初中英语九年级unit9-selfcheckreading-p4.ppt

Unit 9When was it invented? * Period 4 Self Check Reading Words Expressions (P73-74) lemon cookie abacus century rank notice including indoors 柠檬 小甜饼干 算盘 世纪；百年 顺序；级别 注意到；留心 包含；包括 在户内 Words Expressions (P74-75) wooden knock basket metal below towards develop equipment 木制的 敲; 碰撞 篮; 筐 金属 在……下面; 低于…… 向; 往 发展; 完善 装备; 器材 Self Check 1 Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with words from the box. crispy sweet salty sour 1. I don’t like eating chocolate. The taste is too _____. 2. Mom added salt but it still wasn’t ______ enough. 3. I prefer lemons to oranges. I like the _____ taste. 4. She likes ______cookies. They are hard, dry and easily broken. crispy sweet sour salty 2 Find out when these things were invented, and then write paragraphs about them. The abacus was invented in the sixth century by Chinese people. The umbrella was invented about 4000 years ago in Assyria, China and Egypt. In Italy in 1854, Ignatio Porro invented the binoculars. The Camera was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1827 who took the first picture. The bicycle was invented in the 1880s in England. 3,000 BC - The abacus, built out of wood and beads, used the concepts of one set of objects standing in for objects in another set, but also the concept of a single object standing for a collection of objects—positional notation. - Early tables, named abaci, formalized counting and introduced the concept of positional notation. - Early man counted by means of matching one set of objects with another set (stones and sheep). invention, history, inventor of, history of, who invented, invention of, fascinating facts. The basic umbrella was invented over four thousand years ago. We have seen evidence of umbrellas in the ancient art and artifacts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and China. These ancient umbrellas or parasols, were first designed to provide shade from the sun. The Chinese were the first to wate