Unit 2

Lingling’s uncle told us not to worry

1. Do you enjoy the beautiful scene?

2. What words can you use to describe them?

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Zhangjiajie National Park张家界森林公园

Suoxiyu Nature Reserve索溪峪自然保护区

Tianzi Mountain Natural Reserve天子山自然保护区

Wulingyuan Scenic Area

Work in pairs. What do you know about Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area?

Can you answer the questions? The form in Part 6 can help you.

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1.Where is it?2.How large is it?3. What is there to see?

4. Where can you stay?

5. What animals can you see?6. What’s the most famous

thing to see?

It’s in Hunan province.It’s about 390 square kilometres.

There are mountains, rivers, forests , animals.

We can stay in hotels or tents in the park Monkeys and other

animals.We can see shapes of tall rocks, rare trees and animals, beautiful fog.

Listen to Sally’s letter and answer

the questions

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1.Where is Sally ?

2.What happened on that night?

3. Where did they go this morning?

Read and answer the questions in Part 4

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1. Is Sally enjoying herself in

Wulingyuan Scenic Area?

2. What things worried her on

that night? 3. Was she pleased with her trip up Mo

unt Tianzi? Why?4. What other dangers were there duri

ng her visit?

What did Sally say in her letter?

---She said she was visiting Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area?

---She said (that)…. ---She told her parents (that )…

Practice

Answer the questions about the words in the box.discover fresh jump magic

path plant river strange

1. Who knew about the area before Wu Guanzhong discovered it?

2. Apart from fresh water, what other kind of water can you find?

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3. Where was the monkey before and after it jumped?

4. What’s magic about the strange rocks?

5. Is it better to walk along a path or to climb over rocks and pushing through trees and plants?

6. What do you think is in the rivers and

where do they go?

1.time off ( 正式规定的 ) 休假 , 放假

You are so tired. You’d better take some time off .

2. be famous for 因…而著名

China is famous for its Great Wall.

He is famous for pop songs

3.as if 仿佛 , 好像He looked at me as if he had known all

about it.

She works as if she never knew tiredness.

The girl seemed as if she was in the sky.

4. wake up 醒了 / wake sb up 叫醒… I woke up at 6 this morning.

Please wake me up at 7.

5. pull 拖 , 拉 . ( 反意词 :push)

The horse is pulling a car.

*pull …out (of) 把 .. 从…拉出来They pulled the child out of the hole.

*pull …up (from) 把 ... 从…拉上来They pulled the boat up from the water.

*pull…down 毁坏 ; 拆毁The old house was pulled down.

Writing

Read the information about Wulingyuan

Scenic Area.

Size

Where it is

390 square kilometers

about 400 kilometers

from Changsha

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What to see

unusual mountains (3,000),

small rivers (800) deep

canyons, forests, 1000 kinds

of plants, hundreds of

animals: leopard, tarpon

Macaque

What’s special

Where to stay

shape of tall rocks, rare

trees and animals, beautiful fog

hotels or tents in the park

Which is more factual and which is more

personal: the passage or the information?

Listen and read the passage 3