Lesson 10 Where’s the Highest Where’s the Highest Hotel?Hotel?

Think about it!

• Do you like traveling? Where have

you traveled to ?

• What famous buildings or structures

do you know? Tell your class

something about them.

World’s highest hotel,

the Grand Hyatt Shanghai

the longest bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge

the Great Wall ,the longest wall in the world

World’s biggest dam, Three Gorges Dam

The world’s longest river, Nile, Egypt

Read quickly and fill in the form:

China has many world records for its buildings and

structures. What are they? How about them?

the Grand Hyatt Shanghai in Pudong

the Great Wall

the Three Gorges Dam

the world’s highest hotel

the world’s longest structure

the world’s biggest dam

be located on the top 35 floors of the 88-storey Jin Mao Tower

more than 7240 kilometres long

about 2.3 kilometres long and almost 185 metres tall

Read carefully and answer the questions:

1. How long has the Grand Hyatt Shanghai in Pudong

been the world’s highest hotel?

2. What do you think of the 88-storey Jin Mao Tower?

3. How thick is the Great Wall?

4. Who is the first person to walk the whole length of the

Great Wall? How long did it take?

5. Can astronauts see the Great Wall from space?

6. How long have workers worked on( 从事 ) the Three

Gorge Dam?

7. How much will the dam cost?

8. When will China finish it? By 2009.

1.The first person to walk the whole length

of the Great Wall was Liu Yutian.

第一个徒步走完长城的人是刘玉田．

Language Notes:

length 是名词，意思是“长度”．此句

强调走过了长城的总长度，而不是强

调距离：如果强调距离，应该用

distance ．e.g. What distance do you have to work?

你上班要走多远？

(2) whole 和 all 的意思都是“全部的，所有的”．然而词序是不一样的． all 用于冠词，所有格和其他限定词之前， whole 则用于冠词等词之后．

e.g. all the time/the whole time

全部时间The whole thing was his own fault.

整件事情都是他的过错． 如果没有冠词或其他限定

词， whole

不能与单数名词连用．

e.g. The whole city was burning.

但是不能说 Whole city was burning.

whole 和 all 与复数名词连用时，意思不同． whole 的意思是“全部”，而 all 的

意接 近“每一个”．

e.g. All Indian tribes suffered from

white settlement in America.

所有印第安人部落都因白人移民美洲而遭殃．The whole Indian tribes were

killed off ． 印第安人部落整个被杀光了．

Language notes:

基数词 + 量词 + 表示长 / 宽 / 高等的形容词 “ 某物多长 / 宽 / 高”

2. The Great Wall of China is more than 7240 kilometres long.

墙厚 9.75 米。 大街宽 21 米。

The wall is 9.75 metres thick.The street is 21 metres wide.

3. The person to walk the whole length of the Great Wall was Liu Yutian. long adj. length n.

4. The Great Wall of China is famous around the world. around the world all over the world throughout the world in the world

The Great Wall is over 7240 kilometres long. The _____ of the Great Wall is over 7240 kilometres.length

Language notes:

cost “ 花费 / 耗费金钱，时间等” 常以事物作主语 cost sb. + 金钱 pay “ 支付 ( 价款 )” 常以人作主语 pay money for sth. “ 为了某物付……款” spend “ 花费时间 / 金钱” 常以人作主语 , 常用句型为 : spend … on sth. spend …(in) doing sth. take “ 花费时间 / 金钱” 常用句型为 : It takes sb. some time/money to do sth.

5. The dam will cost about 205 billion yuan.

The computer_________ me 5000 yuan. He always_______ most of the time (in) playing computer. It ________ her lots of time to look after the pet last week. She _________ two yuan for the book.

costspends

tookpaid

Fill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets:1. The whole _________ (long) of the Great Wall is more than 7240 kilometres. 2. The Three Gorges will be the __________(world) biggest dam.3. The first person _________(walk) the whole length of the Great Wall was Liu Yutian.4. The Great Wall is _______(locate) in the north of China.5. This tower is __________ building in China and one of ___________ in the world. (tall)6. Since 1990, about 250000

workers______________(work) on the Three Gorges Dam.7. I _____________(learn) about 300 English words by the end of last year.8. The workers __________(finish) the dam by 2009.

length

world’s

located

to walk

the tallestthe tallest

have worked

had learned

will finish

Homework:

Describe a building or structure to your classmate,then write a short passage.