Unit 1 Period 3：Reading（同步课件）-九年级英语上册同步精品课堂（牛津上海版）

Unit 1 Ancient Greece Reading Cartoon talk 1 2 Children who lived long ago were lucky, weren’t they, Lo? Why? They didn’t have to learn so much history! Where is Hi? What is Hi doing there? Does Hi think children who lived long ago were lucky? Why does he think so? From this cartoon, do you think that Hi likes learning history? Give your reasons. He is in the study. He is studying history. Yes, he does. Because he thinks that they didn’t have to learn so much history. No, I don’t think so. Because Hi thinks that he has to learn a lot about history. 1 2 What do you know about …? 1 2 3 Here are pictures of three famous historical places. Match them with the countries. A1 a Greece b Egypt c The UK 1 2 3 Pyramids Stonehenge Parthenon Temple b c a For more information For more information For more information Can you read these letters? A2 1 2 3 Α α Β β Γ γ Δ δ alpha beta gamma delta These are the first four letters of the Greek alphabet. 1 2 3 Greek influenced English a lot. A3 Where does the word ‘alphabet’ come from? α + β = alpha + beta = alphabet Some Greek words are used as roots or prefixes in English. Look up the following words in a dictionary and guess what the underlined part in each word means. polygon triangle microwave geography biology antivirus hexagon hydrogen telescope monologue photograph telephone many three small earth life against six water far one writing sound Before you read 1 2 3 4 Look at the picture on page 3. What will the passage probably be about? B1 The Trojan War These pictures show some of the events in the story on page 3. Use your imagination to arrange them in the correct order. B2 1 2 3 4 a b c d e f 1 2 3 4 Now read through the story on page 3 quickly to check if you have put the pictures in the correct order. B3 a b c d e f 4 1 6 3 2 5 Who was the man in the picture? B4 1 2 3 4 Homer (about 9th century – 8th century BC) ancient Greek poet H