Qomolangma about 9,600,000 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 Explaination
...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 metres wide.
Step 5 Listening
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.
2. 2a Listen and number the facts(1- 4) in the order you hear them.
2b Listen 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. 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, 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. It's 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 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。
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