Unit 3 Asia

Reading 1

Welcome to Beijing !

Doreen

Yetang Middle School

Unit 3 Asia

Reading 1

Welcome to Beijing !

Doreen

Yetang Middle School

As Grade 9 students,do you often feel stressed ?

If so,what can you do to relax yourselves?

As Grade 9 students,do you often feel stressed ?

If so,what can you do to relax yourselves?

Tian’anmen Square

the Monument to the People’s Heroes

the Palace Museum

the Summer Palace

feel the beauty of…

Bird's Nest

Water Cube

Welcome to Beijing!

the Forbidde

n City

Tian’anmen Square

the Summer Palace

the Great Wall

Task one :please watch a video of Beijing, and find out the names of the four tourist attractions .

the Forbidden City

Tian’anmen Square

the Summer Palace

the Great Wall

The emperors spent the summer there.

We can watch the raising of the national flag there.

It could protect our border in the past.

The emperors used to live there.

Task Two: Knowing about the four places.

The Forbidden City 1 The Forbidden City is _______________Beijing.

2 __________________________ used to live there.

3 It was changed to be___________ in 1925. __________________________________ _________________________________

at the centre of

The emperors of theMing and Qing dynasties

a museum

Task Three: While reading

1 What does the word “Tian’anmen” mean? __________________ 2 Is it the biggest square in the world? _______________3 What can we watch there? _____________________________4 What do the local people like to do there?

____________________________________

It means ‘a gate of heavenly peace’.

Yes, it is.

We can watch the raising of the national flag.

They like to take a walk and fly kites there.

Tian’anmen Square

The Summer Palace The Summer Palace is in the __________ of Beijing. It’s a ____________ garden. The emperors used to spend the_________ there. It is still very nice and consists mainly of a ___ and a ______________.

north-west Chinese-style

summer

hillman-made lake

The Great Wall runs

more than ___________,

and it was built with

______ and _______. The Great Wall was used to ________ the northern border of the country. It is one of the ________ of the world. It is very tiring to climb it _______________.

5,000 km

stones bricksprotect

wonders

step by step

The Great Wall

Read the text together and then circle the correct answers:1.Beijing is in ____ China.(A). north-west (B). south-east (C). northern

2. You will get lost easily, if you ______.(A). don’t have a map (B). don’t live in Beijing 更多资源xiti123.taobao.com

(C). don’t like Beijing

3. The Great Wall was build for _______.(A). people to fly their kites (B). emperors to spend the summer(C). Protecting the northern border of China

4.Tian’an men Square is close to _______.(A). Summer Palace (B). the Forbidden City (C). the Great wall

5. The emperor of the Ming and Qing dynasties __________ in the Forbidden City .

(A) used to live (B) are used to live(C) used living

6. You will ______ by the beautiful design os the buildings, and the clothes and furniture.

(A) attractive (B) to attract (C) be attracted

初中英语九下

Write me an e-mail about

Beijing!

Millie

Dear Millie,

Beijing is a big place. Unless you have a map, you will get lost easily.

The ______________is the place where the emperors used to live. Tian’anmen Square is very beautiful, it is filled with tourists. People get there early so that they can watch the raising of the ____________. The Great Wall is one of the__________of

the world.

Forbidden City

national flagwonders

1.Unless you have a map, you will get

lost easily. unless=‘if ...... not’, 意为 “除非 , 如果

不”，引导条件状语从句1.) 我不去那里 , 除非他邀请我。 I ____ ___ ___there ______ he invites me.

2.) 你必须到这儿来 , 除非天下雨。 You ____ _____ here ______it rains.

unless

unless

will not go

must come

If he doesn't invite me , I won't go there.

2.The emperors of the Ming and Qing

dynasties used to live here.

used to do sth. ( 过去经常做某事 )

be/get used to doing sth. be used to do sth./for doing sth.

( 习惯于做某事 )

( 被用来做某事）

1.) 我习惯早起。 I ____ ____ ___ _______ ______ early.

2.) 他的爷爷以前常常晚饭后散步。 His grandfather ____ ____ _____ a walk

after supper before.

3.) 刀被用来切东西。 The knife___ ____ ___ ____ things.

The knife___ ____ ___ _________ things.

used to take

am used to getting up

is used to cut

is used for cutting

3.It is the biggest square in the world and

is always filled with tourists.

be filled with 意为 “充满着 , 挤满了” ,

它的同义短语是 ‘ be full of’ 。

1.) 请把瓶子装满水。

Please the bottle water.

2.)Jim: 教室里人多吗？

Lucy: 是的，里面满是学生。

Jim: Is classroom crowded?

Lucy:Yes. It ___ ____ ____ students.

fill

is filled with

with

4.Every day, many tourists gather there early in the morning so that they can watch the raising of the national flag. so that 意为 “为了……以便于 ” , 用来引导目的状语从句。1.) 为了赶上早班车 , 我每天起床很早。I ___ ____ early every day ___ ____I can

____ the early bus.

2.) 他常常读英语，以便能提高它。He often _____ English ___ ____he can

improve it.

so thatget up

catch

reads so that

1 除非你上课认真听，否则你不会通过考试的。 You won’t pass the exam _______you listen

___________ in class.

2 他过去常常一个人晚上出去看电影。 He ________go to the cinema alone at night.

3 这个超市里常常挤满了人。 The supermarket is always __________people.

4 为了感觉到暖和一点，他穿了很多衣服。 He wore many clothes ________he could feel

warmer.

Additional exercises

carefully

used to

filled with

so that

unless

Task Five:post-reading

If we go on a school trip to Beijing,which of the four places will you prefer to visit? Why?

1.Revise the useful phrases and sentences about Beijing.

2.Write a guide to Changshu for your online friend.

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