新目标
八年级(下)
Unit 4
Self check
happen bring do well in borrow pass on
bring some music CDs to
1. Can you _____
the party?
2. My friend __________
do well in English so she
often helps me with my projects.
happening
3. He didn’t know what was _________
outside.
4. I’m so cold. Can I _______
borrow your
jacket?
5. I’m seeing Sue this afternoon. Do
pass on any
you want me to _______
messages?
Answer the questions and then write
the story as a conversation.
1. Who is your best friend?
2. What happened last week in school?
3. Why did Xiao Li want to copy your
homework?
4. Why did you refuse Xiao Li?
5. Did Xiao Li get over?
A: Who’s your best friend?
B: My best friend is Xiao Li.
A: How did it start?
B: It all started when she asked me if she
could copy my homework.
A: Why did she want to do that?
B: She said she had forgotten to do hers.
A: What did you do then?
B: I told her that it was a bad idea.
A: Did she think so?
B: No. She got really mad at me.
A: What happened at last?
B: I said I was sure she would get over it.
And she did.
Yesterday she told me she was sorry.
Language point on P31
I said it would start a bad habit and that
she should do her own work.
start a habit (of doing sth.)表示“开始养
成(做某事的)习惯”；has a habit (of
doing sth.)表示“有(做某事的)习惯”。
例如：
He has a habit of reading carefully.
他有认真阅读的习惯。
Sample
B: It all started when she asked me if
she could copy my homework.
A: Why did she want to do that?
B: She said she had forgotten to do hers.
A: What did you do then?
B: I told her that it was a bad idea.
A: Did she think so?
B: No. She got really mad at me.
A: What happened at last?
B: I said I was sure she would get over
it. And she did. Yesterday she told
me she was sorry.
We shouldn’t fight with people.
We should help each other.
Think of people who need help.
disabled people
old people
poor children
people who
need help
old
people
blind people
We can
clean
their
house.
We can
help them
cross the
street .
deaf
people
We can
help them
to study
body talk.
poor
children
We can send
teachers to
help them.
颁奖辞：如果眼泪是一种财富，徐本禹就是一个富
有的人，在过去的一年里，他让我们泪流满面。从
繁华的城市，他走进大山深处，用一个刚刚毕业大
学生稚嫩的肩膀，扛住了倾颓的教室，扛住了贫穷
和孤独，扛起了本来不属于他的责任。也许一个人
力量还不能让孩子眼睛铺满阳光，爱，被期待着。
徐本禹点亮了火把，刺痛了我们的眼睛。
Guess!
Who is she?
What does she do?
Phrases
1. sound like
听起来象……
2. send…to… 把……送到……
3. rural area
边远山区
4. make sb. do sth. 使某人做某事
5. both…and…
两者都……
6. need to do sth.
需要做某事
7. love doing sth.
喜爱做某事
8. be able to do sth. 可能做某事
9. open up
开阔眼界
10. a good start
好的开始
11. a good influence 好的影响
12. work as
作为
Fast-reading
Reading strategy 1：
（了解文章大意，先不要注重细节。）
Scan the passage, and choose the main
idea of it.
A. The life in Yang Lei’s school was very
hard.
B. Yang Lei enjoyed helping the students
in poor mountain village.
C. Yang Lei’s students liked her very
much.
Detailed-reading
Reading strategy 2：
Put these words into the correct space as
you read.
a) world
b) brothers
c) changed
d) agreed
e) mountains
f) different
You can understand the meaning of a
word you don’t know from the context.
(根据上下文联系, 理解单词意思。)
para 1 : c)
para 2: e) d) f)
para 3 : b)
para 4 : a)
Detailed-reading
Reading strategy 3：
在认真研读题目的基础上, 请你带着问题
去有选择地细读有关章节、段落。精读
中需要调动各种感官的积极性, 要做到
“心到、眼到、口到、手到”, 力求在精
读中解决疑难问题。
Match the main idea with paragraph.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
A. Give some examples for “may
not sound like fun to you.”
B. The writer is going to tell
what he is going to say.
C. Introduce the time she
enjoyed.
D. Tell her experience in the
mountains.
E. Tell something about the
students at school.
Read and fill in the blanks.
Yang Lei
hometown Beijing
workplace Pingliang, Gansu Province
job
teacher
her
mother’s
word
Her mother said young
people today need to
experience different things.
her
Her students said that they
students’ were like big brothers or
word
sisters to them, and they feel
lucky.
her own
She said she can open up her
word
students’ eyes to the outside
world and give them a good
start in life.
While-reading
1. True or false exercises.
1. Yang Lei is a volunteer teacher from
Gansu Province.
F
2. The life in the mountains was hard
for Yang Lei.
T
3. Yang’s parents agreed with their
daughter.
T
4. Most of students live at home because
they have no money.
F
5. Yang said that she could open up the
students’ eyes to the outside world
and be a good influence in the
children’s lives.
T
3a What is life like for you and Yang lei’s
students? Complete the chart. Discuss
the similarities and differences with
your partner.
hometown
food
Yang Lei’s students
mountain village in
Gansu Province
porridge three
times a day
You
a city in
Zhejiang
different
kinds of
delicious food
Yang Lei’s students
teachers
time to get
almost no good
teachers
some good
teachers
5 a.m.
6 a.m.
11 p.m.
9 p.m.
up
time to finish
studying
You
根据短文内容, 用适当的词语完成下面这
段话。
Teaching in a poor (1) ______________
mountain village
changed Yang Lei’s life. For Yang Lei, life
in the mountains was a (2) _____________.
new experience
The pupils love having the (3)
________________
volunteer
teachers there.
Some students can’t go to senior high
school or college. Yang Lei says she
can’t (4) do
________________
anything about that, but
she can give them a (5) _________
good start in life.
Yang Lei enjoyed her teaching life in the
mountains. She returned there after
(6)__________________.
finishing her studies Now she works
as a math teacher there.
1. What did Yang Lei’s mother say about
her daughter’ s volunteer?
She said that young people today
needed to experience different things.
2. What did the children say about their
volunteer teachers?
They said that their volunteer teachers
were like big brothers or sisters to them
and they felt lucky.
3. How did Yang Lei say she could help?
She said that she could open up her
students’ eyes to the outside world
and give them a good start in life.
4. What did Yang Lei say about her time
as a volunteer?
She enjoyed her time as a volunteer very
much and she said that she would return
to the area after finishing her studies.
5. How many volunteers are sent to teach
in China’s rural areas every year?
100.
_____
6. Why can’t some students go to senior
high school or college?
_________________________________
Because their families are poor and
________________________________.
there often isn’t money for education
7. What does Yang Lei do now?
A math teacher.
______________
What are these groups used for?
Groups
Greenpeace
The work they do
Cares for “Mother Earth”
Doctors Without Helps sick people in poor
Borders
countries
UNICEF
Helps children in poor countries
WWF
Cares for wild animals in danger
It is happy
for you to
help others.
Exercise 连词成句
1. math teacher, could, said, I, my,
better, do
My math teacher said I could do better.
2. my party, would, Lily, she, on, night,
said, come, Friday, to
Lily said she would come to my party
on Friday night.
3. Thailand, next summer holiday, she,
Denis, visit, told, would, me
Denis told me she would visit Thailand
next summer holiday.
4. hard-working, I, the, was, English,
said, teacher
The English teacher said I was hardworking.
5. homework, I, she, own, think,
should, do, her
I think she should do her own
homework.
6. hard, history, I, a, had, time, with,
really
I had a really hard time with history.
将下列直接引语的句子改写为间接引语:
1. Lana said, “I’m going to have a
surprise party for Maria.”
Lana said that she was going to have a
surprise party for Maria.
2. The teacher said, “My students are
hard-working.”
The teacher said that his/ her students
were hardworking.
3. Tom told Jane, “I will lend my bicycle
to you.”
Tom told Jane that he would lend his
bicycle to her/Jane.
4. My friend said, “I’m sorry that I’d
gotten mad.”
My friend said that she was sorry that
she’d gotten mad.
5. She asked me, “Why do you want to
do that?”
She asked me why I wanted to do that.
Homework
Baker先生刚从加拿大来中国观光, 你
见到他后, 请就你和他之间的见面的情
景用英语编写一段对话, 内容可涉及询
问旅途、感想及你的观点和见解等。词
数在80到100之间。
A: Good afternoon, Mr. Baker. Nice to meet
you!
B: Nice to meet you, too.
A: What did you like about our country?
B: People and famous places. I went to the
Mount Tai, the Yangtze River. And I went
to the Great Wall. All the places are
beautiful, and the people were friendly to
us foreigners. I also went to Tibet.
A: Did you have a wonderful time these
days?
B: Yes, I did. China is really great. I fell in
love with her when I got here.
A: Oh, really? Did you go to Tulufan? The
fruit there is very delicious.
B: Next time I must go there. I think I will
enjoy myself.
A: Yes. Thank you for talking so much. See
you later.
B: See you!
Thank
you for
listening!