浙江省金华市苏孟中学外研版九年级英语上册教案：M1U2.docVIP

■Warm up by learning about the types of sentences Sentences are grouped into types. There are five types of English sentences. They are: 1. He is my younger brother. He looks like my older brother. 主语+系动词+表语 2. He . 主语+不及物动词 6. There is a natural wonder in my hometown. 谓语（there be）+主语+状语 ■ Read the passage On page 4 is a passage . Now let’s go on to read it. While reading, try to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. (阅读过程中，断开/意群，观察谓语构成，圈出连词，摘录短语搭配。) Useful expressions (有用的短语搭配) early morning, get out of…, go through…, walk along…, in the east, become light, beside the path, still very dark, after about a kilometre, appear in front of…, go the right way, get there in five minutes, come to …, look carefully over…, too dark to see…, rise behind…, beyond the rocks, fall away and down to…, far below…, look down to…, about 2 kilometres below…, put… at the bottom of…, reach the top, look across to…, the other side of…, look to one’s left and to one’s right, on both sides, disappear into the distance, over 400 kilometres long, on the edge of …, ask…a question ■Draw a diagram of the article A diagram is a simplified and structured visual representation of concepts, ideas, constructions, relations, statistical data, anatomy etc used in all aspects of human activities to visualize and clarify the topic. Now we shall read the text once more to draw a diagram of it. ■Close down by reading about the Yellow River The Yellow River rises on the northern side of the Bayankela Mountains of Qinghai and flows through nine provinces or autonomous regions including Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. The river falls 4,450 m over a length of 5,465 km, covering an area of 795,000 km2. In its upper parts it flows through swamps and grasslands of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The river runs to the south before leaving Inner Mongolia to form the p