2017-2018学年八年级英语下册Module 3 Unit 1.pptVIP

earth n. 地球 moon n. 月亮; 月球 news n. 新闻; 消息 planet n. 行星 model n. 模型 spaceship n. 航天器；宇宙飞船 astronaut n.宇航员 space travel 航天旅行 I’ve just made a model spaceship for our school project. Scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars. The journey has taken several months. Astronauts have already been to the moon. No one has been to Mars yet, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon. Lots of scientists are working hard in order to send astronauts to Mars one day. You can go online to search for information. 1. What are you up to? ——an informal way of saying “What are you doing?” 2. Sure, no problem. ——a familiar way of saying “Yes! Of course!” 4. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box. arrive, discover, planet, send, yet On today’s news, Tony has heard that scientists have (1) ____ a spaceship to Mars and it has (2) _______ on the (3) ______ after a journey of several months from the earth. Scientists have not (4) __________ life on Mars (5) ___. sent arrived planet discovered yet 1. reach v. 到达，抵达 后可以直接跟地点名词 e.g. When will your parents reach?America? 你爸妈什么时候到美国？ get, arrive reach get, arrive和reach都可以表示“到达”，但它们的用法有区别。 get是不及物动词，其后若跟地点名词，需要借助于介词to e.g. Please call me when you get to? England. arrive也是不及物动词，其后若跟地点名词，需要借助于介词in或at e.g. The train arrived at the station in the morning. Do you know when your father arrived in?France? 注意：当get, arrive后面接here, there和?home等表示地点的副词时，不用介词。 e.g. We got / arrived here last night. 根据句意选用get, arrive或reach填空， 有的需要变换形式。 1. The children will ______?Beijing?this afternoon. 2. Tim ________ to?London?last week. 3. Yesterday the man ________ at the airport on time. 4. They _____________________ here at five o’clock yesterday. reach?? got arrived? reached / arrived / got 2. What are you up to? 你在做什么呢？ be up to 表示“正在做某事，忙于某 事”。常用在非正式场合中。 e.g. What’s he up to with all those books on the