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Around the World in Eight Hours
8B Unit 3 Reading 1
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What can you see in the video?
While travelling
Around the World in Eight Hours
Title
Is it possible to travel around the world in only 8 hours?
Yes. We can travel online.
What is “Around the World in Eight Hours”?
It's a website.
On this website, you can get lots of information about places around the world.
Main idea of each part
paragraphs, parts
7
3
Part 1 (para. 1)
Part 2 (para. 2-6)
Part 3 (para. 7)
How to start another tour
How to start the travelling
Places of interest in New York
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1. Who is Robin?
The website's tour guide.
/gaɪd/
My job is to show you around.
Read para1 and answer
https://ud18377758.icoc.bz/
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Tour
Camera
Print
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Others
/‘aɪkɒn/ n.
icon
Mini dictionary
Asia n. /ˈeɪʃə/
Africa n. /'æfrɪkə/
Europe n. /'jʊərəp/
America n. /əˈmerɪkə/
Welcome to “Around the World in Eight Hours”. I’m your guide , Robin. Have you noticed the “Tour” icon at the top of the page? Just click on it, and you can visit Asia, Africa, Europe, America and more in only eight hours!
2. How to start the tour?
Look at its home page. At the top the page ,there are three icons. Read after me .How can we use the icons to start our tour ?We don’t know Right ?don’t worry ,we have Robin ,our tour guide. Guide is a person who takes us around places. Listen carefully ,Robin is teaching us how to start the tour . Who can tell me how to start the tour? Just click on the tour icon ,many places will appear. What are they? Read after me Where are they?
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Fill in the blanks
Around the world in eight hours
who guides us
how to travel
Robin
Just ________the “Tour”______at ______________.
continents (洲) to travel
_____, _____, ______, ______
and more.
click on
icon
the top of the page
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Which city are we going to visit?
Read and answer
https://ud18377758.icoc.bz/
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While travelling: Read Para2
“the Big Apple”
2. What do people call New York?
1.Is New York the biggest city in the USA?
Yes, it is.
A famous song said “There are many apples in the success tree, but when you pick New York City, you pick the Big Apple”.
A. Because New York looks like a big apple.
B. Because New York is a city full of chances.
C. Because there are many apple tress in New York.
WHY?
How many places will we visit? What are they?
Four.
Wall Street
Central Park
Times Square
Broadway
While travelling: Scan Para3-6
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Robin introduces New York in the order of
A space B time C logic
While travelling: Scan Para3-6
Skim: first and last paragraphs
first and last sentences of each paragraph
Scan: use the key words to find out the information needed.
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Wall Street is at the ________ end of Manhattan Island. It’s the_______________________. There are many big companies and ____________________.
southern
world-famous trade centre
international banks
Read Para 3 and fill in the blanks
/brɔŋks/
布朗克斯
/'kwinz/
皇后区
/mæn'hætən/
曼哈顿
斯塔恩
/'bruklin/
布鲁克林
1.Further on is Times square.
2. Thousands of people gather at Times Square on New Year’s Day.
3. It’s exciting to see the huge apple falling through the darkness.
F
F
Eve
glass ball
T
3.Read Para 4 and do the T or F exercises
many people gather here
the coming of the New Year
the beauty of the glass ball
Question: Will people be as excited if they see the ball falling down in the daytime?
No. The colourful glass ball looks extremely (极其) beautiful in the darkness.
How do they feel?
excited
4.Read Para 5 and describe
Place of interest
Location(方位)
Sights
Activities
Central Park
In the centre of the island
Lakes, hills, a large green lawn
Relax after a hard day’s work
1.What has Broadway been famous for since the early twentieth century?
2.What does “Memory” come from?
A. Theatres
C. Cities
B. Cinemas
C. Cats
B. Monkeys
A. Dogs
5.Read para 6 and answer
Cats is a famous
_________
musical音乐剧
Does Broadway have a long history?
Facts:
The first theatre called Park Theatre appeared in Broadway as early as in 1810. (the early nineteenth century)
Broadway became famous in the 1920s. (the early twentieth century)
a hundred years
(3mins)
Times Square
Central Park
trade centre
New Year's Eve
lawn
theatres
Read para 2-6 and fill in the blanks. (P38 B2)
Back
Para 7
OK , so much for New York. There’s a “Back” icon at the bottom of the page. Click on it, pick another city and then start your new tour!
How can we start a new tour?
Now I know most of you have known New York very well . now it’s time to say bye bye to New York .don’t be sad!we can visit it again in your free time!byebye New York.now if we want to start a new tour, what shall we do ?the answer is in paragraph 7. Now I will invite a boy to read the paragraph for us ,and others listen ,then find the answer.How to start a new tour? boys and girls,let’s say it again.
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1. trade
2. international
3. gather
4. huge
5. several
6. relax
7. century
8. musical
a. a play filled with many songs
b. rest after work
c. come together
d. a period of 100 years
e. more than two
f. the activity of buying and selling
g. two or more countries taking part
h. very large
f
g
c
h
e
b
d
a
B1
match the words with the meanings
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1.The website helps people buy tickets to different places.
2.There is a “Tour” icon at the bottom of the page.
3.New York is also called “the Big Apple”.
4.Wall Street is at the northern end of Manhattan Island.
5.A big apple falls from the sky on New Year’s Eve at Times Square.
6.There are no hills or lakes in Central Park.
7.The song “Memory” comes from the musical Cats.
8.Click on the “Back” icon and you can start a new online tour.
T
F
F
F
F
F
T
T
B3
True or false
top
gives people online tour
southern
A glass ball
several hills and lakes
Around the World in Eight Hours
online
Asia
Europe
companies
International banks
New year
relax
twentieth century
B4
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