高中课件=unit12.ppt

A small quiz 1. What is the highest mountain on the earth? 2. How high is it? 3. What is the deepest point in the ocean? 4. What is the highest plateau on earth? 5. Which is the longest river on earth? A. the Chang Jiang B. the River Nile C. the River Amazon 6.Which is the biggest ocean on earth? A. the Pacific ocean B. the Atlantic ocean C. the Indian ocean 7. What is the distance from the earth to the moon? A. 149 million km B. 384,401 km C. 40,075.16 km 8. How far is it to the center of the earth? A. 7 x 105 km B. 6400 km C. 10000 km 9. What is the longest distance around the world? A. 40,075.16 km B. 24,901.55 km C. 15000 km 10. How fast does a space shuttle travel? A. 200 mph B. 900 mph C. 17,600 mph Do you often have some fantastic ideas? What are they? Pay attention to using the following expressions when doing the task: I believe … I suppose … I’m sure that … I doubt … I’m (not) certain … It could be … but … It’s likely … I can’t believe my eyes … I can’t imagine … Dialogues about 1.?Space Travel 2. ?Life in 3098 3. Young forever 4. Creatures from outer space Assignment Finish the dialogue or monologue in the written form. Now let’s try to be a science fiction writer: Task 1 Pair work : fill in the gaps Read the suggested beginnings of possible dialogues and think in which way the gaps could be filled in. * * * * * * * * * * * 学生双语报 人教修订版 高中二年级(下) Unit 12 Unit 12 Fact and fantasy Warming up speaking Mount Qomolangma or Mount Everest 8848.13 m In the Marianas Trench Qinghai-Tibet Plain Traveling around the world the longest distance is along the equator. What is fact? Thing that is known to have happened or to be true or to exist; Thing that is believed or claimed to be true; Do you know