a play filled with many songs rest after work come together a period of 100 years more than two the activity of buying and selling two or more countries taking part very large trade musical relax gather century several international huge Guessing game

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chat with your friends play games send and receive s do word processing search for information watch videos

Reading 1 Around the World in Eight Hours Unit 3 Online tours

Tour Just click on it, you can visit different places around the world on the Internet. icon

[ ˌ ə ʊ si ˈɑ :niə] Asia /'e ɪʃ ə/ Europe /'j ʊ ərəp/ America Africa /'æfr ɪ kə/ Oceania a map of the world

New York the biggest city in the USA the Big Apple It’s full of chances.

New York Wall Street (1) _______ (5) ____ (4) _______ (3) ________ (6) _______ (2) _______ Broadway a world -famous people gather there on lakes, hills and a large green famous for its Times Square Central Park trade centre New Year's Eve lawn theatres

Where is the Wall Street ？ It is at the southern end of Manhattan Island. We can see many big companies and international banks. Because it is the world-famous trade centre. What can we see in Wall Street? Why?

/mæn'hætn/ /'a ɪ lənd/ Manhattan Island Wall Street at the southern end of…

Wall Street the world-famous trade centre /tre ɪ d/ big companies and international banks /, ɪ ntə'næ ʃ nəl/

Times Square gather here on New Year’s Eve see the huge glass ball falling through the darkness [hju ː d ʒ ] /'d ɑː knəs/ /' ɡ æðə(r)/ Further on

They can relax after a hard day’s work. What’s in the central park? Several lakes, hills and a large green lawn. What can people do in the Central Park?

in the centre of the island Central Park several lakes and hills. /‘sevrəl/ a large green lawn /l ɔː n/ relax after a hard day’s work

Memory

When____________________, don’t _____ _____________. __________famous for its theatres ______the early twentieth century. _______ you ever _____________the song “Memory”? _______________the famous Broadway musical Cats. you visit New Yorkmiss Broadway It has been since Have heard of It comes from

How can we start our new tour? Click on the “Back” icon at the bottom of the page.

1. The website helps people buy tickets to different places. ____ 2. There is a “Tour” icon at the bottom of the page. ____ 3. New York is also called “the Big Apple”. ____ 4. Wall Street is at the northern end of Manhattan Island. ____ T F F F travel top southern True and False

5. A big apple falls from the sky on New Year’s Eve at Times Square. ____ 6. There are no hills or lakes in Central Park. ____ 7. The song “Memory” comes from the musical Cats. ____ 8. Click on the “Back” icon and you can start a new online tour. ____ T F F T glass ball several and

1.What do people think of Wall Street? 2. Where is it? 3. When do people gather at Times Square? 4. What do they do at Times Square? 5. What’s in Central Park? 6. What’s Broadway famous for? Activity I: Pair Work

Activity II: Interview Daniel about the USA

Activity III : If you are a writer from the website called “Around the world in eight hours”, what places of interest in Su Zhou will you introduce to the friends all around the world?

What we get from travelling Traveling can relax ourselves! Traveling can open our mind! Traveling can enrich our life! Traveling will bring us a new world ! Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles. 读万卷书，行万里路。