外研版九年级上册Module 1 Wonders of the world课件(共55张PPT，无音频)

(共55张PPT)
Module 1
Wonders of the world
Wonders of the world
An object that causes a feeling of great surprise and admiration
奇观；奇迹；奇事
Victoria Falls
/v k t ri /
The Giant’s Causeway 巨人堤
/ d a nt/
/ k z.we /
The Three Gorges /ɡ d / Dam
三峡大坝
The Terracotta Army
/ ter. k t. /
秦始皇兵马俑
What wonders of the world do you know
To learn about wonders of the world like the Giant’s Causeway, the Terracotta Army, the Three Gorges Dam and Victoria Falls
To learn to describe a wonder of the world with facts and express one’s preference by making comparisons
3. To understand the conversation about natural wonders and man-made wonders
Objectives:
adj.人造的
adj.大自然的
n.奇观；奇迹
n.讨论；商讨
adj. 在东边的；来自东边的
conj.虽然；但是
adj. (声音)响亮的
man-made
natural
wonder
discussion
eastern
though
loud
Words Review
wow
opinion
in one’s opinion
more than
electricity
millions of
int. 呀；哇(用于表
示惊讶或赞叹)
n. 看法；主张
按某人的意见；
据某人看来
超过
n.电
大量的；无数的
Words Review
1
Match the names of the wonders with the pictures below. (P 2)
①
②
③
④
a) The Terracotta Army
d) Victoria Falls
c) The Giant’s Causeway
b) The Three Gorges Dam
What kind of wonders do they belong to
The wonders in the world can be man-made or natural.
人工的；人造的；非天然的
自然的；天然形成的
The wonders in the world can be ancient or modern.
古老的
现代的
adj. 人造的
m________
an-made
adj. 大自然的;
天然的
n______
atural
adj. 古代的
a______
ncient
adj. 现代的
m______
odern
1. Which two are natural wonders
2. Which two are man-made wonders
3. Which is an ancient wonder
4. Which is a modern wonder
①
②
③
④
②
④
Now listen and check.
①
②
③
④
Above these wonders of the world:
2
P2
1
2
3
4
Unit 1
It’s more than 2,000 years old.
Can you read and translate
Now let’s learn more about the wonders of the world .
2,000 years old
15 metres wide
100 metres high
185 metres high
1,700 metres wide
2,300 metres long
Read and translate
2000年
15米宽
100米高
185米高
1700米宽
2300米长
Tony and his friends are talking about Wonders of the World. Listen and read. Finish the following tasks.
word 文档
链接
3
Listen to the passage and check(√) the true sentences.
1. Tony thinks the Giant’s Causeway is the largest natural wonder.
2. Lingling thinks Victoria Falls is more fantastic than the Giant’s Causeway.
3. Betty and Daming are more interested in man-made wonders.
4. For Daming, the Three Gorges Dam is more fantastic than the Terracotta Army.
×
×
√
√
Task 1
most fantastic
as
as
P3
4
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. Where is the Giant’s Causeway
2. How wide is Victoria Falls
3. What wonders does Betty think are more exciting
4. How old is the Terracotta Army
It’s on the eastern coast of Northern Ireland.
It is about 1,700 metres wide.
She thinks man-made wonders are more exciting than natural ones.
It’s more than 2,000 years old.
Task 2
P3
1
2
3
4
Read the conversation and fill in the blanks.
Wonders Location Description Other facts
The Giant’s Causeway Northern Ireland ________ rocks
__________________ Africa ______ metres wide
100 metres _____ can hear the _________ a few kilometres away
The Terracotta Army China more than ______ years old
The Three Gorges Dam ______ 2,300 metres ______
185 metres _____
____ metres wide produce electricity for ______________ people in China
40,000
1,700
high
loud noise
2,000
China
long
millions of
Victoria Falls
15
Task 3
high
英语中表达物体的长、宽、高、深等概念时，一般使用“数字+单位+long/wide/high/deep/…”的表达方式。
Describe a wonder of the world with facts.
Express one’s preference about wonders by making comparisons.
Where did you visit in your last holiday Why did you go there
Work in pairs. Make a conversation to describe wonders of the world .
Pairwork
Hi. Lily. How was your holiday
Great. I visited the Hukou Waterfall. It’s the second biggest waterfall in China. It’s about 50 meters high and 30 meters wide.
Amazing! And I visited the Great Wall.
That sounds great.
Yeah. In my opinion, it’s the most fantastic man-made natural wonder in China.
