Unit 1 Time to Relax (Section A (1a-2d)课件 2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 1 Time to Relax (Period 1) Section A (1a-2d) 英语人教版八年级下册 Look and share 1. What is the girl in the photo doing? The girl in the photo is flying a kite. 2. Do you like this activity? Yes, I really like flying kites, and I think it’s great fun. 3. Do you think this activity helps us to relax? Why? I think it helps us to relax because we can enjoy the sunshine and the fresh air. Why are free-time activities important? 2 How do they spend their free time? Can you name the activities? C B A D E F skiing playing the flute hiking programming doing calligraphy painting ski v. 滑雪 program v. 编写程序 n. 程序；节目；项目 calligraphy n. 书法 Match the activities with the pictures. 1a ____ playing the flute ____ doing calligraphy ____ painting ____ skiing ____ hiking ____ programming ____ playing the flute ____ doing calligraphy ____ painting ____ skiing ____ hiking ____ programming C B A D E F F A E C B D Listen to three interviews. Complete the sentences with the students’ activities. 1. Teng Fei likes _________________ after school. 2. Teng Fei also likes _________________ at the weekend. 3. Helen loves _________________ in her free time. 4. Chen Jie likes to _________________. programming hiking painting pictures play the flute What are they talking about? 5 Listen again. Match the purposes with the statements from 1b. ____ A. To express feelings. ____ B. To relax. ____ C. To get some exercise. ____ D. To create an app. 3 4 2 1 Why do they do these free-time activities? express v. 表达；表示 express oneself 表达自己的想法/感受 express one’s feelings 表达某人的情感 What are the four purposes? Listen to the Interview 3 again, complete the dialogue and answer the questions. Adam: Chen Jie: Adam: Chen Jie: Adam: Chen Jie: What do you do in your free time, Chen Jie? Do you do sport? No, not really. But I like to ______________. Wow! Isn’t that difficult? It was very difficult at first. I needed to ______________ a lot! And is it easier now? It’s never easy, but it’s more fun now. I do it ______________ these days. Interview 3 play the flute practise to relax • Did Chen Jie face any difficulties when she started learning to play the flute? • What did she do when she met the difficulties? • What does she think of playing the flute now? Talk about your free-time activities with a partner. 1d A: What do you do in your free time? B: I like to ... A: Why do you do it? B: I do it to ... Activities Purposes • playing basketball • reading novels • learning cooking • taking photos ... • to record beautiful moments • to broaden horizons • to keep fit • to relax ... What are the challenges of doing these two activities? Share your ideas. 2a swimming ice skating ice skating 滑冰；溜冰 Listen to a conversation between Fu Xing and Emma. Tick the things they talk about. □ what they are going to do the next day □ what Emma did at the weekend □ what Fu Xing did at the weekend □ challenges of their free-time activities √ √ Listen again and complete the sentences. 1. Emma went to the sports centre to ____________. 2. Emma didn’t want to ____________ again at first. 3. Fu Xing told Emma that no one expected her to ____________ from the start. 4. The instructor encouraged Emma to ____________ and told her not to give up so easily. 5. Fu Xing used to be scared of water, but she started swimming to ____________ her fear. try ice skating go ice skating be perfect get back up get over instructor n. 教练；指导者 give up 放弃 scared adj. 害怕的；对……感到惊慌的 be scared of (sb/sth) 害怕（某人/某物） be scared to do sth 害怕做某事 Listen again and complete the table. Name Free-time activity Challenge Solution Emma Fu Xing What was it like when you did your favourite free-time activity for the first time? Share your experiences. 2d A: I love singing and performing now. But I was afraid to sing in front of others at first. B: Oh, I didn’t know that. What helped you to get over your fear? A: I practised by performing in front of my friends. That helped me to get better quickly! fear n. & v. 害怕；担忧 in fear 恐惧地；害怕地 fear to do sth 害怕做某事 get over 克服（困难）；解决（问题） Function Expression How to talk about challenges • I love ... now, but I ... at first. • I love ..., but I used to be scared of ... How to talk about ways to get over challenges • I practised by ... • ... helped me to get better quickly! • I practised a lot to ... • I started to ... to get over my fear. How to encourage somebody • Nobody expects you to be perfect from the start. • Get back up whenever you fall. • Don’t give up so easily. • Everything’s difficult before it’s easy. 15 New words ski; program; calligraphy; express; scared; fear ... Sentences —What do you do in your free time? —I like to ... —Why do you do it? —I do it to ... New expressions express oneself; give up; be scared of; get over ... Choose your favourite free-time activity, write a short passage to describe: • Your first experience with it. • The challenge you met. • How you overcame it. Blues 87719.93 Blues 33306.375 Blues 60864.13 $