八年级英语下册unit10period4.ppt

Answer the questions before you read. Then read the passage to find out if your answers are the same as in the passage. 1. Why do millions of Chinese leave the countryside every year? 2. How often do you think these people visit their hometowns? 3. What new buildings does the government usually build in towns and villages? Find expressions in the passage that have the same meanings as these words and phrases. 1. look for _________ 5. go back _______ 2. consider ________ 6. changes _________ 3. across from _______ 7. area _______ 4. in one’s opinion ___________ Complete the summary with words from the passage. You may need to change the forms of the words. Many Chinese people these days leave their _________ to work in _______. They usually _______ to their hometown one or two times a ______. Zhong Wei hasn’t been back in close to three years. He has been working in a ________ factory in Wenzhou for the past 13 years. People like him are _________ in how their hometowns are changing. New buildings are often built by the ___________. Zhong Wei thinks these changes are _____ because things need to change in order to become better. But he also thinks some things ___________ change, and his hometown is still the place that holds all his childhood _________. search作不及物动词时，意为“搜索；搜查”。短语search for意为“搜寻，找寻”。 e.g. He is searching for his sunglasses. 他正在找他的太阳镜。 【拓展】 作及物动词，意为“在······搜查”或“搜查”。 e.g. They searched the forest for the lost child. 他们在森林里寻找那个走失的小孩。 among prep. 在三者或三者以上之间 e.g. Tom sits among the students. 汤姆坐在学生之间。 between prep. 在两者之间 e.g. Tom sits between Mary and Frank. 汤姆坐在玛丽和弗兰克之间。 a 46-year-old husband and father意为“一位46岁的丈夫和父亲” four-year-old是一个复合形容词，特点“一是数词、名词、形容词之间要用连字符连接，二是数词后的名词用单数形式”。 e.g. Tom is a 10-year-old boy. 汤姆是一个10岁的男孩。 Lily is an 8-year-old girl. 莉莉是一个8岁的女孩。 【拓展】 另一种类似的复合形容词作定语的结构是：数词+连字符+名词，或数词+名词的所有格。 e.g. a two-month holiday = a two months’ holiday 一个为期两个月的假期。 ten-minut