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课件网) Unit 9 Have you ever been to a museum Lead-in What should you consider if you want to travel Discussion places to visit weather best time to go and stay there transportation food people history What country is this Singapore Where is Singapore position: in Southeast Asia Task 1 Read the article quickly and try to use a key word to describe each paragraph. Singapore Language Food Zoo Temperature ① ② ③ ④ English Chinese Malaysian Tamil Chillcrab Spring Summer Autumn/Fall Winter Chinese Indian Western Japanese At night More natural environment Research & Extension Hainanese Chicken Rice Most people in Singapore only speak English. 2. It is not easy to get many different kinds of good food in Singapore. 3. It’s better to see lions and tigers during the daytime because they will probably be awake. 4. It’s best to visit Singapore in the autumn. The statements below are false. Please read the article again and use information from the article to correct them. 2c speak English as well as Putonghua not去掉 Task 2 at night You can visit Singapore at any time of the year. Interaction Task 3 Read the article the third time and try to find the answers to the following questions. Where is Singapore Is it difficult to get Chinese food Why or why not Are most of the animals asleep during the night Why is the temperature almost the same all year round It’s a small island in Southeast Asia. No. You won’t have any problem getting it. No. A lot of animals only wake up at night. Because the island is so close to the equator. Task 4 Try to find the following phrases in the article. 数以千计的 度假 一方面……另一方面…… 四分之三 做某事有困难 做某事没有任何困难 不管……（还是）；或者……（或者） 全年 接近…… 选择做某事 thousands of take a holiday on the one hand,…,on the other hand,… three quarters have problems (in) doing not have any problem (in) doing whether … or … all year round=the whole year be close to choose to do sth. (chose-chosen) 课时练P121 adj. Task 5 Language Points For thousands of tourists from China,… 对于许多中国游客来说，…… thousands of 数以千计的，许多的 后接可数名词复数，表示不确定的数量，类似的还有： hundreds/millions/billions of 当表示确切数目时，thousand要用单数，且不能与of连用。 如：5000-five thousand, 250-two hundred and fifty The school has four _____ (thousand) students. This mountain is so beautiful that _____ (thousand) visitors come here every year. thousand thousands of Research 2. … more than three quarters of the population are Chinese,… ……超过四分之三的人口是中国人…… 英语中分数的表达： 基数词+序数词(s) 如果分子（基数词）超过一，则分母（序数词）需变复数。 如：a quarter = one fourth 2/5 = two fifths 大约三分之二的学生是男生。 About two thirds of the students are boys. 厘米是米的百分之一。 The centimeter is _____ of the meter. one hundredth 3. Maybe you fear that … 或许你害怕…… fear n. 害怕，恐惧，担忧 v. 害怕，畏惧，担心，恐怕 fear to do sth. fear ... ...
