Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world?Period 2 Section A (3a-3c)

李芬

Step 1 Revision

Look at the photos. Answer the following questions.

Which is the highest mountain in the world？

Which is the longest river in Asia？ ...

Step 2 Learn the new words.

1. achievementn.成就;成績

2. achievev.達到;完成;成功

3. southwestern adj.西南的;西南方向的

4. include v.包含;包括

……

【常用短語】：

succeed in doing sth.

challengev.&n.挑戰;考驗

n the faceof面對（困難、問題等）

forcen.力;力量

Step 3 Pre-Read Talk below questions in pairs.

What do you know about Qomolangma ？

Is Qomolangma the most dangerous mountain in the world ？

Step 4 Reading

自己閱讀文章，在課本中畫出重點句子、疑點后，將以下漢語翻譯成英語。先獨立完成翻譯，再在小組中商議翻譯的正確與否。

1.最危險的山峰;2.世界上最危險的運動之一;3.登山（名詞短語） / （動詞短語）;4.來自世界各地的登山者;5.橫亙于中國的西南邊界

Read the article again， and answer the following questions.

1. What a mountain is Himalayas？

It's one of the most popular places for mountain climbing.

2. Why is it dangerous to climb Qomolangma？

Because thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard.

3. When did the first Chinese reach the top of Qomolangma？In 1960.

Step 5 Language points

1. One of the world's most dangerous sports is mountain climbing，

“one of+ the+形容詞的最高級+復數名詞”，意為“.....之一”。如：

Miss Wang is one of the most popular teachers in our school.

王老師是我們學校最受歡迎的老師之- - 。

2. Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather conditions and heavy storms.

更加嚴峻的困難包括極冷的天氣狀況和巨大的風暴。

1） difficulty既可作可數名詞也可作不可數名詞，在此用作可數名詞。作可數名詞時，difficulty

通常用作復數，表示具體概念，即：各種各樣的“困難;難題;難事”。

例如： People learning a new language may face some difficulties.

人們學習一門新的語言時可能會遇到一些困難。

If you have any difficulties， you can call me for help.

如果你遇到任何困難，給我打電話求助好了。

作不可數名詞時，difficulty 可譯作“困難;艱難;辛苦; 費勁”，

2） include 表示“包括;包含”，是一個及物動詞。

3. It is also very hard to take in air as you get near the top.

It is+ adj. + to do sth.，it 作形式主語放在句首，而把真正的主語放在句尾。常用于此句型的形容詞有important，difficult，dangerous，necessary，useful，possible等，用來對to do

sth.進行說明。此句型可以轉換成To do sth. is + adj.

Step 6 Exercise

Step 7 Homework

l. Review the new words and expressions.

2.發揮想象，連詞成文（50-100字）。

achievement， thick， include， condition， succeed， achieve， force， nature， even though

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