2012牛津深圳版七上Chapter4《Theworldofnumbers》ppt单元课件.pptVIP

B1 Work in groups of four Traffic accidents May asked Officer Chen about traffic accidents. Then she drew a line graph. Read the conversation and write the figures on the graph. 3,729 3,644 3,748 3,639 1 Use the verbs be, rise and fall in the simple past tense. 2 Write the years and numbers of accidents in figures, not in words. B After drawing her graph, May wrote a paragraph about it. Part of the paragraph is given here. Complete it, following these instructions: The graph shows that there ______ 3,691 accidents in 2001 in our city. In _________, the number _______ to ________and _______to ________in ________. In _________, the number _________ again to __________. It ________to _________in _________. Traffic accidentswere 2002 rose 3,748 fell 3,644 2003 2004 rose 3,729 fell 3,639 2005 May is asking T M Li, the writer, some questions about his article on numbers. His answers are not always clear. Read the article and make Li’s answers clearer. Write one word in each blank. 1 Every one knows it. Knows what? The Language of numbers. 2 Long ago, people wrote them in many different ways. Wrote what? Numbers. 3. People all count in this way. In what way? In tens. 4. The Indians first invented that system of numbers. Which system of numbers? 1 to 9. 5. The invention helped people write in big numbers. What invention? Zero. 6. They are fast and accurate. What? Abacuses. 7Computers are very powerful ones. Very powerful what? Calculating machines. Give answers to these questions about the article. 1 How did people in ancient times count in the same way? They nearly all __________________. 2 What do the beads on the wires of an abacus stand for? The beads stand for ________________________________________ starting from the bottom wire. 3 What can a modern electronic calculator do? It can ______________________________________. counted in tens ones, tens, hundr