Unit 5 topic3

Section D

Aims and demands • 1. Master new word:• 2. Review the usage of connectives.• 3. Learn about the Four Great

Inventions of ancient China. • 4. Learn more about ancient Chinese

culture.

Do you know China’s Tea Culture?

Do you know Chinese chess?

Do you like playing Chinese chess?

What are they?

They are the Four Great Inventions.

• Learn something about the Four Great Inventions.

It was invented in Song dynasty. Sailors used it for sailing. After it was invented, the oceans were open to sail.

compass

It may be used in fireworks and wars. Later, the method of making it was brought to the Arab world and Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries

gunpowder

• The people of ancient China made paper with trees, ropes, rags and so on.

paper-making

In the 1040s, a man who was named Bi Sheng carved characters on pieces of clay and wood.

This technology then spread to Korea, Japan and Europe.

Printing

D compassA gunpowder

C paper-makingB Printing

Practice • 用 both … and …not only … but also …either …

or …neither … nor … 连接句子 .

(1)I can’t swim. He can’t swim, either.(2)You may stay at home. Or you may

go to see the movie.(3)Shenzhou has been set up into Ⅴ

space.Shenzhou has also been set up.Ⅵ

Knowledge points

• 1. Depend on. • 1) 依靠 , 依赖 , 相信 ,• Children depend on their parents for what

they need.• 孩子们依靠父母供给他们所需的一切 .• 2) 取决于 , 依… . 而定 .• Your success depends on your hard work.• 你的成功取决于你的辛勤劳动 .

• at the end of + 时间名词 , 地点名词或其作物品 , 意为 “在…末 , 在…的尽头”

• You will see a cinema at the end of the street .

• 在街的尽头你将会看见一家电影院 .• 与 end 有关的学过的词组有 :by the end

of 到……末为止 , 在… . 以前 , in the end 最后 , 终于 ,end with…. 以…结束

• 3.spread 传开 , 传播 , 蔓延 , 后常跟 to, through 等介词 ,spread 的过去式和过去分词与原形一样 , 即 spread.

• Buddhism spread to China from India• 佛教从印度传入中国 .

Exercise • (A) 根据句意和首字母提示完成句子。• 1. The photos can bring back lots of good

m________ .• 2. My father has p________ me to buy a

new skirt.• 3. G_______ was first used for making

fireworks. Then it was used in war.

memories

promised

Gunpowder

• 4. PRC was f_______ on October 1st, 1949.

• 5. The d_______ of radium( 镭 )has influenced the world greatly.

• (B) 根据汉语提示完成句子。• 6. The Forbidden City has many buildings

whose ________( 屋顶 )are yellow.

founded

discovery

roofs

• 7. With the help of their teacher, the students _______ _______( 建立 )their Class Committee( 班委员 ).

• 8. — Do you like ________ ________( 下棋 )?

• — Yes, very much.

set up

playing chess

• 9. She is good at carving. She can _______( 雕刻 )in both stone and wood.

• 10. From now on, I’ll devote myself to ________ ________( 抗击 )the Bird Flu.

fighting with/against

carve