Unit 4 A good read 【 Integrated skills 】A. Recommending a bookB. I want some history books.Learning aims:1. 了解英国著名作家 J.K. 罗琳的信息。2. 能够从听力材料中获取有用的、准确的信息。3. 学会用英语谈论在图书馆借书的注意事项。Review and lead to the new knowledge(1′• 1. What type of book is Gulliver’s Travels?• 2.What type of book have you read before?Guide OneYou’re interested in different types of books. Now turn to page 57 and see what types of books the Class 1, Grade 8 students have read.Before listening, let’s look at page 152 and find out the Chinese names of the books in Part A1. Then tell me what types of books they are.(3′1.Listen to the tape and match each student with the type of the book they’ve read.(2′1. Do you know about them? (1′Harry PotterJ.K. RowlingShow some new words(3′• It seems that most of you like the Harry Potter series very much. But did you know that when the first Harry Potter book came out, all of the publishing houses refused to publish it? Luckily, one year later, a small publishing house in London accepted it. Now the Harry Potter series has become a great success. So far, these books have been translated into many languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and French. Each year, millions of copies are sold. Do you want to know more about the books and the writer? OK, let’s listen to Suzy’s introduction.1.Listen and complete the following passage.• Have you heard of the Harry Potter books? They’re a series of novels by J.K. Rowling, a British _____.• Rowling was ______on 31 July 1965. As a child, she often wrote ______ and read them to her sister. In 1990, while she was on a _____ trip to London, the idea for the first Harry Potter story c...
