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1、Language Goal:Talk about geography and nature第1页/共76页Qomolangma about 9,600,000 square kilometers in sizeThe Sahara 1,025 meters deepThe Caspian Sea 6,671 kilometers longThe Nile 8,844.43 meters high 1a.Match the facts you know.第2页/共76页1.Qomolangma is_ than any other mountain in the world.2.The Saha

2、ra is _ desert in the world.3.The Caspian Sea is _ of all the salt lakes.4.The Nile is _ river in the world.1b.Listen and complete the sentences.higherthe biggestthe deepestthe longest第3页/共76页1c.Use the information in 1b to make conversations.A:What is the highest mountain in the world?B:Qomolangma.

3、第4页/共76页_ The Yangtze River is about _kilometers long and the Yellow River is_ kilometers long._ China has the biggest population in the world.Its a lot bigger than the population of the US.2a.Listen and number the facts 1-4 in the order you hear them.6,3005,0005,46430024第5页/共76页_ China is over _ ye

4、ars old.It has a much longer history than the US.The US is not even_ years old._ China is almost as big as the US,and it is the biggest country in Asia.13第6页/共76页2b.Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box._ The Yangtze River is about _kilometers long and the Yellow Rive

5、r is_ kilometers long._ China has the biggest population in the world.Its a lot bigger than the population of the US.6,3005,0005,464300246,3005,464第7页/共76页_ China is over _ years old.It has a much longer history than the US.The US is not even_ years old._ China is almost as big as the US,and it is t

6、he biggest country in Asia.135,000300第8页/共76页A:Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world?B:Yes,I did.Its much older than my country.2c.Make conversations using the information in 2a.第9页/共76页Guide：Feel free to ask me anything on todays Great Wall tour.Tourist 1：How long is t

7、he wall?Guide：Ah,the most popular question!If were only talking about the parts from the Ming Dynasty,its about 8,850 kilometers long.This makes it the longest wall in the world.2d.Role-play the conversation.第10页/共76页Tourist 2:Wow,thats amazing!Why did the ancient emperors build the wall?Guide:The m

8、ain reason was to protect their part of the country.As you can see，its quite tall and wide.As far as I know,there are no man-made objects as big as this.Tourist 3:Is Badaling part of the Ming Great Wall?Guide:Yes,its the most famous part.第11页/共76页3a.Read the article and match each paragraph with the

9、 main ideas.Qomolangma the Most Dangerous Mountain in the World?One of the worlds most dangerous sports is mountain climbing,and one of the most popular places for this is the Himalayas.The Himalayas run along the southwestern part of第12页/共76页China.Of all the mountains,Qomolangmarises the highest an

10、d is the most famous.It is 8,844.43 meters high and so is very dangerous to climb.Thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard.Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storms.It is also very hard to take in air as you get near the top.第13页/共76页The first

11、people to reach the top were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on May 29,1953.The first Chinese team did so in I960,while the first woman to succeed was Junko Tabei from Japan in 1975.Why do so many climbers risk their lives?One of the main reasons is because people want to challenge themselves in t

12、he face of difficulties.第14页/共76页The spirit of these climbers shows us that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.It also shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.Paragraph 1 Spirit of climbersParagraph 2 Achievements of climbers Paragraph 3 Facts and dang

13、ers第15页/共76页Paragraph 1List four dangers for climbers:thick cloudsSnow slide;Freezing weather conditions;Heavy storm;3b.Read the article again and complete the chart.第16页/共76页Paragraph 2List three achievements:1953-Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to reach the top;1960-The first Chin

14、ese team did so;1975 the Japanese Junko Tabei succeeded doing so.第17页/共76页Paragraphs 1&3List four comparisons:most dangerous sport;most popular places;the highest mountain;the most famous mountain第18页/共76页1.Where are the Himalayas?2.How high is Qomolangma?3c.Answer the questions using information fr

