1、 Module 1 At this m ,in different p of the world people are doing different things.In London its five oclock and people are leaving work and are going home. Theyre waiting for buses and running for trains. Some people are driving their cars. Some are having afternoon tea at home or walking to pubs a
2、nd having a drink.In Moscow its eight oclock and people arent having afternoon tea. They are having dinner at home or in restaurants. Some are going to the opera or watching a ballet. Some are watching television or playing games at home.In Beijing its one oclock. People arent having dinner. They ar
3、e sleeping.In Los Angeles its nine oclock. People arent getting up, washing or getting dressed. They re working. Children are starting their lessons.In New York its midday (12:00).People arent working. They are having lunch. They are eating humbuggers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or Coke. They re
4、 seeing friends, calling home or shopping.M2We have lots of traditions. First, we clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. We also buy clothes and everyone has a haircut.Our paren
5、ts and grandparents give us New Year presents. They are usually new clothes. On New Years Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. There is dragon and lion dancing. The family have dinner and we eat jiaozi-a kind of dumpling, or a sweet rice pudding. We watch TV and at midnig
6、ht there are usually fireworks. We dont clean the house for a few days. We dont want to sweep away good luck. And we have lots of food for good luck.The New Year Festival finishes at Lantern Festival after two weeks. We usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao. They are round and so they
7、bring us good luck all the year round. M3Im looking forward to seeing my daughter and her daughter, my granddaughter. Im going to visit them in China because its my granddaughters birthday. Im going to take the plane to Beijing because they live there. Were going to do some sightseeing because we li
8、ke Chinese culture. Were going to visit the Forbidden City and then were going to walk up the Great Wall.Im looking forward to going to Disneyland with my parents. Im going to visit Disneyland because I like Mickey Mouse. Im going to learn English because I want to make some American friends. Then I
9、m going to lie on the beach because I enjoy the sun and the sea. Then were going to stay in a hotel in San Francisco because my parents have some friends there.Were looking forward to Dragon Boat Festival. Were going to watch it in Hong Kong because my parents live there. Then my wife and I are goin
10、g to lie on the beach because my children like swimming. And were all going to enjoy my mothers rice dumplings, zongzi, because shes a very good cook!M4Life in the futureA Planes will be very large so flying will be very cheap .Fuel will be expensive. Everyone will have a small car.B It will be hot
11、all year so the winter will be very short. It will get warm at the North Pole so the seas will be very rough and the winter will be warm .But there will be bad weather in spring and autumn.There will be heavy rain and strong winds.C Homes will be warm in winter and cool in summer, so therell be very
12、 comfortable. Well use the sun to heat our homes. No one will be cold and therell be lots of hot water.D Computers will be very small so they”ll be very light. People will do many things on the Internet.E Machines will do the dull jobs on farms and in factories and offices, so no one will do heavy w
13、ork. People will work three a days a week. Theyll have long holidays and lots of free time.M5I am from Cambridge .It a small city in the east of England, and it has about one 100,000 people. Its on the River Thames. There are lots of buildings and churches. It is famous for Cambridge University. Lon
14、don is the capital of the UK, with seven million people, so its bigger and busier than Cambridge. London is in the South of England and Its on the River Thames. The river is 336 kilometres long. London is an old city-2,000 years old. Its famous for Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge. In the
15、 north of England there are some lakes and low mountains. The mountains are 1,000 metres high. In the west of England you are always near the sea. There are lots of small villages on the coas t. England is a region of Britain, and Britain is an island. Its never very hot in the summer, or very cold
16、in winter.M6 Its Saturday morning, and Zhang Xiuyun from Dongsi Neighbourhood Committee in BJ is leaving for school. “I have an English class,” says Zhang, “Its starts at 9:30 am every Saturday, but at 8:30 there are usually lots of people in the classroom.”Zhu Guoming, 79, says, “I get here early a
17、nd sit in front of the blackboard, so I can see and hear the teacher .I dont arrive late because I dont like sitting behind the other students .Its difficult to see and hear at the back . However , the teacher speaks slowly and loudly to the older students so I can always hear clearly. More than 200
18、 people from Dongsi are learning English. lots of visitors to the Olympic Games will speak English ,so the people from Dongsi need to learn English quickly .They want to speak it well .No one wants to speak it badly or carelessly .Wang xiuqin, 65,says, “its more difficult for old people to learn Eng
19、lish ,but I want to learn it better .The Olympic visitors are going to do some sightseeing and shes going to take them around a Bejing siheyuan.Wang laways carries her book and her cassette player in her bag. She checks her vocabulary at home and listens quietly to her lessons.These popularlessons w
