八年级英语culture unit 1 growing up around the world人教版知识精讲

八年级英语Culture Unit 1 Growing up around the world人教版【本讲教育信息】一. 教学内容：Culture Unit 1 Growing up around the world.［教学目标］1. 学生能运用本单元的目标语言表达自己的基本学习生活情况。

2. 谈论不同地区人们的文化生活的异同。

3. 谈论不同时代人们的学习生活状况。

［能力目标］围绕三篇文化短文，培养学生的阅读能力。

同时了解世界各地文化习俗和传统的差异。

感受我们周围世界的人文景观，感受其文化的魅力。

体验世界各地的文化生活，从而激发学习兴趣和爱国情操。

［复习句型］1. What do you do in your free /spare time?I usually ….2. What are your favorite school subjects?My favorite school subjects are …..3. What are your problems?1) I get /have too much homework.2) I have /get bad grades in science and math.4. What’s your dream?After leaving school, I want to be….5. He ( Ross) lives in …6. He likes ….because….7. His favorite school subjects are…..8. Who’s your favorite actor?9. On weekends, he spends time…/ In his spare time, he often plays football with his…10. His dream job is ….11. Let’s take her to sing karaoke. Let’s take her to the museum.［课文讲解:］1.Hi! I’m Ross and I live in Washington, D.C. Did you know that Washington is the capital of the U.S.? New York is bigger and more famous, but Washington is still the capital!I like Washington because there’s so much to see and to do. I t hink that you can find some of the most interesting places in America here. For example, the White House is here. That’s the most famous home in America! We also have the Library of Congress, the biggest library in the world.My favorite school subjects are computer science and history. I get a lot of homework, but when I have free time, I enjoy reading thrillers and watching TV.On weekends, I spend time with my family. We often go for walks in one of the large city parks. Ialso play football with my friends, or we just go to the mall and hang out.When I leave school, I plan to study history. One day, I want to become president and live in the White House!4a.Living in the OutbackNicky Logan is 13 years old, and she comes from the Australian Outback. She lives on a farm with her parents, her brothers Martin and Ben, and 50,000 sheep.The Logan’s farm is in the “outback”. A lot of Australia is “outback”—it’s very hot and dry, and not many people live there. Sometimes Nicky and her family don’t see any other people for weeks.So how do Nicky and her brothers go to school? Well, they don’t go to school — their school comes to them, by radio and the Internet. They sit at home and talk to their teachers and classmates on the radio. Their classmates live on other farms and their teachers work at the “School of the Air”, in a place called Alice Springs. When the pupils have to do homework, they send it to their teachers by fax or the Internet.When Nicky isn’t studying, she likes to ride her horse and help the farm workers with the sheep. It’s hard work for a young girl, but she enjoys it. Sometimes she plays tennis with her brothers, and when it’s very hot, she likes to go swimming in the river on the farm.“I really like living on an outback farm,” says Nicky. “There are some very cool animals like koalas and kangaroos. But not all the animals are cool. There are some dangerous snakes and spiders here. They can be scary!”The “School of the Air” is only for younger students. So next y ear, when Nicky is 14, she has to go to a school in Alice Springs. She is going to live at the school and visit her family during the vacations. “I’m going to miss my parents and my horse,” she says, “but I still want to go. I want to study with other kids for a change.”9a.I had to get up at six o’clock every morning and ride my bike five miles to school. In winter, it was very cold, and in summer it was very hot, but I didn’t mind. I liked to exercise.We wore uniforms to school, not like Canadian kids today. Some of the girls liked their school uniform, but the uniform for boys looked strange. We had to wear ugly straw hats!Our school wasn’t in a very good place. It was next to a train station. Sometimes it was difficult to hear the teacher because of all the trains outside. The school was small, too, and the classrooms were very crowded. There were usually forty or fifty students in every class.There was no TV at that time, so we didn’t know a lot about the world. I remember our geography textbook had beautiful photographs from far away places like India, China, and Africa. Geography was really interesting for kids in those days!Families were poor because it was the time of the Great Depression. I wore my elder brother’s old unifor m. My shoes had holes where you could see my feet. It was terrible!We were poor but we still enjoyed ourselves. I liked to play baseball and ice hockey after class. But we played ice hockey on frozen ponds. Not inside like the kids today.［补充阅读练习］Mind your manners!Around the world, people have different ideas about what good table manners are. In India, for example, people only eat with their right hands. You take food from one dish on the table, usually a kind of bread or rice, mix it with food from another dish and then put it in your mouth. Your left hand stays still. Eating with your left hand is very rude!In western countries, people don’t usually share the same dishes. Everyone has his or her own plate of food. You eat with a knife and fork and you shouldn’t wave them around when you aren’t eating. And you should try not to be noisy when eating. People think that’s bad table manners!When you go to restaurants in different parts of the world, it’s important to know what p eople think is rude. For example, in China it’s OK to be noisy in a restaurant. In fact, if a restaurant isn’t noisy, you may think it’s not very good. However, in many western countries, restaurants are quiet place. If a table is too noisy, other customers might not be happy.Paying for the meal is also different from country to country. In China, one person usually pays for everyone. In western countries, when friends eat together, they usually share the cost. This is called “going Dutch.” Also, when westerners pay the check, they usually leave some money for the waiter. This is called “leaving a tip.” Not leaving a tip is very rude. In the U.S., it’s common to leave tips of 10%, 15%, or 20% of the check. The amount depends on how good the waiter was. Good waiters can get a lot of money!The way people eat food is different around the world, but you can find the same kinds of food in many countries. Chinese and Italian foods, for example, are popular all over the world.【模拟试题】（答题时间：70分钟）一. 对话。