《What's the highest mountain in the world?》PPT课件5

1a. Match the facts you know.

Qomolangmaabout 9,600,000 square kilometers in size

The Sahara1,025 meters deep

The Caspian Sea6,671 kilometers long

The Nile                8,844.43 meters high  

1b. Listen and complete the sentences.

1. Qomolangma is________ than any other mountain in the world.

2. The Sahara is __________ desert in the world.

3. The Caspian Sea is __________ of all the salt lakes.

4. The Nile is ___________ river in the world.

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Pair work

A: What is the biggest desert in the world?

B: Sahara.

A: What is the deepest salt lake in the world?

B: Caspian sea.

A: What is the longest river in the world?

B: Nile.

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2a. Listen and number the facts [1-4] in the order you hear them.

6,3005,0005,464300

____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.

2c. Make conversations using the information in 2a.

Group work

A: Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world?

B: Yes, I did. It’s much older than my country.

2d. Role-play the conversation.

Guide：Feel free to ask me anything on today’s Great Wall tour.

Tourist 1：How long is the wall?

Guide：Ah, the most popular question! If we’re only talking about the parts from the Ming Dynasty, it’s about 8,850 kilometers long. This makes it the longest wall in the world.

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Language points

1. Feel free to ask me anything on today’s Great Wall tour.

在今天的长城游中，大家尽管问我任何问题，不要拘束。

feel 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。

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。

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。

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”。

例如：As far as I know, Jack’s got 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。

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二  根据所给词的适当形式填空

1. Lily gets up ______ (early) than Lucy. 

2. Which goes __________ (slowly), Tom or Jim?

3.This book is ___________(interesting) than that one.

4. She works  ________________(careful) in her school.

5. Who goes to bed _________ (late) Jim, Tom or Jack?

6. I think turkey is ________________(delicious) of all. 

Homework 

Can you think of more examples to show …is the most…in the world? Compete with your classmates. 

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