Unit 1
Talking about people
Lin Xiaoyan arrives in London.
Objectives:
In this unit you
Meet the five people whose story is told throughout this
unit.
Learn how to give information about yourself or
another person;
Learn how to ask someone about themselves;
Learn how to talk about leisure activities;
Learn how to give information about travel
arrangement.
Five people in this unit
Name
Age
David
Lin
Manning Xiaoyan
Polly
Williams
Mary
White
Franco
Rossi
34
28
30
23
50
Nation
ality
British
Chinese
American
British
British
Home
London
Shanghai
London
London
London
Jobs and Workplace
Name
David
Manning
Lin
Xiaoyan
Polly
Williams
Job
IT
Manager
Deputy IT Manager
Manager
Work
place
ABHK
Bank,
London
ABHK
Bank,
Shanghai
Lucky
Shops,
London
Mary
White
Franco
Rossi
Student
Restaur
-ant
owner
University Caffe
of
Roma,
London London
询问姓名常用表达方式
1. What’s your name, please?
2. Are you …?
My name is Polly Williams/ Lin Ping.
I’m Jim Brown.
 询问年龄的常用表达方式：
How old are you, Li Lei?
How old is he?
I’m twenty./ thirteen…
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•询问出处的常用表达法：
Where are you from?
Where do you come from?
Where does he come from?
I am from China. (I am Chinese.)
I come from Jiangsu Province.
He is from English.(He is British.)
Country, Language & Nationality
COUNTRY
LANGUAGE
NATIONALITY
USA
English
American
Australia
English
Australian
Britain
English
British
Canada
English/French
Canadian
Egypt
Arabic
Egyptian
France
French
French
Japan
Italy
Japanese
Italian
Japanese
Italian
询问职业的表达方式
• What do you do?
What are you?/ What is he ?
What’s your job?
Are you +职业？
I’m an accountant/ a manager...
I work in an IT company.
 表职业的名词前加a/an
 I am a teacher .
 you are a student.
 he is an engineer.
jobs
teacher policeman accountant engineer
worker salesman doctor
clerk
soldier nurse
receptionist officer
editor postman
director
chef
civil servant
baker
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Present Simple 一般现在时态
Present Simple:构成
主语+am/is/are…
主语+do/does…)
用法：1、表示经常性或习惯性的动作。常与
never, sometimes, often, usually, always,every
day/ Sunday…等副词连用。
1,I get up at six every day.
2, We go to work by bike sometimes.
3, He watches TV on Sundays.
4, Peter always does homework at home .
5, My mother usually washes the dishes after
dinner.
2、表示现在的特征或状态；主语的性格或
能力。
He is from Canada.
Mary and Jim are often at home on Sunday.
----Do you speak English?
---- Yes, I do.
3、表示普通真理、事实，也用于格言中。
The earth moves around the sun.
Spring follows winter. 冬天过后就是春天。
Time and tide wait for no man.时不待人。
Pride goes before a fall. 骄者必败。
注：一般现在时,主语是第一、二、第三人称复数
时，谓语动词用原形，第三人称单数时加s或es…
动词的第三人称单数的变化；
1，直接加s 构成；如：looks, lives, cleans..
2, 以o, s, x, ch, sh 结尾的动词加es构成；如：
do—does, go– goes, watches, brushes, fixes.
3, 以辅音字母加y 结尾的动词,变y 为i后加es构成；
study– studies, cry– cries, try– tries.
4, have----has
I get up at six every day./But he gets up at 7.
We work in Shenzhen. But she works in Baoan.
I like English./Peter likes Chinese.
Do you like English?Does Peter like Chinese?
1) 动词to be 的用法
I
 he
 she
 it
 we
you
 they

am
注意缩写：
I’m Chinese./He’s English.
is
She’s German.
They’re managers.
What’s that?
are
Where’s she from?
His name’s David.
Her friend’s American.
否定句直接在to be 后加not
I am not…… He is not ……They are
not……
一般疑问句将to be 放在句首
Are you…… Is he…… Are they……
特殊疑问句子将特殊疑问词放句首＋to be +
主语
What is your name? Where is he from ?
2) work with sb./
work for…/
work in(at)…
You work with a person.
/I work with Tom in the same company.
You work for a company.
/I work for an IT company.
You work at a place./I work at a school.
You work in a town./ I work in Beijing.
3)
like doing sth….(喜欢做….)
表达爱好
I like watching TV on Sundays.
He likes playing football.
She likes walking with her friends in the park.
