Unit 1 Animal friends Section B 2a-2b 课件 2025-2026学年人教版英语七年级下册

该初中英语课件围绕“Animal Friends”主题，聚焦大象和导盲犬的介绍，涵盖外貌、性格、能力及保护等核心知识点。课堂导入通过猜谜、视频观看、小组讨论激活学生已有知识，搭建从感知动物特征到深入理解文化意义的学习支架。 其亮点在于融合Skimming选标题、Scanning填图表等阅读策略，结合泰国大象文化及大象日等跨文化元素，通过任务型活动培养语言能力与文化意识。例如分析导盲犬介绍结构提升写作表达，了解大象作为泰国象征意义增强跨文化理解，助力学生提升综合语言运用能力，为教师提供丰富教学活动设计。

Unit 1 Animal Friends Section B 2a-2b What do you know about elephants? Share your ideas with a partner. Mammals? Places? Food? Ability? a blind girl a guide dog Animals are our best friends, they can help us a lot. Look! Here is a blind girl. She will introduce her friend Xiaohua to us. Look at the picture and think. Let’s guess a riddle together. I have big ears and a long nose. I’m the largest animal on land, as everyone knows. I like to walk and play in the water. What animal could I possibly be? Answer: Read Malee’s post and choose the best title for it. A. What Is an Elephant? B. My Favourite Animal: The Elephant C. How to Save Elephants Skimming(快读) Scanning(扫读) Read Paras. 1 & 2 and answer the questions. Where is Malee from? What’s the national animal there? Thailand. 泰国 The elephant. Task 1 Complete the passage with the words in the box. close friendly big great beautiful My dog, Xiaohua, is part of the family. She is quite a ________ dog, but she is not scary at all! She has ________ fur. She is really ________ and loves to play with everyone. She is also very special. You see, I am blind. Xiaohua is my eyes. She helps me find my way around. She can see and has ________ hearing. She helps me walk to school and stay safe. I love her vey much. We are ________ friends. big friendly great close beautiful adj. 友好的 adv. 相当；完全 一点也不 adj. 瞎的，失明的 n. 听力；听觉 7 Passage Analysis What does it look like? What is it like? What can it do? Why do you like it so much? My dog, Xiaohua, is part of the family. She is quite a big dog, but she is not scary at all! She has beautiful fur. She is really friendly and loves to play with everyone. She is also very special. You see, I am blind. Xiaohua is my eyes. She helps me find my way around. She can see and has great hearing. She helps me walk to school and stay safe. I love her very much. We are close friends. 8 Because they are _______ and _______. Why does she like it? Reason 1 Reason 2 They are a _______ of＿＿＿＿＿ there. strong clever symbol good luck luck n. 幸运；运气 How does the girl introduce her dog? Basic introduction Summary Beginning Ending Body Appearance 外貌 XXX is big/scary/cute…. XXX has long/short/beautiful fur. Personality 性格 XXX is/am/are kind/friendly/special… Ability 能力 …helps me …and stay safe. …can … …has great hearing. My …, is part of the family. …is my favorite animal. I love …very much. We are close friends. My dog, Xiaohua, is part of the family. She is quite a big dog, but she is not scary at all! She has beautiful fur. She is really friendly and loves to play with everyone. She is also very special. You see, I am blind. Xiaohua is my eyes. She helps me find my way around. She can see and has great hearing. She helps me walk to school and stay safe. I love her very much. We are close friends. What does it look like? What can it do? What is it like? Why do you like it so much? Elephants look very different from other animals. They are huge. They have large ears and long trunks. They can pick up and carry heavy things with their trunks. Read Para. 3 and underline (“____” 划线) the physical appearance. Q: What does the word “ trunk ” refers to? n. 象鼻 不同的 BY YUSHEN Share their ideas in pairs or small groups Intention：creates a relaxed and friendly classroom atmosphere and activate their existing knowledge about elephants BY YUSHEN Watch a video and predict Intention：attract students' attention immediately and arouse their curiosity and develop students' ability to make inferences elephant is one of Thailand's symbols.Our first flag hada white elephant on it.This is asymbol ofgood luck. Elephants are smart animals.They can play soccer or music.They can also draw very wel People say that"an elephant never forgets'"Elephants can walk for a long time and never get lost.They can also remember places with food and water.This helps them to live. But elephants are in great danger.People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes.People also kill elephants for their ivory.Today there are only about 3,000 elephants(over 100,000 before).We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory.Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day. Reading tip1(阅读策略) Why do the students write the article文章? They want to save the elephants. The first sentence of the passage often tells us the main idea (主要意思) of the passage. What s an Hlephant? Come to Thailand LetsSave the Elephants FlephantsAre Good Pets Website Hello.We are students from Thailand and we want to save the elephants.The Hello.We are students from Thailand,and we want to save the elephants.The elephant is one of Thailand's symbols. Our first flag had a white elephant on it .This is a symbol of good luck. Elephants are smart animals.They can play soccer or music.They can also draw very well.People say that "an elephant never forgets".Elephants can walk for a long time and never get lost.They can also remember places with food and water.This helps them to live. But elephants are in great danger. People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes.People also kill elephants for their ivory.Today there are only about 3,000 elephants(over100,000before)We must save the trees and not buy things made of iyory.Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day. Reading Tip2( 阅 读 策 略 ) You can often find the topic sentence from the first sentence or the last sentence of the paragraph. Read and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph 2 3 1 BY YUSHEN Skim and choose the best title Intention：learn to summarize the main idea in a brief way and improve their reading comprehension ability BY YUSHEN Skim the passage to find out the structure Intention：learn to sort out the structure according to the content of each paragraph. What is an Elephant? Come to Thailand Let's Save the Elephants Elephants Are Good Pets Can you choose the best title for this article? Careful Reading Para.1 Listen to para.1 carefully and answer the questions below. Hello.We are students from Thailand,and we want to save the elephants.The elephant is one of Thailand's symbols.Our first flag had a white elephant on it. This is a symbol of good luck. What does "it "refer to?What does "this 'refer to? "it"refers to Thailand 's first flag. "this"refers to a white elephant. How to write a passage about your favourite animals? Beginning Body Ending 细节描写：从各方面介绍 开门见山：引出最喜欢的动物 情感表达：呼吁保护/表达喜爱… She has soft fur and beautiful eyes. She is cute and playful. She loves to play with a ball. She can catch mice and keep the house safe. When I come home from school. Mimi always runs to me. We play together and she makes me happy. How to write a passage about your favourite animals? Beginning Body Ending 细节描写：从各方面介绍 开门见山：引出最喜欢的动物 情感表达：呼吁保护/表达喜爱… I love her very much. We are close friends. BY YUSHEN Scan and answer the questions Intention：get some basic information about the writer and Thai elephant day. BY YUSHEN Scan and complete a chart Intention：help the students to learn core vocabulary about elephants 写作范文 . My Favourite Animal My favourite animal is the panda. They are an important part in our lives. They are black and white. They look a little fat . They are also a little lazy, because they spend most time sleeping and eating. However, I like them because they are lovely and cute. The panda is our national animal. They live in forest and like eating bamboos, so they sometimes climb trees for fun. In a word, I like pandas best. They are my good friends, what’s your favourite animal ? Why is the elephant important in Thailand? it is one of Thailand's symbols 。 Because < Thailand's first flag had a white elephant on it. It's a symbol of goodluck Listen to Para.1 and answer the question. 1.They can play soccer ormusic . 2.They can draw very well. 3."An elephant never forgets l Read out(朗读)para.2 and complete these sentences g u readin Caref 5.They can remember places with food and water. 4.They can walk for a long time and never get lost Homework Must do Collect more information about other endangered animals online and share. Need to do Introduce the endangered animals to your families or friends. And tell them what we can do. 27 Thank you ! Bye bye $