Section B 1
1a-2c
Warming-up
Make up a story. Each student adds a sentence. If he or she can’t add a sentence, he or she must sing an English song.
1 go to the zoo 2 visit a museum
3 ride a horse 4 climb a mountain
5 visit a fire station 6 go fishing
Last week, I went to the zoo.
I __________ in the zoo. After that I ___________. I ___________________.__________________.
1a Match the activities with the pictures.
1. go to the zoo __ 2. visit a museum __
3. ride a horse __ 4. climb a mountain __
5. visit a fire station __ 6. go fishing __
Preparation
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c
b
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d
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1b Listen and answer the questions.
1. How was Jane’s trip?
____________________
2. How was Tony’s trip?
____________________
Listening
It was terrible.
It was great.
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√
√
√
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1d What was your last school trip like?
Discuss it with your partner with
the following words.
interesting difficult lovely slow
exciting boring cool hot
lucky large expensive terrible
delicious great cheap fast
Pairwork
A: I went to a farm on my last school trip.
There were many animals on the farm.
They were very lovely.
B: That sounds great.
A: How was your school trip?
B: It was __________
A: How was the food there?
B: It was _____________
A: How was the weather?
B: It was ___________
2a Do the following words describe good
things or bad things? Put a √ for good
and an × for bad. Leave a blank if they
can mean both.
___ interesting ___ difficult ___ lovely
___ slow ___ exciting ___ boring ___ cool
___ hot ___ lucky ___ large___ expensive
__ terrible ___delicious ___ great
___ cheap ___ fast
Preparation
Lead in
science museum
2b Read Helen’s and Jim’s diary entries
and answer the questions.
1. Did Helen and Jim go on the same trip?

2. How do they feel about the trip?
Yes, they did. They went on the same trip.
Helen thought the trip was really interesting. But Jim thought the trip was terrible.
Reading
2c Read the diaries again and complete
the chart. How do Helen and Jim
describe these things?
interesting
terrible
so hot
big and boring
The things in thegift shop were so expensive.
The gifts
weren’t
expensive.
so fast
useful
1. I didn’t know they could play chess with us.
play 后面接球类、棋类、牌类等体育运动名称时，前面不加冠词，如：play basketball, play chess, play cards。 play后接乐器时，前面则加定冠词，如: play the violin, play the piano。
Language points
2. Then the guide taught us how to make a model robot.
teach sb. to do sth. 教某人做某事teach sb. sth. 教某人某事teach oneself 自学
3. All in all, it was an exciting day.
all in all 总的来说，总而言之
an exciting day 让人兴奋的一天
exciting是形容词, 后接名词，意思是“让人兴奋的，使人兴奋的”，多形容物。
excited也是形容词, 多用来形容人感到，同类的有interesting, interested; boring, bored。
4. today’s school trip
表示有生命的东西的名词及某些表示时间、距离、星球、世界、国家等无生命的东西的名词后加 ’s来表示所有关系，叫做名词所有格。
例如: men’s room 男厕所  a mile’s distance 一英里的距离
但如果该名词是以-s或-es接尾，则只在该名词后加“’”来构成所有格。
例如: 3 hours’ walk 三小时的路程 five minutes’ walk 五分钟路程  two miles’ distance 两英里的距离
5. Everything was about robots.
everything 作主语，谓语动词用单数。
6. I’m not interested in that.
be interested in 对…感兴趣
7. it was difficult to take photos.
It is + adj. (for sb.) to do sth. (对某人来说)做 … 怎么样
e.g. 对我来说骑车上学是很容易的。
It is easy for me to go to school by bike.
8. There were also too many people.
9. I didn’t like the trip at all.
我一点也不喜欢这次旅游。
too many加可数名词 too many students
too much加不可数名词 too much water
not… at all “一点也不；根本不”
e.g. 我根本不喜欢吃苹果。 I don’t like apples at all.
翻译下列短语和句子。
1. 到达那儿
2. 下棋
弹钢琴
打篮球
3. 对感兴趣
4. 总之
get there
play chess
play the piano
play basketball
be interested in
all in all
Exercises
5. 根本不
6. 今天的报纸
7. 太多学生
太多水
8. 学英语对我来说很容易。

9. 上周李老师教我如何下棋。
not …at all
today’s newspaper
too many students
too much water

It is easy for me to learn English.

Last week Mr. Li taught me how to play chess.