注：动词ing 形式构成：（见WB P.2)
cook--- cooking
eat--- eating
dance--- dancing make--- making
put--- putting
sit ---sitting
lie– lying
die – dying
Describe leisure activities
1. read books
2. play the piano/ violin
3. play basketball/ football/ volleyball/ badminton
（羽毛球） / tennis/ table tennis/)/ golf (高尔夫球）
4. bungee jumping
5. Swimming/ walking/ running
6. go swimming/ skating / skiing/ climbing bowling(保
龄球)
7. cook a meal / cooking
8. watch TV / a football match
9. See films (a film)
10. Play computer games
Activity 7 Rewrite the sentences
as the given example
Example:Maria:I like watching football and
walking with my friends.
She likes watching football and walking
with her friends.
1. David Manning:I like studying Chinese
and playing football in my free time.
He__likes studying Chinese and playing
football in his free time.
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2.Polly Williams: I like cooking for my friends
in my free time.
She___________________________________
3.Lin xiaoyan:I like bungee jumping in my free
time.
She____________________________________
4.Mary white: I like playing the guitar in a band
in my free time.
She____________________________________
5.Franco Rossi:I like playing computer games
and studying IT in my free time.
He______________________________________
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所属关系
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形容词性物主代词表示所属关系
I---my you---your he---his she---her
we---our they---their it---its
在名词后加`s 表示所属关系
Sally’s teacher’s mother’s
Activity 6 Complete the text of Polly’s email,
using the words below . Use each word once only
Hi
Rob!
You want to know about my new boyfriend
(1)name is David Manning.(2)lives in London and
(3) British.(4)parents (5)from London,but(6)live in
Oxford.He is (7) . He’s an IT manager and (8)
works for ABHK Bank.He’s lovely, of course.
See you on Thursday.
Love,Polly
years old
his
are he
his
they he
he’s
Numbers
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1-10,(one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine , ten)
11-20,(eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen,sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty)
20-29,(twenty-one, twenty-two,… twenty-nine)
30, 40, 50, 60,70, 80, 90( thirty, forty, fifty,
sixty,seventy, eighty, ninety)
100, 101-999 (hundred) (one hundred and one …
nine hundred and ninety-nine)
1000, 1001-9999 (thousand )( one thousand and
one… nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
1,000,000 ( million ) one million
1,000,000,000 ( billion ) one billion
Room numbers:
1.
Room 52, Room 100
2.
Room 101, Room 1224
Telephone numbers
8211 6789 读作
eight two double one, six seven eight nine
0755 84789022 读作：
O (zero) seven double five , eight four seven eight,
nine o (zero) double two
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Times:
07.25 读作：o seven twenty-five
13.45读作：
thirteen forty-five
8.15 =eight fifteen
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Read Xiaoyan’s email to David
Dear Mr Manning,
I am Lin Xiaoyan, the Deputy IT Manager at the
ABHK,Shaihai.
My flight details-the plane leaves Shaihai at 18.25
and arrives in London at 20.50(local time) next
Tuesday.The flight number is CA5027.My
mobile phone number is 13604076796
Thank you. See you on Tuesday.
yours
Lin xiaoyan
How to write an email
(电子邮件的写法)
Forms of email
1.
From: wangk@szrtvu.com.cn
2.
To: everygreen@yahoo.com
3.
Subjects: Good luck, my friend!
Body of email:
Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms,
I haven’t heard from for so long. How are things
going?…
Hope to hear from you as soon as quickly.
Yours,
Chris
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Review Reminder
特殊疑问句；
who,what,when,where,how…
What is your name? My name is Wang Hua.
Where are you form? I am from Nanjing.
How old are you? I am 35 years old.
What is your job? I am an accountant.
Where is Peter? He is in America.
代词：
I am David./My name is David.
You work in London./ Your job is in
London.
He is from Italy. / His parents are form Italy.
We are ten years old./Our dog is 8 years old.
They are form London./Their home is in
London.
本课基本句型：
介绍自己：I’m…/My name is../My name’s…
/I’m from…/I’m an accountant…/I work for..
/I live in….(Shenzhen…)
询问别人：What’s your /his/her name?
What is your/his/her job?
Are you from..?/Is he/she/from…?
Is your father American?
Is Mary’s landlord British?
表达爱好：I like swimming/reading/skating/
/shopping/fishing…
He/She likes swimming/shopping/reading.
介绍旅行安排；
The plane leaves at 18:25.
The plane arrives at 2:30.
The flight number is CA5027.
The end