【正文】 t think chickens can swim. Step 9 Exercises Do some exercises and draw the answers from the Ss. 1. He said ____ he wouldn’t be free until tomorrow afternoon. A. which B. that C. where D. if 2. I usually spend half an hour ____ TV at home. A. watch B. see C. watching D. seeing 3. Mr Read said that he ____ English at a middle school in Beijing. A. teach B. teaches C. teaching D. taught 4. The teacher told us that the earth ____ around the sun. A. go B. goes C. went D. going Keys: B, C, D, B Step 10 中考鏈接 Do some exercises from the entrance exam to senior high schools. 1. － Have you ever seen the movie 2020? － Yes, but I don’t believe ____ the year 2020 will see the end of the world. 【 2020 菏澤】 A. that B. what C. how D. if 2. I don’t think fast food is good for our health, so I ____ eat it. 【 2020 四川南充】 A. usually B. hardly C. always 3. Many children ____ in Britain to have their own bank cards these days. 【 2020鹽城】 A. allow B. allowed C. are allowed D. were allowed 4. How is Helen in the new school? She is doing very well. There is ____ to worry about. 【 2020 安徽】 A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything Keys: A, B, C, C Step 11 Homework You have won a trip for 5 people to go to Australia. Please write a trip plan about 60 words. 。 . 我認為雞不會游泳。 試比較： He says that he wants to see him as soon as possible． He said that he wanted to see him as soon as possible． 他說他想盡快見到他。 1. Where is it? 2. How large is it? 3. What is the most famous thing to see? Unit 3 Language in use 【教學目標】 ? Knowledge objective Get the students to be able to use the new words and expressions they learnt in this module. ? Ability objective To summarize and consolidate the object clauses. ? Moral objective To be glad to listen to others’ opinions and enjoy the beauty of the nature of our homeland. 【教學重點】 To be able to use the object clauses correctly. 【教學難點】 Through listening, speaking and writing, let students practise the object clauses. 【教 學方法】 PWP method, taskbased method 【教學手段】 A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures 【教學過程】 Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming up Let Ss look at the pictures and answer the questions to review what they have learnt. Step 2 Language practice Fill in the blanks. 1. I can ______ believe we’re in the city centre. 2. I don’t think they _____ people to swim in the lake. 3. We thought _________ was moving about. 4. Lingling’s uncle said that it was wrong to ____ leaves ____ plants and that we should protect everything here. Keys: hardly, allow, somebody, pull off Step 3 Practice 1. Read the two parts of the sentences carefully. Then match the two parts. There may be more than one possibility. 1. I think (that) … 2. He says (that)… 3. She is sure (that)… 4. They do not believe (that)… 5. We know (that)… a)…we can go out alone at night. b)…h(huán)e almost got lost in the forest. c)…we should stay together. d)…the park is over 500 years old. e)…we will see better from up there. 2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in brackets I want to go on a trip with my family in the summer holiday, but I do not think we (1) ________ (agree) on where to go. I think that we should (2) ___ (go) to the beach but Mum and Dad say they (3) _____ (want) to go to the countryside. Danny is sure that the beach and the countryside (4) ___ (be) boring. He wants to go to a big city and do sightseeing. Milly doesn’t thi