20、ill continue until 2008. M7Its the fastest train in the world. It goes from Shanghai Station to Pudong Airport in eight minutes. The same journey takes about 30 minutes by car. The train is the fastest way to go, but its also the most expensive; with two passengers, its more expensive than a taxi.Mo
21、re than 32 million passengers travel on British Airways planes every year, so British Airway is one of the b international airlines. The most popular plane is the Boeing 747. It travels the farthest. It goes from London to Beijing, a distance of over 8,000 kilometres in 9 hours.Its the most famous f
22、erry in the world, but its journey is very short. It goes from Hong Kong island to Kowloon. The journey takes about ten minutes, so its the shortest, quickest, cheapest way to go. Other ferries go from the Hongkong ferry terminal to the islands.These fast, comfortable buses go to 2,500 places in the
23、 USA. The fare s arent expensive and you can buy a ticket at the bus stop. Its the safest and cheapest way to travel, so every year millions of Americans go by busM8I was born in Quincy, a town on the east coast of America. There were lots of things to do in Quincy, with many stores, two movie theat
24、res, and football and basketball teams too.Two presidents of the USA, John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, were born in Quincy. You can visit their old family houses.Our house was big. There was a big living room with a TV, a kitchen, a bathroom . and three bedrooms. On my bedroom walls there w
25、ere posters of my favorite movie stars.There was a big garden with lots of trees and there was a pond with fish in it. It was great to play there.There were lots of children, so there were lots of friends. We were looking forward to coming to China. This was our last home in the USA, and the last ti
26、me I was there was in 2003. One day Ill go back.M9 First, Goldilocks wanted to sit down because she was very tired. The two big chairs were uncomfortable. She didnt like them, so she tried the smallest chair. It was nice, but Goldilocks was very heavy and she destroyed it!She was unhappy and tired.
27、She walked into the bedroom. There were three beds. She didnt like the two big beds. The smallest bed was very comfortable. Very soon she was asleep in it. The three Bears returned. They looked at the bowls and the chairs. Baby bear cried, “Theres nothing in my bowl and my chair is in pieces!” He wa
28、s very unhappy! Next, the Bears looked in their bedroom. They didnt notice Goldilocks at first. Then Baby Bear pointed at the little girl in his bed, and cried. “Look! Theres the naughty girl!”Finally, Goldilocks opened her eyes. The three Bears were around her, so Goldilocks jumped out of bed and h
29、urried out of the house without her basket. She didnt return to the forest again.Module 10William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous play are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked plays. He decided to be an actor when he fin
30、ished school at the age of fourteen. He married in 1582 and had three children. At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company. He became a successful actor and started writing plays. Queen Elizabethenjoyed Shakespeares plays. In 1599 the company opened the Globe Theatre on the Rive
31、r Thames in London. You can go to the Globe Theatre today. William Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two. He was rich and successful. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world. M11A few days ago he was Yang Liwei, the pilot,
32、with a wife and a young son. But last Thursday. When he returned to Earth after his journey into space. Yang Liwei was called “Chinas first astronaut”.Last Wednesday The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times and reached an altitude of 343 kilometres. The space flight lasted 21 hours and t
33、he 38-year-old astronaut landed safely at 6:23am the next day in Inner Mongolia. China is now the third country, after the Soviet Union and the USA, to send a person into space.Yang Liwei was born in Liaoning Province and in 1987 he joined the Chinese Air Force and was a pilot. 11 years later, he jo
34、ined the Chinese space programme with 13 other pilots. He trained for five years. “I always wanted to be an astronaut,” he said. People on Earth watched Yang Liwei space flight on TV He waved to everyone on Earth and showed the Chinese national flag. He had a meal of chicken and rice and he also res
35、ted for three hours.Yang Liwei is still a husband and a father. But today hes also China” first astronaut, and a national hero.M12 Betty,I hope youre well. Im on holiday in London with my friend jenny. We arrived by plane on Monday and took a taxi to our hotel. I went for a walk in Hyde park but jen
36、ny didnt come with me because she was tired.Then on Tuesday we saw the clock, Big Ben, and Buckingham palace. Queen Elizabeth lives in the palace, but we didnt see her! I bought some presents but jenny didnt buy anything!The next day we visited the British Museum and had dinner in a Chinese restaura
37、nt!On Thursday morning we relaxed. Then we went to Tower Bridge on the River Thames and looked at the city. Its very big!Finally today I did some shopping and Jenny listened to a concert in the park. I came back to the hotel and read the newspaper. Then I wrote some postcards and sent some emails. I took lots of photos and Im sending them with this email to you!Tomorrow were going to fly home. It was a short holiday, but it was great! Say hello to your mum and dad.love, Gran
