7B Unit 5 Amazing things
How many crets do you know about elephants?
大象知多少？
1. 河南省的简称是“豫”，“豫”在古汉语中是“大象的意思”。在新石器时代至商代后期，河南地区象群不断壮大，得名“豫州”。春秋战国时期，气候变冷，征战四起，大象等野生动物的生存环境逐渐恶化。到了战国末年的韩非子时期，豫州，已然“名不副实”了。
2. It’s a common saying that elephants never forget.
一头驯化的大象，可以记得至少四十个来自象夫的指令；它同时能辨认许多人、动物，以
及生活的点点滴滴，即使平均寿命达五、六十年，一辈子也不会忘记它曾经遭受过的恩惠与伤害。
3. 大象是唯一一种会哀悼死者，举办葬礼，并回来扫墓的非人类动物。他们也会关心其他的物种。
思考：介绍令人惊奇的事物的形容词有哪些？
一、知识框架
1.Comic strip& Welcome to the unit:
重点单词：same, birth, earth, back, fat, fact(in fact事实上)
重点短语：the same size, from birth, stop doing sth., in the back of
重点句型：Fish sleep with their eyes open.
2.Reading:
重点单词：suddenly, anybody, nobody, reply, strange, leave, quickly, happen, everything, wonder, carefully, arch, himlf, weak(be weak in/at), pick, surprid, later, somebody
重点短语：as usual, sit down, turn around, on one’s /the way, say to onelf, pick up, take… to, the animal centre, run away (run out of)
重点句型：On their way home, they met Andy.
When it miaowed, it sounded like a whisper.
Later that day, they took the little cat to the animal centre.
3.Grammar:
重点单词：ago
重点短语：a month ago, take photos, have a great time, the day before yesterday
重点句型：... there were a lot of people there.
We spent three hours in the muum.
What el?
4.Integrated skills& Study skills:
重点单词：snake, ant, little, dry, without, chalk
重点短语：live without water, know more about, be afraid of, not…any more, hear of, the other day, write with on hand, at the same time
重点句型：I know more about animals now.
He can write with on hand and draw with the other at the same time.
5.Task & Self-asssment:
重点单词：sandwich, by
重点短语：play cards, a piece of, all over the world, at least, as…as, ask for
重点句型：Sandwich got its name from a man called John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich.
二、考点精析
1. The world is full of amazing things.
用法分析：
amazing是形容词，意为“令人吃惊的，惊人的”，强调某事令人惊奇，富有意外性。
What an amazing film!
amazing, amazed:
amazing | 用于修饰事物，做表语或定语 |
amazed | 意为“对……感到吃惊的”， 表示对人的感觉，主语为人，只能做表语 |
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考点拓展：
常用于说明人的形容词：interested, surprid, relaxed, amazed, bored, moved, disappointed, excited;
常用于说明物或做定语的形容词：interesting, surprising, relaxing, amazing, boring, moving, disappointing, exciting
补充说明：
surpri vt.使……惊讶 / n.惊喜，令人惊讶的事
surprid adj.吃惊的 be surprid to do sth. 做某事很惊讶; be surprid at sth.对某事（物）感到惊讶
我很惊讶在火车站见到数学老师。___________________________________
我们都对这个消息感到惊讶。___________________________________
surprising adj.令人吃惊的，用法同amazing。
to one's surpri使某人吃惊的是，作插入语。 eg. To his surpri, he failed the exam.
2. Fish sleep with their eyes open. 鱼睁着眼睛睡觉。
用法分析：
with+名词+形容词/介词短语,在句中做状语，表示一种行为方式。
Mr. Li came into the room with a hat on his head.
考点拓展：
1) with表示“有，带有”。Do you have money with you?
2) with表示人或物“长着，戴着……；有……的” ，表示人或物的某种特征。The girl with big eyes looks lovely.
3) with表示“和……一起”，后加名词、代词宾格或者动词ing形式，谓语动词与with前面的主语一致。其反义词为without （without sth./doing sth.）。
The old man with a little dog lives on the lonely island.
4) with 还可以表示“用”，指某种工具或手段。Tom draws 3-D pictures with chalk.
3. Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nos and ears never stop growing.我们的眼睛和出生时一样大，但是我们的鼻子和耳朵从没有停止生长。
用法分析：
1) same做形容词时， 常与the连用，意为“同样的，相同的”，表示“与……相同”时，使用the same as/ the same…as…, 意为（在……方面）和……相同。
Tho shirts are all the same size.
same还可做代词，常与the连用，意为“同样的人”或“同样的事物”
Will you stay for lunch? No, but thanks all the same.
2)birth是名词，意为“出生，诞生”，短语at birth表示“在出生时”，可等于when sb. was/were born.
give birth to 生出，产出，生（孩子）。
The baby cat was very weak ________. Now he is strong.
A. at least B. at once
C. at birth D. at times
3)stop doing sth.停止做某事；stop to do sth. 停下来去做另一件事
Stop________(talk)! Let’s begin our class now.
I’m too tired. Let’s stop________(work)_________(have) a rest, shall we?
4. The sun is about 1,300,000 times larger than the Earth. 太阳的体积大约是地球的130万倍。
用法分析：
time做可数名词，此句意为“倍”，常用于“数词+time(s)+形容词比较级+than+被比较的对象”
或“数词+time(s)+as+形容词原级+as+被比较的对象”
The hall is three times bigger than our classroom.
此外，time做可数名词，还有“次数”的意思。
How many __________(time) do you have sports?
5. Isn’t that amazing? 是不是很惊人？
用法分析：否定疑问句通常以be、情态动词或助动词与not的缩写形式开头，表示惊讶、赞叹或怀疑等语气。
难点：对于否定疑问句做简略回答时，答语要根据事实回答，事实肯定的用yes，反之用no， 翻译注意yes意为“不”，no意为“是”
---Can’t your uncle drive? ---Yes, he can. 不，他会。/No, he can’t. 是的，他不会。
---Don’t you go to school by bike?
