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八年级下册英语第七单元课件 象州镇初级中学 英语组覃芬兰制作 Unit 7What’s the highest mountain in the world? What do you know about the following numbers? To learn to compare facts To learn to express large numbers To learn to talk about geography and nature To learn new words: square, meter, deep, desert, population, Asia, tour, tourist, wall, ancient, protect, wide… Words review  square meter deep desert population Asia feel free tour Qomolangma The Sahara The Caspian Sea The Nile 1b Qomolangma is ______ than any other mountain in the world. The Sahara is _________ desert in the world. The Caspian Sea is _________ of all the salt lakes. The Nile is _________ river in the world. 1c Use the information in 1b to make conversations. 2a __ The Yangtze River is about _____ kilometers long and the Yellow River is ________ kilometers long. __ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US. __ China is over _____ years old. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even ___ years old. __ China is almost as big as the US, and it is the biggest country in Asia. 2b 6,300 5,000 5,464 300 2d Role-play the conversation. Tourist 2: Wow, that’s amazing! Why did the ancient emperors build the wall? Guide: The main reason was to protect their part of the country. As you can see, it’s quite tall and wide. As far as I know, there are no man-made objects as big as this. Tourist 3: Is Badaling part of the Ming Great Wall? Guide: Yes, it’s the most famous part. 1. population 例如： 这个城市的人口是600万。 The population of this city is six million． 中国的人口比美国的人口多很多。 The population of China is much larger than that of the USA. 例如： 这座山高三千多米。 The maintain is more than three thousand meters high. 它离我们只有三十八万公里。 It is only 380,000 kilometers away. 这座绿色长城长7,000公里。 The Green Great Wall is 7,000 kilometers long. 2. Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters high. It is … meters high (long, wide…). 它……米高(长,宽……)。 英语表示“有多长