Unit 4 Listening & speaking 课件 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语下册

Helping out Developing ideas Unit 4 Learning objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: master key words and expressions they have learned. describe the difficult situations that animals face. discuss specific ways to help animals. master the pronunciation of “loss of plosion”. What can you see in the picture? Lead-in A trapped shark （被困住的鲨鱼） 添加标题2 单击此处添加合适文字说明，可根据需要适当地调整文字大小或者颜色等属性，祝你使用愉快！ I can see... What can you see in the picture? 4 添加标题1 单击此处添加合适文字说明，可根据需要适当地调整文字大小或者颜色等属性，祝你使用愉快！ The extinct dodo（灭绝的渡渡鸟） I can see... What can you see in the picture? 5 添加标题2 单击此处添加合适文字说明，可根据需要适当地调整文字大小或者颜色等属性，祝你使用愉快！ An injured puppy（受伤的小狗） I can see... What can you see in the picture? 6 添加标题3 单击此处添加合适文字说明，可根据需要适当地调整文字大小或者颜色等属性，祝你使用愉快！ Stray/homeless cat （流浪猫） I can see... What can you see in the picture? 7 They all need our care and help! What do you think of them? 1. What can you see in the picture? 2. Where are they? 3. What’s wrong with the bird? Look and answer. A man is holding a bird carefully. They might be at a zoo or an animal shelter.动物收容所 The bird seems to be hurt, and it needs help. Pre-listening Pre-listening DID YOU KNOW? Animals are our close friends, and they need our help, too. By the year 2022, about 17,000 kinds of wild animals were in danger. But we should note this -- not only wild animals are in need of help. The animals around us also need our care. 亲密朋友 濒危 需要... not only...but also... What is the main idea of this paragraph? 1. Listen to the news and choose the headline. a Local animal hospitals call for help. b New animal hospitals need doctors. c Students help local animal hospitals. Pre-listening ask for help 3. What is the purpose of this news report? A. To introduce how to take care of pets. B. To tell people about the animal hospitals’ trouble and ask for help. C. To show the number of homeless animals in the city. D. To explain why people should not abandon their pets. While-listening Read and answer. How many parts are there in the outline? What are they? Three parts. While-listening Read and answer. What are they? The problem The challenges The help needed Pre-listening 2. Listen again and complete the outline for the news. What words can we put in it? 增加了 number need sth/need to do sth. ask sb. for help n. n. n. 2. Listen again and complete the outline for the news. 增加了 number need sth/need to do sth. ask sb. for help n. n. n. ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ 60% the public more money food pet time Tapescript1 News host: Welcome back to the last piece of the morning news. More homeless animals are coming to the local animal hospitals. The number has increased by 60%. The hospitals don't have enough workers to take care of the animals. And they also need more money. Yesterday, they asked the public for help: "Please donate money, food, medicines or your time. If you are looking for a pet, please get one from our hospitals. Your help can make a big difference." 2. Listen again and complete the outline for the news. What can you do if you choose to donate your time to the animal hospitals? time food 2. Listen again and complete the outline for the news. What else can you do to help the local animal hospital? We can make a poster in our school to call on more students to help the local animal hospital. We can advise more friends to get a pet from the hospital. We can share information about the animal hospitals on social media to raise awareness. ... Look and answer What can you see in the poster? I can see a book and some animals. What is the purpose of the poster? To invite people to read to animals. 3. Listen to the conversation and complete the poster. help sb. do sth. v. v. v. n. n. 3. Listen to the conversation and complete the poster. 1.feel comfortable 4.money and food 2.Collect books 3.take care of 5.future homes Read and answer. Pre-listening What does Andy suggest they donate first? Why do students read to homeless animals? Who will they ask to join them in the activity? What do Andy and Jenny plan to make to get more help? What can they collect and donate to animal hospital? A. Books and toys. B. Money and food. C.Clothes and medicine. A. To learn how to read. B. To get atrong. C. To feel comfortable. More people. A poster. Books, money and food. Read and answer. Pre-listening What does Andy suggest they donate first? Why do students read to homeless animals? Who will they ask to join them in the activity? What do Andy and Jenny plan to make to get more help? What can they collect and donate to animal hospital? A. Books and toys. B. Money and food. C.Clothes and medicine. A. To learn how to read. B. To get atrong. C. To feel comfortable. More people. A poster. Books, money and food. Andy: Have you heard the news? The animal hospitals need our help! Let’s donate some money and food. Jenny: I think we can do more. I read about a hospital this morning. It asks students to read to homeless animals! Andy: Why? Jenny: It helps the animals feel comfortable around people. You know, this can prepare them for their future homes. It also gives people a chance to take care of