Lesson 10 Where ’ s the Highest Hotel?

1. Lesson 10 Where’s the Highest Hotel?

2. Think about it! • Do you like traveling? Where have you traveled to ? • What famous buildings or structures do you know? Tell your class something about them.

3. World’s highest hotel, the Grand Hyatt Shanghai

4. the longest bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge

5. the Great Wall ,the longest wall in the world

6. World’s biggest dam, Three Gorges Dam

7. The world’s longest river, Nile, Egypt

8. Read quickly and fill in the form: China has many world records for its buildings and structures. What are they? How about them? the GrandHyatt Shanghai in Pudong the world’s highest hotel be locatedon the top 35 floors of the 88-storey Jin Mao Tower the Great Wall the world’s longest structure more than 7240 kilometres long about 2.3 kilometres long and almost 185 metres tall the Three GorgesDam the world’s biggest dam

9. Read carefully and answer the questions: • How long has theGrand HyattShanghai in Pudong been the world’s highest hotel? • What do you think of the 88-storeyJin Mao Tower? • How thick is the Great Wall? • Who is the first person to walk the wholelength of the Great Wall? How long did it take? • Can astronauts see the Great Wall from space? • How long have workers worked on(从事)the Three GorgeDam? • How much will the dam cost? • When will China finish it? By 2009.

10. Language Notes: • The first person to walk the whole length • of the Great Wall was Liu Yutian. • 第一个徒步走完长城的人是刘玉田．

11. length是名词，意思是“长度”．此句 强调走过了长城的总长度，而不是强 调距离：如果强调距离，应该用 distance． • e.g. What distance do you have to work? • 你上班要走多远？

12. (2) whole和all的意思都是“全部的，所有的”．然而词序是不一样的．all用于冠词，所有格和其他限定词之前，whole则用于冠词等词之后．

13. e.g. all the time/the whole time • 全部时间 • The whole thing was his own fault. • 整件事情都是他的过错． • 如果没有冠词或其他限定词，whole • 不能与单数名词连用．

14. e.g. The whole city was burning. • 但是不能说 Whole city was burning. • whole和all与复数名词连用时， • 意思不同． • whole的意思是“全部”，而all的意接 • 近“每一个”．

15. e.g. All Indian tribes suffered from • white settlement in America. • 所有印第安人部落都因白人移民 • 美洲而遭殃． • The whole Indian tribes were • killed off． • 印第安人部落整个被杀光了．

16. Language notes: 2. The Great Wall of China is more than 7240 kilometres long. 基数词 + 量词 + 表示长/宽/高等的形容词 “某物多长/宽/高” The wall is 9.75 metres thick. 墙厚9.75米。 大街宽21米。 The street is 21 metres wide. 3. The person to walk the whole length of the Great Wall was Liu Yutian. long adj. length n. The Great Wall is over 7240 kilometres long. The _____ of the Great Wall is over 7240 kilometres. length 4. The Great Wall of China is famous around the world. around the world all over the world throughout the world in the world

17. Language notes: 5. The dam will cost about 205 billion yuan. cost “花费/耗费金钱，时间等” 常以事物作主语 cost sb. + 金钱 pay “支付(价款)” 常以人作主语 pay money for sth. “为了某物付……款” spend “花费时间/金钱” 常以人作主语, 常用句型为: spend … on sth. spend …(in) doing sth. take “花费时间/金钱” 常用句型为: It takes sb. some time/money to do sth. cost The computer_________ me 5000 yuan. He always_______ most of the time (in) playing computer. It ________ her lots of time to look after the pet last week. She _________ two yuan for the book. spends took paid

18. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets: • The whole _________ (long) of the Great Wall is more • than 7240 kilometres. • 2. The Three Gorges will be the __________(world) biggest • dam. • 3. The first person _________(walk) the whole length of • the Great Wall was Liu Yutian. • 4. The Great Wall is _______(locate) in the north of China. • 5. This tower is __________ building in China and one of • ___________ in the world. (tall) • 6. Since 1990, about 250000 workers______________(work) • on the Three Gorges Dam. • 7. I _____________(learn) about 300 English words by the • end of last year. • 8. The workers __________(finish) the dam by 2009. length world’s to walk located the tallest the tallest have worked had learned will finish

19. Homework: Describe a building or structure to your classmate, then write a short passage.