Which one is the newest or last invention? Ask different students to answer the questions. Have the students look at the example conversation in the box. Ask two students to read this conversation to the class. A: I think the telephone was invented before the car. B: Well, I think the telephone was invented after the car. Read the instructions again to the students. Remind them to remember the inventions from first to last. Then have the students talk about the five inventions in groups of four, using the sample conversation as a model. Ask several groups to tell the class their answers. The rest of the class listen to them and show they have different answers by raising their hands. In the next activity you will find out the real dates. Step Ⅲ 1b This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation. Get the whole class to read the instruction together. Call the students’ attention to the five inventions in the picture. Ask five students to say the names of them. Then ask them to see the five dates with a blank line in front of each. We’ll listen to a girl and a woman talking about the five inventions. They will talk about when they were invented. Listen carefully and match the inventions and the dates. Write the correct letter in front of each date as the sample given. Ask them to have a look at the sample answer. Tell them the answer in front of 1876 is d. That means that the telephone, which is letter d, was invented in 1876. Play the recording the first time. The students only listen and try to catch the main idea. Play the recording a second time. Let the students match the inventions and the dates. Check the answers by asking several to say the answers to the class. If some of the answers are hard to get for the children, tell them not to worry and they will make it next. Then play the recording again. Pause after each sentence and let the students repeat. For some difficult sentences, get the students to repeat several times. Be sure that they make everything clear. Answers d 1876 a 1885 e 1927 c 1971 b 1976 Tapescript Girl: Life must have been difficult when you were a kid. Woman: Oh; not really. Why do you say that? Girl: Well, you didn’t have many modern inventions. Like, you probably didn’t have a telephone, right? Woman: Of course we did! How old do you think I am? The telephone was invented in 1876. Girl: How about cars? I bet cars weren’t invented yet. Woman: Sure they were. Cars were invented in 1885. My family had a car. I think you need to take a history class, Alice. Girl: Ha, ha! Well, did you have a TV? Woman: No, we didn’t. The TV was invented around 1927, I think. Some friends of mine had one. But in those days, TVs were really expensive, and we couldn’t afford one. Girl: And I bet you didn’t have calculators and computers and stuff. That’s something I do know. We learned in school that hand-held calculators were invented in 1971 and personal computers were invented in 1976. Woman: You’re right. I didn’t have those things when I was young. But I do now! Step Ⅳ 1c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language. Read the instructions and point to the list of dates in Activity 1b. You will be talking about the dates things were invented with a partner. Call the students’ attention to the example in the box. Ask a pair of the students to read this conversation to the class. SA: When was the telephone invented? SB: I think it was invented in 1876. Write the conversation on the blackboard. Then get the students to practice in pairs, using the information in Activity 1b. Tell them to do it like this: Student A, covers the dates. Students B, asks Student A when the things in the picture above were invented. Then change roles and practice again. Ask several pairs to share their conversations with the class. Step Ⅴ Summary In this class, we’ve learned to talk about the history of inventions with passive voice. We’ve also done some listening practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation. And we’ve done much oral practice, using the target language. Step Ⅵ Homework 查看更多

 

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One afternoon, my son came home from school and asked me, “Are all people the same even if their skin color is different?” I thought for a moment, then I said, “I’ll explain. Let’s go to a fruit store first. I have something interesting to show you.”

At the store, I told him that we needed to buy apples. And we bought some red apples, green apples and yellow apples.

After we got home, I told Adam, “It’s time to answer your question.” I put one of each type of apple on the table: first a red apple, followed by a green apple and then a yellow apple. Then I looked at Adam, who was sitting on the other side of the table.

“Adam, people are just like apples. They come in different colors, shapes and sizes. See, some may not even look as delicious as others.” As I was talking, Adam was examining each one carefully.

Then, I took each of the apples and peeled them, placing them back on the table, but in a different place.

“OK, Adam, tell me which one is the red apple, the green apple and the yellow apple.”

He said, “I can’t tell. They all look the same now.”

“Take a bite(一口) of each one. See if that helps you tell which one is which.”

He took big bites, and then a huge smile came across his face. “People are just like apples! They are all different, but if you take off the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside.”

“Right,” I agreed. “Just like everyone has their own features but they are nearly the same.”

