Unit 4 Language and Communication Topic Talk 同步分层作业 2025-2026学年北师大版初中英语八年级下册

Unit 4 Language and Communication Topic Talk 分层作业 建议用时：30分钟 一、单词汉译英（Topic Talk：沟通方式的变迁） 1. 交流 ____________ 2. 消息 ____________ 3. 信 ____________ 4. 方便的 ____________ 5. 回复 ____________ 6. 手势 ____________ 7. 信封 ____________ 8. 邮票 ____________ 9. 邮寄 ____________ 10. 重量 ____________ 11. 遥远的 ____________ 12. 互联网 ____________ 二、短语汉译英（教材原短语） 1. 保持联系 ____________ 2. 收到某人的来信 ____________ 3. 通过写信 ____________ 4. 面对面 ____________ 5. 打视频电话 ____________ 6. 回复某人 ____________ 7. 互相 ____________ 8. 全世界 ____________ 三、词形变换（写出下列单词的相应形式） 1. write → ____________ 2. carry → ____________ 3. easy → ____________ 4. invent → ____________ 5. communicate → ____________ 一、单句填空（用括号内单词的正确形式填空） 1. In the past, my grandpa ____________ (write) letters to his friends and waited weeks for a reply. 2. People used to keep in touch ____________ (mail) letters. 3. Please reply to my message soon, ____________ (否则) I will worry about you. 4. Letters were slow in the past, ____________ (因此) people often waited a long time. 5. We can ____________ (交流) with friends far away by video call now. 二、根据汉语意思完成句子（每空一词） 1. 过去人们通过写信保持联系。 In the past, people kept in touch ____________ ____________. 2. 现在发信息又快又方便。 Sending ____________ is fast and ____________ now. 3. 请尽快回复我的邮件。 Please ____________ ____________ my e-mail as soon as possible. 4. 我们可以通过视频通话看到彼此。 We can see ____________ ____________ by video call. 5. 一个真诚的微笑是最友好的语言。 A warm smile is the ____________ language of all. 三、句型转换 1. By letter Grandpa kept in touch with his friends.（对画线部分提问） ____________ ____________ Grandpa keep in touch with his friends? 2. If you don't hurry, you will miss the early bus.（改为同义句） Hurry up, ____________ you will miss the early bus. 3. Tom sent a letter to his pen friend yesterday.（改为一般疑问句） ____________ Tom ____________ a letter to his pen friend yesterday? 4. People could talk on the phone, and they could also see each other.（改为同义句） People could ____________ talk on the phone ____________ see each other. 5. The message is very important.（改为感叹句） ____________ ____________ the message is! 四、选词填空（沟通方式的变迁） 【communicate, message, convenient, reply, gesture】 1. Today people ____________ with each other by phone and e-mail. 2. I sent him a ____________, but he hasn't answered yet. 3. Sending e-mails is fast and ____________. 4. He asked a question, but nobody made a ____________. 5. A smile is a friendly ____________ all over the world. 五、情景补全对话（5个空，6个选项，1项多余） A. How did people keep in touch in the past? B. Did it take long to get a reply? C. What do people use to talk with faraway friends now? D. Why did people still write letters? E. Do you often call your grandma? F. What's your favourite app? Grandson: Grandpa, our class is studying communication. 1.____________ Grandpa: We mainly wrote letters and posted them at the post office. Grandson: 2.____________ Grandpa: Yes, sometimes two or three weeks. So we only wrote about important things. Grandson: 3.____________ Grandpa: Mobile phones and computers. We can make video calls and see each other far away. Grandson: 4.____________ Grandpa: Yes, every weekend. She likes to see my new school on the screen. Grandson: 5.____________ Grandpa: Because a letter carries your patience and your heart, and you can keep it for years. 拓展提高（课内同源 + 课外同源） Passage1（课内同源：爷爷的邮箱） 　　Last weekend, our teacher gave us a special task: interview a grandparent about how people communicated in the past. I chose to talk with my grandpa, and his answers surprised me. / “When I was your age, there were no mobile phones,” Grandpa said with a smile. “If we wanted to talk with a faraway friend, we wrote a letter. I wrote it carefully, put it into an envelope, stuck a stamp on it and posted it at the post office. Then the waiting began.” / Grandpa told me that a letter often took one or two weeks to arrive, and the reply might take another two. So every word in a letter was thought over again and again. People kept old letters in boxes like treasures, and reading them again could make the whole family quiet and warm. “In the 1990s, the telephone came into our town,” he said, “and then the Internet changed everything.” / Now Grandpa makes video calls with his brother in another city every week. They can see each other's faces and hear each other's voices, though hundreds of kilometres lie between them. “Communication is faster and more convenient today,” Grandpa said, “but I still hope you will write a real letter one day, because a letter carries your patience and your heart.” 