Unit 4 Reading for writing 教学设计 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语下册

该初中英语教学设计聚焦“善意循环”主题的读写整合，围绕文本《The Circle of Goodwill》展开。课堂导入通过情境问题激活学生助人经验，复习单元已学“help out”等短语搭建支架，引导预测文本内容，衔接新旧知识。 特色在于分层阅读与读写迁移，快读梳理脉络、精读分析“过去经历-现在行动-情感反思”结构培养思维品质，模仿该结构写作并运用核心句型提升语言能力，渗透善意传递价值观强化文化意识。为教师提供可操作分层教学模板，助学生实现从输入到输出的有效转化。

Unit 4 Helping out Reading for writing 1. Basic Information Textbook: New Standard English (2024 Version) Grade 8 Volume 2 Unit Theme: Unit 4 Helping out (Being helpful and passing on kindness) Teaching Material: Developing ideas — Reading for writing: The Circle of Goodwill Class Duration: 45 minutes Class Type: Reading & Writing Integrated Lesson (Reading-to-writing) 2. Students’ Analysis Grade 8 students have basic abilities to read and write simple English narratives. They can sort out basic story elements including characters, causes, processes and results. They have mastered simple tenses, narrative sentence patterns and common expressions for helping others. Also, they have learned core phrases such as help out, lend a hand, get through in the early part of this unit, which lays a solid foundation for this lesson. However, students still have obvious weaknesses. First, they can only understand the literal meaning of the story but fail to dig deep into the theme of goodwill circulation and kindness transmission. Second, they lack complete logic in narrative writing, resulting in empty content and stiff plots, and they cannot polish their writing with detailed descriptions or thematic sublimation. Third, they struggle to transfer knowledge from reading input to writing output. Based on a warm and real story, this lesson aims to help students sort out narrative structures, accumulate authentic expressions and improve their comprehensive language competence. 3. Textbook Analysis The text is a warm first-person narrative about the inheritance and circulation of goodwill. The author was helped by others in his childhood. After growing up, he chooses to help people in need and pass on warmth. The story interprets the core idea that love inspires love and kindness goes around, which perfectly fits the unit theme of helping others and caring for people. As the core reading and writing material of the unit, the text serves as both a reading model and a writing template. It has a clear three-part structure: past experience, present practice and emotional reflection. With authentic language and sincere emotion, the text focuses on cultivating students’ abilities to analyze narrative texts, summarize writing skills and imitate excellent passages. It also implements the new curriculum standard requirement of the “human and society” thematic context and realizes the integration of language learning and moral education. 4. Teaching Objectives 4.1 Language Competence 1. Master key words and phrases: goodwill, race against time, offer a helping hand, pass on, lead to. 2. Understand and flexibly use key sentences, especially the theme sentence: Love leads to love and so creates a circle of goodwill and kindness. 3. Read and retell the full text fluently, and sort out the narrative clue and main idea accurately. 4.2 Thinking Quality 1. Develop abilities of information extraction, text analysis and logical thinking through skimming and intensive reading. 2. Deeply understand the connotation of “the circle of goodwill”, form objective thinking about helping others, and improve the ability of theme generalization and in-depth thinking. 4.3 Cultural Awareness Understand the significance of passing on goodwill, establish positive values of being helpful, grateful and warm-hearted, feel the power of small kind acts in daily life, and cultivate a sense of social responsibility and humanistic quality. 4.4 Learning Ability Grasp the effective learning method: prediction before reading — analysis while reading — summary after reading — imitation and application. Students are able to learn from the text structure and sentence patterns to finish narrative writing and realize effective language transfer from input to output. 5. Key and Difficult Points 5.1 Key Points 1. Sort out the narrative structure of the text and master core vocabulary, phrases and theme sentences. 2. Understand the main story and grasp the central idea of goodwill circulation. 5.2 Difficult Points 1. Comprehend the deep meaning of the key theme a circle of goodwill. 2. Imitate the text structure and detailed writing skills to complete a coherent narrative about passing on kindness. 