Unit 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件 2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语下册

该初中英语课件围绕“职业话题”展开，核心涵盖职业相关词汇、一般现在时与一般将来时被动语态及职业意义的探讨。课堂导入通过图片匹配职业、观看视频回答职业相关问题激活学生已知，Pre-reading细节提问、While-reading文本结构与记忆分析、Post-reading填空讨论至Grammar被动语态学习，形成层层递进的学习支架，帮助学生构建知识脉络。 其亮点在于多模态输入与任务链设计，语言能力方面，通过文本结构分析（如Robert演讲的四部分划分）和写作任务（写职业报告）提升理解与表达能力；思维品质上，引导学生分析“Robert说西瓜最甜”的深层含义（体现他人关怀），培养推理与评价能力；学习能力方面，提供词汇表和有用表达（如“not considered a good job”“sense of achievement”），指导学生在Pairwork中主动运用。学生能在实践中掌握语言技能，教师可借助结构化活动高效开展教学。

Unit 1 Career talks Starting out & Understanding ideas 2. What words would you use to describe these people? a farmer, an astronaut, a scientist, a doctor, a construction worker, a businessperson, a teacher, and... 1. Who can you see in the picture? hard-working, helpful, patient, curious, caring, responsible, knowledgeable and... a job you do for a long period of your life Lead in joys and challenges of a job Write a report about a job. Jobs change of jobs over time finding one’s dream job Presentation 3 Look at the pictures and match them with their jobs. Starting out Watch the video and answer the questions. 1. What jobs are mentioned in the video? 2. What other jobs do you know? 3. How do they keep our world running? subway track engineer street sweeper food delivery driver nurse They work hard from morning till night. Their hard work helps keep our lives better and safer. What do they do every day (for us)? Starting out Look at the pictures and answer the questions. Use the words and expressions to help you. Robert 1. Where is Robert? 2. What is in Robert’s hand? 3. What is Robert doing? 4. What’s Robert’s job? 1. He’s up in the air. 2. A brush. 3. He is cleaning the window. 4. A window cleaner./ A “spiderman”. Pre-reading Look at the pictures and answer the questions. Use the words and expressions to help you. Robert 1. What is the job like? 2. What are the challenges of this job? 1. It’s difficult, dangerous and challenging. 2. Working at high places and sometimes it’s very hot or very cold outside the windows. Pre-reading What is the meaning of this title? While-reading 告别我“在高处”的岁月 “years up high” 指他作为高空窗户清洁工（“蜘蛛人”）在摩天大楼外高空作业的这些年。 Read the text and choose the right answer. What type of text is this? A. A news report B. A speech C. A fairy tale 童话故事 D. A letter This is Robert, a window cleaner. He is giving a speech on his last working day. While-reading 1.What’s the structure of the text? Part 1:__________________ Part 2:__________________ Part 3:__________________ Part 4:__________________ 2. Match the idea with each part. Para 1 Para 2 –Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Greeting and reflection 反思 Two warm memories Farewell告别 and wishes Career value价值 While-reading How long did Robert work as a "spiderman"? 30 years. What did these years bring him? Both challenges and joys. While-reading Now let’s check your guessing. So what ... 设问和选项（引导学生读，选项直接cue底下学生读） Now listen and choose. 评价good listeners 然后再是But how...（引导学生读） Before listening, guess the key words we may hear. For A, ...For B, ...For C, ... Good. You are truly great picture readers. Now listen and choose how. 评价You can catch the key words well. _______________ can warn us of natural disasters. What do you think of knowledge? 2 Read Robert’s speech. A ¹___________ woman. What happened to him? He was ²__________ all over. Drops of sweat fell in his eyes. The woman smiled ³__________ at him, opened the window and handed him a piece of _____________watermelon. How did he feel? That was the ⁵__________ watermelon of his life. Memory 1: His first summer as a "spiderman" Who did he meet? kind wet brightly juicy sweetest While-reading Now let’s check your guessing. So what ... 设问和选项（引导学生读，选项直接cue底下学生读） Now listen and choose. 评价good listeners 然后再是But how...（引导学生读） Before listening, guess the key words we may hear. For A, ...For B, ...For C, ... Good. You are truly great picture readers. Now listen and choose how. 评价You can catch the key words well. _______________ can warn us of natural disasters. What do you think of knowledge? 2 Read Robert’s speech. Who did he meet? A sweet ⁶___________ baby and her mother. What happened to him? He watched her ⁷________ bit by bit. She was always ⁸_______ to see him. She ⁹________ as her cat tried to "catch" his brush. She even drew ¹⁰__________ of him. How did he feel? He felt ¹¹________ when they moved, but also ¹²________ that they were once friends. Memory 2: Other friends he met through the glass newborn grow excited laughed a picture sad happy While-reading Now let’s check your guessing. So what ... 设问和选项（引导学生读，选项直接cue底下学生读） Now listen and choose. 评价good listeners 然后再是But how...（引导学生读） Before listening, guess the key words we may hear. For A, ...For B, ...For C, ... Good. You are truly great picture readers. Now listen and choose how. 评价You can catch the key words well. _______________ can warn us of natural disasters. What do you think of knowledge? 2 Read Robert’s speech. To whom and why does Robert give the speech? He gives the speech to some new"spidermen". He wants to encourage them to love and enjoy the job because it is ____________ to both the society and themselves. meaningful While-reading Now let’s check your guessing. So what ... 