[外研版]九年级英语上学期Module1Unit3优质课件.pptVIP

Listen and number the pictures. 3 1 2 Listen again and complete the table. Mount Qomolangma The Empire State Building The Great Pyramid at Giza Location Between China and Nepal _____________________ In Egypt Height _________ metres ______ metres About _____ metres now 8, 844.43 381 In New York, the US 137 Mount Qomolangma The Empire State Building The Great Pyramid at Giza Interesting facts First people to climb to the top: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay _____ floors About ______ years old. 102 4, 500 One of the natural wonders of the world is Mount Qomolangma, between China and Nepal. It is the highest mountain in the world, at 8, 844. 43 metres. The first people to climb to the top were Sir Edmund Hillary, of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, of Nepal, in 1953. Tapescripts: The Empire State Building in New York in the US is one of the tallest buildings in the world. And it’s also one of the modern wonders. It is 381 metres to the top, and has 102 floors. Much smaller, although thousands of years older, is the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. It was about 146 metres tall when it was first built. But over the years, it has lost about 9 metres, so it is now about 137 metres tall. It’s about 4,500 years old, and is one of the ancient wonders of the world. Work in pairs. Think about three other wonders of the world and ask and answer questions about them. A: Where is …? B: It’s… A: How high is it? B: It’s… metres high. Around the world Stonehenge is an ancient circle of stones in the south of England. It is about 5,000 years old. It was probably a place to bury dead people or a place to study the stars and the sky at night. There are dozens of stones, and they are different in height. The stones came from about Stonehenge: a man-made wonder of the world 200 kilometres away. Some of the stones are missing, but it is still one of the most wonderful sights of the world. It is a wonder also because of this question: How did ancient people move these huge stone