(共25张PPT)
Unit 7
What’s the highest mountain
in the world
Section A 2a-2d
Do you know any geographical facts about China
Yangtze River
Yellow River
How long are the two famous rivers
What's the population of China
人口数量
How long is the Great Wall
Great Wall
Let’s brainstorm.
What can you learn from this picture
China has the biggest population /p pju le n/.
How old is China
It’s over 5,000 years old.
What is the longest river in China
The Yangtze River.
Read the numbers.
6300
six thousand and three hundred
5000
5465
300
five thousand
five thousand, four hundred and sixty-five
three hundred
Game
Read the missing number quickly.
What is the largest/smallest number in the game
1,000
30,000
9,600,000
1,025
6,671
1,000,6
8,888
6,300
300
5,465
5,000
7,215
Listen and number the facts [1-4] in the order you hear them.
2a
6,300 5,000 5,464 300
____ The Yangtze River is about ________ kilometers long and the Yellow River is ________ kilometers long.
____ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US.
____ 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 the biggest country in Asia.
4
2
1
3
n. 亚洲
长江
Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box.
2b
6,300 5,000 5,464 300
____ The Yangtze River is about ________ kilometers long and the Yellow River is ________ kilometers long.
____ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US.
____ 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 the biggest country in Asia.
6,300
5,464
5,000
300
基数词 + 单位词 + 形容词
2
1
3
4
Let’s say with the information in chart.
Country: China
Age: It’s over 5000 years old.
Population: It has the biggest population.
Size: It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size.
Famous rivers: the Yellow River; the Yangtze River
China is one of __________ countries in the world. It’s over ____ years old. It has the ______ population and it’s about _________ square kilometers in size.
the oldest
5000
biggest
9,600,000
Let’s say with the information in chart.
________________ is the longest river in China. It’s about _____ kilometers long. ______________ is the second longest river, and it’s about ______________ long.
The Yangtze River
The Yellow River
6300
5464 kilometers
Country: China
Age: It’s over 5000 years old.
Population: It has the biggest population.
Size: It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size.
Famous rivers: the Yellow River; the Yangtze River
It’s about ___________________________ in size. Mississippi River is the _____ longest river in the world. It’s _____ kilometers long.
6262
9370,000 square kilometers
fourth
Country: the US
Age: It’s about 300 years old.
Population: It has less population than China.
Size: It’s about 9,370,000 square kilometers in size. It is about the same size as China.
Other famous facts: Mississippi River is the fourth longest river. It’s about 6,262 kilometers long.
Let’s say with the information in chart.
Role-play the conversation.
2d
Guide: Feel free to ask me anything on today’s
Great Wall tour.
Tourist 1: How long is the wall
Guide: Ah, the most popular question! If we’re only talking about the parts from the Ming Dynasty, it’s about 8,850 kilometers long. This makes it the longest wall in the world.
Tourist 2: Wow, that’s amazing! Why did the
ancient emperors build the wall
Guide: The main reason was to protect their part
of the country. As you can see, it’s quite tall and wide. As far as I know, there are no other man-made objects as big as this.
Tourist 3: Is Badaling part of the Ming Great Wall
Guide: Yes, it’s the most famous part.
Role-play the conversation
Tourist 1
Tourist 2
Tourist 3
The Great Wall is about 8, 850 kilometers long. This makes it the longest wall in the world.
...
...
1. population
population意为“人口数量”，谓语动词要用单数形式。询问人口数量时要用“What’s the population of ... ”提问，而不用how many或how much等提问。表示人口“多”要用large 或 big；表示人口“少”要用small。
Language points
这个城市的人口是600万。
The population of this city is six million．
中国的人口比美国的人口多很多。
The population of China is much larger than that of the USA.
2. man-made
为合成形容词，意为“人造的”。英语中像这样与-made复合而成的形容词还有：handmade(手工制作的)、homemade (家庭制作的)、machine-made (机制的)等，用以描述产品的生产或制造手段、特点等。
这种鱼都是自家做的。
This kind of fish is homemade.
3. Feel free to ask me anything on today’s 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 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 computer
我可以用一下你的电脑吗？
B: Yes, feel free.可以，请随意。
4. 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“据我所知”。
As far as I know, China is a very large country.
就我所知，中国是一个非常大的国家。
They are very excited, so far as I know.
他们特别激动— 就我所知是这样的。
5. Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters high.
It is … meters high (long, wide…).
它……米高(长,宽……)。
英语表示“有多长(宽，高……)”时，一般将数词和数量单位放在表示长宽高的形容词前作状语。
这座山高三千多米。
The mountain is more than three thousand meters high.
它离我们只有三十八万公里。
It is only 380,000 kilometers away.
这座绿色长城长7,000公里。
The Green Great Wall is 7,000 kilometers long.
much higher 意为“高得多”。在形容比较级前还可以用much, even, a little, still ,a lot, less等修饰词表示程度。
6. It’s much older than my country.
比我的国家更古老。
他比我跑得更快。He runs even faster than I.
日本土地面积只比德国大一点儿。
Japan is a little larger than Germany in area.
7. 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。
1. It is … meters high (long, wide…).
2. What’s the population of ...
3. much, even, a little, still, a lot, less+形容词比较级
4. as far as I know…
as / so far as I can remember / I can tell / I can see
as far as 远至
5. 合成词man-made
Summary
