外研初中一年级下册

Module 6 The Olympic adventure

Unit 2English for the Olympic Game.

Talk about 2008 Olympic Games

What are the mascots of Beijing Olympic Games?

They are Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini.

What is the motto (口号 ) of Beijing Olympic Games?

One world, one dream.

What are people in Beijing doing for Beijing Olympic Games?

Teaching aims1. Language Knowledge: 1) New words and phrases. Comparative forms & the usage of adverbs 2) Key structures: It is difficult to do …, take … around, more … than … ( 重点 )2. Reading skill: To understand stories about the Olympic Games.3. Affection and attitudes: We should love sports and wish the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games successful.

Words and expressionsneighbourhood n. 居住区 ;邻近地区 ;邻里关系committee n. 委员会arrive v. 到达late adv. 迟 adj. 迟的 ; 晚的other adj. 其他的back n. 后面 ; 后部however adv. 可是 ; 然而slowly adv. 慢地loudly adv. 大声地 ; 吵闹地clearly adv. 清楚地

visitor n. 游客 ; 观光者need v. & modal v. 需要quickly adv. 快地well adv. 好地badly adv. 坏地 ; 糟糕地carelessly adv. 粗心地 ; 马虎地better adj. & adv. 更好young adj. 年轻的hard adv. 努力地take around 领 (某人 )四处参观cassette n. 盒式磁带

Words and expressions

player n. 播放机vocabulary n. 词汇carefully adv. 认真地quietly adv. 安静地continue v. 继续until prep. ……直到 时； ……到 为止

Words and expressions

1. a stadium in Beijing

2. an English class in Dongsi, Beijing

1 Read the passage and choose a photo for it.

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1. Do many people get to the school early?

2. What will Zhang Xiuyun do on Saturday ?

3. Does she leave for school early ?

4. How old is Zhu Guoming?

5. Does Wang Xiuqin work hard ?

Answer the questions:

Yes, they do.

She’ll learn English.

Yes, she does.

He is 79.

Yes, she does.

2 Choose the best answer to each question.

1. When does Zhu Guoming get to school?

early / late

2. How dose the teacher speak to the older s

tudents?

slowly and loudly / quickly and quietly

3. How do they need to learn English? quic

kly / slowly

4. How do they need to speak English?

well / badly and carelessly

5. How does Wang Xiuqin work?

hard / not hard

6. How does she check her vocabulary at

home? carefully / carelessly

7. How does she listen to her lessons?

quietly / loudly

3 Put the words into pairs with opposite meanings.

badly carefully carelessly early hard

late loudly quickly quietly slowly

well badly — well carefully — carelessly

early — late loudly — quietly

quickly — slowly

Which word has no opposite? Hard.

4 Write complete sentences in Activity 2.

1. Zhu Guoming gets to school early2. The teacher speaks to the older students slowly and loudly.3. They need to speak English quickly.4. They need to speak English well.5. Wang Xiuqin works hard.6. She checks her vocabulary carefully at home.7. She listens to her lessons quietly.

Betty likes running. Betty likes cycling.

→ Betty likes running and she likes

cycling, too.

Betty likes running and she also

likes cycling.

5 Rewrite sentences with too or also.

1.Table tennis is exciting. Table tennis is popular.

2. Daming likes basketball. Daming likes gymnastics.

Table tennis is exciting and it is popular, too.Table tennis is exciting and it is also popular.

Daming likes basketball and he likes gymnastics, too.Daming likes basketball and he also likes gymnastics.

3. He likes playing basketball. He likes watching basketball.

4. Cycling is faster than running. Cycling is more dangerous than running.

He likes playing basketball and he likes watching basketball, too.He likes playing basketball and he also likes watching basketball.

Cycling is faster than running and it is more dangerous than running, too.Cycling is faster than running and it is also more dangerous than running.

