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ding a new job. 他找新的 工 作費 了 很大勁。 They’ re not ing today, so far as I know. 他們今天不來 了 — 就我所知是這樣的。 the highest mountain。Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? Language Goal: Talk about geography and nature Qomolangma about 9,600,000 square kilometers in size The Sahara 1,025 meters deep The Caspian Sea 6,671 kilometers long The Nile 8, meters high 1a. Match the facts you know. 1. Qomolangma is ________ than any other mountain in the world. 2. The Sahara is __________ desert in the world. 3. The Caspian Sea is __________ of all the salt lakes. 4. The Nile is ___________ river in the world. 1b. Listen and plete the sentences. higher the biggest the deepest the longest 1c. Use the information in 1b to make conversations. A: What is the highest mountain in the world? B: Qomolangma. A: What is the biggest desert in the world? B: Sahara. A: What is the deepest salt lake in the world? B: Caspian sea. A: What is the longest river in the world? B: Nile. ______ The Yangtze River is about ________ kilometers long and the Yellow River is __________ kilometers long. ____ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US. 2a. Listen and number the facts [ 14] in the order you hear them. 6,300 5,000 5,464 300 2 4 ____ China is over ________ years old. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even_______ years old. ____ China is almost as big as the US, and it is the biggest country in Asia. 1 3 2b. Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the