Unit 1 Language

特殊疑问句 What— 意思是“什么”，可以问

“什么东西、什么职业、什么事情”等。

Who — 表示人，意思是“谁”。 Whose — 表示“某人的……”。 Where— 意思是“在哪里”，询问地

点 When— 意思是“什么时候”，询问

时 间，可以是时刻或日期等。

How 和一些形容词或代词构成的特殊疑问句：how old how fast

how tall how many

how heavy

how long

how much

特殊疑问句的回答特殊疑问句不能用 yes 或 no 来回答，

要根据问句的内容如实回答。如：

-- How many people are there in your family?

-- Where did you go last Sunday?

-- There are five.

-- To the park.

LiJie and her mother are talking about SimonM: Who’s the letter from?L : (1) ____________________.M: What’s his name?L : (2) ________________.M: Where does he live?L: (3)__________________.M: How old is he?L: (4)__________________.M: How many brothers and sisters does he have?L: (5) ___________________.

M: What is his hobby?L: (6) ________________________.

It’s from my penfriend

His name is simon

He lives in the UK

He’s 12 years old

He has one brother

His hobby is playing chess

Read the conversation between Sally and Li Jie and complete the questions with question words. Then shorten the answers to the number of words in brackets.1. ______ does Simon live?

2. ______ does Simon’s brother work as?

3. ______ does Simon want to be?

4. do Simon’s parents own?

5. ________ sports does Simon play in the winter?

6. does Simon travel to school?

Where He lives in Newcastle.

WhatHe works as an accountant.What

Simon’s parent’s own a Chinese restautant.How many

WhatHe wants to be an engineer.

He play two sports in winter.How

He walks to school.

1.What is your favorite subject ？

2.Where do you live?

3.How old are you?

4.When do you get up every morning?

5.How many people are there in your family?

6.What does your father do?

Make a dialogue according to the following table:

Friend Place Activity Time Back

Peter raiport meeting at six

his brother

Mary post buying soon

office stamps

Paul park playing at 4:30

basketball

Linda Green camping next week

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Read the follow sentences and tell about how to use a, an or the from the sentences

a) My parents own a Chinese restaurant in Newcastle.

b) I have a brother. He works as an accountant.

c) I like my school. The teachers are very friendly.

d) I live with my parents in the UK.

e) I am in the middle.

f) My hobby is playing chess.

g) I enjoy playing rugby and badminton in winter.

冠词是用在名词前面，帮助说明名词所指的人或事物，是泛指还是特指的词。

冠词分不定冠词（ The Indefinite Article ）和定冠词（ The Definite Article ） a, an 是不定冠词， the 是定冠词。

an, a 是不定冠词，仅用在单数可数名词前面，表示“一”的意义，但不强调数目观念，表示一类人或事物。a 用在以辅音（指辅音音素）开头的词前， an 用在以元音（指元素音素）开头的词前，如 : a boy ， an hour

定冠词 the 具有确定的意思，用以特指人或事物，表示名词所指的人或事物是同类中的特定的一个，以别于同类中其他的人或事物，相当于汉语中的“那个”或“这个”的意思。它可以和单、复数名词，也可以和不可数的名词连用。如 : the boy ， the books

Conclusion:

We often use a or an before countable nouns at the first time we talk about them.

We use the when we We use an before words

beginning with vowel sounds and a before

words beginning with consonant sounds.

talk about them again.

Tell the difference:

a) Where is the toilet? b) Is there a toilet near here?

Question a), the woman knows there is a toilet in the flat, so she uses the.

Question b), the man doesn’t know if there is a toilet near here or not, so he uses a.

a,an

首次提及，如 there is a book on the desk

泛指一类人或事物，如 He is a student, It’s a book

表示“一个”的意思，如 an apple

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上文提过的人或事物 ， I buy a book, and the book is very interesting.

特指某（些）人或某（些）事物 ，如 give me the book

谈话双方都知道的人或事物，如 where is the teacher?

世界上独一无二的事物等（月亮、地球、天空、宇宙），如 the moon, the earth, the sun

Fill in the blanks with a, an or the

There is ____ computer classroom in our new school. We have two lessons in ____ classroom every week. From ____ computers, we can learn everything about ____ world.

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Li Jie’s father works at Faraway Travel Service. Every day, he answers questions from his customers. Complete the questions and answers below with a, an or the.

1. I want to see ___ sunshine at midnight.

Then go to ____ North Pole.

--- You will need ___ thick sweater there.

2. I want to go to ___ Sahara Desert and live

in ___ tent with ___ Arab family.

---No problem. You will need __ water bottle3. I want to go to ___ big city and learn ____ French

language. --- Why not go to Paris? That’s ___ capital of France

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4.---I’d like to take ____ train from Guangzhou to Japan. ---Sorry. You have to cross ____ sea, so you must take ___ plane or ___ ship.

5. ---I wan to go to ___ railway station by underground. Can you sell me ____ ticket? ---Sorry. You have to go to ___ underground station to buy ____ ticket.6.--- I’d like to go to ___ beach for my holiday next year. --- You can go to ____ south of Spain and visit ___ beautiful beach there.

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