Unit 2 Thinking skills & Reading strategies 课件-2025-2026学年仁爱科普版八年级英语上册

The World of Art Unit 2 Thinking skills & Reading strategies 英语仁爱科普版八年级上册 通过本课时学习，学生能够： 1. 掌握“细节分类”的思维技能，识别文本中细节的共同特征， 将相关细节按照标准进行分类； 2. 掌握“得出结论”的阅读策略，结合文本信息和已有知识， 推断作者未直接表述的内容； 3. 在真实的语境中运用所学思维技能和阅读策略，增强主动运 用逻辑思维去解决问题的意识； 4. 感受艺术的魅力，了解艺术家的成长故事，感悟知名艺术家 获得成功的关键因素。 Learning objectives 重点 重点 Watch and answer What is this video about? The musical instruments. Watch the video and answer the question. Look and say What are these musical instruments? drum piano guitar trumpet triangle flute violin tambourine Do you know any other musical instruments? Look and guess Look at the picture and guess what the text is about. It may be about different types of musical instruments. Read and answer Read the text and answer the questions. According to the types of musical instruments, there are four families: string instruments, beat instruments, keyboard instruments and wind instruments. The violin and erhu belong to the string instruments and the drum belongs to the beat instruments. The piano is an example of the keyboard instruments, and the trumpet is a wind instrument. 1. What is the text about? 2. What are the four types of musical instruments? It’s about the four types of musical instruments. String instruments, beat instruments, keyboard instruments and wind instruments. Read and classify Read the text and classify the instruments into four types. There are four types of musical instruments. String instruments Beat instruments Keyboard instruments Wind instruments violin and erhu drum piano trumpet When you classify details, you group together details that are alike in some way. Read and answer Read the text and answer the question. What is music? Music is a language. It can help us speak our minds and allow us to communicate heart to heart. Music is a tool of showing feelings. It can relax us and make us feel happy, afraid or sad. Music is a medium. It can take us to a world of art and bring together people all over the world. What is the text about? It is about what music is and what benefits music can bring us. Read and complete Read the text and complete the detail classification chart. What is music? Music is a language. It can help us speak our minds and allow us to communicate heart to heart. Music is a tool of showing feelings. It can relax us and make us feel happy, afraid or sad. Music is a medium. It can take us to a world of art and bring together people all over the world. What is music? It’s a language. • _____________________ • _____________________ _____________________ It’s a tool of ______________. • _________________ • _________________ It’s a _______________. • ________________________________ • ________________________________ help us speak our minds allow us to communicate heart to heart showing feelings relax us make us feel happy, afraid or sad medium take us to a world of art bring together people all over the world Make a dialogue Work in pairs. Talk about the benefits of music based on the detail classification chart and make a dialogue. Hi, XXX! It’s said that music has magic power. What do you think? I quite agree. Music is a language. It can help us speak our minds and allow us to communicate heart to heart. Wow! How does music speak your minds? Sometimes, it’s easier to express our feelings through music than it is through spoken language. ... According to the main role types, there are four characters in Beijing opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou. Sheng refers to male roles, such as the middle-aged scholars or old men. They are known for their beautiful singing and gentle movements. Dan stands for female roles, including graceful young ladies and brave female warriors. They are famous for sleeve dances and high-pitched (高音) singing. Jing are the painted-face roles, often representing loyal heroes or fierce generals. The Jing roles show strong personalities. Chou are the clown roles, making people laugh with funny actions and words. There are four main characters in Beijing Opera. Jing Dan Sheng male roles beautiful singing and gentle movements painted-face roles show strong personalities female roles sleeve dances and high-pitched singing Read and complete Read the text and complete the detail classification chart. Chou clown roles make people laugh with funny actions and words Look at the picture and answer some questions. Look and answer 1. What kind of role is this in Beijing opera? 2. Do you know who this famous Beijing opera artist is? Dan. Mei Lanfang. Discuss and say What do you know about Mei Lanfang? Mei Lanfang is a famous Beijing opera artist. Born into an opera-related family, he devoted himself to performing Dan roles. His graceful movements and touching singing amazed audiences. He also promoted Beijing opera globally, performing overseas to share this art. His efforts made Beijing opera more famous worldwide. Read and complete Read the text about the famous Beijing opera artist, Mei Lanfang, and learn how to draw a conclusion by completing the sentence. Good actors know how to use their eyes to express their minds. To train his eyes, Mei Lanfang often watched the pigeons flying far away in the sky. What you read What you know Now you conclude Mei often trained his eyes by watching the pigeons flying. Mei was a great Beijing opera artist. The ______________ was helpful. After reading a text, you can combine what you read and what you know to draw a conclusion about what the author doesn’t say directly. eye training Read and complete Read more about Mei Lanfang. Complete the sentences and draw another conclusion. What you read What you know Now you conclude Mei got up very early and ____________________________. ____________ makes perfect. Mei remembered the lines through _______________. When Mei was young, he had great difficulty in remembering the lines of Beijing opera. But he worked very hard and was very strict with himself. He got up very early every day and practiced the lines again and again. practiced the lines again and again Practice practicing Underline and complete Read the text about Qi Baishi. Underline the sentence that helps you draw a conclusion, and then complete the last two steps. Qi Baishi first learned painting all by himself. Then in his twenties, he began to travel around China to visit famous painters and study their paintings. Finally, in his mid-fifties, his paintings became popular, and he became famous all over China. What you read What you know Now you conclude The underlined sentence. It is very important for us to ______________________. Qi learned a lot from ____________________________________. learn from others other famous painters and their paintings Discuss and report Work in groups. Discuss with your group members about other famous artists you’ve known. Choose one and make a report. You can draw a detail classification chart to help you organise information. The famous Beijing opera artist—Mei Lanfang Learning experience • _____________________ • _____________________ _____________________ Artistic features • _________________ • _________________ Achievements • ________________________________ • ________________________________ train his eyes remember the lines ... ... Listen and conclude Listen to other groups’ reports, note down the details and draw conclusions about the artist. Details I’ve got What I know Now I conclude Think about the question and share your ideas. What makes these artists famous and successful? Think and share Let’s enjoy Summary use the thinking skill of “classifying details” to organize details from a text. 1 After learning this lesson, I can master the reading strategy of “drawing conclusions” and make inferences by combining text information and what I know. 2 1. A: Let's go and see the monkeys. They' re my favourite animals. B: Why do you like them? A: Because they' re clever and funny. 2. A: Oh, look! A baby wolf and its mother! Do you like wolves? B: No, I don't. They' re very dang Homework 1. Write down and revise your report. 2. Preview Theme Reading. Lavf58.46.101 $