初中英语山东版八年级下--Unit 7 A

UNIT 7 I'll help clean up the city parks.
[00:09.33]SECTION A
[00:11.14]Language Goal:Offer help
[00:14.37]1a Look at the bulletin¹ board² and read about
[00:17.90]ways you could help people.
[00:21.07]Then list other ways you could help people.
[00:25.12]I'd like to work outside.
[00:27.98]You could help clean up the city parks.
[00:30.98]Other ways you could help people
[00:33.83]1b Listen and complete the sentences.
[00:39.14]Conversation 1
[00:42.73]I'd like to work outside.
[00:44.60]You could help clean up the city parks.
[00:48.83]Conversation 2
[00:51.71]I'd like to help homeless people.
[00:54.18]You could give out food at the food bank.
[00:59.15]Conversation 3
[01:02.86]I'd like to cheer up sick kids.
[01:05.06]You could visit them in the hospital.
[01:13.49]Conversation 4
[01:17.00]I'd like to help kids with their schoolwork.
[01:19.81]You could volunteer in an after-school study
[01:21.86]program.
[01:24.42]1c  PAIRWORK
[01:27.67]Practice the conversation in the picture above.
[01:31.64]Then have similar Conversations using the
[01:34.27]information in 1b.
[01:37.77]2a A group of students are planning a City Parks
[01:42.64]Clean-Up Day.
[01:44.48]They are talking about ways to tell people about
[01:47.50]the Clean-Up Day.
[01:49.07]Listen and check(√)the things the students
[01:51.36]are going to do.
[01:57.55]OK.Now we need to come up with a plan to tell
[02:00.96]people about the city park clean-up.
[02:03.87]Yeah,but I'm hungry,Bob.Let's have lunch first.
[02:08.23]No,we can't put off making a plan.
[02:11.19]Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now.
[02:13.85]You're right,Sally.While we talk,I'll write down
[02:16.57]all our ideas.
[02:17.66]Then we can decide which ideas are best.
[02:20.37]Um...well...we could put up signs.
[02:23.15]That's a good idea!
[02:24.82]I'll hand out advertisements³ after school.
[02:27.53]OK.Great!And we could each call up ten people
[02:31.08]and ask them to come.
[02:33.25]Hey,we're coming up with a lot of good ideas,
[02:35.49]aren't we?
[02:37.96]2b Listen again.Fill in the blanks⁴.
[02:43.02]2c  PAIRWORK
[02:45.45]Role play the Conversation in 2b.
[02:49.01]We need to come up with a plan.
[02:51.65]Let's have lunch first.
[02:53.84]No,we can't put off making a plan.
[02:56.70]Clean-Up Day is only two weeks from now.
[02:59.84]Grammar Focus⁵
[03:01.63]Phrasal verb⁶
[03:03.47]Sentence
[03:05.35]Meaning of phrasal verb
[03:07.73]cheer up
[03:09.38]He looks sad.Let's cheer him up.
[03:13.36]make someone happier
[03:15.48]set up
[03:16.92]We're going to set up a food bank to help hungry
[03:19.15]people.
[03:21.34]establish,start
[03:24.00]come up with
[03:25.91]We need to come up with some ideas.
[03:29.41]think up
[03:31.99]3a  Read this article about volunteers.
[03:36.43]Underline the kinds of work the volunteers do.
[03:39.53]Circle the reasons why they like their work.
[03:43.90]Being⁷ a volunteer is great!
[03:47.79]Number 77 High School is home to three very
[03:51.18]special young people:
[03:53.75]Li Huiping,Lin Pei and Zhu Ming.
[03:57.49]These three students all volunteer their time to
[03:59.96]help other people.
[04:02.56]This volunteer work takes each of them several
[04:05.04]hours a week,so it is a major commitment⁸.
[04:08.99]Huiping loves to read,and she puts this love to
[04:11.94]good use by working in the after-school care
[04:15.12]center at her local elementary school.
[04:18.55]Here,she helps young children to read.
[04:21.87]Lin Pei loves animals and plans to study to be a
[04:25.39]veterinarian when he leaves school.
[04:28.07]He spends every Saturday morning working in an
[04:31.03]animal hospital.
[04:33.91]Zhu Ming wants to be a professional⁹ singer.
[04:36.72]He sings for groups of people at the city
[04:39.23]hospital to cheer them up.
[04:41.73]"Volunteering is great!"says Huiping.
[04:45.47]"Not only do I feel good about helping¹⁰
[04:47.34]other people,
[04:48.45]but I get to spend time doing what I love to do.
[04:52.86]Lin Pei says he has learned¹¹ more about animals.
[04:56.66]Zhu Ming says he has met some wonderful people
[04:59.65]at the hospital.
[05:01.96]The three students plan to set up a student
[05:04.08]volunteer project at their school.
[05:06.89]"Don't put it off,"says Huiping.
[05:09.17]"Become a volunteer today!"
[05:12.40]3b  What kinds of volunteer work could these
[05:16.75]students do?    Fill in the table.
[05:19.95]Name   Loves    Could   Xu Hui  soccer
[05:29.34]Xiao Tang       writing stories   Joy   movies
[05:35.83]Gong Wei   music
[05:38.98]3c  PAIRWORK
[05:41.51]Role play.Take turns being one of the people in
[05:45.73]3b. Ask for and give advice.
[05:50.40]I'd like to join the school volunteer project,
[05:54.39]but I'm not sure what I should do.
[05:57.17]What do you like doing?
[05:59.16]I love playing soccer.
[06:01.76]Well,you could help coach a soccer team
[06:04.32]for little kids.
[06:07.96]4 PAIRWORK
[06:10.42]Write down three things you like to do.
[06:13.54]Ask your partner for advice about the kinds
[06:16.34]of volunteer work you could do.
[06:19.28]Things I like to do
[06:22.11]Volunteer work I could do
[06:25.41]I like to read about Chinese history.
[06:28.88]What kind of volunteer work do you think I could
[06:31.60]do?You could start a Chinese History Club.
[06:34.65]

