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课件网) UNIT 6 Go with Transportation! Lesson 33 Life on Wheels THINK ABOUT IT ●How many ways can you think of to use wheels Make a list of them. Cars /................. This world is always moving. Everything seems to have wheels. Let’s learn L33 Life on wheels. 1. When did the first car appear 2. What’s Jeremy’s favourite type of transportation Listen and answer Two hundred years ago. Bicycle Read and answer 1.What’s the text about 2.According to Jeremy, what does everything seem to have 3.When did people invent the Steam engine 4.How do people travel to space Everything seems to have wheels, engines or wings. In the 1700s. In space ships. It’s a report about transportation. 1.long ago --horses 2.now--everything 3.in the 1700s--trains, be able to 4.200 years ago--the first car 1.100 years ago--flying machines 2.today--by airplane 3.now--in spaceships air water ground Life on wheels 1.thousands of years--boats 2.now--fast Steam engine in the 1700s Language Notes 01 Everything seems to have wheels, engines or wings. 每一件东西似乎都有轮子、发动机或者翅膀。 seem + adj. He seems happy. seem to do seem + that 从句 Everything seemed to be getting faster, too. It seems that it’s going to rain. That seems(to be) a good idea. 那似乎是个好主意。 He seems to know everything.他好像知道一切。 It seems that no one knows what has happened in the park. 似乎没有人知道在那个公园里发生了什么。 There seems (to be) something wrong with your car. 你的汽车好像出故障了。 ＊ ＊ ＊ ＊ 02 That was the beginning of trains. 那是火车的起源。 the beginning of…意为“……的开始”。 It will be the beginning of your success. 它将会是你成功的开始。 ＊ ＊ be able to = can 都接动词原形 be able to 通过努力 获得的能力 可用于各种时态， can 自身具有的能力 只有现在式和过去式 He is/was/will be able to help you. 他能帮你。 She can/could sing the song in English. Luckily,he was able to escape from the big fire in the end.幸运的是，他最终逃离了那场大火。 ＊ ＊ 03Then steam was able to power boats and cars. 04Boats have been around for thousands of years.船已经存在数千年了。 thousands of意为“成百上千的/成千上万的”。 hundred, thousand, million, billion 用法： 有具体数字，不加 s ,不加 f; 没有具体数字， 要加 s,要加 f. The enviroment here becomes better and better.Thousands of birds have come back.这里的环境变得越来越好。数以千计的鸟飞回来了。 ＊ 05The first car appeared about two hundred years ago, and now the roads are full of cars. 第一辆汽车出现在大约两百年前，现在道路上满是汽车。 appear作动词，意为“出现”。其反义词为disappear，意为“消失”。 I expected Mike to show his talents in the competition, but he didn’t appear. ＊ 06. Can you imagine future transportation 你能想象一下未来的交通工具吗？ imagine 用作动词，意为“想象；想到” imagine sth/doing 想象（做）某事 I can’t imagine living in the same room with him. Can you imagine the life with hot water 。 07It’s good for my health and for the environment.这对我的健康和环境 ... ...
