Unit 3 Section B 1a～3c 课件 2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 3 Growing up 人教八年级下册 Section B 1a-3c At the end of this part, you will be able to Learning objectives read a story about a teenager’s problem with his team. write a thank-you letter. learn vocabulary of adjectives about emotions. Warm-up: 1. Read the idioms. Tick the ones that are negative. a light heart/a heavy heart 轻松愉快的心情 / 心情沉重 With a light heart, she runs to the park to play with her friends. With a heavy heart, he sits alone and thinks about his mistake. Warm-up: 1. Read the idioms. Tick the ones that are negative. feel blue/feel on top of the world 感到沮丧 / 感到欣喜若狂 I feel blue because I lost my favorite toy and can’t find it anywhere. I feel on top of the world when our class wins the first prize. Warm-up: 1. Read the idioms. Tick the ones that are negative. have a long face/all smiles 愁眉苦脸 / 满面笑容 He has a long face because he forgot to bring his homework to school. She is all smiles after getting a nice gift from her parents. Warm-up: 1. Read the idioms. Tick the ones that are negative. in low spirits/in high spirits 情绪低落 / 兴高采烈 The boy is in low spirits because he did badly in the game. The students are in high spirits at the school party. An idiom is a fixed phrase or group of words in a language. Idioms can make a text more powerful. The meaning of idioms differs from their literal meaning, but the words that make up these expressions provide valuable clues. 2. Do you know other idioms? miss the boat 错失良机 kill two birds with one stone 一石二鸟 give it a shot 试一下 a piece of cake 小菜一碟 crocodile tears 鳄鱼的眼泪 More idioms that describe feelings: She’s over the moon because she got a new bike. He’s on cloud nine after winning the basketball match. My dad saw red when he found the broken window. I jumped out of my skin when a dog barked behind me. 欣喜若狂 乐不可支 火冒三丈 大吃一惊 Pre-reading Read and predict: What did Matt feel? Why? He had a long face. He felt blue. He was in low spirits. He walked with a heavy heart. Probably, he lost the basketball game. Reading 1 Read the story. What mistake did Matt make at the basketball game? Matt pushed another player by accident during the game, so the other team got two free throws and went on to win the game. 2 Read for the story elements. Story element Character Time Place Plot Conflict Theme 起因 经过 结果 Story element Character Matt—the main character, a basketball player Tom —Matt’s best friend Time After school Place In the classroom Plot Matt made a mistake in the basketball game. He felt sorry and sad. Tom and the coach comforted him and taught him how to face mistakes. Conflict Matt vs. Himself Matt felt guilty and upset because he thought he let his team down. He was worried that everyone was angry with him. Theme We should stay positive when facing mistakes or failures, learn from them, and work together as a team. 3 Read the story again. Complete the problems and solutions. hard two free throws repect careful proud lose together as a team Matt was not happy. 4 Read the story CAREFULLY. 心情沉重 愁眉苦脸 感到沮丧 1. How did Tom know that Matt was sad when he saw him? Tom knew that Matt was sad because Matt had a long face. dare to do sth敢于做某事 让大家失望 严厉对待 罚球 过了一会儿 乐观地看待问题 因……而自豪 也 2. Why did Tom feel proud of their team even though they lost? Tom felt proud of their team even though they lost because the other team is the best in the area and their scores were very close. 3. What did Tom say to make Matt feel better? c You can’t win them all. It’s more important from your mistakes. We’ll keep working together as a team. If we pull together, we should win next time. 4. What can you learn from Matt’s story? 1e Replace the underlined words with the idioms from the story. 1. Edward noticed that his friend had a sad expression. 2. The musician apologized for disappointing everyone when he fell sick and couldn’t attend the show. 3. When something goes wrong, it’s easy to get angry. But if you think about the good things in that bad situation, you’ll feel better. 