Lesson 70
Junior English for China Book 3
By David Li
信宜市西江中学 李宗良
Vocabulary Checking
Try to find out some sports names.
Discuss the following questions
1. Why do you think some people like to
climb mountains?
2. Where is the world’s tallest mountain?
Please say something about it.
1. Why do you think some people like to
climb mountains?
①for fun
②research
③explore
④for sports
⑤conquer the nature
⑥keep healthy
⑦matches
⑧measure
⑨sightseeing
2. Where is the world’s tallest
mountain?
Please say something about it. ①in Himalaya Mountains ②called Mount Qomolangma
③formed 60 million years ago
④8,850 M in height
⑤6 feet higher/1999
⑥0.1576 inches a year
⑦be covered with snow
⑧succeeded in reaching the
top
Listen to the tape and answer the
questions:
1). How many times had Mallory tried to get to the top?
In what years?
2). Did he make it to the top of the mountain?
3). What’s the reason he climbed the mountain?
Three times. In 1921, 1922 and 1924.
No one knows for sure. or No one is sure.
Because it’s there.
Listen to the tape and tell True(T) or False(F):
1)Mount Qomolangma is the tallest mountain in the
world. ( )
2)George Mallory is a professional mountain climber. ( )
3)Mallory had tried four times to reach the top of the
mountain. ( )
4)In 1921 he tried to climb the mountain for the first time.
( )
5)Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were thought to
be the first men to reach the top of the mountain. ( )
6)Edmund Hillary found Mallory’s body in 1999. ( )
T
T
T
F
F
F
an English school teacher
three times, in 1921, 1922 and 1924
We don’t know who found Mallory’s body.
The main idea of the passage:
A story about George Mallory’s climb of
Mount Qomolangma.
Read the text again and finish the following task.
Read the text and prepare some WH- questions or
YES-NO questions to ask your classmates.
Discuss the following question:
What should we learn from George Mallory?
①try our best to do everything,
②be brave,
③be successful if we are concentrated on
sth…
④never give up
The Famous saying:
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Fill in the blanks with proper words
George Mallory was an English school teacher. He loved ______
very much. In 1924 he and some other climbers tried to ________
Mount Qomolangma which is the tallest __________ in the world.
On June 8, 1924, when he and Andrew Irvine were only a few
hundred meters from the ______ of the mountain, the _________
changed suddenly and became very misty. They soon _________
in the mist and they would never ________.Many years _____, in
1999, Mallory’s body was _______ about six hundred meters from
the top of the mountain. But it is still ___________ whether he and
Irvine ever __________ the top of the mountain. So the answer to
the question of who was the first to reach the top of the mountain
is still unknown.
climbing
top
mountain
disappeared
weather
climb
return
found
later
reached
unknown
Thanks
&
Goodbye
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