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Module 1 Unit 2 B 4

1 Warm-up

The advantages of the photos ?

Remember the wonderful scene ;

keep the important and unforgettable moment ;

Help to recall the memory;

Module 8 Unit 2 Read on to find out who the winners are .

Look at the photos that won last year’s photo competition . Which categories do you think prizes were for ?

2 Pre-reading

Activity 1

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Historic China Most Beautiful Nature Most Unusual Music or sport

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Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1

Activity 2

Read the passage and check the true sentences .

3 While reading

Activity 4

Find words in the passage which mean the opposite of the words in the box .

Activity 5

close modern poor same unlucky usual

far from Paragraph 2old Paragraph 5rich Paragraph 5different

Paragraph 5lucky Paragraph 6unusual

Paragraph 5

Now correct the sentences .

Winner Prize Subject CommentMost Beautiful Nature

Li Weithe tallest mountain in Xiangshan Park

Knows the park well

Zhao Min

History China

Tian’anmen Square

Shows its size and beauty perfectly

He ZhongCrazy Feet Becky WangMusic

Shows movement of the band and fans

Three students

Most Unusual

Beijing Shows the rich culture of the capital

Activity 3

Read the passage and complete the table .

1. be pleased with …

2. compare with…

3.even though

4.read on

5. at the northern end

6. a collection of photos

7. work on this entry

8. congratulations to sb.

9. present the prizes

1 对……很满意2. 与……相比3. 尽管、即使 4. 接着往下看（读）5. 在最北端6. （一组）照片集7. 参与这次比赛8. 向……表示祝贺9. 颁奖

useful phrases

Who can say these phrases in Chinese .*the Most Beautiful Nature Photography

*the Historic China Group

*the Music category

*The Many Faces of Our City

*the prize giving ceremony

最佳自然风景奖

历史中国组

音乐类

城市面面观

颁奖典礼

Enjoy the listening and sound reading

4 After reading

Where did you find the answers? “ …read on to find out who the winners are.”

“…the fun which their fans are having.”

“ It successfully shows the rich culture which makes Beijing so famous.”

reading method 阅读方式

the ability of inferring 推理能力

the meaning of the pronoun. 代词的指代

Answer the questions.

Activity 6

1. Where do you find who the winners are?

2.Why are the fans having fun?

3.Who or what shows the rich culture?

You will find the winners in the following part of the passage.

Because the band is great.The collection of the photos shows the rich culture.

Activity 7

Work in pairs. Ask and answer about the

places.How long is Tian’anmen Square? ( 880 m )

How wide is Tian’anmen Square? (500 m )

How high is Xianglu Peak? ( 557 m )

How far is Li Wei’s home

to Xiangshan Park? ( 500 m )

It’s about… meters …

1. How many prizes are there ?2. Who won the prize for the Most Beautiful Nature photography?3. Who’s the winner in the Historic China group?4. Who took the best photo in the Music category?5. Who won the prize for the Most Unusual category ? 6. Who presented the prizes ?

There are four prizes. There are four prizes . Li Wei won the prize for the Most Beautiful Nature photography. Photography . Zhao Min was the winner in the Historic China group. The best photo in the Music category was taken by He Zhong. was taken by He Zhong. Three pupils at the same school won the prize for the Most Unusual category.the Most Unusual category. John William presented the prizes . ( 57 )

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What does the photo show ?Where and when it was taken?What are the main colours ?

Say something more about it.

Why do you like it ? How do you feel?

The photography which I like best shows a beautiful park called Beauty.It was taken in England in July, 2009.There are a lot of green, some red and pink.The park is very clean . The people in the park are very happy and relax. I like it because when I look at the photo , I will always think it’s important for us to protect our environment.

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It shows….It was taken…. The main colors are….It is….

I like it because… I think…

Write about your favorite photo

We’ve learned some new words and phrases;We’ve learned to identify information about photo competition as well ;We train reading strategies including scanning ,skimming , taking notes, inferring , and reformulation .

Assignment

1.Read the passage and try to

learn it by heart;

2. Write about your favourite

photograph.