Module 1 Wonders of the world

Unit 2 What is a wonder of the world?

Part I : Preparation

Match the words :

• anywhere

• gate

• huge

• natural

• stranger

• not made by people

• an entrance

• someone you don’t know

• very very big

• of any place

Learning to learn

A measurement A fact

Wide

deep

high

tall

The writer’s opinion

wonderful

huge

greatest

Part II: Pre-reading activities

Can you think of any wonders of the world?

QUESTION:

Work in pairs

Use these words :

ancient deep high longmodern natural tall wide

下车在小路旁查看，检查远远在我后面云散了在 ---- 的边缘在 ---- 的底部碰到顶部在 ---- 的两边在自然界大峡谷---- 的奇迹

get out of the car

beside the path

look over

far behind me

the clouds clear

on the edge of

at the bottom of

reach the top

on both sides

in the natural world

the Grand Canyon

the wonder of

Listen then choose the best answers

(Activity 3)

How deep/ high is it?

How wide is it?

How long is it?

Grand Canyon

Complete the table with facts about the Grand Canyon

Part V: Dealing with expressions

1.The sun rose behind me and beyond the rocks.I

saw that the ground fell away and down to a

river, far below me.

2. I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon, one of

the wonders of the natural world.

3 .I looked down to the Colorado River about 2,000 meters below me.

Then I looked across to the other side of the canyon.

Finally, I looked to my left and to my right.

Part V: Dealing with expressions

Part VI: Writing

1.Make a table with facts about some wonders

of the world.

(Exercise 6 page 114)

2. Imagine you have seen one of the wonders of the world. Write sentences describing how felt when you saw it for the first time.

Say when you saw it.

Describe its size.

Say what happened.

Say how you felt.

［课时达标］

I. 用恰当的介词 (in, on, of, at, with, beside 或 below) 填空。1. Jim was surprised to see a foreigner go out the lift.2. “How many ways have you thought to solve the problem?” the teacher asked. 3. Mary stood the desk while her mother was explaining the problem to her. 4. Who sits front of you in the classroom?5. Do you often help your mother the housework? 6. — When will the guests arrive here? — five minutes.7. I live on the fifth floor. Linda lives two floors me, on the third floor. 8. They planted some trees and flowers every side the house.

of of

beside

in with

In below

onof

II. 用所给单词的适当形式填空。1. Is the Great Wall one of (great) wonders

of the world?

2. When the family had lunch, it (rain)

outside.

3. When it became dark, there was nothing ________ (see)

in the room.

4. Look! There is a (strange) over there.

5. Is the Sydney Opera House a great wonder of the

_______ (nature) world?

the greatest

was raining

to see

stranger

natural

III. 完成下列句子的同义表达形式。1. There was nothing in the desk.

There in the desk.

2. The child is so young that he can’t go to school.

The child is young go to school.

3. If you don’t hurry up, you’ll be late for school.

, you will be late for school.

4. Finally, I found my watch.

I found my watch .

5. When will your father arrive in Shanghai?

When will your father Shanghai?

wasn’t anything

too to

Hurry up or

at last

get to