gazine?
6. Now listen up and answer my questions.
7. I don't watch television at all.
8. Yesterday evening, I went to my dance club for a meeting.
9. They see the interview with the parents on TV last evening.
10. I hope to sing with the band after graduation from here.
11. Zhao Fang is my favourite singer who goes to the same school as I do.
12. My sister started a school magazine called Young China.
13. Could you write down some ideas for me on how to learn English better and faster?
14. I have been writing a diary of family events since my third year in this school.
15. School events are kept record of by the monitor.
16. I want to tell you about my plan to study broad.
17. I am working for both the school concert and the dance club on weekends.
18. I won't miss the school basketball matches next week.
19. Could you write the articles in English?
20. Do you have any more ideas about improving my health?
21. Who likes to do some reviews about the latest city events?
22. I don't have any favourite bands and movies.
23. I will do an interview with the head teacher after class.
24. How about giving me some ideas on how to google for information online?
t friend in primary school?
7. Have you ever failed a course?
8. What do you like the least about your school?
9. What do you think about your English class?
10. What do you want to do after you graduate?
Unit 2 I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
■Warm up by learning about the types of sentences
Sentences are grouped into types. There are five types of English sentences. They are:
1. He is my younger brother. He looks like my older brother. 主语+系动词+表语
2. He sings. 主语+不及物动词
3. He takes photos. 主语+及物动词+宾语
4. He showed me his photos. 主语+及物动词+间接宾语+直接宾语
5. He let us go at once. 主语+及物动词+宾语+宾语补足语
6. There is a natural wonder in my hometown. 谓语(there be)+主语+状语
■ Read the passage
On page 4 is a passage entitled The greatest wonder of the natural world. Now let's go on to read it. While reading, try to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. (阅读过程中,断开/意群,观察谓语构成,圈出连词,摘录短语搭配。)
Useful expressions (有用的短语搭配)
the greatest wonder of the natural world, early morning, get out of…, go through…, walk along…, in the east, become light, beside the path, still very dark, after about a kilometre, appear in front of…, go the right way, get there in five minutes, come to …, look carefully over…, too dark to see…, rise behind…, beyond the rocks, fall away and down to…, far below…, look down to…, about 2 kilometres below…, put… at the bottom of…, reach the top, look across to…, the other side of…, look to one's left and to one's right, on both sides, disappear into the distance, over 400 kilometres long, on the edge of …, ask…a question
■Draw a diagram of the article
A diagram is a simplified and structured visual representation of concepts, ideas, constructions, relations, statistical data, anatomy etc used in all aspects of human activities to visualize and clarify the topic.
Now we shall read the text once more to draw a diagram of it.
■Write as they do. (仿写)
We are to do something interesting. We shall write as they do. That is to say: We shall try to write an article similar to the one we read just now.
■Close down by reading about the Yellow River
The Yellow River rises on the northern side of the Bayankela Mountains of Qinghai and flows through nine provinces or autonomous regions including Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. The river falls 4,450 m over a length of 5,465 km, covering an area of 795,000 km2. In its upper parts it flows through swamps and grasslands of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. The river runs to the south before leaving Inner Mongolia to form the part between Shaanxi and Shanxi and, after a sharp turn to the east, it flows across the North China Pl
ain to the Bohai Sea.