英语人教版八年级下册unit7sectionA 2a-2d.pptVIP

Language points 1. Feel free to ask me anything on today’s Great Wall tour. fell free是英语口语中一个常用表达。若有人让你feel free to do something，就是让你无需拘束，只管按照自己的意愿去做某事。 在今天的长城游中，大家尽管问我任何问题，不要拘束。 e.g. A: Can I use your bathroom? 我可以用一下你的卫生间吗？ B: Yes, feel free. 可以，请随意。 * * 随时都可以来这里吃晚餐 Feel free to eat dinner here anytime as far as I know是一个固定的表达方式，还可以说so far as I know，意思是“据我所知”。 2. As far as I know, there are no man-made objects as big as this. 据我所知，再没有像它这样大的人造物体了 e.g. As far as I know, Jack has twin sisters. 就我所知，杰克有一对孪生姐妹。 They’re not coming today, so far as I know. 他们今天不来了– 就我所知是这样的。 初中英语人教版八年级下 Unit7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Section A（2a-2d） 易蓉 明光二中 八年级14班 Do you know these places? Revision Free talk Qomolangma The Sahara The Caspian Sea The Nile Ask and answer Revision Do you know how high Qomolangma is? It’s 8844.43 meters high. Revision Do you know how long the Nile is? It’s 6671 kilometers long. Revision Do you know how deep The Caspian Sea is? It’s 1,025 meters deep. Revision Do you how big The Sahara is? It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size. 300 6300 5000 5464 Three hundred Six thousand, three hundred Five thousand Five thousand,four hundred and sixty-four Listen!Number the facts(1-4) in the order and finish them. 6,300 5,000 5,464 300 ___ 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. 4 2 1 3 6,300 5,464 5,000 300 2a/b Pair work-Make conversations using the information in 2a and 2b. A: Did you know that China has the biggest population in the world? B: Yes, I did. It’s a lot bigger than the population of