课件31张PPT。 Module 6 Old and New
Culture CornerTeaching Aims
1. Make some notes about the Empire State Building.
2.Why there are so many tall buildings in the world?the Empire State Building
帝国大厦Taipei, 101
台北101大楼 Petronas Towers
吉隆坡石油双塔Sears Tower
西尔斯大厦 Jin Mao Building
金茂大厦 International Finance Centre
国际金融中心CITIC Plaza
中信广场Shun Hing Square
信兴广场(地王大厦)Central Plaza
中央广场Answer the following questions.
What is the tallest building in the world?
What is the tallest building in the US?
What is the tallest building in mainland?
When were most of the tallest buildings in the world built?
When were the World Trade Centre destroyed?Read the table on page 59 and answer the questions.
1. How many of the World’s Top 10 tallest buildings are in China?
6 of them.
2. How high is the Sears Tower in Chicago?
442m.
3. In which year was Jin Mao Building in Shanghai built?
In 1999.102
1931
6,500
5
500The Empire State Building is 102 storeys high.It was completed in May 1931.The whole building has 6,500 windows.From the observatory at the top, on a clear day you can see 5 US states.Lightning strikes the Empire State Building about 500 times a year.Read and find out the related information about the following figures.Choose the best answers according to the passage.
1 .The writer’s purpose in writing this text is to ______.
A. share some information about the Empire State Building
B. tell readers to visit the Empire State Building
C. describe the events happening to the Empire State Building
D. introduce the tallest buildings in the worldAC2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?______ A. The building was as weighty as the earth that was dug out for the construction. B. Facts have proved that the Empire State Building remains the tallest building in the USA. C. From the observatory on the 86th floor of the building you can get a beautiful 50-mile view in a clear day. D. The Empire State Building was built to make people have a better view of the city.Language points: Point out and explain some difficulties in the passage.
1. in the 1990s and in the twenty-first century
2. in the construction of the building
3. on a clear day
4. on a foggy day
5. The building has 88 storeys.1. It was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Centre was built in New York in 1972.它一直是世界上最高的建筑,直到1972年纽约的世贸中心建成。
until与till 表示“直到”之意,引导一个时间状语从句。当主句动词为延续性动词时,句子用肯定形式;当主句动词为非延续性动词时,句子用否定形式。He waited until/till his mother came back.
他一直等到妈妈回来。
I won’t leave here until you ask me to.
你叫我走我才走。2. Lightning strikes the Empire State Building about 500 times a year. 每年帝国大厦遭雷电袭击达500次。
1) lightning n. 闪电
lightning rod 避雷针 a flash of lightning 一道闪电2) strike vt. (灾害、疾病等)突然袭击
A very big earthquake struck Japan this year.
今年一次非常强大的地震袭击了日本。
Beijing was struck by a terrible sandstorm.
北京遭到了骇人的沙尘暴袭击。3. crash v.碰撞;坠毁,飞机失事;(计算机)死机
n.碰撞;坠落;撞击声;爆炸声
【拓展】with a crash 轰隆(哗啦,咔嚓)一声
crash into/through 把……撞碎;撞到(进)……
go crashing into 冲进……The plane crashed into the skyscraper on Sept. 11.
9月11号那天,飞机轰然撞到摩天大楼上。
The car hit the tree with a crash, causing two deaths and one injury.
汽车轰隆一声撞到树上,导致两死一伤。
The system crashed this morning, so we haven’t been able to do anything.
今天上午,系统瘫痪了,因此我们什么也做不了了。1. They need _ ____ _______ __ (大量的) money to buy a new house.
2. What does this sentence mean? It doesn’t _____ ______ (有意义) to me. 【达标训练】 Fill in the blanks with proper phrase.a large amount ofmake sense3. The truck is ______ _____ (装满了) bananas.
4. Today more and more people are ________ ____ (患/忍受) cancer.loaded withsuffering from5. This temple _____ ____ (追溯到) the Qin Dynasty.
6. He ______ ___ (梦想) becoming a famous film star when he was very little and his dream has now ______ ____ (实现了).dates fromdreamt ofcome true7. The military plane ______ _____(撞到) a mountain in Mongolia.
8. The drop of A-bomb ________ __ ____ __ (结束了) the Second World War.crashed intobrought an endto1.The Great Wall is ______________________________ __________ (曾经修建的最长的人工建筑).
2. At the time it was built, Hong Kong Airport was _________________________________________
(有史以来最大的民用建筑工程项目). the longest man-made structure ever builtthe biggest civil engineering project of all timeComplete sentences.3. The dam will generate electricity ________(等于) about 40 million tons of coal ___________________________ _________(而不造成这么多空气污染).
4. _____________(不幸的是), burning coal causes serious air pollution and _______________________ (加快全球变暖).5. The dam will provide electric power for ____________
_______________(华中).equal to without causing so much air pollutionUnfortunatelyincreases global warmingthe centralregion of ChinaHomework
Get more information about the world’s top 10 tallest buildings(2004).A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。