Unit 4 Time to celebrate：Starting out & Understanding ideas课件-2025-2026学年外研版七年级上册

该初中英语课件围绕Unit 4“Time to celebrate”主题，聚焦节日文化，以图片导入引导学生描述节日活动，从中国传统节日延伸至世界特色节日，搭建“已知-未知”学习支架，帮助学生逐步理解节日主题相关语言知识。 其亮点在于通过完整阅读链（Pre-reading至Post-reading），结合问题链（如分析“不寻常春节的原因”）和文化对比（如“狮子头”象征团圆），培养学生语言能力与文化意识。任务设计融入分段匹配、复述故事等活动提升思维品质，Key points系统归纳词汇句型，助力学生高效学习，也为教师提供清晰教学路径。

Time to celebrate Unit 4 Look at these pictures. What they are doing? Lead-in They are celebrating for festivals. Do you like festivals?Why? What festival do we Chinese people usually celebrate? 04 Spring Festival Lantern Festival National Day Tomb-Sweeping Festival Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Lead-in Do you know these festivals? Nadam Fair(那达慕大会) Water-Splashing Festival(泼水节) Tomb-sweeping Day (清明节) The Dai people’s most important festival. People splash water on each other as a way to express blessings and joy. people go to clean their ancestors’（祖先）tombs and honour（纪念）the ancestors. A traditional Mongolian(蒙古的) festival. It's a time for people to enjoy sports, such as wrestling and racing horses. Lead-in What festival or holiday around the world do you know? Which one do you think is the most special? Special festivals and holidays around the world Pre-reading Look at the picture and try to describe what you see in it. The people are having a family reunion dinner during the Spring Festival. They are smiling and waving at the camera, with many delicious dishes on the table. While-reading Why it is an unusual Spring Festival for the writer? Let’s explore! Read the passage quickly.Divide the passage into four part and match the meaning with each part. The writer’s problem The writer’s solution The Result The writer’s feeling The writer’s problem The writer’s solution The Result The writer’s feeling While-reading It was my first Spring Festival in the UK. My English friend, Emilia, is a nice girl. Sometimes, she cooks British food for me. Today is the Spring Festival, so I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner. At home, I often watch Grandma cook. I never realised cooking was so difficult. How I wish to have four hands now! 1.Why does the writer want to cook a Chinese dinner? 2.Why was it so difficult for the writer to cook? Key points： 1. in the UK 2.cook sth for sb=cook sb sth 3. treat sb to 4.watch sb do sth/watch sb doing sth 5.wish to do sth While-reading It was midnight in China -- time for dumplings. My whole family come to my help on the phone. Step by step, they teach me. I even made some cucumber flowers. What do you think of the writer’s family? They are helpful. 1.What people do at midnight in Spring Festival? They eat dumplings. While-reading After Emilia hangs balloons and lanterns in the dining room, I put the last dish on the table."This is the lion's head!" “Are you joking? Isn't that against the law?” Emilia was shocked. I laugh."It's a pork meatball. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. Its round shape stands for family reunions. Try it!“ Emilia cut a piece of it with her knife and put it into her mouth."I love it!" she says. The smell of the dishes and the sound of our laughing fill the room. 1.What does the underlined word “it”refer to(代指）？ 2.What tradition for Spring Festival can you find from this part? 3.Why do Chinese people enjoy the “lion’s head” in this festival? Is the lion’s head real lion’s head? Key points hangs balloons and lanterns 挂气球和灯笼 in the dining room 在餐厅 stands for 代表 The smell of …的味道 the sound of …的声音 While-reading I feel like I am back home. _______________ What’s the best ending of this passage? a I don’t like having the Spring Festival all by myself. b I miss my family so much. c It’s really an unusual but happy Spring Festival. Post-reading Why it is an unusual Spring Festival for the writer? It is her first time to spend the Spring Festival abroad and she learns to cook a traditional Spring Festival dish for her friend. At midnght in China, my ____________ gave me help With their help, I even make some Retell the story The writer’s problem The writer’s solution Today is ______________________. I want to a _____________ for . But cooking is so for me. the Spring Festival Chinese dinner whole family I showed the last ______________ to Emilia. My family always eat it at the Spring Festival. She was ____________ at the name of the dish, but she ______ the taste. We enjoy the dinner and laugh.. Retell the story The result dish shocked liked I feel like I am____________ back home The writer’s feeling Post-reading How do you usually celebrate your birthday? What do you usually do? What do you usually cook for that day? $I remember the way you look at me. I remember. I remember when we, the shooting star, as I remember. I remember all the things that we should and the promise we make. Just you and II remember all the left to we should, all the wishes made upon the roof back. Do you remember when we read dancing in december? And I remember when my said you were a burglar, I reme made just you and II remember all the left. We should, all the wishes we make.