Module1 Unit2 The Grand Canyon was not just big 课件 2025-2026学年外研版（2012）英语九年级上册

Module 1 Wonders of the world Unit 2 The Grand Canyon was not just big. 1 新课导入 Do you know what wonder it is? It is The Grand Canyon. /'k nj n / canyon 峡谷 n. /'k nj n/ 逗留;留下 v. remain /r 'me n/ nearly 几乎;差不多 adv. /'n l / on top of 在…上面;盖住 by 在…旁边;靠近 prep. /ba / The Giant’s Causeway Victoria Falls The Three Gorges Dam The Terracotta Army A natural wonder Do you know them? Let’s know more about the wonder. 1. What kind of wonder is it? A natural wonder. Which wonder did the writer write about? The Grand Canyon. 自然界的伟大奇观。 What will the writer write in the passage? A. The interesting facts about the Grand Canyon. B. The traveling experience of the writer to the Grand Canyon. C. The description (描述) of the Grand Canyon. What I found before I got to the canyon. What I saw while I was on the canyon. How I felt after I saw the canyon. Paras. _ Paras. _ Para. _ Divide the passage into 3 parts according to the time line. 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 below, deep, fantastic, high, long, natural, shine, sign, silent, silver Talk about a great natural wonder you know. Use the words in the box to help you. Pair work A great wonder of the natural world When I arrived, it was early morning and it was raining. I looked to the east—the sky was becoming grey. I got out of the car, went through a gate and walked along a dark path. There was nothing to see, but I knew it was there. After about a mile, a stranger appeared beside the path. “Am I going the right way?” I asked. He knew where I was going. “Yes,” he replied, “you’ll get there in five minutes.” Finally, I came to some rocks and stopped. I looked over them, but it was silent and there was no sign of it. Read the passage and complete the table. Reading The Grand Canyon Where in _ How deep nearly_ How wide about_ How long more than _ Opinion _ one mile. fifteen miles. 200 miles. America the greatest wonder Read P4 /5 carefully and answer the following: Task2: Read and write “T” or “F”. 1. When I arrived, the weather was sunny and hot. 2. I went to the wrong way at first. 3. The Colorado River was nearly three miles below me. 4. Finally, I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon went far away for more than 200 miles. F F F T Now we’ve read the whole passage. Where does the passage probably come from? A. A magazine B. A grammar book C. A dictionary D. A storybook What’s the genre of the passage? It’s a narrative writing. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing this passage? A. To give facts about the natural world. B. To say how he feels about the natural world. C. To tell an interesting story about the Grand Canyon. D. To attract people to visit the Grand Canyon. When I arrived, it was early morning and it was raining. I looked to the east – the sky was becoming grey. I got out of the car, went through a gate and walked along a dark path. There was nothing to see, but I knew it was there. After about a mile, a stranger appeared beside the path. “Am I going the right way?” I asked. He knew where I was going. “Yes,” he replied, “you’ll get there in five minutes.” Finally, I came to some rocks and stopped. I looked over them, but it was silent and there was no sign of it. A great wonder of the natural world Reading Suddenly, the rain stopped and the clouds cleared. The sun rose behind me and shone on the rocks. Far below me, the ground fell away and down to a river. I was looking across one of the wonders of the natural world-the Grand Canyon. I looked down to the Colorado River, a silver stream nearly one mile below me. If you put the two tallest buildings in the world on top of each other at the bottom of the canyon, they still would not reach the top. Then I looked across to the other side of the canyon. It was about fifteen miles away, maybe more. Reading (4) sky gets brighter and look down about one(5) mile ,you can see the Colorado River(6) gtoeai looks like a silver (7)below as it passes (8)through the rocks at the bottom of the canyon.If someone asks you whether the Grand Canyon is the greatest wonder of the natural world,it may be easy to (9)_ _ reply below,mile,remain,reply, sign, silent,sky,stream,through In the dark,there is no(1) sign of the Grand Canyon,and it is (2)silent .But if you (3)remain_by the Grand Canyon as the 4.Complete the passage. Name Location Interesting facts Writing 5.Complete the table with facts about a natural or man-made wonder of the world. Some adjectives tell you facts, such as wide, deep, high and tall; some adjectives tell you the opinion of the author, like wonderful, huge and great. Learn to use them to talk about facts and give your opinion. Learning to learn Name Location Interesting facts 5.Complete the table with facts about a natural or man-made wonder of the world. 4. “Yes,” he replied, “you’ll get there in five minutes. reply to sb/sth =answer sb/sth 回答某人/某事 Who can reply to my question? = Who can answer my question? 谁能回答我的问题? 2) Why don’t you reply to me? =Why don’t you answer me? 你为什么不回答我呀? reply + that从句 回答到…… 1) I replied that I couldn’t help them. 我回答说我帮不到他们的忙。 in + 时间段 (从现在起的…时间之内 常用将来时) ① He left London _ two days. He will come here _ a week. ② I _ my homework in two hours. A. in; after B. after; in C. before; in A. finished doing B. will finish do C. will finish doing Important Points fifteen miles away “数词+名词+形容词” 的用法 (1). 表示人物的年龄/高矮等, 如: five years old (2). 表示事物的高度/宽度/深度, 如: 1.6 metres tall 15英里 远 十米高 ten metres high two kilometres wide 两公里宽 twenty metres deep 20米深 more than 200 miles right left Read Paragraph 3 and 4 again and complete the table The Grand Canyon How deep How wide How long nearly 1 mile about 15 miles more than 200 miles look to Finally, I looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the canyon went far away for more than 200 miles. The Grand Canyon was not just big. It was huge! 向…… (某个方向)看 on both sides 在两边 go far away 延伸 null 64573.324 http://www.171english.cn 163064.42 $