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Module 5 Cartoons

Unit 3 Language in use

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Lead in

到目前为止，我们已经学过用多种时态来表达行为或状态，本模块我们重点学习的是一般现在时，一般过去时和现在完成时。如何区分这三种时态呢？一起来学习本课时的内容吧。

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Language practiceSnoopy lives in his own private world.

Tintin appeared in China in the 1980s.

He has been popular for over eighty years.

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本模块的主要短语、句型：

1. It’s time to do sth. 该做某事了

2. Why don’t we + 动词原形？ = Why not + 动词原形？为什么不……呢？

3. keep doing sth. 坚持做某事

4. can’t help doing sth. 禁不住做某事

5. win the hearts of 赢得……的心

6. all over the world 遍及全世界

7. a group of 一群；一组

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8. expect to do sth. 期望做某事

9. more than 多于

10. in the 1980s 在 20 世纪 80 年代

11. as well as 和；既……又……

12. ask for 请求，要求

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Daming: Hi, Tony. What are you reading?Tony: Tintin. It’s fantastic. (1) _______you _____________(ever read) a Tintin book?Daming: No, I (2)______________ (never read) a Tintin story. (3) ____________(be) they popular?Tony: Yes, they (4) __________(be) popular for more than eighty years. The first Tintin story (5)___________ (appear) in 1929.Daming: What does Tintin do?Tony: He (6) ___________(work) for a newspaper and he (7)_________________(have) lots of exciting experiences.Daming: And (8)_________ the stories _______(have) happy endings?Tony: Oh, yes,they always do.Daming: Sounds great! Do you mind if I borrow your book?

Have ever read

have never readAre

have been appeared

works has

do have

Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words in brackets.

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When I was young, I (1) ____________(not like ） green vegetables. The only vegetable I (2)________(eat) was potatoes. I was quite small and not very strong, so I was not very good at sport. Then when I (3) _________(watch) television one day I saw the cartoon Popeye. When popeye stands next to Bluto, he (4) _______(look) small and weak, and when they fight, he always (5) ________(lose). Then he eats some green vegetables. His arms (6)_________(grow) thicker. He becomes stronger and he wins his fights. The next day I (7) ________(play) football at school. So I asked my mother for some green vegetables. I (8) _______(score) three times and we won the match! I (9) ___________(love) green vegetables ever since.

Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets. didn’t like

ate

watched

looks loses

grows

played

scoredhave loved

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invent laugh mess own private satisfy ugly

Many people love cartoons because they are great fun. Parents and children (1) ________ together as Monkey King makes a terrible (2) ________ or Shrek,the (3)______ green animal, sings a song. Cartoon heroes often lives in a(n) (4)______ world of their (5)_______. Artists (6)__________ good cartoon heroes as well as bad people. The heroes always win, and their stories (7) __________us and help us feel safe.

Complete the passage with the words in the box.

laugh

messugly

private

own invent

satisfy

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Read the passage and complete the sentences.

The first cartoons appeared in newspapers. They told

stories using pictures. The first photographed cartoon film

(1906) was about humorous faces. In the film, an artist drew

pictures of two faces on a blackboard. The faces came to life.

They smiled and a small dog jumped through a ring.

There were a lot of animals in early cartoons. Artists

created Felix the Cat to satisfy the growing number of cartoon

fans.

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Walt Disney started to make films in the 1920s. Some of his

earliest films were about a famous story, Alice in Wonderland,

but in Disney’s films it was called Alice in Cartoon Land. Walt

Disney’s most famous cartoon character was Mickey Mouse.

He appeared in 1928, first in a black-and-white film without

sound, then very soon after that in a talking film and later in

colour. A Mickey Mouse film was the first cartoon film with

sound to become really popular.

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Today, over a hundred years later, cartoon films are

still popular with children and older people.They will

probably be popular for many more years in the future.

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1906

1. The first cartoon film was about _______________.

2. The faces _____________________.

3. A small dog ____________________. 1920s

4. Walt Disney started to ___________ in the 1920s.

5. A Mickey Mouse film was the first cartoon film __________ to become really popular.

humorous facescame to life and smiled

jumped through a ring

make films

with sound

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children and older people

many more

Today and in the future

6. Cartoon films are still popular with

_______________________.

7. They will probably be popular for ____________

years in the future.

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mess

private

ead

nvented

augh

Practice

Ⅰ根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成单词。1. The children’s room was in a terrible _______( 杂乱 ). 

2. Please follow the guider. She will l _____ us to the

Summer Palace.

3. I’m not going to tell you about it because it’s a  

__________  （私人的） conversation.

4. —I think Bell i________ the telephone in the 1900s.

—I agree with you.

5. —It’s not polite to l_____ at the people in trouble.

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Ⅱ. 阅读理解。

J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved

reading, and wrote her first story Rabbit when she was

only six years old. She studied French at university, then

worked as a secretary （ 秘 书 ） in London. She had the

idea for Harry Potter when she was on a train. “Harry just

walked into my head,” she said later. She started writing

the first book Harry Potter the next day.

In 1992 she went to Portugal and lived there for three

years. She wrote Harry Potter in the morning, and worked

as an English teacher in the afternoon and evening.

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She got married to a Portuguese TV journalist and had

a daughter called Jessica.

Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh, in

Scotland. She was unemployed （ 失 业 的 ） at that time,

and wrote in cafés because they were warmer than her

small flat （公寓） . After five years she finished the first

book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The book

was sold millions of copies all over the world, and Joanne

Kathleen Rowling became very famous. She is now very

rich, but she still writes her books in cafés!

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1. In which year did J.K. Rowling write her first story?

_______________________________

2. What was her first job?

_______________________________

3. What did she spend her afternoons and evenings doing

in Portugal?

_____________________________________________

4. Why did she write in cafés?

______________________________________________

5. What is she famous for?

______________________________________________

根据短文内容，回答问题。

In 1971.

Secretary.

Working as an English teacher.

Because they were warmer than her small flat.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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1.Finish all the exercises in Workbook.

2.Master the key points.

Homework

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Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets

his mind to it.

世上无难事，只怕有心人。