设问和选项（引导学生读，选项直接cue底下学生读） Now listen and choose. 评价good listeners 然后再是But how...（引导学生读） Before listening, guess the key words we may hear. For A, ...For B, ...For C, ... Good. You are truly great picture readers. Now listen and choose how. 评价You can catch the key words well. _______________ can warn us of natural disasters. What do you think of knowledge? Choose the best summary of the speech. 3 a c b The speaker feels thankful for both the challenging and the nice moments of the job. The speaker thinks that more people should consider being window cleaners. The speaker wishes to go back in time and change something about his job. 回到过去 wish to do sth.：“希望做某事 Complete the post with the correct form of the words and expressions from the speech. 4 challenges joys grow friends stories window cleaning shines achievement What type of text is it? Who posted it? An online post. Jake. Who left comments 评论? Julie and Eric. Post-reading Post-reading 1.What are the joys and challenges being a “spiderman”? Think and share He gets to ________________, ___________, and feels ________his work. Joys: Being a "spiderman" means ______________ in the air, dealing with _________like hot days, and some people don’t think______________ . Challenges: meet kind people make friends proud of working high up bad weather it’s a good job 2. Why does Robert say "That was the sweetest watermelon of my life."? Because the watermelon wasn't just food it showed someone___________him. The woman's kindness made him_________________________ cared about feel sweet and happy. 3 What does the last paragraph of the passage mean? Robert wants _____________________to know: Their job makes the city_______________________. By working hard, they will feel ________and ___________in their job. new window cleaners cleaner and brighter proud find meaning Grammar Does Robert like his job? How do you know that? Yes, he does. The past 30 years were filled with both challenges and joys. All his days up high in the air will be kept in his memory. A kind woman handed me a piece of juicy watermelon. That was the sweetest watermelon in my life. I’m reminded of some other friends I met through the glass. I watched a sweet newborn baby grow bit by bit. Window cleaning is not always considered a good job... Think and answer. 19 Think and answer. What will Robert keep in his memory? I will keep all my days up high in the air in my memory. All my days up high in the air will be kept in my memory. I will keep all my days up high in the air in my memory. All my days up high in the air will be kept in my memory. 动作的执行者 动作的承受者 主动语态 被动语态 Read the sentences and summarise the grammar rules. 助动词be + 动词的过去分词 这两个句子表达的重点有所不同。 第2个句子侧重动作的执行者，强调某人做了什么。 第1组句子侧重动作的承受者，强调某事/事物如何。 因此当我们要突出某个动作的执行者时，应使用主动语态(第一组句子)来表达而要强调动作的承受者时，就要使用被动语态(第二组句子)来表达。 Now find one more sentence with these structures in the reading  passage. 助动词be + 动词的过去分词 22 Let’s learn. All my days up high in the air will be kept in his memory. I’m reminded of some other friends I met through the glass. Window cleaning is not always considered a good job, but I’ll never regret it. will be + done am / is / are + done simple future tense simple present tense 23 Rewrite the sentences. 1. The farmer plants flowers in early spring. 2. We usually clean up our office for the holidays. 3. The school always holds a party to welcome new teachers. 4. The company will hold a job interview next month. A job interview   next month( ). Flowers in early spring( ). Our office for the holidays( ). A party to welcome new teachers ( ). are planted by the farmer is usually cleaned up by us is always held by the school will be held by the company Practice. are needed are expected is required will be heard will be developed Complete the job posting using the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets. Production 25 Would you like to join the Students’ Union? Why or why not? (Try to use the passive voice) Yes, I’d love to. / Well, I may choose not to. Because I want to… … be provided by the Students’ Union. … be filled with… What’s more, I’ll… and my leadership skills will be… Think and share. 26 Choose a job and have a discussion about the joys and challenges of doing the job. Use the words and expressions from the reading passage and the Useful expressions to help you. A层 Production 27 Pairwork. Evaluation Form Content We can talk about the job including: “challenges and joys”. Language We can talk with each other fluently, correctly and logically. Performance We can talk with each other confidently and loudly. It’s difficult to... We need to ... will be kept in... Their work makes... They can help... ... is not considered..., but I... ... be filled with both challenges and joys. Step 1: Choose a job(that interests you or from the posters) and complete the notes. Step 2: Have a discussion about the joys and challenges of doing the job. (List at least 2 joys and 2 challenges.) Step 3: Use the words and expressions from the reading passage and Useful expressions to help you. 《英语》（新标准）初中修订版教材微格课 28 $