15、om the article.The Himalayas run along the southwestern part of China.It is 8,844.43 meters high.第19页/共76页3.Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous?4.What does the spirit of the climbers tell us?One of the main reasons is because people want to challenge themselv

16、es in the face of difficulties.The spirit of these climbers shows us that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.It also shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the forces of nature.第20页/共76页1.Feel free to ask me anything on todays Great Wall tour.在今天的长城游中，大家尽管问我任何问题，不要拘束。feel

17、 free是英语口语中一个常用表达。若有人让你feel free to do something,就是让你无需拘束，只管按照自己的意愿去做某事。e.g.A:Can I use your bathroom?我可以用一下你的卫生间吗？B:Yes,feel free.可以，请随意。Language points第21页/共76页2.As far as I know,there are no man-made objects as big as this.据我所知，再没有像它这样大的人造物体了。as far as I know 是一个固定的表达方式，还可以说so far as I know，意思是“据

18、我所知”。例如：As far as I know,Jacks got twin sisters.就我所知，杰克有一对孪生姐妹。Theyre not coming today,so far as I know.他们今天不来了 就我所知是这样的。第22页/共76页3.the Ming Great Wall 明长城“明长城”是指明朝时期为了防御北方游牧民族的骚扰，历时一百多年在北部地区 修筑的军事防御工程。这段长城东起辽宁虎山，西至甘肃嘉峪关，从东向西横贯多个省、直辖市、自治区，全长约8850千米，是现存历代长城遗迹中最完整、最坚固的。第23页/共76页4.Even more serious dif

19、ficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storms.更加严峻的困难包括极冷的天气状况和巨大的风暴。1）difficulty既可作可数名词也可作不可数名词，在此用作可数名词。作可数名词时,difficulty通常用作复数，表示具体概念，即：各种各样的“困难；难题；难事”。第24页/共76页例如：People learning a new language may face some difficulties.人们学习一门新的语言 时可能会遇到一些困难。If you have any difficulties,you can

20、 call me for help.如果你遇到任何困难，给我打电话求助好了。第25页/共76页作不可数名词时，difficulty可译作“困难；艰难；辛苦；费劲”，例如：He had great difficulty in finding a new job.他找新的 工作费了很大劲。.We found the house without difficulty.我们轻而易举地找到广那座房子。第26页/共76页2）include表示“包括；包含”，是一个及物动词。例如：Does your price of the bike include this light?你们的车价包含这盏车灯吗？第27页

21、/共76页5.The spirit of these climbers shows us that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.这些登山者的精神向我们表明：我们绝不应该放弃实现自己梦想的尝试。1）give up doing something 的意思是“放弃做某事；半途而废”He gave up learning a third language after he got the job.他找到工作之后就放弃了对第三门语言的学习。第28页/共76页2)achieve our dreams 相当于make our dr

22、eams come true其中动词achieve表示“（通过努力）实现；取得；获取；达到（梦想、成绩、成功、目的)”等。例如：He achieved great success in a short time.他用很短的时间取得了极大的成功。Lin Tao achieved very good exam results.林涛考试取得了 很好的成绩。第29页/共76页Grammar FocusWhats the highest mountain in the world?Qomolangma.How high is Qomolangma?Its 8,844.43 meters high.Its

23、 higher than any other mountain.Which is the deepest salt lake in the world?The Caspian Sea is the deepest of all the salt lakes.Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world?Yes,I did.Its much older than the US.第30页/共76页4a.Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words

24、 in the box.1.The Amazon River is one of the _ rivers in the world.Its a little _ than the Yangtze River.2.Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters_.big much popular long old highlongestlongerhigh第31页/共76页 Its one of the most_ places for serious mountain climbers.3.No ocean in the world is as _ as the Pacific

25、Ocean.4.Although Japan is _ than Canada,it is _smaller.popularbigoldermuch第32页/共76页e.g.Two rivers：_ and _4b.Write two comparisons about two topics.Write true facts.the Yangtze Riverthe Amazon RiverThe Yangtze River is almost as long as the Amazon River.The Amazon is longer than the Yangtze,but the Y

