Unit 12 Western China

  （二）there be 和have/has的使用。 1. there be 表示某地有某物，某處存在某物，不表示所屬關系。there be 后的名詞是主語，主語后的介詞短語為地點狀語。 there is a ball in my hand. there are some apples in the basket. is there any water in the glass? 2. have/has 是擁有，占有的意思。它表示一種所屬關系。 i have a pen in my hand. i don’t have any car. do you have any computer? 3. 表示單位的組成，構成時，have 和there be 可互換。 a week has seven days./ there are seven days in a week. a year has four seasons./ there are four seasons in a year. ex. read the text and complete it with the words from the box. smallest   region   provinces  deserts    resources  tourists     fewer western china western china is a large and beautiful region. it includes one major city, chongqing, six     , and five autonomous region. the six provinces are sichuan, shanxi, gansu, yunnan, qinghai, and guizhou. the five autonomous regions are tibet, ningxia hui, xinjiang uygur, guangxi zhuang, and inner mongolia. among all these provinces and autonomous regions, xinjiang is the largest         and ningxia is the          region. western china has an area of 5,400,000 square kilometers. this is about 56 percent of the total area of the country. however, there are many mountains, highlands, and        , and there are fewer rivers and lakes than in the east. only 22.8 percent of the population of china lives in the west, far       people than those living in the east. western china has a lot of natural       . it is rich in oil and gas and it has many different kinds of minerals.         like to visit the area. there are many famous museums, ancient palaces, tombs, and caves, such as the dazu museum, the potala palace, the dunhuang caves, and many other beautiful places such as yunnan dali and sichuan jiuzhaigou valley.    （三）重點詞組： 1. in the west/east/south/north the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. beijing is in the north of china. 2. be rich in oranges are rich in vitamin c. the northeast part of china is rich in rice. 3. plan to do the school has planned to hold a sport meeting in spring. 4. at the end of… the speaker said “goodbye” to the audience at the end of the meeting.