八年级下英语第八单元阅读.ppt

Unit 8 Why don’t you learn to sing English songs?;1 Fill in the blanks with the words given.; Later, the same gift may be given away to someone else. 后来，同样的礼物可能分发给别人。 （1） give away 意为“赠送；分发”。如： He has given away all his money to the beggars. 他把所有的钱都分给了乞丐。 （2） else 意为“别的；其他的”，常用在anything, nothing, someone, anybody, nobody 等不定代词之后。如： Anything else I can do for you? 还有别的事我能帮你做吗？; rather than 意为“而不是”，用来连接两个并列的名词、代词、形容词、V-ing 形式和不带to的动词不定式。如： These shoes are comfortable rather than pretty. 这些鞋不好看，但穿起来很舒服。 I’d like to go in summer rather than in winter. 我想夏天去，不想冬天去。 ;Free talk;How can singing English songs help our English? Make a list.;What is the passage mainly about?;Task 1 Read and match;1.How many singers entered the contest? 2.How did these singers sing?;Task 3 Learn in detail;3.Where were the two winners of the competitions from? 4.Why did Jiang Mei win?; 2 The singers really came from all age groups and from all over China. The winner of the men’s competition was a 40-year-old man from Xi’an, and the winner of the women’s competition was a 19-year-old girl from Dalian. Both winners were very modest, and said that they didn’t think they were better than the other singers. ; Jiang Mei, the winner of the women’s competition, said studying English helped her win the prize. Six months earlier, she felt her English was not good enough, so she had to study hard. She also said that singing English songs made her more interested in learning English. ; 5. What is the advantage of entering English Song Singing Competition?; 3 This kind of contest encourages people in China to speak English. Many people agree that they make progress by singing English songs and that it is a good idea to have fun with English.;6.What does Beijing Speaks English suggest? 7.How many fun ways to learn English are there in the text? What are they?; 4 Have you ever heard of the Beijing Speaks English program? If not, why don’t