内容正文:
Lesson 21
What Year Is It?
Lead in
In China, years have names. The names are animals.
Do you know what they are?
1. The twelve animals
In China, years have names. Each year has an animal name. Look!
The rat is
the first.
This is an ox.
Here’s a tiger.
What’s this?
A rabbit.
This is a dragon.
Here’s a snake.
This is a horse.
You know this animal! It’s a sheep!
You know this one, too!
It’s a monkey .
What’s this? A rooster.
Do you know this one? It’s a dog.
The twelfth animal is a pig.
How many animals are there? Let’s
see... one, two, three... twelve!
①The twelve animals
In China, years have names. Each year has an animal name. Look!
The rat is the first.
This is an ox.
①The twelve animals
Here’s a tiger.
What’s this?
A rabbit.
①The twelve animals
This is a dragon.
Here’s a snake.
This is a horse.
You know this animal!
It’s a sheep!
①The twelve animals
You know this one, too! It’s a monkey.
What’s this?
A rooster.
①The twelve animals
Do you know this one? It’s a dog.
The twelfth animal is a pig.
①The twelve animals
①The twelve animals
How many animals are there? Let’s see... one, two, three ... twelve!
Language points
1. How many animals are there? 有多少个动物?
详解:本句是询问某地有多少人或物的句型,
how many用来对名词数量多少进行提问。
句型结构:
How many + 名词复数 + are + there + ...?
①The twelve animals
In China, years have names. Each year has an animal name. Look!
The rat is the first.
This is an ox.
①The twelve animals
Here’s a tiger.
What’s this?
A rabbit.
①The twelve animals
This is a dragon.
Here’s a snake.
This is a horse.
You know this animal!
It’s a sheep!
①The twelve animals
You know this one, too! It’s a monkey.
What’s this?
A rooster.
①The twelve animals
Do you know this one? It’s a dog.
The twelfth animal is a pig.
①The twelve animals
①The twelve animals
How many animals are there? Let’s see... one, two, three ... twelve!
Language points
1. How many animals are there?
有多少个动物?
详解:本句是询问某地有多少人或物的句型,
how many用来对名词数量多少进行提问。
句型结构:
How many + 名词复数 + be动词 + there + ...?
拓展
①对不可数名词有多少进行提问,
一般用how much。
例句:How much milk is there in the glass?
②询问价钱,也用how much
例句:How much is the pen?
Language points
Watch and answer.
2.Does Danny’s year is the year of the cat?
1.What year is Li Ming?
②What is your year?
②What is your year?
Li Ming: I’m 10 years old. My year is the
year of the rat.
Jenny: What is my year?
Li Ming: You’re 10 years old, too.
Your year is also the year of the rat.
②What is your year?
Danny: My year is the year of the cat! I can eat rats!
Li Ming: No, Danny. There is no year of the cat.
Your year is the year of the pig.
You’re 11 years old.
拓展:
①对不可数名词有多少进行提问,一般用how much。
例句:How much milk is there in the glass?
②询问价钱,也用how much
例句:How much is the pen?
序数词
序数词表示事物的顺序,如: first, second, third... 。平时常见的one, two, three ...叫作基数词,用来表示事物的数量。
基数词 one
一 two
二 three
三 four
四 five
五 six
六
序数词 first
第一 second
第二 third
第三 fourth
第四 fifth
第五 sixth
第六
基数词 seven
七 eight
八 nine
九 ten
十 eleven
十一 twelve
十二
序数词 seventh
第七 eighth
第八 ninth
第九 tenth
第十 eleventh
第十一 twelfth
第十二
构成规律:
(1)1-3 的序数词没有规律,分别是first,second,third。
(2)4-12 的序数词大多是由基数词加后缀 th 构成,特殊的有 fifth, eighth, ninth, twelfth。
(3)整十的序数词除了特殊的tenth,其他的都是先把基数词词尾的y 变为ie,再加th。 例如:twenty → twentieth,forty → fortieth
(4)表示几十几的序数词,只需把个位数变序数词即可。
例如:twenty-one→ twenty-first fifty-three → fifty-third
②What is your year?
Li Ming:I’ m 10 years old. My year is the year of the rat.
Jenny: What is my year?
Li Ming:You’re 10 years old, too. Your year is also the year of the rat.
Danny:My year is the year of the cat! I can eat rats!
Li Ming:No, Danny. There is no year of the cat. Your year is the year of the pig. You’re 11 years old.
Language points
2. My year is the year of the rat. 我的属相是老鼠。
详解:本句是介绍自己或他人属相的句型。
句型结构:
One's + year is + the year of + the + 生肖名词.
例句:
My year is the year of the ox.
Language points
3. What is my year? 我的属相是什么?
详解:本句是询问自己或他人属相的句型。
句型结构:
What is + 形容词性物主代词/名词所有格 + year?
例句:What is your mother's year?
What is her year?
Let’s match.
③Let's do it!
Exercise
Homework:
Ask your family’s year and write it down.
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