八年级英语下册Unit8Selfcheck.ppt

* Self check 八年级人教新目标下册 Unit 8 Why don’t you get her a scarf? When you give advice, you can use the following expressions to be polite. Why don’t you do? Why not do … ? What about/How about + sth. ? What about/How about + doing …? Could you please do … ? You should/could do… Would you mind doing…? You’d better do… 1. Fill in the blanks with the words given. expensive boring cheap special interesting Today is Jim’s birthday. His mother is going to make a _______ meal for him. 2. My shoes were really _______. They only cost $5. special cheap 3. My aunt took us out to dinner at an _________ restaurant, but the food was not good at all. 4. The movie was _______. I fell asleep half way through it. 5. It’s important to choose subjects that you find __________. expensive boring interesting 2. Read the passages. Everyone likes gifts. Some little kids think they don’t get enough gifts. Some old people think they get too many gifts. Different people like different kinds of gifts. Some presents are never too small. A little child may give his mother a leaf from a tree. It is enough to make her very happy. present n. 礼物 make sb./sth. + 形容词 “使某人/某事…” 如: What he says makes me rather angry. The flowers made the house beautiful. 鲜花让房子美丽。 Gift giving is different in different countries. In Japan, people sometimes give special gifts. But they are not opened. Later, the same gift may be given away to someone else. Many people have enough things and don’t want too many gifts themselves. In Canada, many people will not give big gifts to someone else. They will pay for a park bench or a tree to help remember a person. In the USA, some people ask their families and friends to give money to charity rather than buy them gifts. In Sweden, doing something for someone is the best gift. People don’t need to spend too much money. Instead, making a meal is enough. open v. 开; 打开 give away 赠送 give—gave—given bench n. 长凳