中学八年级英语下册教学课件：Unit 7 Section A2.ppt

3c Answer the questions using information from the article. 1. Where are the Himalayas? 2. How high is Qomolangma? They run along the southwestern part of China. It is 8,844.43 meters high. 3. Why do so many people try to climb this mountain even though it is dangerous? 4. What does the spirit of the climbers tell us? Because people want to challenge themselves in the face of difficulties. The spirit of the climbers tells us that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams. 1. freezing adj. 冻结的;冰冻的;极冷的 It’s freezing outside now. 现在外面冷极了。 It’s very cold today, the temperature has dropped to freezing point. 今天很冷,温度降到了冰点。 2. thick adj. 1) 厚的;粗的 How thick is the board? 这块木板有多厚? 2) 浓的,浓厚的; 粘稠的;混浊的 It is dangerous to drive in a thick fog. 在浓雾天驾车很危险。 3. Thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard. Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storms. 山顶上浓云覆盖，而且雪可能下的很大。更严重的困难是冰冻天气和强烈的暴风雪。 描述天气时，英语形容词与名词的搭配与汉语不尽一致，值得注意。 此处thick clouds (密集的云层；厚密的云块)、freezing weather (极度寒冷的天气)和heavy storm(大暴雪/雨)就是颇具说服力的例子。 以下为与weather、storm、snow、cloud、air这五个本单元课文所出现的天气名词有关的部分描述性搭配： 表现“寒冷”时常与weather搭配的形容词：cold, freezing, icy 表现暴风雨之“凶猛”时部分与storm搭配的常见形容词：bad, big, great, heavy, terrible, disastrous, fierce, tremendous, violent 表现snow之“强弱”时的搭配：heavy, thick, light 表现云层“疏密”时常与cloud搭配的形容词：light, thick, heavy, dense 表现“乌云”时cloud一词的常见搭配：black, dark, gray, dense 表现空气“稀薄”、“浑浊”、“潮湿”时与air搭配的形容词：thin, thick, humid 3. Why do so many climbers risk their lives? 1) lives是life的复数形式，意为“生命”。 Many people lost their lives in the accident. 在那次事故中很多人丧了命。 2) risk one’s life 冒着生命危险 他正在冒着生命危险打网球。 He risked his life playing tennis. 4. It is also very hard to take in air as you get near the top. 1)动词不定式在作主语时，常用it作形式主语，而往往将动词不定式放在谓语或表语之后。 It’s not easy to learn a foreign language well. (= To learn a foreign language well is not easy.) 学好一门外语不容易。 2) take in 吸入；吞入(体内) Fish take in oxygen through their gills(鳃). take in: (to understand completely the meaning or i