2. 8B Unit 1 Integrated skills 8B Unit 1 Integrated skills

3. 1.Can you tell us the changes to your hometown? 2. What was Sunshine Town like in the past and what’s Sunshine Town like today? 3. Think about the environment, the transport and the living conditions. Free Talk

4. a place of ______ beauty a ________ town natural modern Changes in Starlight Town

5. 1. Why do you call it a place of natural beauty? 2. What kind of transport can you use, a bike, a taxi or a bus? 3. Do the people live in tall buildings? a place of natural beauty a place of natural beauty environment see hear feel

6. a modern town 1. Why do you call it a modern town? 2. How can you travel to and from the town? 3. Do people still live in small houses? developments tall buildings new flats many shopping malls

7. Listen to the tape, complete the lists below. Listen to the tape, complete the lists below.

9. Environment: green(1) _______,clean and fresh(2)________,willd (3)___________near the lake Transport: bus and(4)_________ Living conditions: old(5) _________ past past bike/bicycle hills air birds houses

11. Environment:smaller(1)______________, new(2)__________station, tall(3)_____________and new roads Transport: bus,taxi and (4)______ Living conditions: new (5)_____ flats railway lake buildings train Present

12. Kitty is writing about Starlight Town in her diary. Complete her diary entry on the next page with the words in the box. air bicycle birds buildings flats hills houses modern railway taxi

13. Today, I borrowed a book about Starlight Town’s past and present. Starlight Town was very beautiful years ago.There were green (1)_________and wild(2)________near the lake.The (3)______was clean and fresh then. hills birds air

14. Now it has become a (4)_______ town. There is a new (5)___________station. There are some new roads, too. People can now travel to and from town by bus,(6)____ or train, but in the past, people could only travel by bus or(7)________. modern railway taxi bicycle

15. Another big change is the many tall (8)_________ in the town. Local people used to live in old (9)_________, but now, most of them have moved into new (10)__________. Starlight Town has changed a lot over the years.I hope I can visit it again. buildings houses flats

16. Listen to the tape, and answer the questions. 1). Where has Becky just returned from? 2). When did they last see each other? 3). How do they keep in touch with each other? speak up

17. Make a dialogue about the changes to Starlight Town.

18. A: Where have you been? B: I have just been to Starlight Town near Beijing. A: Really? I went there 10 years ago. I went there by bike, what about you? B: I went there by air/bus… … A sample dialogue:

19. A. 根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空。 1. I am ______(surprise) at the news. What about you? 2. When I passed the driving test, I thought I was the_____(luck) person in the world. 3.The little boy is ______(kind) to his classmates, so nobody likes him. 4. What do you think about the air __________(pollute) in your hometown? 5. Danny and Daniel are brothers, and their_____(wife) are sisters. That’s interesting. Exercises;

20. 根据句意及所给汉语提示完成单词。 1. The old woman is crying______( 悲伤 ). What happened to her? 2. I’ve______( 刚刚 ) known it. Sorry to hear that. 3. Kitty got______( 结婚 ) last year. Her husband is a computer programmer. 4. The plane ______( 降落 ) at six this morning. Everything was OK. 5. How many ______( 街区 ) are there in your hometown?

21. Homework 完成《课课练》相关练习 背诵 Part A3