牛津深圳版
八年级 8A
Chapter 7
8A
Chapter 7
同乐学校八年级英语课组
王宁 赖丽
卢伟
Chapter 7
Traditional Jobs
Warming-up
Are these traditional skills?
Name them, please.
Opera performances Chinese medicine
treatment
Chinese kung fu
Chinese paper-cut
Fishing with birds
What's the man doing?
Cormorants are used to catch fish.
Cormorants’ large feet are used to
push them quickly through the water.
The fish are removed from the cormorants’
mouths by the fisherman.
Some of the fish are sold and the rest
are divided by the fisherman’s family.
Reading Fishing with
birds
Find the words in the article. Then read
the words round them and choose the
best meanings.
1. fisherman
a a person who catches fish as a job
b a person who sells fish as a job
c a person who cooks fish as a job
2. require
a make b sell c need
3. attracts
a makes something become bigger
b makes something become popular
c makes something come somewhere
4 removed from
a put into
b dropped from
c taken out of
5. rest
a a period of doing nothing
b a period of silence
c the part left
Find the words in Column A in the article
and match them with the meanings in
Column B.
B
a being part of a group’s way of life
for many years in the same way
b held two or more things together
with string, rope, etc.
c starts ( to go to somewhere)
d old
A
1 elderly
2 sets off
3 tied
4 traditional
a cormorant
a raft
a pole
fishing rod
bamboo
Name each of them.
a fisherman
Understanding
Look and think
Read the four sentences , and write the
number 1-4 in the blanks.
a. Paragraph ___ describes a kind of
bird.
b. Paragraph___ is about the future of
the type of work.
c. Paragraph___ describes an old man.
d. Paragraph___ describes how the
man works.
2
4
1
3
Describe the pictures
find the facts
Find words or numbers in the article
to complete Millie’s note.
Dear Joyce
It would be a good idea to have some
articles in our newspaper about
traditional Chinese skills. For example,
I saw a program on television about
an (1) _______ man. elderly
He fishes with birds called (2) _________.
He is over (3) ____, but he fishes every
day with his (4) __ birds. He lives with
them all the time. Sometimes the birds
even sit on his (5) ____! The birds dive
into the water and catch (6)____, but they
cannot eat them because the man ties a
piece of (7)_____ round their necks.
cormorant
60
12
head
fish
grass
They take the fish back to him, and he
removes the fish from the bird’s (8)
_______. After the program I wrote this
article for our newspaper. I hope you
like it.
Millie
mouths
Retell the story with the aids of the words
Homework:
sit on the side of the
river with a large
bird on his head
strong enough to
control… live and
work with his …
be good at catching
fish be used to…
set off on his …
a piece of grass is
tired..
a light is hung from…
swim down and
catch…
bring back; remove
throw into
/2
