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Module 9 Life history
【新手目标】
通过本关,你能够听懂谈论过去经历的简短对话。★★☆☆☆☆
关卡1 Unit1 He left school and began work at the age of 12
【过关笔记】
Betty: What are you reading
Tony: Tom Sawyer, by the famous American writer, Mark Twain. I’m writing about him for my English class.
Betty: I read Tom Sawyer. Very good! Hey, we can find out about him on the Internet.
Tony: Yes! ... OK. Look at this! His real name was Samuel Clemens and he was born in 1835 in Missouri. He left school and began work at the age of 12.
Betty: What did he do
Tony: He wrote for a newspaper Later he got work on a boat..
Betty: Did he stay in Missouri
Tony: No, he went to New York, and other cities.
Betty: When did he begin his stories
Tony: I don’t know the exact date. But he took the name Mark Twain and became very famous in the 1860s. He went to Europe as well. But he didn’t come to China.
Betty: Yes, I knew that. Enjoy the book.
Tony: Yes, it’s good.
【过关笔记】
1发现,查明,弄清 2.在…岁时
3.在19世纪60年代
【成长例题】
例题1 . My father likes to read n________every morning.
例题2.He began to learn to play the piano at the a________ of three.
例题3. J________ comes after June.
例题4.My d________ of birth is on June 3rd.
例题5.M________ comes after February.
例题6.O________ 1st is National Day.(国庆节)
【过关练习】
完成句子
1.我希望弄清楚全世界正在发生的事情。
I hope to ________ ________ what’s ________ ________ around the world.
2.九月是一年中的第九个月。
__________ is the _________ month of a year.
3.我不想变胖,所以我不吃冰激凌。
I don’t want to __________ __________, so I don’t eat ice-cream.
4.我的生日是八月三日。
My birthday is on ________ ________.
5.如果我们不保护环境,地球将会变得越来越糟糕。
The Earth ________ ________ worse and worse if we ________ ________ the environment.
关卡2 Unit 2 He decided to be an actor.★★☆☆☆☆
【过关笔记】
William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems. He wrote 38 plays, 154 short poems and a few long poems in his life. Two of his famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford