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;成绩

2. achievev.达到;完成;成功

3. southwestern adj.西南的;西南方向的

4. include v.包含;包括

……

【常用短语】：

succeed in doing sth.

challengev.&n.挑戰;考验

n the faceof面对（困难、问题等）

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

自己阅读文章，在课本中画出重点句子、疑点后，将以下汉语翻译成英语。先独立完成翻译，再在小组中商议翻译的正确与否。

1.最危险的山峰;2.世界上最危险的运动之一;3.登山（名词短语） / （动词短语）;4.来自世界各地的登山者;5.横亘于中国的西南边界

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+形容词的最高级+复数名词”，意为“.....之一”。如：

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

王老师是我们学校最受欢迎的老师之- - 。

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

更加严峻的困难包括极冷的天气状况和巨大的风暴。

1） difficulty既可作可数名词也可作不可数名词，在此用作可数名词。作可数名词时，difficulty

通常用作复数，表示具体概念，即：各种各样的“困难;难题;难事”。

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

人们学习一门新的语言时可能会遇到一些困难。

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

如果你遇到任何困难，给我打电话求助好了。

作不可数名词时，difficulty 可译作“困难;艰难;辛苦; 费劲”，

2） include 表示“包括;包含”，是一个及物动词。

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

It is+ adj. + to do sth.，it 作形式主语放在句首，而把真正的主语放在句尾。常用于此句型的形容词有important，difficult，dangerous，necessary，useful，possible等，用来对to do

sth.进行说明。此句型可以转换成To do sth. is + adj.

Step 6 Exercise

Step 7 Homework

l. Review the new words and expressions.

2.发挥想象，连词成文（50-100字）。

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

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