Unit 1 A new start Before your journey starts（课件） 2026-2027学年外研版七年级英语上册

该初中英语课件围绕“新开始”主题，聚焦重点词汇（如by yourself、try your best）、信件结构及信息提取能力，通过Warming up问题激活学生初中生活体验，以Mia的纸质船故事为线索，搭建“生活经验-文本阅读-语言运用”的学习支架。 其亮点在于融合语言能力与思维品质培养，通过信件文本分析问候语、正文等结构提升语言理解表达，借助“纸船/池/河/海”比喻引导象征意义探究，渗透“一份耕耘一份收获”的积极态度。采用小组讨论、思维导图梳理文本逻辑，学生能提升信息提取与情感认知，教师可直接使用结构化活动与情感教育素材，提高教学效率。

Unit 1 A new start Before your journey starts 掌握本节课的重点单词和短语。 2. 学习并了解信件的结构。 3.学生能通过阅读，提高信息提取的能力。 4. 培养积极向上的情感态度和独立人格。 Look at the word and expressions and look up their meanings in a dictionary. by yourself problem try your best work hard alone; without anyone else （你/你们）独自，单独  a thing that is difficult to understand 棘手的问题；难题；困难 to spend time and effort doing/studying sth. 工作或学习努力 do your best/hardest 尽最大的努力 1. Are you nervous about starting junior high? 2. Do your parents give you any help? 3. What's the difference between primary school and junior high school? more subjects and homework, hard, interesting, … 4. When you have problems, who usually helps you? Teachers, friends, parents, … Parents always help us a lot. Like you, Mia is in junior high now. What do her parents give her? Can you guess why they give it to Mia? A paper boat. ... Read the conversation again and answer the questions. 1. How does Mia feel about her first day in Junior high the next day? 2. What do Mia’s parents give her? She feels a little nervous. A paper boat. Let’s read the letter to find out more about this paper boat. Read the passage and find out the meaning of the title. What is the “journey”? What is the meaning of the title? Primary school B. Junior high It means “before Mia’s junior high school life begins”. Mia will face ____________. Dad and Mum will still help her. Mia should try her ____and _______. Dad and Mum hope this letter _______ Mia in the future. What do Dad and Mum want to tell Mia? new problems best work hard What do Dad and Mum hope? helps Complete the thinking map with the words and expressions from the passage. Why do Dad and Mum write the letter? Mia is now in __________. Dad and Mum want to share some _______ with her. junior high thoughts Answer the questions. 1. For Mia’s parents, what does the “paper boat”, “a small pool”, “a river” , “the sea”, “winds” and “storms” stand for? “Paper boat” stands for Mia. “A small pool” stands for primary school. “A river” stands for junior high. “The sea” stands for the time after junior high. “Winds” stand for problems in primary school. “Storms” stand for problems in junior high. 2. What do you think Mia’s parents do to protect her boat from winds? Help with Homework. Talk about problems. Teach Safety Rules. … 3. What do you think the “storms” are? “Storms” means lots of challenges(挑战) or difficulties Mia might face in her life. For example: study challenges and new skills; relationship(关系) problems with classmates… Dear Mia, 1 Time flies! You are now in junior high! Are you ready for your new life? 2 Primary school was like a pool. It was small and safe. Dad and Mum protected your boat from winds. But junior high is like a river. It is wide and the water moves fast. You will face new problems. We are still here to help. But sometimes you have to sail your boat by yourself. Just try your best and work hard. Remember this: no pain, no gain. You will go through storms towards the sea. 3 We made this letter into a new paper boat. We hope it helps you in the coming years! With love, Dad and Mum Greeting问候语 Body 正文 Closing结束语 signature署名 Boat sailing Primary school junior high Primary school was like a______. It was small and ______. Parents protected her boat from ____. Future the sea Read Para 2 and fill in the blanks pool safe winds Junior high is like a _____. It is _____and the water moves ____. Parents are still here to ______. But sometimes you have to sail your boat by yourself. Just ______________ an You will go through the________towards the sea. river wide fast help try your best d work hard. storms work in pairs 3 junior high thoughts new problems best work hard helps Thinking 1.What do "a pool","a river"and "the sea"stand for（代表）? primary school Primary school was like a pool.It was small and safe. junior high But junior high is like a river. It is wide and the water moves fast. future the time after junior high Try your best. work hard No pain , no gain 一份耕耘，一份收获 Thinking 1. Recite the words and expressions. 2. Finish the exercise in the exercise book. 3. Write a letter to your parents. null 88595.805 null 44256.0 Lavf57.62.100 $