Unit 1 Lesson 4 Reading for writing（讲解课件）-【优翼·学练优】2025-2026学年七年级英语下册同步备课（外研版）

该初中英语课件围绕“通过帮助他人理解幸福的秘密”展开，以“为爱发生”视频猜测、理发店场景问答、感谢卡分析为导入，引导学生预测文章内容，构建从输入（阅读周健捐发故事）到输出（写作帮助他人故事）的学习支架。 其亮点在于融合语言能力与思维品质，通过分析环境描写、他人反应、内心活动等让故事生动，写作环节以问题链引导学生明确人物、场景、行动及感受，渗透帮助他人的价值观（文化意识）。学生能提升语言运用与思维能力，教师可获得结构化教学资源，高效开展读写教学。

Unit 1 The secrets of happiness Reading for writing Learning Objectives In this lesson you will: 1. find out why Zhou Jian keeps his hair long and what happiness he gets; 2. analyze how the author makes the story vivid; 3. write a story about feeling happy through helping others. Watch and Guess Why are the girls cutting their hair together? They donate（捐赠） their hair to an organization to make wigs for the kids with cancer（癌症）. 假发 Look and Say 1. Where is the person? The person is at a barber’s shop. 2. What is the person doing? Getting hair cut. 3. Do you think the person is a boy or a girl? 理发店 1. What kind of card is it? It’s a “Thank You Card”. 2. Who sent this card? The City Children’s Hospital. 3. Who is this card for? This card is for Mr Zhou. 4. Why did he receive this card? He donated（捐赠）his hair to make wigs for the kids with cancer. Look at the pictures and predict what the passage is about. Use the words and expressions to help you. keep one’s hair long happiness grow smile laugh at cut it short Now read the passage and check your answer. help others do good Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. What was Zhou Jian’s hair like? He had 1.______ hair. How did people react? They 2.___________ his long hair behind his back. Sometimes they 3._______ at him. long talked about laughed What did he do with his hair? He 4.______________ for over two years. He went to a barber’s shop to 5._____________. He put the hair into a bag and took it to the __________. Why did he do so? He wanted to help 6.________________. What did he do next? After he got a letter from the hospital, he _______ and said to himself, “It’s time to ____________ again.” kept his hair long have it cut short the kids with cancer smiled grow happiness post office Read paragraphs 1&2 and answer the questions. 1. What are people’s attitudes toward a boy with long hair? They don’t understand him and they can’t accept his behaviour. Because people talk about his long hair behind his back and laugh at him. 2. What’s Zhou Jian’s reaction to people’s misunderstanding? He doesn’t care about it. He still insists on what he wants to do. Read paragraphs 3&4 and answer the questions. 1. What do you think “hope grew together with his hair” means? Zhou Jian’s growing hair is a growing hope for children with cancer. The longer his hair gets, the more wigs he can give to those kids. 2. What did Zhou Jian do with his hair? He went to the post office and sent his hair to the City Children’s Hospital. Read paragraphs 5&6 and answer the questions. 1. What will Zhou Jian do to “grow happiness again”? He will grow his hair and donate it to the kids with cancer again. 2. Why does the writer use the words of Plato in the last paragraph? 柏拉图 柏拉图是古希腊伟大的哲学家、思想家、教育家、数学家。 Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. spring from 来自；源于 幸福来源于做好事和帮助他人。 The words of Plato are used to show the theme that happiness comes from helping others. It helps to describe Zhou Jian’s good nature and thoughts. The famous saying makes the article more believable. Discuss Read the title again. How do you understand Growing Happiness? 该标题使用了比喻的修辞手法，将happiness比喻为可以留长的头发，强调幸福其实可以靠自己去追寻和创造，而不仅仅是被动接受。 Think and Say 1. How do you feel when you read the letter in the passage? 2. What can you learn from the passage? Learning to think for quetion 1 Sometimes the writer puts the key information at the end of the story. This keeps us reading on! (Answers will vary.) Think More How does the author make the story vivid（生动）? Describe the environment E.g. The wind was strong. Zhou Jian’s hat below off. His long hair waved in the air. He heard a voice behind him ... Describe other people’s reactions E.g. People often talked about his long hair behind his back. He took off his hat and his hair fell around his shoulders. The other customers were very surprised. Describe Zhou Jian’s inner activity E.g. He shook his head. “Just one more month!” he said to himself. He smiled and said to himself, “It’s time to grow happiness again.” Write a short story about feeling happy through helping others. Step 1 Organise your ideas by answering the following questions. When and where did the story happen? Who is the main character of the story? E.g. The story happened last Saturday at the community center（社区中心）. The main character is Lily.  What problem did he / she face? What did he / she do to solve the problem? What did he / she feel? She wanted to help old people at the community center but she didn't know how to make the old people happy at first. Lily thought hard and decided to tell funny stories to the old people. She also helped them clean their rooms. After seeing the old people laugh and thank her, Lily felt very happy. She learned that helping others could bring so much joy. Step 2 Use your ideas to write your story. The Happy Volunteer Last Saturday, Lily went to the community center to be a volunteer. She wanted to help the old people there. But at the beginning, she didn't know how to make them happy. It was quite a challenge for her. Lily thought for a while and decided to tell some funny stories to the old people. Besides, she also helped them clean their rooms. When Lily saw the old people laughing and heard them say thank you, she felt very happy. She learned that helping others can bring a lot of joy. Step 3 Check. Did you: include characters, a setting and events? use the words and expressions from the reading passage? give your opinion about the secrets of happiness? Step 4 Share your story with the class. Language Points 1. Zhou Jian’s hat blew off. blew off的原形是blow off，在这句话中意思是“吹掉，吹走”。 E.g. The strong wind blew off my hat when I was walking on the playground. 2. His long hair waved in the air. wave在这句话中作动词，意思是“飘扬，飘动”。 E.g. The colorful flags waved in the gentle breeze（微风） on the school playground. 3. “Just one month!” he said to himself. say to oneself的意思是“对自己说”。 E.g. She said to herself, “You can do it.” 4. People often talked about his long hair behind his back. Sometimes they laughed at him. behind one’s back的意思是“在某人背后，背地里”。 E.g. Don’t speak ill of others behind their backs. 不要在背后说人坏话。 laugh at的意思是“嘲笑，取笑”。 E.g. You shouldn’t laugh at others’ failures. 5. But he never felt any shame. shame在这句话中作名词，意思是“丢脸；耻辱”。 E.g. Losing the game in such an easy way was a great shame for our team. 6. Day after day, hope grew together with his hair. day after day的意思是“日复一日，天天地”。 E.g. Our team is working hard day after day to ensure the success of this project. 为了确保这个项目的成功，我们团队日复一日地努力工作。 7. He took off his hat and his hair fell around his shoulders. took off的原形是take off，意思是“脱下，脱掉”。 E.g. 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