them. Andy: Can we take part in this activity? Jenny: Sure. But the two of us might not help much. We need more people. Andy: The “School Volunteer Week” is coming, you know? We could make a poster and ask more people to join us. Jenny: Good idea! We could also collect books and donate them to the hospital. Andy: We could donate money and food, too. Tapescript2 Andy: Have you heard the news? The animal hospitals need our help! Let’s donate some money and food. Jenny: I think we can do more. I read about a hospital this morning. It asks students to read to homeless animals! Andy: Why? Jenny: It helps the animals feel comfortable around people. You know, this can prepare them for their future homes. It also gives people a chance to take care of them. Andy: Can we take part in this activity? Jenny: Sure. But the two of us might not help much. We need more people. Andy: The “School Volunteer Week” is coming, you know? We could make a poster and ask more people to join us. Jenny: Good idea! We could also collect books and donate them to the hospital. Andy: We could donate money and food, too. 1. How do the speaker check background knowledge? 2. What useful expressions can we use fron the conversation? By asking polite questions. Learning to learn Checking background knowledge We often ask people for information. However, they may not know the answer. For this reason, we can ask polite questions to check first. For example, we can ask Have you heard...? Have you heard the news? ...you know? Tapescript2 Andy: Have you heard the news? The animal hospitals need our help! Let’s donate some money and food. Jenny: I think we can do more. I read about a hospital this morning. It asks students to read to homeless animals! Andy: Why? Jenny: It helps the animals feel comfortable around people. You know, this can prepare them for their future homes. It also gives people a chance to take care of them. Andy: Can we take part in this activity? Jenny: Sure. But the two of us might not help much. We need more people. Andy: The “School Volunteer Week” is coming, you know? We could make a poster and ask more people to join us. Jenny: Good idea! We could also collect books and donate them to the hospital. Andy: We could donate money and food, too. Post-listening Post-listening Post-listening 4. Work in pairs. Discuss things to do to help animals. Have you heard…? Really? That’s… What can we do to help? I don’t know. Perhaps we could… Good idea. We could also… 4. Work in pairs. Discuss things to do to help animals. Have you heard…? Really? That’s… What can we do to help? I don’t know. Perhaps we could… Good idea. We could also… Useful expressions · We really should… · Maybe we can… · It might be an idea to… · Why not…? · I would suggest… · How about…? Example A: Have you heard that some koalas were burnt in a wildfire? They are in the local animal hospital now. B: Really? That’s terrible! What can we do to help? A: I don’t know. Perhaps we could donate some money to the hospital. B: Good idea! We could also donate food and medicine. A: That’s a good point. Koalas also need safe places to live away from fires. B: That’s true. They live in the forest, you know? We could call on people to protect their homes. A: Great idea! Phonetics in use Loss of plosion Sometimes two sounds, like /t/, /d/, /pl/, /bl/, /k/ and /g/, are close together. In this case, we usually don't pronounce the first one. For example, last piece. Exercise Listen and notice how the speaker pronounces the words. 1. I’m happy to hear the bird sing again. I saved it two weeks ago. 2. We watched a film about helping animals last night. 3. I hope to help homeless animals. Exercise Listen and notice how the speaker pronounces the words. 1. I’m happy to hear the bird sing again. I saved it two weeks ago. 2. We watched a film about helping animals last night. 3. I hope to help homeless animals. Language points 1. Food problems shut down animal hospitals. shut down 关闭；停下 是“动词 + 副词”结构，它强调机器等停止运转、关闭窗户，也可以指关闭医院、公司、工厂、店铺等。 The computer system will be ____ ______over the weekend. 该计算机系统在周末将会关闭。 shut down 2. More homeless animals are coming to the local animal hospitals. homeless 【形容词】无家可归的 它是由“home + 否定后缀 -less”构成的，在句中可作补足语、定语或表语。 Floods made thousands of people _________. 水灾使成千上万的人无家可归。 The dog is poor. It’s _________. 这只狗很可怜，它无家可归。 homeless homeless 3. The number has increased by 60%. increase [动词] 增大，增加 increase by 增加了…… increase to 增加到…… Food prices _________ ___10% in less than a year. 在不到一年的时间里，食品价格就增长了 10%。 The population of the town has _________ __50,000. 这个镇的人口已经增长到 5 万了。 increased by increased to 4. We aim to help the animals feel comfortable around people. aim to do sth 旨在做某事；力求做某事 This activity _____ ___help students develop their teamwork skills. 这项活动旨在帮助学生培养团队合作能力。 aims to Homework Assessment（学习评价表） 项目 标准 自评 互评 Habits and interests of learning English I can focus on the class and be active. Basic knowledge I can master key words and expressions in this lesson. Pronunciation I master the pronunciation of “loss of plosion”. Discription I can describe the difficult situations that animals face. :Great :Super : Good Thanks Blues 51648.0 Blues 51072.0 2025 Blues 138144.0 2025 Blues 90528.0 $