《Life is full of unexpected》PPT课件3

《Life is full of unexpected》PPT课件3 Warm  up Do you know the history of April Fool’s Day? 2a Have you ever played jokes on others, especially on April Fool’s  Day?  Have you ever been fooled by others? Tell your story to your partner? 2b Read the passage quickly. Then match each paragraph with the main idea. USING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE Carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph can activate your own knowledge of the topic and help you guess what the whole text is about. ... ... ... 2c Read the passage again and answer the questions. 1.Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti one April Fool’s Day? Because a reporter announced that there would be no more spaghetti.   2.What did the TV show say that the special water could do? It was said that the special water would help people lose weight. 3.Why did the TV star’s joke have a bad ending? Because he lost both his girlfriend and his show. 4. When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the earth? It was in October 1938. 5. Why did so many people believe Orson Welles? Because Orson Welles made it sound so real that  hundreds of people believed the story. ... ... ... 2d Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. 1. After the spaghetti story _________ (appear) in the news, everyone_________ (rush) to the supermarkets. 2. By the time people__________ (find out) the story was not true, all the spaghetti in the supermarkets ___________(disappear). 3. By the time the day ______  (end), more than 10,000 people _________ (call) the TV station to ask about the special  water. 4. By the time the show _______  (end), the TV star _________  (lose) his girlfriend. 5. By the time police officers _______  (tell)the country that the story was a hoax, many people _______________  (run away) from their homes. Language points 1. April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. 愚人节一种发生在世界上不同国家的庆祝活动。 take place 意为“发生；进行；举行；产生”。 2. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other. 愚人节是每年的四月一日，在这一天，人们互相捉弄开各种玩笑。 play tricks on sb. 意为“捉弄某人”， play jokes on sb.  是“对某人开玩笑 ”的意思。 3. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. 很多 人跑到当地的超市抢购尽可能多的意大利面条。 as +形容词/副词的原级+ as sb. can / could 相当于as + 形容词/副词原级+ as possible，意为“尽可能地……”，在句中作状语。  例：We must do everything as well as we can. = We must do everything as well as possible. 我们要尽量做好每一件事。 ... ... ... Exercises 1.  We ____________ ( learn ) 2000 English words since we came to this school. The teacher said we _____________ ( learn )2000 English words since then. We ____________ ( learn ) 500 words last term. We ______________ ( learn ) 2000 words by the end of last term. 2.  He _________ ( have ) a meeting next week. He ______( have ) a meeting two weeks  ago. He told me he __________ ( have ) a meeting two weeks before. 3.  ______you ______( be ) to the Great Wall? The teacher asked if you ___________( be ) to the Great Wall? ... ... ... Homework  Write a diary about your lucky or unlucky day.  关键词：《Life is full of unexpected》教学课件，人教版九年级下册英语课件，九年级英语幻灯片课件下载，《Life is full of unexpected》PPT课件下载，.ppt格式