大学英语8danyua.ppt

Travel 1.Do you like travel? 2.What place impressed you deeply? 3.Show around our school as a guide. Words: scene, fresh, steep, flourish, peak, be covered with, plenty of, lack of, overlook, leisure, a good sense of ,square meter, plateau, humanity/natural landscape,cliff,fault,lava， tower,shore,grand,magnificent, School gate Tao pavilion Double mushrooms pavilion north campus Gymnasium culture square Text A Unit 8 Wonders of West America l1.Empty Desert l2.Death Valley National Park l3.The Grand Canyon l4.The redwoods Empty Desert Sandy Dune thermometer Stone towers hikers Hufu dam golf course Scenes in the desert The characteristics of Empty desert 1. place:lies in 7 states 2. climate:hot,rains once or twice in a year 3. relief:sandy, empty desert,gobi 4. living things:insects,snake,rabbit, drought-enduring animals and plants Death Valley National Park map from satellite badwater（恶水 ） badwater road to Death Valley Devil golf course 魔鬼高尔夫球场 Zabriskie Point扎布里斯基角 Ubehebe Crater 优比喜比火山口 Artists Plate 艺术家调色板 Scottys castle Scottys graveyard Racetrack playa 跑道干湖 cacti Scenes of Death Valley The characteristics of Death Valley 1.place:mainly in California 2.climate:the hottest place in the west hemisphere, lack of rainfall,difference in temperature , 3.area:225 kilometers long,8-24 kilometers wide 4.relief:basin,low elevation , gobi, plenty of minerals, sandy,salty,gorge,snow mountain, 5: Living things: rabbit,fox,wolf,drought- enduring animals and plants Fill in the blanks l The western desert can be very . There is water and there are trees.But the desert also has scene of great .Tall towers of red and yellow stones rise from the flat,sandy valley floor. l Death Valley National Park is all about.Its the spot in the Western Hemisphere.Its also the and .Even normal summer temperatures are extreme in Death Valley.The annual in Death Valley