Unit 6 Fantastic friends--Starting out课件2025-2026学年外研版七年级英语上册

该初中英语课件围绕“动物朋友”主题，聚焦动物词汇、描述特征及能力的表达和现在进行时运用。课堂通过视频导入、图片问答，从常见动物过渡到《山海经》神奇动物，搭建学习支架，衔接前后知识脉络。 其亮点在于融合《山海经》传统文化与西方奇幻作品，渗透文化意识；通过听力材料、口头介绍任务提升语言能力；分层作业设计培养学习能力。学生能增强跨文化理解与表达，教师可高效开展主题教学，激发学生兴趣。

1 Starting out 外研版 七年级上 Unit 6 Fantastic friends Warming-up Enjoy the video. Do you like animals? What kind of animals do you know? monkey fox tiger lion elephant giraffe eagle panda Learning Objectives After completing the unit, we will be able to: 1. use words and expressions in the unit to describe our relationship with animals. 2. use the present continuous tense to talk about animal behaviours. 3. explain the need to protect our animal friends. Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, we will be able to: 1. know more facts about animals. 2. talk about different kinds of animals. 3. describe animals’ appearance and abilities. A man and a monkey. 1.What can you see in the picture? 2.What are they doing? The monkey is on the man’s shoulder. They are looking at photos. Humans and animals are good friends. 3.What does this picture tell us about their relationship? Look at the picture and answer the questions. Look at the picture and answer the questions. We share the earth with animals. Let’s explore our relationship with animals. How are animals amazing? How do they help us? How do we protect them? 1.Look at the picture and answer the questions. What amazing animals are there in this book? What special skills do the animals have? You probably know Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. There is an amazing animal in it – zouwu. But the animal actually comes from a very old Chinese book. Did you know that? That book is Shan Hai Jing, or The Classic of Mountains and Seas. There are many amazing animals in this book. The book is more than two thousand years old, but is still exciting to read. In the book, zouwu is like a tiger. Its tail is longer than its body. It can travel 500 kilometres a day! Tapescript Tapescript Look! This animal looks like a Western unicorn. Chinese people call it huanshu. It can keep people from catching fire. Here is a beautiful bird. It can talk like humans. It is called yingmu or yingwu. What bird can you think of? This one looks like a monkey. It can walk like an animal on four legs. It can also walk like a human on two feet. Its name is xingxing. Oh, and this fish can fly. It's wenyao fish. Do you want to know more interesting animals? Open the book now! What amazing animals are there in this book? zouwu 驺吾 huanshu 獾疏 yingmu/yingwu 鹦䳇‌(䳇通“鹉”) xingxing 狌狌 wenyao 文鳐 It can travel 500 kilometres a day. It can keep people from catching fire. It can talk like humans. It can walk like an animal or a human. It can fly. What special skills do the animals have? Do you know Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ? 《神奇动物在哪里》是英国作家J.K.罗琳所著的一部奇幻小说，最初是作为《哈利•波特》系列中一本虚构的教科书出版的。书中详细介绍了魔法世界中的各种神奇动物，描述了它们的特征、栖息地和行为习惯等。 Do you know The Classic of Mountains and Seas? 《山海经》是我国一部古籍，涉及上古时期地理、民族、物产、风俗等内容。这部书保存了许多远古的神话传说，在神话学上具有重要价值，对后世文学也有深远影响。其中记载了很多的极具神秘感的奇异动物。 The animals from The Classic of Mountains and Seas bai ze(白泽) tao wu(梼杌) luo yu(蠃鱼) jiu wei hu(九尾狐) zhu yan(朱厌) tian gou(天狗) chi wen(螭吻) ren yu (人鱼) 2. Do the quiz about animals. 1 Which animal has the longest neck? a monkey b horse c giraffe 2 Which animal can see things from the farthest away? a eagle b rabbit c dog 3 Which animal can remember lots of information? a cow b mouse c elephant 4 How many eyes does a bee have? a two b five c twelve 5 The hummingbird can eat its weight in 24 hours. a half b about twice c more than 5 times What do you know about our fantastic friends? Elephants have two big _____ and long _______. What’s more, they have four strong ______. They like eating _________. They usually live in forests and grasslands together. They are very smart. ears trunks legs bananas What do you know about our fantastic friends? ______ have black eyes. They are black and white. They like eating _________. They are very good at ____________. Pandas bamboos climbing trees What do you know about our fantastic friends? Giraffes have very long _______. They have long legs and blue-black tongue. They eat ________ from trees. They are very shy. necks leaves Language points Which animal has the longest neck? (1)用于三者或三者以上的比较：表示三者或三者以上的人或物进行比较时，要用最高级。形容词最高级前要加定冠词the，副词最高级前的the可以省略。 She is the most beautiful girl in the class. 她是班里最漂亮的女孩。 He runs (the) fastest in his school. 他在学校里跑得最快。 (2)表示“在……范围内最……”：常用“in / of + 范围”来表示比较的范围。 He is the tallest of all the boys. 在所有男孩中，他是最高的。 This is the most interesting book in these books. 在这些书中，这本是最有趣的。 Exercise 一、单项选择 ( )1. Tom is one of ______ students in our class. A. tall B. taller C. tallest D. the tallest ( )2. The Yangtze River is ______ river in China. A. long B. longer C. the longest D. longest ( )3. Which is ______ season in Beijing? A. better B. best C. the best D. the better D C C Required Optional Homework Copy and practice phrases related to animals, and focus on correct vocabulary and the sentence pattern. Introduce your favourite animals to other classmates in English after class. 24 Thank you! Lavf58.41.100 $