UNIT 9 The world's highest mountain
[00:07.65]is 8,844 meters high.
[00:11.55]SECTION B
[00:13.60]1 How do animals compare with man?
[00:17.77]Use the language in the box to make comparisons.
[00:21.50]A is three times as strong as B.
[00:25.85]A is more than ten times bigger that B.
[00:31.09]A is not nearly as strong as B.
[00:35.46]A can eat a little more than B.
[00:38.86]A is ten centimeters longer than B.
[00:43.44]A turtle
[00:44.74]weighs 150 kilos.
[00:47.88]is 100 centimeters long.
[00:50.63]lives for 150 years.
[00:53.81]An elephant
[00:55.28]weighs 5,000 kilos.
[00:58.07]is 500 centimeters long.
[01:01.44]eats 250 kilos of food per day.
[01:05.35]A man
[01:06.60]weighs 70 kilos.
[01:09.18]is 170 centimeters tall.
[01:12.63]can run 15 kilometers per hour.
[01:16.00]lives for 70 years.
[01:18.72]sleeps 8 hours per day.
[01:21.84]A cheetah
[01:22.83]weighs 60 kilos.
[01:25.71]is 150 centimeters long.
[01:28.93]can run 100 kilometers per hour.
[01:32.48]A giant panda
[01:34.58]weighs 120 kilos.
[01:37.66]is 60 centimeters tall.
[01:40.57]eats 20 kilos of food per day.
[01:43.77]lives for 25 years.
[01:47.83]2a Listen and complete the sentences.
[01:52.91]Does anyone know how heavy a cat is?
[01:56.15]I think an ordinary cat
[01:58.36]weighs about a few kilos.
[02:01.02]And how much does an insect weigh?
[02:03.12]Only a few grams, I'm sure.
[02:06.51]Right. So... a cat weighs many times
[02:11.51]more than an insect.
[02:13.41]And what about the difference in size
[02:15.98]between a dog and a giant panda?
[02:19.03]Well, it depends on what kinds of dog.
[02:21.74]But I would say that a big dog is just
[02:24.06]less than half the size of a giant panda.
[02:27.10]I have a question!
[02:29.00]Is man the longest living animal in the world?
[02:32.63]No, that's a giant turtle.
[02:35.14]But a man can live for nearly a hundred years
[02:37.63]nowadays.That's quite long.
[02:40.06]And how long can a butterfly live?
[02:43.02]Can it live as long as a man?
[02:45.53]No, a butterfly only lives for three days.
[02:49.84]What a short life!
[02:52.30]Yes,many insects have very short lives.
[02:57.11]2b Listen again.
[03:00.02]Check (√) the other animals you hear.
[03:03.77]2c PAIRWORK
[03:06.59]Compare facts about animals
[03:08.72]using the information in activity 1.
[03:12.34]Look!A giant panda weighs 120 kilos.
[03:17.31]That means it weighs 50 kilos more than a man.
[03:21.61]Yeah.A man only weighs 70 kilos.
[03:25.87]3a Read the article about disasters.
[03:30.85]Fill in each blank with a correct word
[03:33.21]from the box.
[03:36.09]Flooding is one of the biggest problems
[03:38.99]in the world.
[03:40.48]In August 2005,
[03:43.02]there was a serious flood in northeastern China.
[03:46.81]In Fushun more than 100 millimeters of rain fell
[03:51.62]and the water level became very high.
[03:54.67]Eventually about 6,800 homes disappeared
[03:59.61]under water.
[04:00.89]Soldiers worked hard to save people,
[04:04.30]and tried to prevent the water from rising
[04:07.79]higher by using bags filled with sand.
[04:11.56]At the same time on the other side of the world
[04:15.38]a typhoon caused a flood that covered the city
[04:18.92]of New Orleans in the United States.
[04:22.11]Much of this city lies three meters
[04:25.09]below sea level.
[04:27.13]Many people got away from the city early enough
[04:30.94]but about 30,000 stayed to try to
[04:34.64]save their homes.
[04:36.38]Then things went from bad to worse.
[04:39.92]The longer people waited for help,
[04:42.88]the more dangerous the situation became.
[04:46.14]In the end about 1,000 people died in the flood.
[04:51.33]This was one of the worst natural disasters
[04:54.66]in the history of the United States.
[04:57.56]However, this was a lot fewer than the number
[05:00.92]of people who died in the tsunami in Asia
[05:04.63]in December 2004 --about 300,000.
[05:10.04]3b Answer the questions.
[05:13.51]4 What other disasters do you know?
[05:17.58]Find information about one and write an article
[05:21.05]for a news magazine.
[05:23.05]Use at least two comparisons.
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