2013年最新外研版八年级上册M2_U1-It's_taller_than_many_ot

Shanghai

Xi’an

Hangzhou

Shenzhen

Module 2

Unit 1

It’s taller than many other buildings.

Read the words and expressions loudly.

Words and expressionshill n. population n. wide million pretty pretty good than get 小山；小丘 (某一地区的)人口； 全体居民 adj. 宽的；宽阔的 num. 百万 adv. [主口]相当地；非常；很 相当好；很好 prep. 比 v. 变成；成为

1

Look at the pictures and talk about them. Use the words in the box to help you. high hill wide population river

It is Jin Mao Tower. Do you like this photo ?

Is it LeiFeng Tower ?

Can you guess where it is?Do you know what the population of Is it Huanghe River? shanghai is? It’s on a wide river called the Huangpu River.

Have you ever seen the hill? It is Victoria Peak.

Is it a photo of Shenzhen or HongKong?Where is HongKong?

What’s the Is it on the South population of China coast? HongKong ? is the 同义句 :How large population of HongKong

Now listen and complete.

Shanghai Place: (1)__________23.5 Population: (2)_____ million Jin Mao Tower: (3)______ 420.5 metres high

Hong Kong Place: (4)__________ seven million Population: (5)_____ 552 metres Victoria Peak: (6)______ high

Do you want to get more information about Jin Mao Tower and Victoria Peak?

Now enjoy some pictures about them.

Jin Mao Tower(上海金茂大厦)

金茂大厦(JinMaoTower),又称金茂大楼， 位于上海浦东新区黄浦江畔的陆家嘴金融贸易 区，楼高420.5米，是上海第2高的摩天大楼 (截至2008年)、中国大陆第3高楼、世界第8 高楼。大厦于1994年开工，1999年建成，有地 上88层，若再加上尖塔的楼层共有93层，地下 3层，楼面面积27万8,707平方米，有多达130 部电梯与555间客房，现已成为上海的一座地 标，是集现代化办公楼、五星级酒店、会展中 心、娱乐、商场等设施于一体，融汇中国塔型 风格与西方建筑技术的多功能型摩天大楼，由 著名的美国芝加哥SOM设计事务所的设计师 Adrian Smith设计。因为中国人喜欢塔所以中 国才把金茂大厦设计成这样。

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Victoria Peak (香港太平山顶)

2 Read the dialogue and answer the following questions. 1. Where is Shenzhen? It’s on the coast near Hong kong. 2. When did Shenzhen become important? In the 1980s. 3. What’s the population of Shenzhen? Over ten million. 4. Where did Daming tell Tony to remember to visit? The Diwang Tower

Listen and read and complete the passage about Shenzhen.Shenzhen is on the coast near Hong Kong. It became important in the (1)_____. 1980s Before that it was a (2)___________. small village Today the population of Shenzhen is more than (3)____ million. ten

3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box. You need to use some of the words more than once. big new busy clean large small wide

1.About thirty years ago, Shenzhen small village, but today

it was a ______ is a very _________ big/large city.

newer city than 2. Shenzhen is a ______ Hong Kong. bigger and 3. Shenzhen is getting ______ busier The streets are _____ wider and ______. _______. cleaner busy as 4. Shenzhen will become as _____ Hong Kong. 5. The populations of Shenzhen is larger than that of many other ______ cities in China.