Unit 3 第4课时 Reading(Word教案)-【优翼·学练优】2026-2027学年八年级英语上册同步备课（外研版·新教材）

该教案聚焦三位发明家故事及好奇心主题，通过展示图片提问导入，准备任务提供词汇支架，过程任务结合阅读验证与图表梳理，构建从感知到理解的学习脉络。 资料特色在于融合语言能力、思维品质与文化意识，引用名人名言引导分析，讨论好奇心实例培养批判性思维，中外发明家案例增强文化认同，助力学生提升语言运用与思维能力，为教师提供结构化教学参考。

第四课时　Reading Teaching Objects　【教学目标】 1.Learn about the stories of the three inventors. 2.Talk about what can be learned from the inventors. 3.Share opinions about curiosity. Teaching Aids　【教学工具】 an English book，a tape recorder and CAI Teaching Steps　【教学步骤】 ★Step 1　Lead in【导入】 Show the three pictures on page 44 to students, then ask them to answer the question. · What are these? Answers: The first picture is the lightning rod. The second picture is a “flying chair”. The third picture is the earthquake detector. ★Step 2　Pre-task【准备任务】 1.Ask students to look at the pictures on page 44, then answer the questions. · Who invented them? · How would you describe the inventors? 2.Show the words and expressions to help the students. curious new discoveries do research brave pioneer scientist discover 3.Let students share the answers. ★Step 3　While-task【过程任务】 Page 44,2 Ask students to read the passage and check their answers. Answers:①Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod. Wan Hu invented a “flying chair” for space exploration. Zhang Heng invented the earthquake detector. ②They were curious and brave. They made new discoveries by doing research. They were pioneers and scientists who wanted to discover new things. Page 46,3 1.Ask students to complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. 2.Check the answers with the class. Answers:①nature ②research ③storm ④pioneer ⑤died ⑥scientist and inventor ⑦the sky and the earth ⑧star map Page 46,4 1.Ask students to answer the questions. ①What words of famous people does the writer use in the passage? What are their effects? ②What door can the key of curiosity open? ③What other examples can you use to describe curiosity? 2.Check the answers with the class. Answers:①Albert Einstein: “I am only passionately curious.” Effect: Shows curiosity is more important than talent. Jacques Cousteau: “A scientist is a curious man looking through nature's keyhole.” Effect: Explains scientists are just curious people exploring the world. ②Curiosity opens doors to new discoveries and new ideas. ③For example, Thomas Edison: Kept trying 1,000 times to invent the light bulb. Marie Curie: Discovered radium because she wondered “What makes things glow?” ★Step 4　Post-task【后续任务】 Page 30，Think and share 1.Ask students to think and share: ①Do you think inventors could work without curiosity? Why or why not? ②What are you most curious about? 2.Give students some prompts. 3.Let some students share their answers and check the answers with them. ★Step 5　Language points　【语言要点】 1.He was so curious about space that he invented a “flying chair”! be curious about意为“对……感到好奇"。例如: He was curious about how she would do.他很想知道她会怎么做。 Children are naturally curious about the world around them.孩子们天生对周围的世界充满好奇心。 2. Despite the failure, his curiosity gave future explorers ideas. despite意为“尽管，虽然"，用来表示某些行动和情况尽管有不利的条件也继续进行。 3.As Jacques Cousteau said, “What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” (1) keyhole意为“锁眼，钥匙孔”，此处比喻科学家探索未知的方法——正如我们透过门上的钥匙孔可以看到门后的部分世界，科学家也是通过对细节的研究，逐步探索和理解更广阔的未知世界。这是一种形象生动的比喻，旨在强调科学家对 未知的好奇心和探索精神。 (2) 雅克·库斯托(Jacques Cousteau)是法国知名海洋学家，也是世界上最著名的海洋探险家之一。他和同伴一起发明了现代潜水设备--水中呼吸器(Aqualung)，并制作了名为《寂静的世界》的纪录片，是环保运动的先驱。 ★Step 6　Summary　【课堂小结】 Ask students to use the students’ self-assessment form to check what they have learned in this lesson. I can retell the stories of the three inventors. I can talk about what I learned from the inventors. I can share my own opinions about curiosity. ★Step 7　Homework【家庭作业】 1.Review the words and sentences. 2.Do the exercises in students’ book. Teaching reflection　【教学反思】 In this reading class, students don’t know much about the background knowledge of the inventions by Franklin, Wan Hu, and Zhang Heng. To help them have a clearer understanding, I will provide relevant background information in class. This will assist them in comprehension. Meanwhile, I will also guide them to come up with more examples related to curiosity, so that they can deeply feel the power of curiosity. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $