Unit 6 Understanding ideas Ⅰ P84-86课件 2025-2026学年外研版英语八年级下册

该初中英语课件围绕“24节气”主题，通过文章“From the eyes of Lao Shu”展开阅读教学。课堂导入先让学生观察画作描述内容，再结合提示词思考回答对24节气的了解，搭建从生活经验到文化主题的学习支架，帮助学生自然过渡到文本学习。 其亮点在于以个人叙事和画作串联文本，通过预测、段落匹配、细节问答及翻译等多模态活动提升语言能力。强调24节气的文化意义如“第五大发明”和传统习俗，培养文化意识，通过“Think and share”引导学生分析现代意义，发展思维品质。学生能提升语言运用与文化理解，教师可直接使用结构化活动设计提高教学效率。

Unit 6 Living with nature Understanding ideas(Reading) P84-86 1 Learning Objectives In this class, you will understand the main idea of the passage "From the eyes of Lao Shu" and explain how the 24 Solar Terms helped people in farming and daily life. use key words and expressions to complete notes and exercises about the 24 Solar Terms. Talk about the importance of the 24 Solar Terms. connect the 24 Solar Terms to real life and explain why they are still meaningful in today's world. 2 Reading 3 Lead-in What can you see in the painting? I can see some trees, a golden wheat field and some farmers working. Look and say. 4 Think and answer. Use the words and expressions to help you. Lead-in What do you know about the 24 Solar Terms? They guide ________ and ______. Farmers _______ them to arrange agricultural activities. 安排农事活动 They connect to _____________. They have rich________________ and are________ in Chinese culture, showing wisdom of living with nature. daily life farming follow work popular cultural meaning 5 Look and predict. 预测 Activity 1 What solar term is the passage about? 6 Read and check. Activity 1 What solar term is the passage about? Grain in Ear. 7 Activity 2 Read and match. Childhood Memories of the Solar Terms China’s Fifth Great Invention A Harvest Morning Match the idea with each paragraph. Sharing the Wisdom with the Young 8 1 It was an early morning of Grain in Ear. Lively birds sang sweetly in the trees. Villagers hurried to the fields. Under the blue sky, golden fields shone like the sun. The wind blew, sending sweet smells into the air. Adults were busy cutting the wheat. Children raced behind to pick up the ears. Activity 3 Read Para. 1 and finish the tasks. 2.What did the children do in the fields? 1.What sounds could be heard in the trees that morning? Lively birds sang sweetly. They raced behind to pick up the ears. 3.What does “ears” mean? A.耳朵 B.麦穗 C.听力 1 It was an early morning of Grain in Ear. Lively birds sang sweetly in the trees. Villagers hurried to the fields. Under the blue sky, golden fields shone like the sun. The wind blew, sending sweet smells into the air. Adults were busy cutting the wheat. Children raced behind to pick up the ears. Activity 3 Read and translate. 湛蓝的天空下，金黄的麦田如太阳般闪耀。 孩子们则紧随其后，捡拾遗落的麦穗。 那是芒种时节的一个清晨。 微风拂过，送来阵阵香甜的气息。 树林里雀跃的鸟儿欢快地鸣唱。 大人们忙着割麦子。 村民们匆匆赶往田间。 Activity 3 Read Para. 2 and answer the questions. They lived by farming. 2. How did the 24 Solar Terms help people? They guided farming activities and daily lives, and helped people understand why things happened and how to react. 1. What did most villagers do for a living? 2 This is one of the best memories of my childhood. I grew up in the countryside of Shandong Province. Most of the villagers there lived by farming. The 24 Solar Terms meant so much to them. The changes of the terms guided both their farming activities and daily lives. The terms helped them understand why things happened at certain times, and how they should react. When I grew up and left my hometown, the 24 Solar Terms followed me. I always feel excited when a new term is set to begin. I longed to share these feelings in my paintings and poems. Activity 3 Read and translate. 我在山东的乡村长大。 节气帮助他们理解万物在特定时节的变化，以及如何顺应天时。 这是我童年最美好的记忆之一。 