1、Section A 1 1a 2d Step 1 Presentation Square n. 平方 meter n. 米 deep adj. 深的 desert n. 沙漠 population n. 人口 population n. 人口 Asia n. 亚洲 tour v. n. 旅行 tourist n. 旅行者 wall n. 墙 amazing adj. 令人大为惊奇的 ancient adj. 古代的 wide adj. 宽的；宽阔和 Step 2 Warming-up 1. Watch the photos and talk about them “How big/high/l
2、ong/big is ? and help the students to answer: Its meters/kilometers/cm big/high/long/big. 2. Look these photos and practice the dialogue: e.g. A: How high is Qomolangma? B: Its 8,844 meters high. Step 3 1a Match the facts you know. Practice in pairs using the information in 1a. Qomolangma about 9,60
3、0,000 square kilometers in size The Sahara 1,025 meters deep The Caspian Sea 6,671 kilometers long The Nile 8,844.43 meters high Step 4 Explanations 8,844 meters high. 8,844 米高 meters high (long, wide) 米高（长,宽)。 英语表示“有多长（宽，高）”时，一般将数词和数量单位放在表示长宽 高的形容词前作状语。 E.g. the wall is 1.7 meters wide. Step 5 List
4、ening 1 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. 2a Listen and number the facts (1- 4) in the order you hear them. 2b Liste
5、n again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box. 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. Its a lot bigger than the population of the US. _ China is over _ years o
6、ld. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even _ years old. _ China is almost as big as the US, but it is the biggest country in Asia. Step 6 Practice 1c Make conversations in pairs. Examples A: Did you know that China if one of the oldest countries in the world? B: Yes, I did. Its
7、 much older than my country. Step 7 2d Read the conversation and answer the questions: 1) Which is the biggest man-made objects in the world？ 2) Which is the most famous part of the Ming Great Wall? Step 8 Language points and summary 1. Fell free to ask me anything on todays Great Wall tour. 在今天的长城游
8、中，大家尽管问我任何问题，不要拘束。 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。 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”。 E.g. As far as I know, Jacks got twin sisters. 就我所知，杰克有一对孪生姐妹。 Theyre not coming today, so far as I know. 他们今天不来了 就我所知是这样的。 Step 9 Homework A: To memorize the important phrases and sentences. B: to make some dialogues about asking the size of objects.
