Unit 4 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“归巢鸽”主题，涵盖归巢鸽的基础特征、历史应用及故事事件过程，结合比较级等语法点，通过看图编故事和信鸽知识导入激活旧知，过渡到阅读故事，借助词汇表、问题回答和故事结构图表搭建学习支架。 其亮点是用“故事山”工具梳理情节培养思维品质，融入一战信鸽Cher Ami等文化内容增强文化意识，通过找比较级句子、语法语境应用提升语言能力。学生能提升阅读表达准确性，教师可借助结构化资源提高教学效率。

UNIT 4 Amazing Plants and Animals 能够通过文学作品中描述的经历，了解事件发生的过程。 能够通过阅读巩固单元知识内容。 能够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。 The Brave Homing Pigeon (Adapted from Ernest Seton’s Animal Heroes) Look at the picture. Can you think of a story in 3 sentences? What do you know about pigeon? Basic Facts: Habitat: Live almost everywhere in the world, especially in cities. Diet: They mostly eat seeds, fruits, and sometimes small insects. Special Abilities: Homing Instinct: They have amazing natural GPS in their brain. They can find their way home from very far away. Messengers: Because of their homing instinct, people have used them for thousands of years to carry messages. This is why they are called carrier pigeons or homing pigeons. Physical Features: They have strong wings and can fly very well. They can see colors, and they even can see ultraviolet light(紫外线), which humans cannot. Behavior: They are very social birds and often live in groups. They make soft cooing sounds. Both the mother and father pigeon help to feed and take care of their babies. Homing pigeons Also known as “carrier pigeons”. These amazing birds have an incredible ability to navigate and return home, even over very long distances from places they do not know. They are also stronger than other pigeons, and can fly for 1,000 kilometers without stopping. Because of their abilities they have been used by humans for thousands of years to communicate over long distances. One famous homing pigeon was called Cher Ami, and it delivered an essential message during the First World War despite being injured. 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 1. What was the captain’s problem? Read the story and answer the questions. The captain’s ship was stuck in thick fog. 2. When did the captain’s problem start? The captain’s problem started when the engine stopped in foggy weather. 3. How did the captain send a message to Billy? He tied a message to the leg of a homing pigeon called Arny. 4. Why did the captain say “That’s a good sign”? The captain said it was a good sign that he couldn’t see the pigeon anymore because it meant it had gone to find Billy at home. 5. Why was Arny so thirsty? Arny was thirsty because he flew almost 340 kilometers to reach land. 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。 Do you know any stories about animals that helped people? Share a story with a 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. 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. 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。 Retell the story in 100 words. Find another story about animal hero. $