26、angtze is the longest river in China.第33页/共76页Two cities：_ and _1._2._ _Two animals：_ and _1._ 2._ _第34页/共76页4c.Write five questions using comparisons.Then ask your partner your questions.1._2._3._4._5._What is the highest building in our city?Who is the oldest people in our city?What is the most po

27、pular street in our city?What is the most delicious food in our city?Where is the busiest road in our city?第35页/共76页Unit 7Whats the highest mountain in the world?第36页/共76页Grammar Focus(一一)数词数词 Numeral第37页/共76页数词是用来表示事物的数目和顺序的数词是用来表示事物的数目和顺序的词。词。数词的分类：数词的分类：1.基数词基数词2.序数词序数词3.分数词分数词今天我们先来学习一下基数词。今天我们先

28、来学习一下基数词。第38页/共76页1.1.复习复习11001100以内的所有数字。以内的所有数字。2.2.掌握百、千、万、十万、百万的掌握百、千、万、十万、百万的表达法。表达法。1 1、1-191-19的基数词的基数词 one 1 two 2 three 3 four 4 five 5 six 6 seven 7 eight 8 nine 9 ten 10第39页/共76页 eleven 11 twelve 12 thirteen 13 fourteen 14 fifteen 15 sixteen 16 seventeen 17 eighteen 18 nineteen 19第40页/共76

29、页2 2、20209090等十等十位数位数twenty 20thirty 30forty 40fifty 50sixty 60seventy 70eighty 80ninety 90 twenty-one 21 twenty-two 22 其它的十位数照此类推，如：thirty-one 31 forty-two 42 seventy-five 75 ninety-six 96第41页/共76页3 3、百、千、万、百、千、万 百 hundred 100 one hundred 200 two hundred 以此类推 千 thousand 1 000 one thousand 2 000 two

30、 thousand英语里没有“万”这一单位，万也用thousand表示。如：10 000 ten thousand 一万20 000 twenty thousand 两万 第42页/共76页4 4、十万、百万、十万、百万十万的说法是：100.000 a(one)hundred thousand 200.000 two hundred thousand million 百万 a(one)million 1,000,000 two million 2,000,000 以此类推 8,000,000 eight million第43页/共76页练一练练一练345100118,657,421three

31、hundred and forty-fiveone thousand(and)oneeighteen million,six hundred and fifty-seven thousand,four hundred and twenty-one第44页/共76页1.The project lasted 5 years and cost 2 billion dollars.2.The Chinese have been making paper for two thousand years.3.One thousand pounds is a lot of money.表示确定数量时表示确定数

32、量时 用基数词用基数词+hundred，thousand，million，billion第45页/共76页多位基数词读法多位基数词读法457890608389three hundred and eighty-ninefour hundred and fifty-seveneight hundred and ninetysix hundred and eight 1）101999的的三三位位数数由由“百百位位数数and+两两位位数数组成组成”。如：如：325three hundred and twenty-five 102 one hundred and two635 six hundred a

33、nd thirty-five第46页/共76页2)三位数以上的数，从个位往前数，每三位数加一个逗号，从后往前数的第一个逗号代表thousand,第二个逗号代表million,第三个逗号是billion，注意这几个词不能用复数形式，后也不能加and。例如：2,648 two thousand,six hundred and forty-eight 16,250,064 sixteen million,two hundred and fifty thousand,sixty-four 第47页/共76页确切数目与不确切数目的表达确切数目与不确切数目的表达：hundred,thousand,mill

34、ion,billion等前面有基数词，表示确切数目时，用单数，后直接接复数名词；如：three hundred books one hundred people five thousand students seven million starts第48页/共76页表示不确切数目时，这类词后加-s且与of连 用。如：hundreds of people thousands of students millions of birds billions of lions注意：这类短语中，名词前如有定冠词、指 示代词或形容词性物主代词时，可加of,但 表示的是范围。如：two hundred of

