2016-2017学年牛津沪教版八年级英语上册Unit4--Inventions-reading.pptVIP

2016-2017学年牛津沪教版八年级英语上册 Unit4 Inventions Reading Warming up! What inventions do you think is the most important in the world ? Why? What do you know about ? A1 Inventions change our way of life. Look at the photos below. Write the name of each invention in the blanks. Computer light bulb paper telephone train wheel paper light bulb telephone wheel train computer Before you read Look at the photos, the title, the introduction and the sub-headings of the article on P51. The answer the questions below. 1. What three inventions will the article talk about ? Wheel telephone light bulb 2. Which invention do you think is the greatest invention? Why? Notes: 1. Great inventions change the world. They help people live a better life. live a better life 过更好的生活 help people do sth 帮助某人做某事 2. three of the most important 三个中最重要的 one of the most important 最重要之一 3. Travelling became faster and more comfortable. 旅途变得更快和更舒服 travelling 动名词做主语 4. A few thousand years ago, people started to use wheels on carriages. 几千年前，人们开始在四轮马车上使用轮子了。 start to do sth 开始做某事 5. At the start of the 20th century, cars became popular. 在二十世纪初， 汽车变得流行起来。 at the start of 在。。。开始 =at the beginning of at the end of 在。。。结束的时候 e.g At the start of the class, our teacher sang an English for us. 在开始上课的时候，老师给我们唱了英文歌。 6. Alexanda Graham Bell invented one of the first practical telephones in 1876. 亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔 在1876年发明了最实用的电话之一。 one of the first +复数名词 He was one of the first winners in this game. 他是在这场游戏中最先赢了的人之一。 7. Since then, people have been able to speak to each other over long distance. 自从那时开始， 人民已经能够跨越很长的距离来彼此交谈。 have been able to 现在完成时，已经能够 over long distance 跨越很长距离 8. Today millions of people across the world own mobile phones. 今天全世界超过几百万的人们拥有手机了。 millions of 几百万 across the world 遍及全世界 =all over the world 9. They allow people to keep in touch with each other anytime, anywhere. allow sb to do sth 允许某人去做某事 My mother doesn’t allow me to watch TV so much. 我妈妈不允许看那么多电视。 keep in