6. Teaching Methods & Learning Strategies Teaching Methods: Situational approach, task-based language teaching, layered reading teaching, reading-to-writing method, group cooperation method Learning Strategies: Independent exploration, cooperative discussion, induction and summary, knowledge transfer and imitation writing, emotional perception and sublimation 7. Teaching Aids Multimedia courseware, textbook audio, layered reading worksheets, writing templates, classroom evaluation forms 8. Detailed Teaching Procedures (45 mins) Step 1 Warming-up & Lead-in (5 mins) 1. Teacher interacts with students with situational questions: Have you ever helped others? Have you ever received help from strangers or friends? How did you feel at that moment? Encourage students to share their short experiences to activate the unit topic and create a warm classroom atmosphere. 2. Present and teach key phrases: help out, offer a helping hand, pass on kindness. 3. Introduce the title The Circle of Goodwill. Guide students to guess the meaning of the title and form a preliminary understanding of kindness circulation, so as to stimulate reading interest. Step 2 Pre-reading (5 mins) 1. Vocabulary paving: Explain key new words and phrases in simple English with situational examples to reduce reading barriers. 2. Prediction task: Ask students to discuss in groups and predict: What is the story mainly about? This step helps students develop the habit of predictive reading. Step 3 While-reading (20 mins) Task 1 Fast Reading (7 mins) 1. Play the textbook audio and ask students to read silently to get the general idea. 2. Finish fast reading tasks: (1) What is the main idea of the passage? (2) What does “the circle of goodwill” mean? 3. Teacher summarizes: The story shows that kindness can be passed from person to person. One small act of kindness can warm others and form a positive circulation of goodwill. Task 2 Careful Reading (13 mins) Guide students to read carefully and divide the text into three logical parts: Part 1 Past experience: The writer received help from others at a young age, which left a deep impression on him and made him grateful. Part 2 Present action: When growing up, the writer actively helps people in need and continues to pass on warmth. Part 3 Theme & feeling: The writer realizes that love leads to love, and kindness can circulate endlessly. 2. Intensive Q&A to break through key and difficult points: (1) Why did the writer decide to help others? (2) What can we learn from the story? (3) How do you understand the sentence “Love leads to love”? 3. Sentence accumulation: Students underline beautiful and thematic sentences for writing reserve. Step 4 Post-reading: Reading for Writing (10 mins) 1. Summarize the writing framework Teacher and students conclude the universal structure of kindness narrative writing: Beginning: Introduce the topic or personal background. Body: Describe the process of helping others or being helped with detailed information. Ending: Express personal feelings and sublimate the theme of kindness transmission. 2. In-class imitation writing Writing Task: Write a short passage (80–100 words) about your experience of helping others or passing on kindness. Requirements: (1) Follow the three-part narrative structure of the text; (2) Use the core phrases and theme sentences learned in this lesson; (3) Sublimate the theme and show the meaning of goodwill circulation. 3. Works display and evaluation Select 2–3 students’ compositions for display. Teacher and students evaluate together, correct grammatical mistakes, adjust sentence expressions and optimize structure and theme. Step 5 Summary & Homework (5 mins) 1. Class Summary Review the key vocabulary, text structure and core theme of this lesson. Emphasize that small kind acts can make big warmth and encourage students to pass on kindness in daily life. 2. Hierarchical Homework Basic Homework: Read and recite key sentences, and retell the whole story fluently. Improvement Homework: Polish and perfect the in-class writing passage to make it fluent, well-structured and thematic. Extended Homework: Record a small kind story in daily life and share it in the next class. 9. Teaching Reflection This lesson adopts layered reading and reading-to-writing teaching mode, which conforms to the cognitive rules of Grade 8 students. It effectively helps students realize knowledge transfer from reading input to writing output. Students can basically master the narrative structure and accumulate practical writing expressions. The situational introduction is close to students’ daily life, which greatly activates classroom participation. Meanwhile, moral education is infiltrated into language learning, achieving the goal of fostering virtue through education. However, some students with weak foundation lack detailed descriptions in their writing and fail to sublimate the theme naturally. In future teaching, more targeted training on sentence imitation and detail description will be added. Hierarchical guidance will be carried out to meet the learning needs of different-level students and realize overall progress. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $