Unit 9
Have you ever been to a museum?
Section A 3a-3c
--- _____you ever _______ a _____?
--- Yes, I______.
--- Me,______.
zoo
Have
been to
have
too
zoo
Review
_____ you ____ ______ a __________?
No, I__________.
Me__________.
Have
been to
water park
haven’t
neither
ever
water park
__________________________________?
___________. ___________. (肯定回答)
____________. ___________. (否定回答)
Have you ever been to a space museum
Yes, I have
Me, too
No, I haven’t
Me neither
space museum
Objectives
1. To understand the passage and find the most interesting thing about each museum
2. To get the specific information from the passage
3. To learn new words: unbelievable, progress, rapid, unusual, toilet, encourage, social, peaceful, perfect, itself, collect…
the American Computer Museum
the International Museum of Toilets
the Hangzhou National Tea Museum
Let’s know about them.
Have you ever heard of these museums?
the American Computer Museum
位于硅谷的“计算机历史博物馆"(Computer History Museum),成立于1996年。诸多计算机历史上独一无二的原始机器和模型汇聚于此,构建出一个独特的世界。据统计,该博物馆目前已经收藏超过3500多件“史前古玩物”(当然是对计算机历史而言),3000多卷胶卷和录像带,5000多幅照片和3,500余本归类目录。
国际马桶博物馆位于印度新德里的苏拉布国际马桶博物馆,建立于1995年,被誉为世界上最古怪的博物馆之一。苏拉布国际马桶博物馆建于1995年,创立者是宾德什瓦·帕塔克博(Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak),帕塔克博士致力于在卫生条件极差的印度推广现代的卫生系统,以改善印度平民的生活条件。
the International Museum of Toilets
the Hangzhou National Tea Museum
中国茶叶博物馆位于西湖茶乡龙井村南高峰下双峰村龙井路88号,占地约3.7公顷,是以茶和茶文化为主题的国家级博物馆。博物馆的主体由几组错落有致的建筑组成,四周茶园簇拥,以花廊、曲径、假山、池沼、水榭等相勾连,富有江南园林的独特韵味和淳朴清新、回归自然的田园风光。
Read the article of 3a with these questions.
3a
1. Which three museums do the students talk about?
2. What do you think is the most interesting thing about each museum?
They talk about the American Computer Museum, the International Museum of Toilets, and the Hangzhou National Tea Museum.
the American Computer Museum — the special computer that can play chess even better than humans.
the International Museum of Toilets— many different kinds of toilets.
the Hangzhou National Tea Museum— the tea art performances.
What does Ken say about the American Computer Museum?
1)The most interestingmuseum:______________________
2)They have information about a.___________________
b.___________________
3)Technology has progressed in such a rapid way:
a. the old computers were_____________
b. a special computer could
_______________________________
c. I wonder ________________________________________________
American Computer Museum
different computers
who invented them
much bigger
play chess even better than humans
how much more computers will be able to do in the future
Read Para 1 carefully and finish the tasks.
toilets
different kinds
history and
development
ways to improve
It also encourages governments and social (社会的) groups
to think about ways to improve toilets in the future.
A. 挑战 B. 鼓励
What can we learn at the International Museum of Toilets?
Read Para2 carefully and finish the tasks.
Read Para3 carefully and finish the tasks.
1.What does the tea art performance show?
It shows how to make a perfect cup of tea with beautiful tea sets.
2.Who loves drinking tea and collecting tea sets?
The writer’s Grandpa.
3.Why is the Hangzhou National Tea Museum a nice place to enjoy tea?
a ___________________ place
(2) watching the tea preparation is just
____________________ drinking tea.
relaxing and peaceful
as enjoyable as
1. What does Ken say about the American Computer Museum?
2. What can we learn at the International Museum of Toilets?
3. Why is the Hangzhou National Tea Museum a nice place to enjoy tea?
3b
make (something) better —
become better —
uncommon —
quiet —
made —
quick —
Which of the underlined words in the passage have the following meanings?
peaceful
improve
progressed
unusual
rapid
invented
P67
3c
Language points
They have information about different computers and who invented them.
invent v. 发明,创造。invention是invent的名词形式。inventor也是名词,它的意思为“发明家、发明者”。
★ invent意为“发明;创造”,指发明世界上原本不存在的东西。
★find意为“找到;发现”,指寻找的结果。
★discover意为“发现”,指发现原来就存在但一直未被认知的东西。
根据句意选用invent, find或discover的适当形式填空。
1. At last, I ________ my key under the bed.
2. Scientists have ____________ more than 100 million such galaxies.
3. My grandfather _________ a strange machine last year.
found?
discovered?
invented
It’s unbelievable that technology has progressed in such a rapid way!
It's unbelievable that … 令人难以置信的是…
progress v.进步,进展;n.进步。make progress 取得进步,取得进展;make progress in 在……方面取得进步。
rapid: “快速的;飞快的”,表达“发生或做得极快,用时短暂”,与fast, quick同为近义词,但更加正式。
(1) 真是令人难以置信,她用很短的时间完成了那项工作。 ________________________________________
(2) 他取得了如此快的进步,他的父母都很高兴。
____________________________________________________
It’s unbelievable that she has finished the work in a short time.
He made such?rapid?progress that his parents were very glad. ??
Language points
It also encourages governments and social groups to think about ways to improve toilets in the future.
encourage常译作“鼓励;鼓舞;激发”、“怂恿、支持”、“劝告”等。encouragement n. 鼓励;激励
*当宾语为人时,其句型结构为encourage sb to do…鼓励……做……,用动词不定式作补语。
improve作及物动词时,意为“改进;改善;提高”;作不及物动词时,意为“有改进;好一些”。
(1) 我妈妈总是鼓励我尽最大努力。 ________________________________________
(2) 为了提高我的英语成绩,布朗小姐给了我很多帮助。__________________________________________________
My mother always encourages me to try me best.
To improve my English, Miss Brown helped me a lot.
Language points
I wonder how much more computers will be able to do in the future.
wonder意为“想知道”,后接if 或whether引导的宾语从句时,表委婉的请求或疑问。wonder后还可以接who,what,why,how much 等引导的宾语从句或“疑问词+不定式”结构。
【拓展】wonder n.奇迹。wonderful adj.精彩的
be able to 能够做某事。强调通过努力而获得的能力。
(1) 他想知道发生了什么事。
_______________________________
(2)我就想知道他们是否安全抵达了。__________________________________________
(3)几小时之后,他也能用英语唱这首歌。____________________________________________________
He wondered what had happened.
I just wonder if they’ve arrived safely.
He will be able to sing this song in English in a few minutes, too.
Language points
1.进步如此迅速
2.一个不同寻常的博物馆
3.厕所的发展
3.鼓励政府去改善它
4.一个平静的地方
5.茶艺表演
6.收集茶具
7.泡一杯极好的茶
8.发明电脑
9.社会组织
10.一项发明
progress in such a rapid way
an unusual museum
the development of toilets
encourage the government to improve it
a peaceful place
a tea art performance
collect tea sets
make a perfect cup of tea
invent computers
social groups
an invention
Translate the phrases into English.
Retell us with the help of these key words.
Name How What to see What have learned
ACM interesting different computers old, special
Information…invent
technology progressed
play chess
IMT unusual kinds of toilets history and development
encourages … ways to improve...
HNTM relaxing
peaceful tea art …
tea sets
tea preparation It’s enjoyable to…
realized why…
1.— I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
—Oh, not at all. I just ____ here.
A. have been B. had been C. was D. am
2. She encouraged him ____ to her.
A. talk B. talks C. talking D. to talk
3. My mother often encourages me ____ English
as much as possible.
A. speak B. speaks
C. speaking D. to speak
A
D
D
课时重点回顾
Summary
rapid 快速的;飞快的
encourage sb. to do sth.
a perfect cup of tea
wonder后面常接由what,how,who或if / whether (是否)引导的宾语从句
- able 形容词后缀,可加在动词之后,表示“可……的;能够……的”
1.发挥想象,连词成文。 (50-100字)
unbelievable, progress, rapid, unusual, encourage, social, peaceful, perfect, collect
2.Preview the new words and expressions.
3.Preview the Grammar Focus.
Homework