1. Self Check It’s a nice day, isn’t it? Unit 10

2. 1 Fill in the blanks with the words given. 1.Paul and I are good friends. We ________ well because we both ________ well because we both like sports. like sports. 2. Mr Li is a very good teacher. He ______ math so easy. ______ math so easy. 3. I need some money. I’m going to __________ the newspaper for a __________ the newspaper for a library job. library job. 4. Be careful to look both ways before you ______ the street. before you ______ the street. 5. If you have finished your homework, you could ________ homework, you could ________ cleaning and cooking. cleaning and cooking. look through cross makes get along go with

3. Imagine the small talk in Imagine the small talk in the picture. the picture. Then fill in the blanks:

4. Fill in the blanks: A: ______________, isn’t it? B: Yes, it is. ____________? A: Yes, the traffic is very busy at this time. busy at this time. B: ________________, don’t you think so? you think so? A: Yes, at least it isn’t raining. This bus is always late Is the traffic busy? The weather’s good

5. 3 Now imagine you are in the places below. in the places below. Write small talk conversations and practice them with your partner.

6. At a party Man1: This Disco party is too noisy, isn’t it? Man2: Yes, it is. There are many young people here. Man1: You often come here to relax, don’t you? Man2: Not often. I come here once a month.

7. On a train Man: Hello, where will you go? Woman: I will go to Beijing, the capital of China, and you? Man: I will go to Shi Jiazhuang the capital of HeBei province.

8. You are new here, aren’t you?

9. brain man ape ape’s brain

10. Apes can understand something more quickly than human think. One or two have learned a few words. But they are still different from us. They cannot join words and make sentences.

11. They can’t think like us because they can’t think about the past or the future. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to build a modern world because he has language. us because they can’t think about the past or the future. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to build a modern world because he has language.

12. Every child can speak his own language very well when he is language very well when he is 4 or 5----but no animal learns to 4 or 5----but no animal learns to speak. How do children learn? speak. How do children learn? Scientists do not really know. What Scientists do not really know. What happens when we speak? happens when we speak? Scientists do not know. They only know that man can speak because he that man can speak because he has a big brain. has a big brain.

13. Choose the best answer: 1 In what way are men different from animals? animals? a. Men can understand things quickly. b. Men have learned to use language. c. Men can learn. d. Men have brains. Answer:

14. 2 _______ can think about the past or the future. or the future. a.Apes b. Animals d. Neither animals nor men d. Neither animals nor men c. Men 3. An ape cannot _______. a. make noise b. understand things c. learn words d. speak like man

15. 4. Scientists now know __________. __________. a. man’s brain helps him to learn to speak b. why apes can learn a few words c. how children learn to speak d. What happens when men speak

16. 5. From this passage, we know _____________. _____________. a. Apes have brains and language b. Apes can think, learn and speak c. Animals cannot learn to speak d. both A and B are right