九年级英语上册 Module 4 Great inventions学案 外研版

1、Module 4 Great inventions【本讲教育信息】一. 教学内容：Module 4 Great inventions 二. 重难点讲解Unit 1 People and print have been used for agesTony：Dad, can I ask a favour? Can I borrow your digital camera?ask a favour of sb.= ask sb. for help“向某人请求帮助”请求帮助：1. Can I ask a favour?2. Can you help me?3. May I ask a fav

2、our of you?4. Would you do me a favour?肯定答语：Yes, all right. / OK. / Certainly. / With pleasure.否定答语：Sorry, I cant. / Centainly not. / Sure not. / Im afraid I cant. / sorry, but I never lend it to anyone. 试比较： I lend him a pen, that is, he borrows a pen from me.borrowfrom e.g. I borrowed a camera fro

3、m my father yesterday? lendto e.g. My father lent a camera to me yesterday. Tonys Dad: Why?Tony：Id like to take some photos on the school visit to the museum next week.Tonys Dad：Is this for your school magazine? Has it been published yet?Tony：Yes, two issues have been published. But its going to be

4、an online magazine from now on.Tonys Dad：Whats wrong with an ordinary magazine?Tony：Do you mean using paper? Its too expensive. If the magazine is online, paper wont be needed. Thats an important advantage. Itll be published on the school website, and it can be read on screen.advantage-disadvantageT

5、onys Dad：Well, that makes me think. Paper and printing have been used for ages. We once got information from books, but now the same information can be read or even listened to on computers.Tony：I wonderCan books be replaced by computers? Maybe Ill write something for the magazine! Anyway, about the

6、 camera?Tonys Dad：Here it is. The battery hasnt been charged for a couple of months. Its been turned off since your mums birthday party.charge  v. 充电charge  n. 负荷，掌管 e.g. Mary was（put）in charge of the baby. 玛丽负责照料这个婴儿。Tony：It doesnt matter. Ill see to that.see to v. 负责，注意e.g. Ill go to Ton

7、ys party this evening. Will you see to my cat?Tonys Dad: But you must promise that it wont be lent to anyone, and it wont be left at school ! Just look after it. Is that clear?leave/forgetTony：Promise!promise  v. 允诺，答应promise sb. sth. Tom promised me a birthday present.=promise（sb.）that +从句 Tom

8、 promised me that he would give me a birthday present.=promise to do sth. Tom promised to give me a birthday present.=promise sth. to sb. Tom promised a birthday present to mise  n. 允诺，答应，许诺make/ keep/ break a promise to do sth. Unit 2 Books could be produced more quickly and cheaply

9、Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can

10、 we imagine life without paper or print?on ones way to spl.look through  v. 浏览 on the wall /in the wallPaper was first created about 2000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in

11、 those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there werent many books, few people learned to read. 1. create  v. 创造  creative  adj. 有创造力的  creation  n. 创造物  creator  n. 创造者2. be made of 由制成 （

12、从成品能够看出原材料）e.g. The desk is made of metal.be made from由制成 （从成品看不出原材料）e.g. Paper is made from wood.be made in +地点产于e.g. The watch is made in Japan.be made into把做成e.g. Wood can be made into paper.3. produce v. 生产/ production n. 生产4. at a time“每次（多少个），一次” e.g. Please come in one at a time, not all toge

13、ther.5. by hand“手工地，亲手地”e.g. All these toys are made by hand, not on a machine.Then printing was invented in China. The first printed books were made by putting ink on a wooden block and holding the paper against it. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books cou

14、ld be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly, in a way that can be compared with the introduction of the Internet in the 20th century.hold against 贴在上面at the beginning of/ in the beginning as a result 结果learn to do

15、学习去做compare with/to 与相比较introduction  n. / introduce v. 介绍But will books be needed in the future? Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 player. These machines are smaller

16、and lighter than books so that they can be carried very easily.rather than 而不是，胜于（比较对象是相同成分/词性）e.g.I want to wear the black shoes rather than the brown ones.Hed prefer to go there in winter rather than in summer.such as / for example 例如Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and mag

17、azines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I dont think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two meters high!  【典型例题】Translation 1. for ages            &

18、#160;                          2. a couple of 3. see to sb. / sth                     

19、;                        4. looks through 5. be made of / from                     &#

20、160;                     6. make a book   7. in those days                       

21、;                     8. at a time       9. by hand                    

22、0;                      10. put against    11. 在初/ 开始时                                    12. 然后，之后13. 以方式