当我长大后离开故乡，二十四节气依然伴随着我。 那里的村民大多以务农为生。 二十四节气对他们来说意义重大。 节气的变化不仅指引着他们的农事活动，也影响着他们的日常生活。 每当新的节气将至，我总会感到心潮澎湃。 我渴望通过绘画和诗歌与人分享这些感受。 Activity 3 Read Para. 3 and answer the questions. He is very happy / He is so happy. 2. What did people share in the comments under the author's posts? They shared similar memories and feelings. 1.How does the writer feel about the popularity of his paintings? 3 I didn't know how popular the paintings would become. I'm so happy that many people, especially the young, are taking a new interest in the ancient wisdom. In the hundreds of comments below my posts, others shared similar memories and feelings. Now people may be moving away from farming. However, the ancient way of dividing time stays close to our hearts. Activity 3 Read and translate. 许多人——尤其是年轻人——开始重新对这份古老的智慧产生兴趣。 然而，这种古老的计时方式，却始终根植于我们的心中。 我从未料到这些画作会如此受欢迎。 在我发布的帖子下，数百条评论中，大家分享了类似的记忆与感受。 如今，农耕生活或许正脱离人们的日常。 令我欣慰的是， 1. What is the 24 Solar Terms called according to the passage? A. The Natural Calendar B. The Farmer's Guide C. The Fifth Great Invention of China 2. Which traditional food do people eat at Start of Spring? A. Dumplings B. Spring pancakes C. Rice cakes Activity 3 Read Para. 4 and choose. 4 The 24 Solar Terms are known as the "Fifth Great Invention of China". They help people understand why nature works this way. Many of the 24 Solar Terms bear social and cultural meanings, too. People celebrate their arrival with traditional activities. For example, many people still eat spring pancakes at Start of Spring and dumplings at Start of Winter. The ancient calendar has never disappeared from the life of the Chinese. Read and translate. Activity 3 他们帮助人们理解大自然为何如此运作。 这部古老的历法从未在中国人的生活中消失。 二十四节气被称为“中国的第五大发明”。 许多节气也承载着社会与文化意义。 例如，立春吃春饼、立冬吃饺子的习俗至今犹存。 人们通过传统活动庆祝它们的到来。 Activity 4 Choose Lao Shu's idea about the 24 Solar Terms. a They are the only way to understand the changing of weather through the year. b  They stay part of people's lives, even though fewer people are farmers. c  Most people don't understand them, so they need to be studied by experts. Activity 5 Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. The 24 Solar Terms in Lao Shu's eyes Most of the villagers in Lao Shu's hometown lived by ________. The 24 Solar Terms ________ both their ________________ and ___________. farming daily lives farming activities guided Activity 5 Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. The 24 Solar Terms in Lao Shu's eyes He always feels ________ when a new term is set to begin. He longed to share these feelings in his ________ and poems. excited paintings Activity 5 Complete the notes with the words and expressions from the passage. Many people, especially the young, are _______________________ in the 24 Solar Terms. The 24 Solar Terms help people understand why _______ works this way. The 24 Solar Terms also bear social and ________ meanings. nature cultural taking a new interest Activity 6 Think and share. 1 Why are the 24 Solar Terms important to people? 2 What do you think of Lao Shu’s paintings about the 24 Solar Terms? Learning to think for question 1 To understand the importance of the 24 Solar Terms, you should know the way people use them in farming, eating, health, weather and many other fields. The 24 Solar Terms guide people’s farming activities and daily lives. They help people understand nature’s changes and know how to react to them. Many of the 24 Solar Terms also bear social and cultural meanings. Activity 6 Think and share. 