八年级下册外研教版课文.docx

1、八年级下册外研教版课文Module 1Unit 1Tony: MmWhat a delicious smell! Your pizza looks so nice.Betty: Thanks! Would you like to try some?Tony: Yes, please, it looks lovely, it smells delicious, and mm, it tastes good.Darning: Whats that on top?Betty: Oh, thats cheese. Do you want to try a piece?Darning: Ugh! No,

2、 thanks. Im afraid I dont like cheese. It doesnt smell fresh. It smells too strong and it tastes a bit sour.Betty: Well, my chocolate cookies are done now. Have a try!Darning: Thanks! They taste really sweet and they feel soft in the middle.Tony: Are you cooking lots of different things? You look ve

3、ry busy!Betty: Yes, I am! Theres some pizza and some cookies, and now Im making an apple pie and a cake.Darning: Apple pie sounds nice, I have a sweet tooth, you know. Shall I get the sugar?Betty: Yes, please. Oh, are you sure thats sugar? Taste it first. It might be salt!Darning: No, its OK. It tas

4、tes sweet. Its sugar.Tony: Whats this? It tastes sweet too.Betty: Thats strawberry jam, for the cake.Darning: Good, everything tastes so sweet! Its my lucky day!Unit 2FROM: SallyTO: LinglingSUBJECT: Re: Welcome to China.Hi Lingling,Thanks for your last message. It was great to hear from you, and I c

5、ant wait to meet you.1 hope you will know me from my photo when I arrive at the airport. Im quite tall, with short fair hair, and I wear glasses. Ill wear jeans and a T-shirt for the journey, but Ill also carry my warm coat. Ive got your photo you look very pretty. So Im sure well find each other!Th

6、anks for telling me about your hobbies. You sound just like me! I spend a lot of time playing classical music with my friends at school, but I also like dance music I love dancing! I enjoy sports as well, especially tennis. My brother is in the school tennis team Im very proud of him! Hes good at ev

7、erything, but Im not. Sometimes I get bad marks at school, and I feel sad. I should work harder.You asked me, “How do you feel about coming to China?” Well, I often feel a bit sad at first when I leave my mum and dad for a few days, and Im quite shy when Im with strangers. I feel nervous when I spea

8、k Chinese, but Ill be fine in a few days. Im always sorry when I dont know how to do things in the right way, so please help me when Im with you in China! Oh, Im afraid of flying too. But I cant tell you how excited I am about going to China!See you next week!Love,SallyModule 2Unit 1Tony: Hi, Lingli

9、ng. What are you doing?Lingling: Im entering a competition.Tony: What kind of competition?Lingling: A speaking competition.Tony: Great. Itll help you improve your speaking. And maybe you will win a prize.Lingling: Yes, The first prize is “My dream holiday”.Tony: Have you ever won any prizes before?L

10、ingling: No, I havent. Ive always wanted to go on a dream holiday. But I cant afford it. The plane tickets are too expensive.Tony: Well, good luck! Ive also entered lots of speaking competitions, but havent won any prizes. Ive stopped trying now.Lingling: Thats a pity. Have you ever thought about ot

11、her kinds of competitions?Tony: What do you mean?Lingling: Look! Heres a writing competition Around the World in 80 Days. To win it, you need to write a short story about a place youve visited.Tony: That sounds wonderful, but Ive never travelled much. How can I write about it?Lingling: Dont worry. I

12、t doesnt need to be true! You can make it up.Tony: Thats interesting. Ill try. I hope I will win, then I will invite you to come with me.Lingling: Sorry! The first prize is only the book called Around the World in 80 Days!Unit 2 Mike Robinson is a fifteen-year-old American boy and his sister Clare i

13、s fourteen. At the moment, Mike and Clare are in Cairo in Egypt, one of the biggest and busiest cities in Africa.They moved here with their parents two years ago. Their father, Peter, works for a very big company. The company has offices in many countries, and it has sent Peter to work in Germany, F

14、rance and China before. Peter usually stays in a country for about two years. Then the company moves him again. His family always goes with him.The Robinsons love seeing the world. They have been to many interesting places. For example, in Egypt, they have seen the Pyramids, travelled on a boat on t

15、he Nile River, and visited the palaces and towers of ancient kings and queens.Mike and Clare have also begun to learn the language of the country, Arabic. This language is different from English in many ways, and they find it hard to spell and pronounce the words. However, they still enjoy learning