4. Even if you try your best, you can’t always succeed or win. 5. When you work together as a group, you can achieve great things. letting everyone down look on the bright side you can’t win them all pull together had a long face 1f Role-play a conversation between Matt and his coach. A: I’m sorry I made a mistake on Saturday, Coach. B: It’s OK. I was disappointed, but I know you didn’t mean to do it. A: … Post-reading Matt: I’m sorry I made a mistake on Saturday. Coach: It’s OK. I was disappointed, but I know you didn’t mean to do it. Matt: I still feel like I let the whole team down. I should have been more careful. Coach: Don’t be too hard on yourself. Everyone makes mistakes, and what matters is that we learn from them. Matt: You’re right. I’ll practice harder and try to look on the bright side. Coach: That’s the spirit! If we all pull together, we’ll win the next one. Sample Conversation Summary Vocabulary in Use 2a Put the words in the box into the correct groups. joyful, angry, shocked, stressed, worried, hurtful, thankful, upset, excited, lonely, afraid, shy, proud, calm Positive Negative joyful thankful excited proud calm angry shocked stressed worried hurtful upset lonely afraid shy 2b Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets. 1. A: What should I do if I feel ________ after moving to a new city? B: Try to make new friends. A sense of belonging can help you to fight the feeling of ____________. (lonely) 2. A: Did you hear the news? I was _________ to hear about the fight yesterday. B: It was a ________ to me too. We should say no to bullying. (shock) lonely loneliness shocked shock 归属感 3. A: I’m sorry I shouted at you just now. I was just feeling ________. B: I know you didn’t mean to do that. People can behave differently under ________. (stress) 4. A: I’m really _________ that I’ll be late for the physics class. I lay awake most of the night because my neighbour’s baby was crying. I woke up late this morning and missed the bus. B: Don’t _______. Ms Wood will understand if you tell her what happened. (worry) 2b Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets. stressed stress worried worry 承受压力 2c Replace the underlined words with the correct forms of the words in the box. decision, hurt, anger, relaxed, bit, negative negative angry hurtful relaxed bit decide Read for writing 3a Read Kelly’s thank-you letter to her teacher. Why is Kelly thankful? Read & complete The person Kelly wanted to thank What difficulties she faced How she helped Kelly She didn’t like science and did badly in class. She encouraged Kelly and made her more confident in science. She couldn’t talk about her feeling to anybody. She listened and talked with Kelly. 3b Who would you like to thank the most? Make notes. 3c Write your own thank-you letter. You can use your notes in 3b and the expressions below to help you. ● Thank you for helping me to … ● Thank you very much for your … ● On that day, I …, and you helped me to … ● I am very thankful because … ● I didn’t / couldn’t …, but you … ● When I …, you were there to … Dear Mr Roberts, I wanted to thank you for helping me so much with my English. I couldn’t make any progress and kept getting bad test scores until you became my English teacher. Then I started to get better. Although I was too shy to ask any questions, you were always there to help. You made me feel like it wasn’t a problem but all part of the learning process. You were always patient and friendly. You took time to explain things well and gave me extra work so that I could improve my listening and speaking abilities. Thank you very much again for your help! Yours sincerely, Li Ming Sample writing Language Points Section B 1a-3c 感到忧郁的 欢天喜地 笑容满面 情绪低落；精神不振 使失望 对…… 苛刻或过分严厉 撤回；收回 （因干了蠢事等）自责或懊恼 从好的方面想；抱乐观态度 → feel blue → on top of the world → all smiles → in low spirits → let down → be hard on → take back →kick oneself → look on the bright side 〖短语归纳〗 为…… 感到骄傲 也；又 有点儿；稍微 齐心协力；通力合作 冲某人喊叫 不时；偶尔 深呼吸 去世（委婉说法） 不但…… 而且…… → be proud of / take pride in → as well → a bit → pull together → shout at sb → from time to time → take a deep breath → pass away → not only...but also... 〖短语归纳〗 1. When we’re mad, we might shout at other people or say mean things to them. (Section B, 2C) 当我们生气的时候，我们可能会对别人大喊大叫，或者对他 们说卑鄙的话。 The bossis always mean to new employees. 老板对新员工总是很刻薄。 The restaurant is mean with the portions-you barely get enough to eat. 这家餐馆分量抠门，根本吃不饱。 The red light means “stop” in traffic rules. 交通规则中，红灯意思是“停止”。 Missing the train means waiting for another two hours. 错过这趟火车意味着要再等两小时。 They meant to visit their grandparents last weekend. 他们上周末打算去看望祖父母。 [归纳拓展] mean adj. 意为 “刻薄的；吝啬的”。be mean to sb. 对某人刻薄。 mean作动词的一词多义： “意思是；意为”，后跟名词或that从句。 “意味着”→meandoing sth. 意味着做某事 “打算；意欲”→mean to do sth. 打算做某事 人教八年级下册 Thanks 38 135607.05 $