5. Lingling likes table tennis. She likes gymnastics.

6. I like sports. I like music.

Lingling likes table tennis and she likes gymnastics, too.Lingling likes table tennis and she also likes gymnastics.

I like sports and I like music, too.I like sports and I also like music.

副词的用法：1. 副词修饰动词 (说明如何做某个动作 )。如 :

I usually get up early

2. 副词经常由形容词在后面加 ly 变来。如 :

quick — quickly, easy — easily

3. 本身就是副词的词 : hard, fast, late, early,

loud, well 等。这些副词也可以做形容词。如 : Liuxiang runs fast. (副词 )

Table tennis is a fast game. (形容词 )

1. … is leaving for school. ……正要去上课。

leave for a place :去往某地 e.g. We’re leaving for Beijing tomorrow. 明天我们要去北京。2. the other students: 其他的同学 the other: 其他的 , 后面既可跟单数名词 也可跟复数名词。 e.g. the other girl 其他女孩 the other books 其他的书

Language points

3. It’s difficult to see and hear at the back. 坐在后面很难看清楚 , 也看不清楚。 1) It’s difficult to do sth 做某事很困难 e.g. It’s difficult to solve this problem. 2) It’s difficult for sb to do sth 做某事对某人来讲很困难 e.g. It’s difficult for old people to study English. 4. take sb around a place 带某人参观某地 = show sb around a place e.g. I would like to take my American friends around Beijing.

5. …will continue until 2008 ……将一直持续到 2008年。until “ ……” 直到 如果用在持续性动词作谓语的句子中 , until 表示肯定。反之 , 若动词是瞬间性的 , 则该句表否定之意。 如： He usually works until midnight. They won’t come back until 7pm. 6. need to do sth. 需要做某事 (某人做主语 ) Everyone needs to revise for the test.

Retell the text.

Zhang Xiuyun _____ Dongsi

Neighbourhood Committee in Beijing

_________ school on Saturday morning.

She has an _______ class on that day

and it _____ at 9:30 am. But there are

usually ______ people in the classroom

at 8:30.

from

leaves for

English

starts

lots of

Zhu Guoming is 79 years old. He gets to school _____ and sits __________ the blackboard. So he can see and hear the teacher. He doesn’t arrive ____ because he doesn’t like ______ behind ________ students. He thinks it’s difficult ______and hear at the back. The teacher speaks ________________ to the old students and he can always hear ______.

early in front of

late

sitting the otherto see

slowly and loudly

clearly

Wang Xiuqin is 65 years old. She thinks it’s difficult ___ old people ________English. But she wants to learn it ______ than young people. She works hard. The Olympic visitors are going to __________________ and she’s going to ____ them _______a Beijing siheyuan. She checks her vocabulary ________ at home and listens ______ to her lessons.

for to learnbetter

do some sightseeing

take aroundcarefully

quietly

_________ 200 people from Dongsi are

learning English. Lots of _______ will

speak English so they need to learn

English _______. They want to speak

it _____. _______wants to speak it

______or _________. These popular

lessons will continue _____ 2008.

More than

visitors

quickly

well No one

badly carelessly

until

1. 明天我们要动身去北京。 We will ________ Beijing tomorrow.

2. 滑雪是很危险的。 It’s dangerous ______.

3. 对我们来说学好英语是很难的。 It’s difficult ___ us _______ English.

4. 在山上有三百多只绵羊。 There are _________ 300 sheep.

leave for

to ski

for to learn

more than

根据汉语提示补全句子。

1. He always gets everything ready ________ (careful)2. My parents like living in a _____ (quiet) place.3. The news makes me laugh _______(happy)4. We must work _____ (hard) to pass the exam.5. She speaks French very ______ (bad)6. Uncle Li doesn’t like to be ____ (late) for the school.

carefully

quiet

happilyhard

badlylate

用所给的词的正确形式填空。

Homework

Finish the exercises in the

workbook Ex. 8, 9, 10 & 11.