Module 2 My home town and my country
Unit 1 It’s taller than many other buildings.
【教材分析】
本课为Module 2的第一单元，主要内容为比较我国两个城市在方位、特点和特色上的不同，掌握形容词比较级的运用。从全书来看，本单元承接上一模块形容词的学习和运用，延伸到比较级形式，学生容易接受。通过对本国城市的比较，为下一单元的异国城市学习奠定了语言基础。
【教学目标】
●Knowledge objective
1.词汇
2.形容词比较级在肯定、否定和疑问句当中的运用
●Ability objective
能听懂和阅读关于两个城市或事物相比较的语言材料，能通过相关词汇和图片描述某一城市的基本概况；能比较两个事物的不同，并写出相关的句子和短文。
●Moral objective
教资考试真题感受祖国的地域辽阔，风景万千，培养爱国主义情感。同时，学会与他人沟通和分工合作，建立良好的人际关系。
【教学重点】
1. To learn and review some words and expressions：
hill, wide, million, pretty, and get
盐焗鸡蛋
2. To learn some expressions about positions.
【教学难点】
1. 比较级的变化规则。
2. 比较级的结构。
【教学方法】
PWP method, task-bad method and interactive approach
【教学手段】
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
Show the students videos about Shanghai and Hongkong.
Step 2 Listening and vocabulary
1. Show the pictures and learn the new words.
2. Work on Activity 1.
1) Look at the pictures and practice using the words from the box..
2) Listen and fill in the blanks.
3) Listen again and complete the passage using adjectives.
Welcome to Shanghai. This _____ city in East China has a population of 23.5 million. It’s on a _____ river called the Huangpu river. The _____ building you can e is the Jin Man Tower. It’s 420.5 metres _____.
This is Hong Kong. It’s a ______ city on the South China coast. Severn million people live here. The hill is Victoria Peak. It’s 552 metres _____.
Step 3 Reading
1. Show the pictures, learn some new words.
2. Listen and mark true or fal.
1) Shenzhen is a newer city than HongKong.
2) Shenzhen became important in the 1970s.
3) Shenzhen’s population is over twenty million.
4) Diwang tower is taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen.柳暗花明的意思
3. Read and complete the passage about Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is on the coast near Hong Kong. It became important in the (1) _______. Before that it was a (2)_______. Today the population of Shenzhen is more than (3) _______ million. There are many tall buildings in Shenzhen. A famous one is the (4) ______________. It is (5) _______ than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
4. Find the adjectives and their comparatives in the ntences.
严厉的父亲1)孙权简介 So it’s a newer city than Hong Kong?
2) It’s getting bigger and busier.
3) That’s larger than the population of many other cities in China.
4) Its streets are much wider and cleaner too.
5) It’s taller than many other buildings in Shenzhen.
鸟的寿命
3. Complete the passage about Shenzhen.
4. Everyday English.
5. Point out the main points in the passage.
Step 4 Language points
1. population
population意为“人口；全体居民”，是一个集合名词，在句中作主语时，谓语动词通常用单数形式。
常用句型“The population of+某地+be+数词.”或“某地+ has a population of +数词.”表示“
某地有多少人口”。如：
The population of my home town is three million.
= My home town has a population of three million.
当表示人口“多”或“少”时常用形容词large或small。如：君子动口不动手
The city has a large / small population.
当对人口数量进行提问时，要用疑问词what。如：
What is the population of your country?
根据各题后括号内的要求完成下列各题。
(1) The population of this city ____ (be) over one million. (用括号内所给词的适当形式填空)
(2) How much is the population of Shanghai? (改错)
_________________________
(3) The population of India is ________ (smaller / fewer) than that of China. (选词填空)
2. million
million是一个数词，意为“百万”陕西师范大学分数线，前面有具体数字修饰时用单数形式。
million还常用于固定结构millions of中, 表示“数百万的；数以百万计的”。如：
The old man has two million dollars.
There are millions of books in the library.
根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
(1) 那座城市有七百万人。
There are _______ _______ people in that city.
(2) 他有数百万歌迷。
He has got ________ _____ fans.
3. How was your weekend? Pretty good!
pretty good表示“相当好”。用于对How’s …?/What do you think of …?作答。
e.g. — How was your traveling?
— Pretty good.
—你的旅行怎么样？
— 非常棒。
4. In fact, it only became important in the 1980s. It’s getting bigger and busier.
1) in fact 表示“事实上”。
e.g. In fact, Taiwan is a part of China.
事实上，台湾是中国的一部分。
2) in the 1980s 表示“在20世纪80年代”。
结构为“in the + 年份 + s”。
e.g. in the 1930s 在20世纪30年代
5. Some day it will become as busy as
Hong Kong, I’m sure.
as + 形容词/副词 + as 和……一 样
e.g. He is as tall as his brother.
他和他的哥哥一样高。
not as + 形容词/副词 + as 不像……