1 bulletin   

n.小报，会刊，简明新闻，新闻快报

参考例句：

• We read the declaration posted on the bulletin board.我们读了贴在布告板上的声明。
• The radio bulletin warned of the typhoon.收音机新闻快报发布了台风警报。

2 board   

v.上（船；飞机等）；n.委员会，理事会，董事会，委员会；司，局，厅；木板，黑板

参考例句：

• We'd better board the train now.我们最好现在上火车。
• Passengers should board the train now.旅客现在应该上火车了。

3 advertisements   

n.出公告，做广告( advertisement的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The advertisements of costume in Paris broadened his outlook. 巴黎的服装广告使他大开眼界。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He glanced his eyes down the classified advertisements. 他浏览了一下分类广告。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 blanks   

n.（纸等的）空白（尤指表格的空白）( blank的名词复数 )；空地；（书正文前后的）空白页；空白表格（或证件）

参考例句：

• Fill in the blanks with verbals. 用动词的非谓语形式填空。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Complete the following sentences by filling the blanks with proper prepositions and adverbs. 用适当的冠词和副词填空，完成下列句子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 focus   

n.焦点，焦距；vi.聚焦，注视；vt.使聚焦，调焦，集中

参考例句：

• She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
• The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。

6 verb   

n.[语]动词

参考例句：

• The sentence is formed from a verb and two nouns.这句子由一个动词和两个名词构成。
• These are the finite forms of a verb.这些是一个动词的限定形式。

7 being   

n.存在；生存；生命存在，生命，人， 本质；art.在，有，是

参考例句：

• Can you explain to me the purpose of being?你能对我解释一下存在的目的吗？
• What is the purpose of our being?我们生存的目的是什么？

8 commitment   

n.奉献，忠诚，辛劳，委托，实行，承担义务，赞助

参考例句：

• The builder had a commitment to finish the work on time.那个承建商答应过准时完工。
• He made a commitment to pay the rent on time.他保证按时付房租。

9 professional   

adj.专业的；职业的；n.专业人员；职业运动员

参考例句：

• He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
• I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。

10 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

11 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。