人教版八年级英语下册《What's the highest mountain in the world?》SectionA PPT教学课件(第1课时)，共48页。ObjectivesTo learn to compare facts.To learn to express large numbers.To learn to talk about geography and nature.To learn new words: square, meter, deep, desert, population, Asia, tour, tourist, wall, ancient, protect, wide…Free talkWhat’s the highest mountain in the world?How high is it?Qomolangma is the highest mountain in the world.It is 8,848.86 meters high.Make conversations using the information in 2a.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. Language points1. populationpopulation意为“人口数量”，谓语动词要用单数形式。询问人口数量时要用“What’s the population of ...?”提问，而不用how many或how much等提问。表示人口“多”要用large 或 big；表示人口“少”要用small。这个城市的人口是600万。The population of this city is six million．中国的人口比美国的人口多很多。The population of China is much larger than that of the USA.2. man-made为合成形容词，意为“人造的”。英语中像这样与-made复合而成的形容词还有：handmade(手工制作的)、homemade (家庭制作的)、machine-made (机制的)等，用以描述产品的生产或制造手段、特点等。这种鱼都是自家做的。This kind of fish is homemade.3. 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 computer? 我可以用一下你的电脑吗？B: Yes, feel free.可以，请随意。4. 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”。As far as I know, China is a very large country.就我所知，中国是一个非常大的国家。They are very excited, so far as I know.他们特别激动— 就我所知是这样的。5. Qomolangma is 8,848.86 meters high.It is … meters high (long, wide…).它……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。这座山高三千多米。The mountain is more than three thousand meters high.它离我们只有三十八万公里。It is only 380,000 kilometers away.这座绿色长城长7,000公里。The Green Great Wall is 7,000 kilometers long.much higher 意为“高得多”。在形容比较级前还可以用much, even, a little, still ,a lot, less等修饰词表示程度。6. It’s much older than my country. 比我的国家更古老。他比我跑得更快。He runs even faster than I.日本土地面积只比德国大一点儿。Japan is a little larger than Germany in area.7. the Ming Great Wall 明长城“明长城”是指明朝时期为了防御北方游牧民族的骚扰，历时一百多年在北部地区修筑的军事防御工程。这段长城东起辽宁虎山，西至甘肃嘉峪关，从东向西横贯多个省、 直辖市、自治区，全长约8851.8千米，是现存历代长城遗迹中最完整、最坚固的。Summary1. It is … meters high (long, wide…).2. What’s the population of ...?3. much, even, a little, still, a lot, less+形容词比较级4. as far as I know…as / so far as I can remember / I can tell / I can seeas far as 远至5. 合成词man-madeDictationEnglish-Chinesesquare, meter, desert, population, Asia, wallChinese-English深的；随便；旅行；旅行者；令人大为惊奇的；古代的；保护；宽阔的；就我所知HomeworkPractice with your classmates to speak and write large numbers.Write some number cards and put them in your room. Whenever you see, read them quickly.... ... ...关键词：What's the highest mountain in the world? PPT课件免费下载，.PPTX格式； 本作品中主体文字及图片可替换修改，文字修改可直接点击文本框进行编辑，图片更改可选中图片后单击鼠标右键选择更换图片，也可根据自身需求增加和删除作品中的内容，源文件无水印。如认为该内容涉嫌侵权，可通过邮件提出书面通知，我们将及时处理。