35、the workers工人中的二百（人）第49页/共76页1a.Compare facts about these two animals.Use the language in the box to help you make sentences.第50页/共76页Example sentence:This elephant weighs many times more than this panda.(200 cm taller/shorter,weigh much more/less,eat much more/less eat many times more)This elephant

36、 is 200 cm taller than this panda.This elephant weighs 50 times than this panda.This elephant eat much more than this panda.第51页/共76页1b.Listen and check()the numbers you hear._100 _ 16 _ 20_ 50 _ 120 _ 0.1_ 0.2 _ 150 第52页/共76页1.At birth,a baby panda is about _to _ kilos.2.At birth,a baby panda is ab

37、out _ cm long.3.A baby panda is not black.It is _ and it has no _.4.A panda can live up to _ to _ years.1c.Listen again and complete the sentences.pink0.2150.1teeth2030第53页/共76页1d.Take turns telling your classmates about pandas.A:A baby panda cannot see.B:An adult panda weighs many times more than a

38、 baby panda.第54页/共76页big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuanfamous endangered beautiful forest protect2a.Talk about pandas in your class.Use these words to help you第55页/共76页2b.Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean:10,12,200，2,000.ScanningThis means moving your eyes quickly

39、 down the page to find specific information.第56页/共76页It is 8:30 a.m.at the Chengdu Research Base.Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandasbreakfast.At 9:00 a.m.,they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry.When the babies see the keepers,they ru

40、n over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over!第57页/共76页“Theyre so cute and lovely.I take care of them like theyre my own babies.I wash,feed and play with them every day.Theyre very special to me.”Lin Wei loves her job,but it is a difficult one.Pandas do not have

41、many babies,maybe only one every two years.The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long.第58页/共76页Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo.Many years ago,there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China,but then humans started to cut down th

42、e forests.Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.第59页/共76页An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals.They send peopl

43、e to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals.The children sing songs or make artwork about pandas and other wild animals.Teaching children is one way to help save pandas.The Chinese第60页/共76页government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for

44、pandas to live in.We all hope that in the future there will be a lot more pandas than now.第61页/共76页1.What is Lin Weis job?2.What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?2c.Scan the article again and write short answers to the questions.He is responsible for taking care of the pandas,Including washing,f

45、eeding,playing with them.They drink milk for breakfast.第62页/共76页3.What do adult pandas eat?4.Why are pandas endangered?5.What is one way of saving pandas?They eat bamboo.On one hand,the baby pandas dont live long because of illnesses;On the other hand,pandas feed on bamboo,but humans cut down the ba

46、mboo forests.Teaching children the importance of saving pandas/Planting more bamboo trees.第63页/共76页1.The panda _ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very early in the morning to _ breakfast for the baby pandas.2.Adult pandas do not have babies very _,and some of the babies only live for a short t

47、ime because of _.2d.Complete the sentences using words and phrases from the passage.keepersprepareoftenillnesses第64页/共76页3.Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down _ so pandas have fewer places to live.4.A special program in Chengdu teaches _ about why pandas are

48、_ and how to save them.5.The_ is also helping to save the pandas.It is _ more trees to make more homes for the pandas.forestschildrenendangeredChinese governmentplanting第65页/共76页2e.What other ways do you think children can help to save the pandas?第66页/共76页3a.Read the following words and phrases abou

49、t whales.Put them in the correct place in the chart.Humans catch whales for meat,fat and oilEat small fish and other sea life Jump high out of the water Rules on whale protectionHugeWater pollution第67页/共76页Live in the seaSome kinds have teethLearn more about whalesStop putting rubbish into the seaSi

50、ng songsWhale parts sold to make things like candles and soap第68页/共76页What do they look like?Where do they live?What do they eat?What can they do?Why do some of them have to be protected?How can we protectthem?Huge;Some kinds have teethLive in the seaEat small fish and other sea lifeJump high out of