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Unit 1
Spring Is Coming!
Lesson 4
The Spring City
How’s the weather in winter in your hometown
It’s cold and snowy/windy and rainy.
=What’s the weather like in winter in your hometown
Lead in
Look! It’s budding.
[ b d ] adj. 正发芽的
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I have been to nearly every place in Kunming.
[ n li] adv. 几乎；差不多
New words
The city gets about 100 millimetres of rain every year.
[ m limi t (r)] n. 毫米；千分之一米
kilometer
meter
cetimeter
decimeter
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We can see plenty of stones in Shilin.
[ plenti] n. 丰富；大量
New words
You can go to Kunming anytime.
[ en ta m] adv. 在任何时候；随便什么时候
New words
budding
nearly
millimetre
plenty
anytime
adj. 正发芽的
adv. 几乎；差不多；将近
n. 毫米；千分之一米
n. 丰富；大量
adv. 在任何时候；随便什么时候
New words
Would you like to live in a place where there are no winter
Yes/No, because …
Pair-work
Listen to the people talking about their hometowns and match the names with the sentences.
Susan
Mike
Zhang Jing
Tom
Dong Chao
Spring begins in April and ends in June. The temperature is between 4℃ and 15℃.
It is warm and wet. Spring begins in November.
The average spring temperature is 5℃. It is very cold.
The weather is neither too hot nor too cold. The average spring temperature is 20℃.
They celebrate the Festival of Colours to greet the coming of spring.
Listening
Let’s Do It!　
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Susan: Hi, I’m Susan. In my hometown, the spring is warm and wet. It begins in November.
Mike: My name is Mike. I’m from India. In my hometown, people celebrate the Festival of Colours to greet the coming of spring.
Zhang Jing: Hi, my name is Zhang Jing. I come from Yunnan. The weather in my hometown is neither too hot nor too cold. The average spring temperature is 20℃.
听力材料
Tom: I’m Tom. I live in France. Spring begins in April and ends in June. The temperature is between 4℃ and 15℃.
Dong Chao: I’m Dong Chao from Heilongjiang. Spring is very cold in my hometown. The average temperature is 5℃.
听力材料
Read the lesson and answer the questions.
What’s the average temperature in winter/summer in Kunming
2. How much rain does the city get every year
The average winter temperature is 15℃ and in summer the average temperature is 24℃.
About 1000 millimetres.
Reading
Let’s Do It!　
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3. How many hours of sunshine does the city
get every year
4. Why are there many flowers all year round
in Kunming
About 2250 hours of sunshine.
It’s because of the spring-like weather.
When we think of spring, we think of a season of fine, warm weather and clear, fresh air. We think of new life, green plants and budding trees all around us.
Everyone longs for spring. Spring is a short season in many places around the world. But in my hometown, it feels like spring nearly all year round.
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The weather here is neither too hot nor too cold. The average winter temperature is 15℃. In summer it never gets too hot. The average temperature is 24℃. The city gets about 1 000 millimetres of rain every year. There’s plenty of sunshine too, with about 2 250 hours of sunshine every year. Because of the spring-like weather, you can find hundreds of beautiful flowers and
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trees anytime of the year.
Can you guess my hometown Yes, it’s Kunming — “the Spring City”.
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Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the phrases in the box.
long for　think of　feel like　because of
1. She didn’t go to school ___________ her illness.
2. He always __________ his friend when he is in trouble.
3. They _________ sunshine during the long rainy days.
4. It’s so hot today. It _________ summer.
because of
thinks of
long for
feels like
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Talk about the spring in your hometown.
Task tips: You can talk about the
weather, the temperature and your favourite activities.
Pair-work
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1. Everyone longs for spring. 每个人都向往春天。
long for 渴望；向往；盼望
e.g. The students long for the summer holiday.
学生们盼望着暑假。
long to do sth. 渴望做某事
e.g. He longs to get the gifts on his birthday.
他渴望在生日时收到礼物。
Language points
2. …it feels like spring nearly all year round.几乎一年到头都是春天。
feel like 感觉像；想要
e.g. Kate feels like she is ill. 凯特感觉像病了。
【拓展】feel like中的like为介词，后常跟动词的 ing形式，相当于“want to do sth.”或“would like to do sth.”。
3. There’s plenty of sunshine too, with about
2 250 hours of sunshine every year.
这里也有许多光照，每年有大约2250小时的光照。
plenty of意为“许多；大量”，多用在肯定句中，既可修饰可数名词又可修饰不可数名词，plenty of相当于a lot of/lots of。
e.g. There are plenty of flowers in the park.
在公园里有许多花。
4. Because of the spring-like weather, you can
find hundreds of beautiful flowers and trees anytime of the year. 因为像春天一样的天气，在一年中的任何时间， 你都可以看见成百上千棵树。
because of 因为 后面接名词、代词、动名词或what引导的名词性从句等
because 因为 引导原因状语从句
辨析：because与because of
hundred前加基数词，表示“几百”时，hundred要用单数形式。hundred与of连用，表示“数百”时，hundred要用复数形式。
e.g. The library has hundreds of storybooks.
这个图书馆有成百上千本故事书。
【拓展】
thousand(千) / million(百万) / billion(十亿)的用法也是这样的。
一、单项选择。
1. It rains for three days. We______ the sunlight very
much.
A. call for B. buy for C. look for D. long for
2. There are two ______ workers working on the road.
A. hundred B. hundreds
C. hundred of D. hundreds of
Exercises
3. He doesn’t feel like _____ at night because it’s
dangerous.
A. walk B. walks C. walking D. to walk
4. ______ the fine weather, mom took us to the Happy
Valley to have fun.
A. Because B. Because of
C. Instead D. Instead of
5. Mary always spends________ time playing with her friends, so her mom is angry.
A. many B. a lot C. plenty of D. a little
二、根据汉语意思完成句子。
1. 因为大雪，我们不能去爬山了!
　We can’t go climbing ________ ____ the heavy snow!
because of
2. 你有几百个朋友！太令人惊讶了。
　 You have __________ _____ friends! That’s amazing.
3. 我们感觉好像走在沙漠里。
We feel like ________ _____ _____ _______.
4. 他渴望和一个外国人练习英语口语。
He ______ ____ ________ spoken English with a
foreigner.
longs to practice
hundreds of
walking in the desert
Talk about the place where you like to live in.
Group work
1. Review and recite the important points of this lesson.
2. Talk about your favourite place after class.
3. Preview the next lesson.
Homework
Thank you!

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