2 What do you think of Lao Shu’s paintings about the 24 Solar Terms? I think the paintings are beautiful and serve as a key to understanding traditional Chinese culture. They show us the changes in nature and people’s traditional activities. Therefore, I enjoy the paintings and feel that I can learn from them. Language points 23 1. Lively birds sang sweetly in the trees. 活泼的鸟儿在枝头婉转歌唱。 sweetly 副词，意为“甜美地；悦耳地；温柔地”，在句中常用来修饰动词，作方式状语；其形容词形式为 sweet，意为“甜的；悦耳的；亲切的”。 例如： The little girl smiled sweetly at me. 小女孩对我甜甜地笑了。 This song sounds sweet. 这首歌听起来很悦耳。 2. Villagers hurried to the fields. 村民们匆匆赶往田间。 例如: The villagers are very friendly to visitors. 村民们对游客非常友好。 He grew up in a small village. 他在一个小村庄长大。 villager 可数名词，意为“村民”，词根为 village，名词，意为“村庄；乡村”。 拓展：以-er 结尾的名词，常表示“从事某活动的人”，如：farmer（农民）、worker（工人） 3. Children raced behind to pick up the ears. 孩子们跟在身后，争抢着捡拾掉落的麦穗。 pick up 动词短语，此处意为“捡起；拾起”。 注意：pick up是“动词+副词”型短语，代词作宾语时必须放中间。 例如: He picked up the book on the floor. 他捡起了地上的书。 My pen is under your chair. Can you pick it up for me? 我的钢笔在你的椅子底下。你能帮我捡起来吗？ 3. Children raced behind to pick up the ears. 孩子们跟在身后，争抢着捡拾掉落的麦穗。 拓展：pick up 还有多个常用含义： ① （用车）接人； ② 学会；习得（语言、技能等）； ③ 接收（信号、广播等）； ④ 好转；恢复； 例如: I will pick you up at the school gate. 我会在校门口接你。 He picked up French while living in Paris. 他在巴黎生活时学会了法语。 My radio can pick up many foreign stations. 我的收音机能收到很多外国电台。 The weather will pick up tomorrow. 明天天气会转好。 4. Most of the villagers there lived by farming. 那里的村民大多以农耕为生。 live by farming 意为“以农耕为生”，live by doing sth.，意为“靠做某事谋生”，后常跟名词、代词或动名词作宾语。 拓展：live on 也可表示“以…… 为生”，后常接食物、工资等名词，强调“靠…… 维持生活”； 例如: He lives by writing stories. 他靠写故事为生。 She lives on her salary. 她靠工资生活。 5. I'm so happy that many people, especially the young, are taking a new interest in the ancient wisdom. 我十分欣慰，许多人，尤其是年轻人，开始重新关注这份古老的智慧。 especially 副词，意为“尤其；特别；格外”，在句中常作状语，用来强调某一事物在程度上超过其他，可修饰形容词、副词、动词或整个句子，副词通常放在be动词/助动词之后，实义动词之前。 5. I'm so happy that many people, especially the young, are taking a new interest in the ancient wisdom. 我十分欣慰，许多人，尤其是年轻人，开始重新关注这份古老的智慧。 例如: I love all the seasons, especially autumn. 我喜欢所有的季节，尤其是秋天。 6. In the hundreds of comments below my posts, others shared similar memories and feelings. 在我发布的作品下，数百条评论里，大家分享着相似的回忆与感受。 hundreds of 意为“成百上千的；数百的”，用来表示一个不具体的数目,前面不能用具体的数字修饰,后接可数名词复数。 例如： Hundreds of people took part in the activity. 成百上千的人参加了这次活动。 6. In the hundreds of comments below my posts, others shared similar memories and feelings. 在我发布的作品下，数百条评论里，大家分享着相似的回忆与感受。 拓展：① 当 hundred 前有具体数字（one, two, three...）时，用单数形式，直接修饰名词，如：two hundred students（两百名学生）； ② 当表示不确定的泛指数量时，用 hundreds of + 名词复数，类似结构还有：thousands of（成千上万的）、millions of（数百万的）、billions of（数十亿的） 6. In the hundreds of comments below my posts, others shared similar memories and feelings. 在我发布的作品下，数百条评论里，大家分享着相似的回忆与感受。 例如： There are two thousand trees in the park. 公园里有两千棵树。 There are millions of stars in the sky. 天空中有数百万颗星星。 7. The 24 Solar Terms are known as the "Fifth Great Invention of China". 二十四节气被称作“中国第五大发明”。 be known as 意为“被称为；被认为是；作为……而闻名”，后常跟身份、职业、称号等名词。 例如： He is known as a great writer. 他作为一位伟大的作家而闻名。 8. People celebrate their arrival with traditional activities. 人们会用传统习俗迎接节气的到来。 arrival 名词，意为“到来”； 常见搭配：on arrival一到达就……；the arrival of……的到来 例如： We are looking forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival. 我们期待着春节的到来。 On arrival at the hotel, he called his parents. 一到酒店，他就给父母打了电话。 8. People celebrate their arrival with traditional activities. 人们会用传统习俗迎接节气的到来。 拓展：arrival的动词形式为 arrive，意为“到达；抵达”。arrive 作不及物动词，后接地点时，大地点用 in，小地点用 at。 例如： He arrived in Beijing yesterday. 他昨天到达了北京。 She arrived at the station on time. 她准时到达了车站。 Homework 1 2 记忆单词和短语并正确朗读课文。。 熟记本节课所学知识点并完成练习。 3 运用本节课所学内容，写一篇关于“自然规律”的小短文。 Thank you! 38 null 159720.42 $