Unit4 Digital life Reading for writing课件 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语上册

该初中英语课件围绕“未来数字生活”核心主题，通过Free Talk“未来学校设想”导入，结合传统与未来学校图片对比（关键词辅助）激活认知，再以阅读文本《The Fun They Had》的视频、问答及思维导图分析搭建支架，衔接从理解到描述评价的学习脉络。 其亮点在于融合思维品质与语言能力培养，通过文本中Margie对旧学校的思考引导合理想象，Think and Share环节客观评价影响，写作任务提供框架、自评互评表及范文，助力规范表达。此设计既提升学生语言运用与批判性思维，又为教师提供完整教学流程与评价工具，便于高效教学。

4 Unit Digital life Reading for writing 2026新外研版八上 Learning Objectives By the end of the lesson, you will be able to... 01 Discuss future digital life through reading comprehension. 02 Imagine and describe scenes & changes of digital life reasonably. 03 Evaluate its impacts objectively and write a short essay on digital life in 50 years. FREE TALK What do you think schools will be like in the future? Do you like to study in future schools? book teacher classroom people machine screen Picture 1: The students come to the classroom and learn the knowledge from the books. Teachers are people. Picture 2: The students look at the screen and learn. Teachers are machines. 1 Look at the two pictures and compare the two schools. Use the words to help you. Enjoy the text video 1. What’s in the boy’s hand? 2. What machine is near the girl? A book. A television screen. 3. What’s the girl doing? 4. What’s she thinking about? She’s looking at a screen. / She’s having an online class. She’s thinking about the school life in the past. 1. Who are “they”? 2. What fun did they have? “They” are kids in the old schools. They came to school and laughed and shouted in the playground. They sat together in the classroom and went home together after school. Their teachers were people. Read the passage. Who teaches Margie? 2 A machine teaches Margie. Read the passage again. Complete the mind map. Tommy’s discovery Tommy found an old 1_______. It was about an old kind of 2_______. Margie’s school Margie’s 3_________ was right next to her bedroom. Her teacher was a 4__________. Margie’s thoughts The students must have 5_______ school in the old days. book The fun they had school Paras 1-7 Paras 8-9 Paras 10-12 classroom machine loved Tommy’s discovery Margie’s school Margie’s thoughts Complete the table. 3 Tommy found the real book. The book was very old. It had old and yellow pages. The words stood still on the pages. They thought it was strange to read the words from the old book. Tommy thought it was a waste because one would throw it away when finishing reading it. The book was about school. Because it was an old kind of school, from hundreds of years ago. Margie’s classroom was right next to her bedroom. And her teacher was a machine. She thought the old schools were a lot of fun because the students could study and play together and the teachers were people. 1 How might Margie feel when she saw a “real book”? 2 Were the children familiar with “real books”? How can you tell? She might feel excited. 4 Answer the questions. No, they weren’t familiar with “real books”. They thought it was strange to read the words because they stood still on the pages, instead of moving across a screen. 1. Do you want to go to a school like Margie’s? Why or why not? 2. What do you think schools will be like in 50 years? Yes and no. I think it would be convenient to study at home. I could spend more time learning difficult subjects. However, I would miss my classmates and teachers. I think schools will use lots of technology. Students will use both screens and books and they will watch videos to learn. Sometimes, they may study at home and there may be robot teachers to guide them. To make smart predictions about future schools, you need to consider the development of technology and social changes. Learning to think for question 2 What will schools be like in the future? What kinds of digital technologies might schools use? Do you expect the future schools? Why or why not? Describe digital life in 50 years’ time Writing Organise your ideas with the chart below. In general, will life be more digital in 50 years' time? How digital will ... be? Will this change be good or bad for people in the future? Opening Body Ending Write a short passage to describe digital life in 50 years' time. 5 In general, people's lives will be more digital in 50 years time because ... I believe life will be very different. For example, ... These changes will mostly be good for people because ... However, ... Write your passage with the help of the chart. Check. Did you: describe some parts of digital life in the future? use the words and expressions from the reading passage? give your opinion about digital life in the future? 【写作自评表】 问题 是 否 若是 “否”，如何改进？ 你在短文中开头是否说明了你对未来数字化生活的想象和展望？ 你在短文中是否明确描述了未来在数字化生活方面的变化？ 你在短文的主干部分是否批判性思考这些变化带来的影响？ 你的短文是否使用了恰当的句型和丰富的词语？ 你的短文在拼写、语法和标点方面是否都正确？ 【写作互评表】 评价指标 得分 评分标准 短文是否有清晰的开头和结尾？ 5 = Excellent 4 = Good 3 = Acceptable 2 = Needs improvement 短文是否描述了未来在数字化生活方面的想象、变化以及自己的思考？ 短文中各段的细节是否充足？ 短文是否使用了恰当的句型和丰富的词语？ 短文在拼写、语法和标点方面是否都正确？ Share your passage with the class. In general, people's lives will be more digital in 50 years’ time. People will use more digital devices and spend more time using them. Life will be very different. When people get up, they will start using smartphones to control everything at home. They will be able to work and study from home with screens and machines. People will get information from videos and VR glasses. Every home will have a robot to do difficult work. These changes will mostly be good for people. Life will be easier and more convenient. People will save time and money by using technology. However, I think digital lifestyles will make people feel lonelier and less healthy. It will be harder to meet people and exercise. I can 阅读理解文章并讨论未来数字化生活 合理想象数字化生活的图景，并描述其带来的变化 客观评价这些变化带来的影响，并完成一篇关于50年后未来数字化生活的短文 Modify your writing and read one more text about digital life in the future. Preview the next part: Presenting ideas. Homework Must do Choose to do Lavf59.14.100 144803.05 $