unit 7 what’s the highest mountain in the world?
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Unit 7What’s the highest
mountain in the world?
视频引入• 地球总体情况介绍视频 2～ 3分钟
The Yangtze River
6,300
kilometers long
The Yellow River
5,464
kilometers long
How long is the river?
Caspian Sea
[‘kæspiən]
1,025 meters deep
['mi:tər]
How deep is the sea?
the Sahara Desert [sə’hɑ:rə]
9,600,000
square kilometers
(in size)
the Nile [naɪl]
6,671
kilometers long
How long is the river?How large is the desert?
The Pacific Ocean [pə’sɪfɪk] ['əʊʃn]
The Pacific Ocean is the widest sea.[waɪd]
Which is the widest sea?
Which continent( 大洲 ) has the largest population?
[,pɒpju’leɪʃn]
Asia[ 'eiʃə ]
[‘kæspiən] [naɪl]
[sə’hɑ:rə]
['mi:tər]
['əʊʃn][waɪd]
[pə’sɪfɪk]
[,pɒpju’leɪʃn]
[ 'eiʃə ]
• Caspian sea n. 里海• the Nile n. 尼罗• the Sahara Desert n.
撒哈拉沙漠• meter n. 米• ocean n. 海洋• wide adj. 宽的• Pacific ocean 太平洋 • population n. 人口• Asia n. 亚洲
Match the facts you know
• Qomolangma
• The Sahara
• The Caspian Sea
• The Nile
• about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size
• 1,025 meters deep• 6,671 kilometers
long• 8,844.43 meters
high
How to read the numbers• 925nine hundred and twenty five• 5,925five thousand nine hundred and twenty five• 15,925fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty five• 115,925 one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred
and twenty five• 3,115,925three million one hundred and fifteen thousand
nine hundred and twenty five
3,115,925 three million one hundred and fifteen th
ousand nine hundred and twenty five
结论：英文数字每 ______ 位一个逗号，逗号内为一个数位级，千位及以上从低到高级别依次是 ___________ 、 __________同一个级别内仍用按千以内的读法读，后面加上相应逗号的级别即可，级别之间 _______ （需要 / 不需要）连接。
3
thousand million
不需要
7,900 4,462
461,347 8,377,920
27,900,005 779,022,600
Write a number on your paper. Read it to the class and see who can write fast and correctly.
Try to read the numbers
• 1. Qomolangma is ______ than any other mountain in the world.
• 2. The Sahara is __________ desert in the world.
• 3. The Caspian Sea is _________ of all the salt lakes.
• 4. The Nile is _________ river in the world.
Listen and complete the sentences.
higher
the biggest
the deepest
the longest
Close your books. Listen and answer
• 1. What are the people doing when they have this conversation?
• 2. When did Badaling part of the
Great Wall build?
They are traveling on the Great Wall.
It was built in the Ming Dynasty.
The Great Wall [wɔ:l] It is 8,858 kilometers long. The a______ e
mperors built it to p_______ the country. _______________( 据我所知 ), it is one of the most a________buildings in the world, so many _______(n.) come to see it.
ancientprotect
As far as I knowamazing
tourists
ancient adj. ['eɪnʃənt]
protect v.[prə'tekt]protection n.
tourist n. tour n.
amazed adj. [ə’meɪzd]
amazing adj.[ə'meɪzɪŋ]
Homework
• 1. Reading
• 2. Students’ Times
•
• 3. Dictation P49~P50
Qomolangma [‘tʃəʊməʊ,lɑ:ŋmə] 8844.43meters high It runs along the ____
________ part of China. ______ clouds cover the top and the weather is so _______ that it’s hard for people to _____ ___ air (breath) while climbing. So it has the worst weather _________ .
southwestern Thick
freezing
take in
condition
Many climbers ________ to reach the top. The successors ________ Chinese. People want to _________ themselves ___ ____ __ difficulties. They show us the spirit that we should never give up trying to ________ our dreams. They also show that humans can sometimes be stronger than the _____ of _____ .
succeedv.includev.
challengev. in face of
achievev.
forcen.naturen.
force, include, succeed, challenge, achieve, nature, in face of
It is huge.
It can sing songs.
It can jump high out of the water.
People catch them for their meat, fat and oil.
whale [weɪl] n. [ɔɪl] n.
[hju:dʒ] adj.
This is Chengdu Research Base of [rɪ'sɜ:tʃ] v./n. Giant Panda.There are now fewer than 2000 pandas liv
ing in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so are in zoos or research centers or other countries.
The Chinese government even plant more bamboo trees so that there will be more forests for pandas to live in.
[‘gʌvənmənt] n.[,bæm'bu:] n.
The remaining (n.)
(of the building)
remaining[rɪ’meɪnɪŋ] adj.
• There are many keepers work in the center. At 9:00 a.m., most of the baby pandas are already awake and hungry. So when they see the keepers, they run over with ________ and some of them even walk into their friends and ____ ____.
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excitmentfall
over
[ə'weɪk]