四川省岳池县第一中学高中英语 Module4 A Social Survey My Neighbou

Period 5: Cultural Corner
学习目标：
1. 运用模块词汇和句型能简单表达方位
2. 了解西方农村和城市的变迁
3. 掌握重点单词的用法
学习重点：
了解西方农村和城市的变迁
学习难点：
掌握重点单词的用法
课前预习
使用说明与学法指导：
1. 树立跨文化交际意识
2. 15分钟之内完成
教材助读：
预习自测：
Something about Western Europe?
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我的疑问：
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课内探究
质疑探究：
I. Answer the following questions:
1. Can you give a description of the countryside in western Europe using only two words?
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2. What’s happening to the countryside now?
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II. Read the p assage again and answer the following questions:
1. In which countries is the countryside changing?
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2. Why do some villages remain?
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3. What are the problems?
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4. What will be resulted in by these problems?
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Language Points:
1. a great many许多；大量
①Most of the young men went off to the war，and a_great_many never came back.
大多数年轻人走上了战场，好多人再也没有回来。

②A_great_many_of the students have passed the examination.许多学生已经通过了考试。

表示“许多”的短语有：
⎭
⎪⎬⎪
⎫
（1）a good/great many a good few/quite a few a large/great number of 修饰可数名词复数(作主语时，谓语动词用复数)
⎭
⎪⎬⎪
⎫（2）a great/large amount of a great deal of
quite a little
修饰不可数名词(作主语时，谓语动词用单数)
⎭
⎪⎬⎪
⎫（3）many a/an more than one 修饰可数名词单数(作主语时，谓语动词用单数)
⎭
⎪⎬⎪
⎫（4）a lot of ＝lots of plenty of
a large quantity of
quantities of
既可修饰可数名词复数也可修饰不可数名词(作主语时，谓语动词的单、复数取决于名词)
小贴士
(1)无论quantities of 修饰的是可数名词还是不可数名词，作主语时，谓语动词都用复数。

(2)large amounts of 修饰不可数名词，作主语，谓语动词用复数。

2. go up (价格、水位、数量等的)上涨
eg: (1) The price of vegetables went up because of the heavy rain that slowed the
growth of green plants.
(2)In the past 10 years, the population of the town has gone up by 5.5 percent, much smaller than that of thirty years ago. 当堂检测：
1. number of books have been given to the library. As a result, number of books is becoming larger and larger.
A. A; a
B. A; the
C. The; a
D. The ; the 2.In doing the work , we can’t the waste of single minute. A. manage B. afford C. take D. suffer 3.Where for the past few years?
A. are you
B. have you been
C. have you gone
D. did you go 4.—What was the party like?
— Wonderful. It is years I enjoyed myself so much. A. after B. when C. before D. since 5.—Did you enjoy your holiday?
—Yes . It is the best holiday I these years.
A. had
B. have had
C. had had
D. would have
课后反思：
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课后训练
完形填空
Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing something to make their neighbourhood a trouble­free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't __1__ drive to a store and back home. He always looks__2__up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for anything __3__ such as strange cars, loud noises, __4__ windows, or people gathering on street corners.
Tim __5__ to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighbourhood watch group __6__ on the third Wednesday of every month.That's
__7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community(社区) __8__ . Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police __9__ their homes, streets，and families safe.
Tina Stedman, president of __10__neighbourhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not __11__ them. Well, it's never happened to me，” she said，“but I don't think anyone has the __12__ to steal from other people or to make them feel __13__ sitting in their own homes.”
Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbours __14__ out for one another. “We __15__ each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbourhood at night and on weekends. Usually a __16__ of four or fi ve of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the __17__. For example，if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for __18__，or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police.”
Alex feels the neighbourhood watch groups __19__ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can't do __20__.”
1. A. yet B. still C. just D. rather
2. A. carefully B. clearly C. nervously D. coldly
3. A. familiar B. unusual C. expensive D. interesting
4. A. curtained B. open C. old D. broken
5. A. attends B. belongs C. goes D. turns
6. A. meets B. quarrels C. sings D. searches
7. A. where B. why C. when D. how
8. A. politics B. wealth C. health D. safety
9. A. keep B. hold C. let D. protect
10. A. its B. his C. their D. your
11. A. round B. on C. about D. to
12. A. right B. chance C. courage D. mind
13. A. unlucky B. unsafe C. disappointed D. discouraged 14．A. set B. let C. hold D. look
15. A. care B. enter C. watch D. manage
16. A. group B. set C. number D. crowd
17. A. judges B. police C. firemen D. doctors
18. A. work B. money C. service D. trouble
19. A. produce B. find C. get D. help
20. A. anything B. everything C. harm D. wrong。