16、it. So far they have learnt to speak German, French, Chinese and Arabic. Sometimes they mix the languages. Its really fun,” said Clare.The Robinsons are moving again. The company has asked Peter to work back the US. Mike and Clare are happy about this. They have friends all over the world, but they

17、also miss their friends in the US. They are counting down the days.Module 3Unit 1 Daming: Hi, Tony. What are you up to?Tony: Hi, Daming. Ive just made a model spaceship for our school projectDaming: 1 havent started yet because Im not sure how to make it Can you help me?Tony: Sure, no problem. Have

18、you heard the latest news? Scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars. The journey has taken several months.Daming: Has it arrived yet?Tony: Yes, it has arrived already. Thats why its on the news.Daming: So have they discovered life on Mars?Tony: No, they havent yet.Daming: Are there any astronauts in

19、 the spaceship?Tony: No, there arent.Daming: Why? Astronauts have already been to the moon.Tony: Yes, but no one has been to Mars yet, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon. Lots of scientists are working hard in order to send astronauts to Mars one day.Daming: Thats interesting!

20、 How can I get information on space travel?Tony: You can go online to search for information.Daming: I will. Thank you, Tony!Unit 2Scientists think that there has been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years. However, we have not found life on any other planets yet.The earth is a planet

21、and it goes around the sun. Seven other planets also go around the sun. None of them has an environment like that of the earth, so scientists do not think they will find life on them. The sun and its planets are called the solar system, and our solar system is a small part of a much larger group of

22、stars and planets, called the Galaxy or the Milky Way. There are billions of stars in the Galaxy, and our sun is only one of them.Scientists have also discovered many other galaxies in the universe. They are very far away and their light has to travel for many years to reach us. So how large is the

23、universe? It is impossible to imagine.Scientists have sent spaceships to the planet of Mars to take photos. They have even sent spaceships to travel outside the solar system. However, no spaceship has travelled far enough to reach other stars in our Galaxy.Scientists have always asked the questions:

24、 with so many stars in the universe, are we alone, or is there life out there in space? Have there been visitors to the earth from other planets? Why has no one communicated with us? We do not know the answersyet.Module 4Unit 1Doctor: How can I help you?Darning: I feel ill. Ive got a stomachache and

25、 my head hurts.Doctor: How long have you been like this?Darning: Since Friday. Ive been ill for about three days!Doctor: I see. Have you caught a cold?Darning: I dont think so.Doctor: Let me take your temperature Mm, theres no fever. What kind of food do you eat?Darning: Usually fast food.Doctor: Do

26、 you have breakfast?Darning: No, not usually.Doctor: Thats the problem! Fast food and no breakfast. Thats why youve got a stomachache.Darning: What about the headache?Doctor: Do you do any exercise?Darning: Not really. I havent done much exercise since I got my compute last year.Doctor: You spend to

27、o much time in front of the computer. It can be very harmful to your health.Darning: OK, so what should I do? Doctor: Well, dont worry. Its no serious. First, stop eating fast food and have breakfast ever day. Second, get some exercise such as running. And Ill give you some medicine. Take it three t

28、imes a day.Darning: Thank you, doctor.Unit 2 Healthy living1 I was not feeling very well so the doctor checked my heart and said I needed more exercise, I have never been very active, and I do not like sports. I have always wanted a pet, so my parents gave me a dog for my birthday. Now I get exercis

29、e by taking him for a walk every day. I have had him for three months now and I feel really healthy. Anna2 Our teacher decided to start a girls football team and I thought: “What a great idea!” I was the first member of the team. We have played football for a year now and we all feel very fit. Our t

30、eacher is the coach, and she also takes part in the same training with us. She is in excellent condition too. Wang Wei3 In the last few years, I went to work by underground. When I got to work, I always felt very sleepy and I was not happy. I bought a bike in January. Since then, it has become part

31、of my life. Now I ride to work every day. It is my daily exercise. I arrive at work with a smile on my face. Thomas4 Feeling weak after a long illness, I wanted to exercise more. Then a friend suggested, “Why dont we go for a run before school?” So we started running a week ago. But I do not enjoy r

32、unning, and when I get to school, I feel awful. My legs hurt and I am hot all over. Perhaps I am too weak to do any exercise. What do you think? RichardModule 5Unit 1Tony: Daming, weve finished our homework. Its time to watch a cartoon.Daming: Good idea, Tony. Lets watch Superman!Tony: We watched Superman yesterday. Why dont we watch Spiderman? Its more modern.Daming: I t