. regetful(后悔的) Ending What does the Giant do at last？ He knocks down the wall. Read Part 4 and answer happy/glad The Giant sees the children in his garden and then he builds a high wall. The children run away.And the Giant’s garden is still winter Feelings angry sad/lonely regretful happy He hears birds singing and sees the children,he realize he is so selfish. Retell The giant’s feeling The Giant knock down the wall to share with the children. Great job identifying the main characters and setting, and noticing how time changes in the story. Now that we have a sense of when events occur, let's dive deeper into the story's plot. We'll use a tool called the story mountain to help us visualize how the story unfolds. The story mountain is a graphic organizer that maps out the high points and low points of a story, just like the peaks and valleys of a mountain range. It helps us see the beginning, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the ending. The Giant sees the _________ in his _______ and then he _____________. The children _________.And the Giant’s garden is still _______. Feelings angry sad/lonely regretful happy He hears ____________ and sees __________,he realizes he is so ______. The giant’s feeling The Giant ___________ the wall to _________ the children. Show Time children garden builds a high wall run away winter birds singing the children knock down share with selfish Great job identifying the main characters and setting, and noticing how time changes in the story. Now that we have a sense of when events occur, let's dive deeper into the story's plot. We'll use a tool called the story mountain to help us visualize how the story unfolds. The story mountain is a graphic organizer that maps out the high points and low points of a story, just like the peaks and valleys of a mountain range. It helps us see the beginning, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the ending. 1.What does “It’s your garden now”mean? 2.Why do you think the Giant changes his mind? Think and share The Giant shares the garden with the children. I think the Giant changes his mind because he realises that he is selfish, and he misses the joy of spring and the children. Read and choose 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. Summary Share with others. Be kind, not selfish. 友善促和睦 分享增情谊 How to get along well with others？ Shared joy is a double joy. Open your heart. 敞心赢真心 Homework Draw a story mountain to recite the passage. Must do Can do Read the Story of “Kong Rong giving out pears” and tell us what you learned from it. Thank you！ Class begins, good morning boys and girls. Today, we will move on to the reading part of Unit 2. Are you ready for today’s class? Great! $