He completely got it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.

Now, when I eat an apple, it tastes a little sweeter than before. What perfect fruit it is!

1. I took Adam to buy apples for         .                    

   A. supper           B. his question          C. a party     D. a present

2. As soon as we got home, I put          on the table.

A. all the apples                    B. three apples of different colors

C. three red apples                  D. three peeled apples

3.After Adam took big bites, he found they         .

A. looked the same     B. tasted good           C. tasted the same    D. weren’t delicious

4.In the end, Adam understood that         .

A. people are much the same even if their skin color is different

B. people are different if their skin color is different

C. the apples look the same after they are peeled             

D. apples of different colors taste different

5. I feel that apples taste a little sweeter than before because         .

A. they are delicious enough           B. they are perfect fruit for thinking

C. they are safe fruit                D. my son falls in love with them

 

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Doing experiments can be interesting, and you may try the following experiments at home. Make sure that you’ll do them with an adult.

【小题1】How many experiments are there in the pictures?

A.Six.B.Five.C.Three.D.Two.
【小题2】The following are the instructions on how to do “Step 2” in these experiments. Which one is the right order?
a. Pour 3/4 of the water away. 
b. Put a balloon on the bottle.
c. Put the bottle in a bucket of hot water. The air rises into the balloon.
A.a, b, cB.a, c, bC.b, a, cD.c, a, b
【小题3】What can you see in the bottle at last in Experiment A?
A.Some ice.B.Some water.
C.Some ice and water.D.A cloud and some water.
【小题4】What will happen to the balloon in “Step 3” in Experiment C?
A.It will be bigger.B.It will be broken.
C.It won’t change.D.It will be in the bottle.

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Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.

But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.

Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.

He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.

As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.

The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.

The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(细节).

Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.

1.What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?

A.His classmates laughed at his name.

B.His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada.

C.A huge storm hits the ship with his family.

D.The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat.

2.Why are all the other animals on the lifeboat killed? Because     .

A.they are hunted by others

B.they are eaten by the tiger

C.they are sunk under the sea

D.they are killed and cooked by Pi

3.The passage mainly tells us     .

A.how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea

B.how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest

C.what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger

D.what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo

4.Which would be true according to the passage?

A.The tiger was killed at last.

B.Pi was saved by another ship.

C.The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story

D.Pi told two stories in the movie.

 

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Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.
But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.
Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.
He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.
As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.
The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.
The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(细节).
Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.
【小题1】What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?

A.His classmates laughed at his name.
B.His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada.
C.A huge storm hits the ship with his family.
D.The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat.
【小题2】Why are all the other animals on the lifeboat killed? Because     .
A.they are hunted by others
B.they are eaten by the tiger
C.they are sunk under the sea
D.they are killed and cooked by Pi
【小题3】The passage mainly tells us     .
A.how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea
B.how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest
C.what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger
D.what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo
【小题4】Which would be true according to the passage?
A.The tiger was killed at last.
B.Pi was saved by another ship.
C.The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story
D.Pi told two stories in the movie.

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 What do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?

  The forest is a whole of its own. It is full of many different living things. But even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on.

  The trees feed the forest "people" by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals from the soil and air. Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying out, making it possible for living things to live in it.

  Human beings are like the living things in the forest. We need one another in order to live. We need the farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks (售员)to sell it to us. We need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. Then, of course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others.

  We also need other human beings in another way. We need people for friendship, to talk over our problems, exchange ideas. Think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone.

  Life is a matter of giving and taking. We need to help other people as much as we need other people to help us. Think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else. You know, being a volunteer is so great!

1.According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on______.

A. the leaves of the trees                   B. water and minerals

C. the soil and air                   D. all of the above

2.It is the ________ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest.

A. birds              B. trees                 C. plants                 D. farmers

3.According to the writer, human beings are_______the forest "people".

A. like         B. dislike                C. unhappy with      D. different from

4.The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.

A. we need people for friendship

B. the forest is a whole world of its own

C. we need one another in order to live on

D. the forest is full of different living things

5.Which one is the relationship (关系) between a forest and your life?

A. We are trees in the forests.

B. We like the living things in the forest.

C. We need farmers to grow our food in the forest.

D. We are the same as the forest: we need each other to live on.

 

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