人教版八年级英语下册《An old man tried to move the mountains》SectionA PPT教学课件(第1课时)，共38页。
Objectives
To learn the story Yu Gong Moves a Mountain.
To learn new words: shoot, stone, weak, god, remind, bit, silly…
To learn how to tell stories.
Do you like to listen to stories?
Have you ever heard of these stories?
Jing Wei Determines to Fill up the Sea
Kua Fu Chases the Sun
Have you ever heard of these stories? Can you tell them to your partners?
Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
Nü Wa Repairs the Sky
Listen again and circle the words you hear.
1. A man saw Yu Gong and his (children / family) when they were working on moving the mountains.
2. He told Yu Gong he could never do it because he was old and (poor / weak).
3. As soon as the man finished (talking / speaking), Yu Gong said that his family would continue to move the mountains after he died.
4. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that he sent another (two / three) gods to help take the mountains away.
5. This story reminds us that you can never (know / see) what’s possible unless you try to make it happen.
Language points
1. This story reminds us that you can never know what’s possible unless you try to make it happen.
remind 意为“提醒；使想起”。
remind sb of/about sb/sth 意为“使(某人)想起 (相似的人或物)”。
remind sb. to do 提醒某人做某事
remind sb. + that/what 从句
我想让你想一想学校的纪律。
I want to remind you of the school rules.
请提醒我寄信。
Please remind me to post the letter.
你能提醒一下他咱们的会议推迟了吗？
Would you please remind him that our meeting has been put off?
提醒她明天上午早点来。
Remind her to come earlier tomorrow morning.
2. I think it’s a little bit silly.
a little bit 有点儿；稍微
例：往这边挪一挪。
Move over this way a little bit.
对我来说，这本书有点难。
This book is a little bit difficult for me.
silly 愚蠢的；不明事理的
你太傻了，这么大的太阳，不戴帽子就出去了。
It was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
在这个问题上他们相当愚蠢。
They’re quite silly on this subject.
3. … and neither of you are wrong.
neither 两者都不 ，谓语动词用第三人称单数。
Neither of them likes football.
他们俩都不喜欢足球。
Neither of them has a job now.
他们俩目前都没有工作。
4. But what could Yu Gong do instead of moving the mountains?
instead of 介词短语“ 代替；反而”，后面
接名词、代词、动名词等。
你替我赴宴好吗?
Will you go to the party instead of me?
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。
We went to the Biology class instead of attending
the English lesson.
Summary
remind sb. of sb. / sth. 使某人想起
remind sb. to do sth. 提醒某人做某事
a little bit 有点儿；稍微
silly 愚蠢的；不明事理的
neither of 两者都不
instead of 代替；反而
Homework
Practice with your classmates to tell more interesting stories. Then role-play them.
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