任务一：单项选择 1.How long did a letter often take to arrive in the past? A.One or two days. B.One or two weeks. C.One month. D.Ten minutes. 2.What does Grandpa hope the writer will do one day? A.Make more video calls. B.Buy a new phone. C.Write a real letter. D.Send an e-mail. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.People kept old letters in boxes like treasures. (　　) 4.Grandpa thinks communication was better in the past. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.Who did the writer interview? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Passage2（课外同源：一枚小纸片的大故事） 　　Before 1840, sending a letter in Britain was strange and expensive. The person who received the letter had to pay for it, and the price was very high, so many people simply refused to accept their letters at all. / A man named Rowland Hill thought this was wrong. He suggested a new idea: letters should be paid for by the sender, and the price should depend on weight, not on distance. In 1840, Britain issued the world's first stamp, the famous “Penny Black”. It cost one penny and showed the young Queen Victoria. / With the Penny Black, sending a letter became simple: stick a stamp on the envelope, and the post office knew the postage was already paid. People only needed to drop their letters into a post box. Soon other countries followed, and stamps spread all over the world. Collecting stamps even became a popular hobby. / Rowland Hill is remembered as “the father of the stamps”. His small piece of paper changed the way people communicate: it made letters cheaper, faster and fairer. Next time you see a stamp, remember — behind it stands a big idea about fairness and connection. 任务一：单项选择 1.What was the world's first stamp? A.The Penny Black. B.The Penny White. C.The Blue Penny. D.The Queen's Letter. 2.Who paid for a letter before 1840 in Britain? A.The sender. B.The receiver. C.The postman. D.The government. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.After 1840, the price of a letter depended on its weight. (　　) 4.Stamps spread only in Britain. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.How much did the Penny Black cost? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 任务四：单元微写作 学校英文报以“How We Communicate”为题征集稿件。请写一写人们沟通方式的变化，不少于6句话。请对比过去和现在，并用上 by letter 和 hear from。 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 参考答案 夯实基础 一、单词汉译英 1.communicate 2.message 3.letter 4.convenient 5.reply 6.gesture 7.envelope 8.stamp 9.post 10.weight 11.faraway 12.Internet 二、短语汉译英 1.keep in touch 2.hear from sb 3.by letter 4.face to face 5.make a video call 6.reply to sb 7.each other 8.all over the world 三、词形变换 1.writer 2.carried 3.easily 4.inventor 5.communication 能力进阶 一、单句填空 1.wrote 2.by mailing 3.or 4.so 5.communicate 二、根据汉语意思完成句子 1.by; letter 2.messages; convenient 3.reply; to 4.each; other 5.friendliest 三、句型转换 1.How; did 2.or 3.Did; send 4.both; and 5.How; important 四、选词填空 1.communicate 2.message 3.convenient 4.reply 5.gesture 五、情景补全对话 答案：1.A 2.B 3.C 4.E 5.D；多余项：F 拓展提高 Passage1 任务一：1.B 2.C 任务二：3.T 4.F 任务三简答：5.The writer's grandpa. Passage2 任务一：1.A 2.B 任务二：3.T 4.F 任务三简答：5.It cost one penny. 任务四范文：Communication has changed a lot over the years. In the past, people kept in touch by letter, and a message often took weeks to travel. My grandpa still keeps his old letters in a wooden box, because every one of them carries a warm memory. Now we can make video calls and see each other far away in seconds. I often hear from my cousin in Shanghai by e-mail, and her reply arrives within a day. Communication today is faster and more convenient than before. But no matter how tools change, the heart of communication is always care. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $