初中英语外研版（2024）八年级下册（2024））Starting out课文课件ppt

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What can yu see in the picture?A man is hlding a flashlight in a desert at night. I can als see cuntless stars in the sky.What d yu think the man is ding?Maybe he is watching the stars.What des the picture make yu feel?
Lk and say.
What are yu ging t learn in this unit?
discveries in nature
unslved secrets f nature
spirit f nature explratin
Lk at the pictures and answer the questins.
1. What d yu knw abut these peple?
Li Shizhen was a famus dctr in the Ming Dynasty. He wrte Benca Gangmu,a classic bk abut traditinal Chinese medicine.
Charles Darwin was a famus British bilgist. He came up with the thery f evlutin and explained hw life changes thrughut histry.
Wang Zhenyi was a well-knwn female scientist in the Qing Dynasty. She studied maths and astrnmy, and she made imprtant cntributins.
2. What d they have in cmmn?
They all studied nature. They taught ther peple abut nature, t.
came up with the thery f evlutin
made cntributins in maths and astrnmy
Lk at the pictures and match.
a famus British bilgist
a famus dctr in the Ming Dynasty
a well-knwn female scientist in the Qing Dynasty
What d they have in cmmn?
Think and answer.
Watch the vide and fill in the frm.
What secrets f nature are mentined in the vide?
What lives in the deepest parts f the cean?
Is there life amng the stars?
Why d we sleep?
Watch the vide and cmplete.
What lives in the ________ parts f the cean?
Is there _____ amng the stars?
Why d we _______?
Answer the questins.
human beings
1. What is this? A piece f amber.2. Is amber abut things in the past r things in the future? It is abut things in the past. It can tell us hw things have changed ver time.
What is the passage abut?
Lk and guess.
What is the passage abut?
Skim and check.
The passage is abut hw amber helps scientists unlck the secrets f nature. It serves as a windw n the past and leads t imprtant discveries. It als shws hw life has changed ver time, ffering a key t understanding the histry f species.
A. Hw amber helps scientists unlck the secrets f nature.B. Hw t make amber and use it in daily life.C. Hw amber came int being.
Scan and answer.
Hw many secrets are mentined in the passage? What are they?
The secret abut the dinsaur
The secret abut the flwer
The secret abut the ants
Read Paragraphs 1–4 and fill in the frm.
A dinsaur tail with feathers.
In Sutheast Asia.
Dinsaurs had feathers.
What dinsaurs lked like.
In Nrthern Eurpe.
The flwer grew there 35 millin years ag.
Life n earth has always changed.
The ants are a cmpletely new species. Ants did nt nly cme frm the nrthern half f the earth; they als lived in Africa.
There are many unknwn species fr us t discver.
Read Paragraph 5 and answer.
What des the writer cmpare amber t?
A windw n the past and a key t unlck mre secrets f nature.
Amber shws us
what dinsaurs lked like.
life n earth has always changed.
a windw n the past
a key t unlck mre secrets f nature
there are many unknwn species fr us t discver.
Chse where yu are mst likely t read this passage.
Optin a. In a ppular science magazine, we can read abut real scientific discveries in nature. This passage talks abut amber and what scientists have discvered, s it is a gd match.Optin b. A newspaper reprt is usually abut events, fr example an exhibitin. But this passage is nt abut an event. It is abut scientific facts, s this is nt crrect.Optin c. A sci-fi bk tells imaginary (想象的) stries, like travelling int the past. But this passage is nt a stry. It gives real facts, s this is als nt crrect.
Why d yu chse this ptin?
Cmplete the diagram with the wrds and expressins frm the passage.
1. secrets2. Thanks t3. (always) changed4. 35 millin / thirty-five millin5. unknwn6. ant7. windw8. nature
1. secrets2. Thanks t
1. secrets2. Thanks t3. (always) changed4. 35 millin / thirty-five millin
Retell the passage.
abut the dinsaur
abut the flwer
abut the ants
Think and share.
Paragraph 1 is exciting and interesting. The writer begins like this t draw readers’ interest and make them want t read mre.
We can learn abut nature’s secrets by reading, visiting museums, explring the utdrs, ding research r ding experiments.
1. Write a shrt passage abut hw amber helps scientists unlck the secrets f nature.2. Search fr a discvery in nature explratin. Fcus n: what the discvery is, wh made it and what’s amazing abut it.
Tell yur friends abut hw amber helps scientists unlck the secrets f nature.