Module 2 My home town and my country 讲义2023-2024学年外研版八年级英语上册

Module 2 My home town and my country Unit 1 It's taller than many other buildings. ① population 考点1 population/ pɒpjʊːleɪʃn/n.（某一地区的）人口，全体居民 e.g. The population of this town is about 50,000. 该镇约有5 万人口。 population 作主语时，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。 拓展：population 的用法总结： (1)表示“有多少人口”用have/has a population of... 或“the population of...+be+...”。 (2)表示人口的“多”或“少”，用large/big 或 small。 (3)对人口多少进行提问， 常用“What is the population of...?”。 (4)当主语是“人口的百分之几、几分之几”时，谓语动词常用复数形式。 e.g. The country has a population of over three million. (=The population of that country is over three million.) 那个国家拥有三百多万人口。 China has a large population. 中国人口众多。 What’s the population of Beijing? 北京有多少人口？ Three quarters of the population are farmers. 四分之三的人口是农民。 ② million 考点2 million/mɪljən/ num. 百万 基数词+ million+ 可数名词复数millions of+ 可数名词复数 与million 用法类似的单词有： hundred（百）； thousand （千）； billion （十亿）等。 e.g. The population of Hefei is over nine million. 合肥人口超过了九百万。 There are millions of people visiting the Great Wall every year. 每年有数百万人参观长城。 ③ Pretty good! 考点3 pretty/prɪti/ adv. 非常，很 修饰形容词、副词的原级形式，相当于very，quite pretty 作形容词，意为“漂亮的，精致的；(尤指女子) 妩媚的；动人的”。 e.g. My eating habits are pretty good. 我的饮食习惯很好。 You look so pretty in that dress! 你穿那件连衣裙看起来真漂亮！ ④ In fact, it only became important in the 1980s. 考点4 in fact 事实上，实际上 e.g. No one believes it, but in fact, Mary did pass the exam. 尽管没有人相信，但实际上，玛丽确实考试及格了。 I thought the work would be difficult. In fact, it’s very easy. 我原以为这项工作会很难，事实上，它很容易。 in fact 通常位于句首， 可用于强调，尤其与刚提到的情况相反。 ⑤ It’s getting bigger and busier. 考点5 get/ɡet/ 用作系动词，表示“变得”，后跟形容词作表语。 e.g. Winter comes; the day gets shorter and the night gets longer. 冬天到了，白天变得短了，夜晚变得长了。 She soon got the children ready for school. 她很快让孩子们做好上学的准备。 She got a ticket to Shanghai. 她获得一张去上海的票。 He gets to school on time every day. 他每天按时到校。 ⑥ Some day it will become as busy as Hong Kong, I’m sure. 考点6 as... as 和……一样 e.g. The boy is as tall as me. 这个男孩和我一样高。 Men are not so careful as women. 男人没有女人细心。 as... as 可用于肯定句和否定句中。 so... as只能用于否定句中