1、Unit 7 Whats the highest mountain in the world?教學目標：1語言目標：掌握本單元重點詞匯及能用比較級和最高級談論各之最。2 技能目標：能聽懂和談論相關地理和自然的話題。3 情感目標：培養學生熱愛大自然，保護環境的意識。教學重點：短語： in size, in the world, 2 meters tall/long/wide, the biggest population, one of the biggest, the most popular question,句子： Whats the highest mountain in the wor

2、ld?Qomolangma.How long is Qomolangma?Its 8,844.43 meters high. Its higher than any other mountain.Which is the deepest salt lake in the world?The Caspian Sea is the deepest of all the salt lake.Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world?Yes, I did. Its much older than the US

3、.教學難點：形容詞和副詞的比較級和最高級變化規則和用法。 物體之間的對比。課時劃分：Period 1 Section A 1 1a 2dPeriod 2 Section A 2 3a-3cPeriod 3 Section A 3 Grammar focus-4cPeriod 4 Section B 1 1a-2ePeriod 5 Section B 2 3a-Self checkSection A 1 (1a 2d)Step 1 Presentationsquare n. 平方 meter n. 米 deep adj. 深的 desert n. 沙漠 population n. 人口 popu

4、lation n. 人口Asia n. 亞洲 tour v. n. 旅行 tourist n. 旅行者wall n. 墻 amazing adj. 令人大為驚奇的ancient adj. 古代的 wide adj. 寬的；寬闊和Step 2 Warming up1. Watch the photos and talk about them “How big/high/long/big is ? and help the students to answer: Its meters/kilometers/cm big/high/long/big.2. Look these photos and

5、practice the dialogue:e.g. A: How high is Qomolangma?B: Its 8,844.43 meters high.Step 3 1a Match the facts you know.Practice in pairs using the information in 1a.Qomolangma about 9,600,000 square kilometers in sizeThe Sahara1,025 meters deepThe Caspian Sea6,671 kilometers longThe Nile8,844.43 meters

6、 highStep 4 Explanation8,844.43 meters high. 8,844.43米高 meters high (long, wide)米高（長,寬)。英語表示“有多長（寬，高）”時，一般將數詞和數量單位放在表示長寬高的形容詞前作狀語。e.g. The wall is 1.7 metres wide.Step 5 Listening 1. 1b Listen and complete the sentences.1) Qomolangma is _ than any other mountain in the world. 2) The Sahara is _ dese

7、rt in the world.3) The Caspian Sea is _ of all the salt lakes.4) The Nile is _ river in the world.2. 2a Listen and number the facts (1- 4) in the order you hear them.2b Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box.6,300 5,000 5,464 300_ The Yangtze River is about _ kilometer

8、s long and the Yellow River is _ kilometers long._ China has the biggest population in the world. Its a lot bigger than the population of the US._ China is over _ years old. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even _ years old._ China is almost as big as the US, but it is the big

9、gest country in Asia.Step 6 Practice 2c Make conversations in pairs.Examples A: Did you know that China if one of the oldest countries in the world?B: Yes, I did. Its much older than my country.Step 7 2d Read the conversation and answer the questions:1) Which is the biggest man-made objects in the w

10、orld？2) Which is the most famous part of the Ming Great Wall?Step 8 Language points and summary1. Fell free to ask me anything on todays Great Wall tour. 在今天的長城游中，大家盡管問我任何問題，不要拘束。fell free是英語口語中一個常用表達。若有人讓你feel free to do something, 就是讓你無需拘束，只管按照自己的意愿去做某事。e.g. A: Can I use your bathroom? 我可以用一下你的衛生間

11、嗎？B: Yes, feel free. 可以，請隨意。2. As far as I know, there are no other man-made objects as big as this. 據我所知，再沒有像它這樣大的人造物體了。1) as far as I know是一個固定的表達方式，還可以說so far as I know, 意思是“據我所知”。e.g. As far as I know, Jacks got twin sisters. 就我所知，杰克有一對孿生姐妹。 Theyre not coming today, so far as I know. 他們今天不來了 就我所知是這樣的。2) 句中man-made是一個合成形容詞，意為“人造的”。像這樣與-made復合而成的形容詞不止一個。常見的有：handmade (手工制作的)、homemade(家庭制作的)、machine-made(機制的)、tailor-made(量體定制的；特制的；定做的)，用以描述產品的生產或制造手段，特點等，甚至還有像self-made (自學而成的；自我奮斗而成的；天然形成的)可以用來描述人。 e.g. We only sell homemade bread and cakes, and homemade wine. 我們只賣私家烘焙的面包、蛋糕、以及家釀葡萄酒