UNIT 9 The world's highest mountain
[00:08.32]is 8,844 meters high.
[00:13.21]SECTION A
[00:14.93]Language Goals
[00:16.66]Talk about geography and nature
[00:20.11]Compare facts and figures
[00:22.72]1a Check (√)the facts you know.
[00:26.59]Write one more.
[00:28.08]Did you know that Qomolangma
[00:30.62]is the highest mountain in the world?
[00:32.80]Yes,I did.
[00:34.65]It's 8,844 meters high.
[00:37.99]Qomolangma
[00:39.73]the Yangtze River
[00:41.88]the Sahara
[00:43.93]the Giant Panda
[00:45.65]The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze River.
[00:49.18]It's about 6,300 kilometers long.
[00:53.09]The Sahara is about 8,000,000 square kilometers
[00:57.48]in size.
[00:59.05]It's the biggest desert in the world.
[01:02.06]The world's deepest salt lake is the Caspian Sea
[01:06.11]It's 1,025 meters deep.
[01:10.02]One of the most endangered animals in the world
[01:13.46]is the giant panda.
[01:15.84]There are only about 1,600 left.
[01:19.70]The Amazon is the longest river in the world.
[01:23.65]It's about 6,500 kilometers long.
[01:27.41]1b Listen and check (√) the facts you hear.
[01:33.07]Hi,I'm Mike.
[01:34.86]I'm from United States,
[01:36.68]but I'm studying here in China.
[01:39.16]Welcome to our class, Mike.
[01:41.52]We're very happy to meet you.
[01:43.69]I've got only a few minutes to talk today,
[01:46.19]but I'd like to ask you about
[01:47.77]your country for a school project I'm doing.
[01:50.69]Sure!We'll be happy to tell you about China.
[01:54.64]To start off, did you know that China
[01:57.57]is one of the oldest civilizations in the world?
[02:01.12]Yeah,I did.
[02:02.73]China has a longer history than United States
[02:05.79]in fact, America is one of the youngest
[02:08.69]countries in the world.
[02:10.73]And China has the biggest population,too.
[02:13.83]Did you know that?
[02:15.06]Yes.Where do most of them live?
[02:18.23]The most populated part of China
[02:20.27]is in the southeast.
[02:22.21]Is that because a lot of China
[02:24.30]is mountains and desert?
[02:25.54]Yes.I need ask you many more questions,
[02:29.37]but I don't have time today.
[02:31.11]May I come again?
[02:32.69]Yeah.Sure.That would be great.
[02:35.06]That's so cool!Thanks,everybody.
[02:37.96]See you soon,then.Bye.
[02:41.61]1c PAIRWORK
[02:43.63]Practice the conversation in the picture above.
[02:47.45]Then make conversations with the information
[02:50.21]in the chart in 1a.
[02:52.90]Did you know that Qomolangma is the highest
[02:55.92]mountain in the world?
[02:57.91]Yes,I did.It's 8,844 meters high.
[03:03.94]2a Listen and number the facts
[03:07.71]in the order you hear them.
[03:10.37]Listen,everyone
[03:11.80]here is a geographical facts for you:
[03:14.36]the Nile River is six thousand,
[03:16.88]six hundred and seventy kilometers long.
[03:19.75]Really?
[03:21.64]And how long is the Yellow Rever in China?
[03:24.68]I know.It's about five thousand,
[03:28.23]and five hundred kilometers long.
[03:30.99]That's right.
[03:32.54]And did you know that the highest place
[03:34.41]above sea level is the Himalayas?
[03:37.58]That's where Qomolangma is, isn't it?
[03:40.96]Yes. And that mountain is higher than
[03:43.94]Mount Tai in Shandong province,
[03:46.44]which is one thousand,
[03:47.95]five hundred and forty five meters high...
[03:50.80]Can you tell us a fact about speed?
[03:54.33]Sure. The fastest animals is the cheetah.
[03:57.74]It can move about 110 kilometers per hour.
[04:01.20]And the slowest is the snail.
[04:03.94]It moves at 0.09 kilometers per hour.
[04:07.96]That's really slow.Mr. Baker?
[04:12.43]I want to know what the population
[04:15.08]of Singapore is,and Malaysia, its neighbor.
[04:19.05]It's just over four million,
[04:21.42]and Malaysia is about twenty million.
[04:24.57]Four million?
[04:25.96]That's not a lot of people in Singapore,
[04:28.84]but then it is one of the smallest countries
[04:31.36]in the world, isn't it?
[04:33.10]Yes,I think so.
[04:34.98]Many people speak Chinese there, you know.
[04:38.38]That's right.
[04:39.91]Yes. And more and more people in the world
[04:42.90]are interested in learning Chinese.
[04:45.97]2b Listen again.
[04:49.31]Fill in the blanks with the missing numbers.
[04:54.06]2c Match the columns.
[04:58.35]2d PAIRWORK
[05:00.52]Make conversations using the information
[05:03.63]in 2a and 2c.
[05:06.75]Did you know that Qomolangma is much higher
[05:10.67]than Mount Tai?
[05:11.95]No,I didn't.Is Qomolangma the highest mountain
[05:15.86]in the world?
[05:17.10]Yes,it is.It's 8,844 meters high.
[05:21.45]Wow!That's high!
[05:24.38]Grammar Focus
[05:26.10]Did you know that the Yangtze River
[05:27.96]is about 6,300 kilometers long?
[05:32.01]The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara.
[05:35.35]China is one of the oldest civilizations
[05:38.04]in the world.
[05:40.03]The cheetah can run 100 kilometers per hour.
[05:44.42]There are no man-made structures as big as the
[05:47.25]Great Wall.
[05:49.14]3a Read the article.
[05:53.06]Underline the words that show comparisons.
[05:58.98]Qomolangma--the most dangerous mountain
[06:01.52]in the world?
[06:04.23]One of the most dangerous sports in the world
[06:06.92]is mountain climbing,
[06:09.05]and one of the most popular places to go for
[06:11.20]this is the Himalayas.
[06:13.61]These extremely high mountains attract climbers
[06:16.20]from all over the world.
[06:18.30]Many people say this is one of the most
[06:20.34]beautiful parts of the world.
[06:23.44]The Himalayas run along the southwestern border
[06:26.33]of China.Of all the peaks,
[06:29.70]Qomolangma is the highest and most famous.
[06:33.83]It's dangerous to climb Qomolangma because
[06:36.49]thick clouds cover the top of the mountain.
[06:39.96]Even more serious difficulties include the
[06:42.56]freezing weather conditions and the heavy storms
[06:46.60]The first people to reach the top of Qomolangma
[06:49.91]Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary-did it in 1953
[06:55.90]The first Chinese climber reached the top
[06:58.61]in 1960,and in 1975,the first woman did it too.
[07:06.77]For these climbers it was a difficult
[07:09.05]and dangerous climb--indeed,
[07:11.51]many people have lost their lives
[07:13.35]on this mountain.
[07:15.35]More recently, it has become safer and faster
[07:18.18]to climb Qomolangma, probably because of
[07:21.52]better equipment and support.
[07:23.77]For example, in 2003,
[07:26.71]a climber reached the top of Qomolangma
[07:28.97]in just under 11 hours.
[07:31.58]What an amazing achievement!
[07:33.87]3b Complete the chart.
[07:36.82]4 GROUPWORK
[07:39.20]In groups,write questions about the world.
[07:43.12]Then ask other groups your questions.
[07:46.46]See which group knows more.
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