新疆克拉玛依市第十中学八年级英语上册 Unit 9 When was he born Period

Unit 9 When was he born Period 4 Section B(3a-4＆Self check)

【学习目标】：

1. 能正确朗读well-known, pianist, could, hum, piece, accordion, Poland, alive, athlete, Asia, university, major, management, single等单词, 掌握take part in, because of, major in等词组。

2. 能模仿3a短文，将听力内容2b中Laura的信息改编成一段文字介绍。

一、我预习

(一) 跟磁带读单词3遍，并测测你的预习结果：给划线的字母或字母组合标上音标。

well-known pianist hum accordion alive athlete

（二）通过预习，你能找出下列短语吗？

1. 众所周知_______________

2. 在四岁的时候______________

3. 参加___________________

4. 赢得第一名________________

5. 主修管理学_________________

6. 清华大学________________

（三）试翻译下面这个长句

He was also the first Chinese pianist in the 70-year history of the competition to win this prize.

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二、我练习

（一）阅读3a并回答下列问题

1. Who is Li Yundi? _________________________________

2. When and Where was he born? _________________________________________

3. When did he begin to learn the accordion?_______________________________________

4. What do you think is L i’s greatest achievement in 2000?

___________________________________

（二) 回答下列问题，并根据答题以the Person I Admire为题写一篇小短文。

1. Who do you admire? ____________________

2.When was he/she born?______________________

3. What does he/she do?____________________

4.Why do you admire him/her?_____________________

the Person I Admire

___________________________________________________________________________________ ___

___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______

三、我巩固

(一)单词拼写

1. He won the first p_________ in 100-meter race.

2. My father said that when he was young, children can go s__________ on the lake in winter.

3. The girl t_________ part in the “Star of Outlook” English talent competition last

year.

4. It’s not good for our eyes to spend too much time s___________ on the Internet.

5. The old man started l__________ English in his seventies to welcome the Olymp ic Games.

6. How long did Mr Smith __________(打嗝)?

7. My sister can’t walk now because she is only ten __________(月份) old.

8. Midori ___________(旅游) the United States when she was 14 years old.

9. I want to be a Peking ____________(大学) student after I graduate from high school.

10. He ____________(成为) a middle school student last summer.

(二)单项选择

( ) 1. --________ did you borrow the book?

--________ October 25th.

A. When; on

B. How long; on

C. How long ; In

D. When ; In

( ) 2. Linda is __________university student.

A. a

B. an

C. the

D. /

( ) 3. The math problem is ___________ difficult __________ work it out.

A. not ; but

B. very ; to

C. so ; that

D. too ; to

( ) 4. _________ the heavy rain, we had to stay at home.

A. In

B. For

C. With

D. Because of

( ) 5. She spends two hours ___________ the violin every day.

A. play

B. plays

C. played

D. playing

( ) 6. --What subject will you __________ if you study in a university?

-- I like chemistry very much. Maybe I will choose chemistry.

A. major in

B. major

C. major on

D. major with

( ) 7. The girl is so happy because she broke a _________ at the sports meeting.

A. cup

B. chair

C. record

D. head

( ) 8. The boy stopped __________ when he saw his teacher __________.

A. to hum ; coming

B. humming ; coming

C. to hum ; comes

D. humming ; comes

( ) 9. -- _________ was your hometown 20 years ago?

-- It was very poor.

A. What

B. How old

C. How

D. When

( ) 10. Linda gets up early in the morning. She is always the first one _________ to school.

A. get

B. getting

C. gets

D. to get

(三)阅读理解

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）. And on holidays he often make one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented（发明）many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we take trains from one place to another, we'll think of this