新目标版八年级英语下册unit7 What’s the highest mountain in

Review1. Review the important phrases and sentences. 2. Students show their conversations 3. Ask students to read the new words.

Teaching aims New words and sentences Practise listening skills Talk about some famous places using superlatives

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task 1

2a Listen and number the facts(1- 4) in the order you hear them.

6,300

5,000

5,464

300

4 The Yangtze River is about ____ kilometers long ___ and the Yellow River is ___ kilometers long. 2 China has the biggest population in the world. ___ It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US. 1 China is over ___ years old. It has a much longer ___ history than the US. The US is not even ___ years old. 3 China is almost as big as the US, but it is the ___ biggest country in Asia.

Task 2

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 _______ 6,300 kilometers long and the Yellow River is ______ 5,464 kilometers long. ___ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US.

___ China is over ______ 5,000 years old. It has a much longer history than the 300 years US. The US is not even ___ old. ___ China is almost as big as the US, but it is the biggest country in Asia.

Task 32c Make conversations using the information in 2a.A: Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world? B: Yes, I did. it’s much older than my country.

A: Did you know that Yangtze River is the longest river in China? B: Yes, I did. It’s 6,300 meters long. B: Wow! That’s long!

The Great Wall

中国的长城共有近一万公里，东起河北秦皇岛 的山海关，西到嘉峪关，这是明代修筑长城的两个 最大关口，北京境内的长城有600余公里，比较著 名的有八达岭长城、金山岭长城、司马台长城、慕 田峪长城、居庸关长城和箭扣长城等。

Task 42d Read the conversation and answer the questions: 1. Which is the biggest man-made objects in the world?

The Great Wall. 2. Which is the most famous part of the Ming Great Wall?Badaling part of the wall.

1. Fell free to ask me anything on today’s Great Wall tour. 在今天的长城游中，大家尽管问我任何 问题，不要拘束。 fell free是英语口语中一个常用表达。 若有人让你feel free to do something, 就是让你无需拘束，只管按照自己的意 愿去做某事。

2. As far as I know, there are no manmade objects as big as this. 据我所知，再没有像它这样大的人造 物体了。as far as I know是一个固定的表达方 式，还可以说so far as I know,意思 是“据我所知”。

feel free the most popular question talk about the Ming Dynasty the ancient emperors the main reason as far as I know the Ming Great Wall

How long is the wall? It’s about 8,850 kilometers long. This makes it the longest wall in the world. It’s the most famous part.

A: To mem

orize the important phrases and sentences. B: To make some dialogues using superlatives C: Preview the passage in 3a