5
Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
discussion eastern huge opinion though
1. In my ________, natural wonders are more interesting than man-made ones.
2. Victoria Falls, about 1,700 metres wide and 100 metres high, is ______.
opinion
huge
Task 4
P3
discussion eastern huge opinion though
3. Let’s join in the _________ about the wonders of the world.
4. I think the Giant’s Causeway on the ________ coast of Northern Ireland is a fantastic natural wonder.
5. To some degree, Lingling agrees with Tony about the Giant’s Causeway, ________ she thinks Victoria Falls is more fantastic.
discussion
eastern
though
Language
Points
objective
To learn to use the expressions:
join in in one’s opinion
more than millions of
fantastic though
Let’s call Wonders of the World and join in the discussion.
join in后跟的宾语一般是表示竞赛、游戏等活动的名词。join in 有时不跟宾语，表示“参加进来”。
1) They came out for their morning exercises. I also joined in.
他们出来晨练，我也加入进来。
2) Everyone likes to join in the activity.
每个人都愿意参加这一活动。
我们给《世界奇观》节目打电话，加入讨论吧。
【拓展】
join指“参加某个组织”,“加入到某些人中”；
join sb 结构与join in sth 结构可以合二为一：join sb in (doing) sth。
1. 想和我一块去游泳吗？
Do you want to __________ a swim
2. 杰克说：“你们的游戏看起来很有趣，我能
加入吗？”
Jack said, “Your game looks very interesting.
Can I _______ ”
3. 赵军5年前参的军。
Zhao Jun ______ the army five years ago.
join me in
join in
joined
Practise
2. And I think the Giant’s Causeway is the most fantastic natural wonder.
fantastic：extremely good. 常用在口语中，表示“了不起的；极好的”。
1) You won the ping-pong competition Fantastic!
你在乒乓球比赛中获胜了？太好了！
2) That was a fantastic goal.
那是一个极好的目标。
我认为巨人之堤是最神奇的自然奇观。
3. That sounds great, though I think Victoria Falls in Africa is even more fantastic.
听起来很神奇，但我认为非洲的维多利亚瀑布更壮观。
1) They're coming next week, though I don't know which day.
下周他们将会来，但我不知道具体是哪一天。
though: conj. ① but “但是”
2) Though /although the sun was not yet up, many people were already taking exercise in the square.
虽然太阳还没有升起，但很多人已经在广场上锻炼了。
3) The result might be unpleasant, though.
尽管结果可能不是令人愉快。
though : conj. ② despite the fact that “虽然；尽管”，与although同义，一般情况下可互换，although更正式。though还可作为副词，放在句末。
4. It’s about 1,700 metres wide and 100 metres high.
英语中表达物体的长、宽、高、深等概念时，一般使用 “数字+单位+long/wide/ high/deep/…” 的表达方式。
它们大约长1700米，高100米。
three metres wide 3米宽
nine metres deep 9米深
2,000 metres long 两千米长
828 metres;
162 storeys
Dubai Tower
6,670 kilometres
The Nile
The Dubai Tower is 828 metres high.
The Nile is 6,670 kilometres long.
5. But in my opinion, man-made wonders are more exciting than natural ones.
in one’s opinion
按某人的意见；据某人看来
但是在我看来，人造奇观比自然奇观更激动人心。
1) Who, in your opinion, is the best football player in the world today
在你看来，谁是当今世界上最好的足球运动员？
2) In my opinion, she should go to school tomorrow.
在我看来, 她明天应该去学校。
one可以起替代作用，它替代前面出现的名词，以避免重复。若替代的名词为复数，则用复数形式的替代词ones。
【注意】one与it的区别：
前者指前面出现的名词所表示的同类事物中的一个；后者明确地指上文所提到的那个事物。
Practise
1) I have lost my pen; I'm looking for it.
2) I have lost my pen; I think I must buy one.
(“one”指任意一支，同类)
6. Look at the Terracotta Army. It’s more than 2,000 years old.
1) More than two students have been concerned in this affair.
这件事情牵涉到两个以上的学生。
2) However, they often talk more than they do.
然而，他们常常说的比做的多。
3) He can not be more than fifty.
他不可能超过五十岁。
就说兵马俑吧，它们有两千多年的历史了。
more than: 多余；超出，比……多
7. It produces electricity for millions of
people in China.
millions of : “成千上万的；数百万的”，表示不确切数目，million 须用复数形式。
1) You can have an idea worth millions of dollars.
你的某一个想法有可能价值百万美元。
2) Millions of people were killed in World
War I.
千百万的人们在第一次世界大战中被杀死。
它为几百万中国人供电。
注意：million可用one，two，three 等数词来修饰，表示确切数目，此时million 用单数形式。
与million有同样用法的词有hundred，thousand，billion等。
1) 阿尔巴尼亚大约有300万人口。
Albania has around 3 million people.
2) 美国每年进口大约1.9亿磅茶叶。
America imports about 190 million pounds of tea a year.
加入；参加进来
超过
虽然，但是
据某人看来
大量的；无数的
100米宽
Review
join in
more than
though
in one’s opinion
millions of
100 metres wide
Ⅰ. 根据提示完成句子。
1. This magazine can help us learn more
about the _______ (nature) world.
2. Mary, can you tell me the differences
between “east” and “________ (east)”
3. We are going to have a __________　　　
(discuss) about the travel plans tonight.
4. Look! Gina is reading a book about
________ (奇观) of the world.
natural
eastern
Quiz
discussion
wonders
word 文档
链接
5. _______ (尽管) Tom is very young, he
knows a lot about early music.
6. —This is Europe’s largest _________　　　　　
(人造的) lake.
—Really It looks great.
7. The factory provides _________ (电) for
thousands of people.
8. Miss Yao spoke in a very ____ (响亮的) voice, so I could hear her clearly at the back.
Though
man-made
electricity
loud
Ⅱ. 根据中文翻译填空。
1. 我们加入讨论怎么样，迈克？
What about _______ ___ the discussion, Mike
2. 五一期间，数百万游客参观了长城。
_______ ____ tourists visited the Great Wall
during the May Day holiday.
3. 虽然史密斯先生70多岁了，但他看起来很强健。
Mr Smith is _____ _____ seventy years old,
but he looks very fit.
4. 在我看来，这是个现代建筑。
____ ____ ________, this is a modern building.
5.那张桌子长六英尺。
The table is ____ _____ ______.
Millions of
In my opinion
six feet long
joining in
more than
Pronunciation
and speaking
6
Listen and mark the pauses.
1. I’ve never seen it, so I’m not sure I agree with you.
2. That sounds great, though I think Victoria Falls in Africa is even more fantastic.
3. In my opinion, man-made wonders are more exciting than natural ones.
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∕
∕
∕
∕
∕
∕
Now listen again and repeat.
Task 5
P3
长的句子按照意
思的群落（即“意群”）适当断开、稍加停顿（即“停顿”）
，断开的几部分都具有相对完
整的意思。
分析：一些长的句子需要按照意思的群落（即“意群”）适当断开、稍加停顿（即“停顿”），断开的几部分都具有相对完整的意思。按照一般语法结构，可划分为以下意群单位：
(1)短句 (2) 名词短语 (3) 介词/不定式/分词短语 (4) 动词短语 (5) 主谓结构
(6)动宾结构 (7) 系表结构 (8) 动状结构 (9)主句-从句。
Role-play
1. Role play the conversation in groups;
2. Role play the conversation in front of the class
Let’s see which group does the best.
Tony and his friends are talking about __________________. Tony thinks _______ wonders are more interesting than _________ ones. He visited the Giant’s Causeway two years ago. He thinks it is the most _______ natural wonder. Lingling thinks Victoria Falls in Africa is even _______ fantastic. But in Betty’s _______, man-made wonders are more _______ than natural ones. Daming thinks so.
Fill in the blanks to finish the summary of the text and then try to retell it.
man-made
fantastic
more
opinion
exciting
Task 6
wonders of the world
natural
Work in pairs. Make a list of wonders of the world. Say which one you would like to visit and why.
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A: I like … because it’s very
interesting.
B: In my opinion, … is (even) more
interesting than…
C: I agree with you. And I think … is the most…
Talk
P3
A list of wonders of the world for reference:
The Colosseum of Rome 古罗马大斗兽场
The Great Wall of China 长城
Hagia Sophia 圣索菲亚大教堂
Stonehenge 巨石阵
Machu Picchu 马丘比丘
Taj Mahal 泰姬陵
Empire State Building 帝国大厦
The Victoria Falls 维多利亚瀑布
The Great Barrier Reef 大堡礁
CN Tower 加拿大国家电视塔
Northern Lights 北极光
Grand Canyon 大峡谷
A: Which wonder of the world would
you like to visit
B: I’d like to visit the Giant’s Causeway
because I love wild places by the sea.
C: I’d like to visit Victoria Falls because I think it’s more fantastic.
—Which wonder of the world would you
like to visit
—I’d like to visit the Terracotta Army
because I think man-made wonders are more exciting.
—Which wonder of the world would you
like to visit
—I’d like to visit the Great Wall because
Chinese ancient people built it 2,000 years ago. And I’m proud of being a Chinese.
Homework
1. Finish the exercises in Learning English.
2. Preview the passage A great wonder of the natural world on page 4.