1. Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?

2. 视频引入 地球总体情况介绍视频 2 ～ 3 分钟

4. The Yangtze River 6,300 kilometers long The Yellow River 5,464 kilometers long How long is the river?

5. Caspian Sea [‘kæspiən] 1,025 meters deep ['mi:tər] How deep is the sea?

6. the Sahara Desert [sə’h ɑ :rə] 9,600,000 square kilometers (in size) the Nile [na ɪ l] 6,671 kilometers long How long is the river? How large is the desert?

7. The Pacific Ocean [pə’s ɪ f ɪ k] ['ə ʊʃ n] The Pacific Ocean is the widest sea. [wa ɪ d] Which is the widest sea?

8. Which continent( 大洲 ) has the largest population? [,p ɒ pju’le ɪʃ n] Asia [ 'ei ʃ ə ]

9. [‘kæspiən] [na ɪ l] [sə’h ɑ :rə] ['mi:tər] ['ə ʊʃ n] [wa ɪ d] [pə’s ɪ f ɪ k] [,p ɒ pju’le ɪʃ n] [ 'ei ʃ ə ] Caspian sea n. 里海 the Nile n. 尼罗 the Sahara Desert n. 撒哈拉沙漠 meter n. 米 ocean n. 海洋 wide adj. 宽的 Pacific ocean 太平洋 population n. 人口 Asia n. 亚洲

10. Match the facts you know Qomolangma The Sahara The Caspian Sea The Nile about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size 1,025 meters deep 6,671 kilometers long 8,844.43 meters high

11. How to read the numbers 925 nine hundred and twenty five 5,925 five thousand nine hundred and twenty five 15,925 fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty five 115,925 one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty five 3,115,925 three million one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty five

12. 3,115,925 three million one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty five 结论：英文数字每 ______ 位一个逗号，逗号 内为一个数位级，千位及以上从低到高级 别依次是 ___________ 、 __________ 同一个 级别内仍用按千以内的读法读，后面加上 相应逗号的级别即可，级别之间 _______ （需要 / 不需要）连接。 3 thousand million 不需要

13. 7,900 4,462 461,347 8,377,920 27,900,005 779,022,600 Write a number on your paper. Read it to the class and see who can write fast and correctly. Try to read the numbers

14. 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. Listen and complete the sentences. higher the biggest the deepest the longest

15. Close your books. Listen and answer 1. What are the people doing when they have this conversation? 2. When did Badaling part of the Great Wall build? They are traveling on the Great Wall. It was built in the Ming Dynasty.

16. The Great Wall [w ɔ :l] It is 8,858 kilometers long. The a______ emperors built it to p_______ the country. _______________( 据我所知 ), it is one of the most a________buildings in the world, so many _______(n.) come to see it. ancient protect As far as I know amazing tourists ancient adj. ['e ɪ n ʃ ənt] protect v. [prə'tekt] protection n. tourist n. tour n. amazed adj. [ə’me ɪ zd] amazing adj. [ə'me ɪ z ɪ ŋ]

17. Homework 1. Reading 2. Students’ Times 3. Dictation P49~P50

18. Qomolangma [‘t ʃ ə ʊ mə ʊ,l ɑ :ŋmə] 8844.43meters high It runs along the ____________ part of China. ______ clouds cover the top and the weather is so _______ that it’s hard for people to _____ ___ air (breath) while climbing. So it has the worst weather _________. southwestern Thick freezing take in condition

19. Many climbers ________ to reach the top. The successors ________ Chinese. People want to _________ themselves ___ ____ __ difficulties. They show us the spirit that we should never give up trying to ________ our dreams. They also show that humans can sometimes be stronger than the _____ of _____. succeed v. include v. challenge v. in face of achieve v. force n. nature n. force, include, succeed, challenge, achieve, nature, in face of

20. It is huge. It can sing songs. It can jump high out of the water. People catch them for their meat, fat and oil. whale [we ɪ l] n. [ ɔɪ l] n. [hju:d ʒ ] adj.

21. This is Chengdu Research Base of [r ɪ 's ɜ :t ʃ ] v./n. Giant Panda. There are now fewer than 2000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so are in zoos or research centers or other countries.remaining The Chinese government even plant more bamboo trees so that there will be more forests for pandas to live in. [‘g ʌ vənmənt] n. [,bæm'bu:] n.

22. The remaining (n.) (of the building) remaining [r ɪ ’me ɪ n ɪ ŋ] adj.

23. There are many keepers work in the center. At 9:00 a.m., most of the baby pandas are already awake and hungry. So when they see the keepers, they run over with ________ and some of them even walk into their friends and ____ ____. 插入熊猫抢食视频 excitment fall over [ə'we ɪ k]