牛津译林版新8A unit3英语教材__word版(2013.9月).docVIP

Unit 3 A day out 1 What are you going to do, Eddie? I’m going to exercise. 2 Are you going to climb a hill? Yes. 3 That’s good. You need to exercise and keep fit. Well, this ill isn’t as high as a real one! 4 Come on, Hobo. Let’s enjoy ourselves! Let’s go! Kitty’s cousin Linda is visiting Sunshine Town. Find out where Linda, Kitty and her classmates went and what happened there. Task Make a plan for a day trip and write an invitation letter to your classmates. Welcome to the unit Where are they? A Amy and Simon are reading some postcards from their friends. Read the back of the postcards and match them with the correct pictures. Write the correct letters in the boxes. 1 □ 2□ 3□ B Simon searched on the Internet for some information about places of interest around the world. He is answering Amy’s questions. Work in pairs and talk about the places you are interested in. Use the conversation below as a model. Amy: How long is the Golden Gate Bridge? Simon: It’s very long, about 1.7 miles. Amy: How wide is the bridge? Simon: It’s 90 feet wide. Amy: The bridge is made of steel, isn’t it? Simon: Yes, and it weighs over 100,000 tons. Reading A Around the world in a day! Linda comes from the USA. She is visiting her cousin Kitty. She went to the World Park with the Class 1, grade 8 students yesterday. Here is Linda’s email to her parents about the trip. Dear Mom and Dad, I’m doing fine here. Yesterday Kitty’s teacher Mr Wu invited me to join their school trip to the World Park. I enjoyed myself! It was a fine, warm day. The sun was shining in a clear blue sky. The World Park is quite far away. It took us about two hours to get there by bus. There was a lot of traffic on the way and the journey was a little boring. Finally, we arrived at the park. All of couldn’t wait to get off the bus. Soon the whole world was there in front of us! There are models of more than a hundred places of interest from all over the world. They are small but wonderful. We bec