【正文】 Unit 1 Dream homes1 Would you like to live in a palace , Eddite. 2 No, I’d like to live next to a restaurant. 3 There are many restaurants in Beijing. Which is your favourtite? 4 The biggest one! Where would you like to live? The Class 1, Grade 7 students at Beijing Sunshine Secondary School are learning about homes in different countries. They are writing about their dream homes for the school newsletter.Main Task: Complete a questionnaire and write an article about your dream home. Wele to the unit :Countries and capitals:A ? Simon and Amy want to learn about other countries. They collected some pictures. Help them write the names of the countries under the picture.France Japan Russia Thailand the UK the USA B ? Simon and Amy want to learn about capital of other countries. Help them plete the sentences below with the correct words from the box. Bangkok London Moscow Paris Tokyo Washington DC1 The capital of the USA is ( Washington DC ). 2 The capital of the UK is (London). 3 The capital of the France is (Paris ). 4 The capital of Japan is ( Tokyo ). 5 The capital of Russia is (Moscow ). 6 The capital of Thailand is (Bangkok ).Reading A Homes around the world ? Simon and Amy want to learn about homes in different countries. They found the home pages of four foreign students. Here are the four home pages.StephenHi! My name is Stephen. I live in a large house in Long Beach, California, the USA. It has 12 rooms. My favorite place is the balcony. I can play games, read ics and chat with friends there. We love to sit on the floor and look out at the beach and the sea. I have a big bedroom. I can see the beach from the bedroom windows. My friends think this is cool. madeeHello! I’m Madee. I live in a small town in Thailand. I live with my family in a wooden house. The house is over a river. I climb a ladder to get into my house. We have five rooms. Many people live in my house. They are my grandparents, my parents, my three sisters and my brother. I am the second child of my family. It is very beautiful and quiet here, but it rains a lot.NeilI live in a small house in a near London. My favourite room in the house is the kitchen. My family and I often sit in the kitchen while my mother makes dinner. In the evenings, we watch TV in the sitting room. I have a dog . it’s birthday is on the fifth of June. He sleeps in the garden. AnnaHello! My name is Anna.I live in the centre of Moscow. I live with my family in a flat on a busy street. The flat is on the seventh floor. It is not very large but we have a nice sitting room. After dinner, we like to play games and chat there. I share a bedroom with my sister. We often listen to music in our bedroom. Our neighbours are friendly and we are happy here. B More about homes: B1 ? Simon and Amy are talking about the homes of the foreign students. Write the correct words under the picturebalcony beach kitchen ladder sea sitting roonB2 ? Simon is writing down the meaning of some of the words. There are some mistakes in his notes. The underlined words are wrong. Help him write the correct words above the mistakes.1 You usually eat meals in a (sitting room)/( ) 2 Ypu often sleep in a ( kitchen).3 A (dining room) is the best place to grow flowers. 4 In most homes, people cook meals in the (bedroom).5 We usually put the sofa in the (garden). C Homes in different countries C1 ?Simon is telling his parents about the foreign homes. Is he telling them the correct information? Write a T if the sentence is true. Write an F if it is false.1 Stephen lives near the sea. ( ) 2 There are more than ten rooms in Stephen’s house. ( )3 Madee lives in a wooden house in the hills. ( ) 4 Madee has a small family. ( )5 Neil has a TV in the kitchen. ( ) 6 Neil’s dog was born on the first of June. ( )7 Anna’s flat is on the seventh floor and it’s on a quiet street. ( )8 Anna shares a bedroom with her brother. C2 ? Amy has drawn some pictures of the foreign students’ homes for Simon . look at the pictures and help Simon plete the sentences. Anna balcony bedroom kitchen ladder Madee Neil Stephen 1 (Stephen) is chatting with his friends on the (balcony).2 (Madee) is climbing a (ladder). 3 (Neil) is sitting in the (kitchen). 4 (Anna) is listening to music in her (bedroom). Vocabulary Furniture A ?Here are some picture of Neil’s home in Britain. What do you call these pieces of furniture? Write the correct names under the pictures. armchair。 bedside table 。 coffee table 。 cupboard 。 lamp。 sofa B ? Simon is making a table showing the objects in different rooms in Neil’s house, but there are some mistakes. Help him find the mistakes and circle them. KitchenSitting roomBedroomBathroombookcasearmchairbedbathcupboardshowerlampputerfridgesofasinktoiletGrammarA Prepositions of placeWe use prepositions of place to say where things are.We love to sit on the floor. The house is over a river. Millie sits in front of me. Amy sits between Millie and Simon. Kitty sits next to Sandy. Sandy sits between Kitty and me. Simon sits in front of kitty. The window is opposite the door. The chalk is on the teacher’s desk.Tip: Prepositions of place : above。 at。 behind 。 beside 。 between 。 in 。 in front of 。 inside 。 next to 。 on 。 opposite 。 outside 。 over 。 under 。 Kate’s bedroom ? Simon has a photo from his penfriend, Kate. It is a photo of her bedroom. He is describing it to Amy on the phone. Look at the photo below and plete their conversation. Simon: Kate has a puter in her room. It is on her desk. Her printer is beside her puter. There is a lamp on the bedside table. Amy: Where is the bedside table?Simon: It is between the bed and the armchair. Amy: Where are Kate’s toys?Simon: They are in a box.