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英语新目标 八年级下
Unit 6 An old man tried to
move the mountains.
Do you like listening to or telling stories?
What fairy stories do you know?
Have you ever heard of these stories?
Nu Wa Repairs the Sky
Can you tell what fairy tales they are?
Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
Jing Wei tries to Fill up the Sea
Journey to the West
Yu Gong Moves a Mountain
Look at the four pictures
1a Match the story titles with the pictures [a--d].
______ Journey to the West
______ Yu Gong Moves a Mountain
______ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
______ Nu Wa Repairs the Sky
b
d
a
c
Which story do you like best?
Can you use your own words to tell the story in English?
Which story are Anna and Wang Ming talking about?
1b Listen and check (√) the facts you hear. Which story are Anna and Wang Ming talking about?
____ The two mountains were very high and big.
____ A very old man tried to move the mountains.
____ A man told Yu Gong that he could never do it.
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1c Discuss the questions with your partner.
1. How does the story begin?
2. What happened next?
3. Where would they put all the earth and
stone from the mountains?
Pair Work
1. How does the story begin?
Once upon a time, there was a very old man. There were two mountains near his house. They were so big and high that it took a long way to walk to the other side.
2. What happened next?
The old man told his family that they should all helped him to move the mountains.
3. Where would they put all the earth and
stone from the mountains?
Yu Gong said they could put them into the
sea because it’s big enough to hold
everything.
2a Listen and number the pictures [1-4] in order to tell the story.
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3
2
4
A man saw Yu Gong and his (children / family) when they
were working on moving the mountains.
2. He told Yu Gong he could never do it because he was old and (poor / weak).
3. As soon as the man finished (talking / speaking), Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died.
4. Finally, a god was so mo