中学生考典

Unit 8 Collecting as a hobby Section 1 Experiencing and understanding language Reading Page 117 Zhao Rui gave a presentation about his stamp collection. Read what he said about his collection. Stamps have stories to tell Dear class, Today, I'm going to talk about my hobby. Some people play sports and others build models, but my hobby is collecting stamps. I love stamps because they are very beautiful. They can also teach me about the history and culture of different countries. I developed this hobby thanks to my grandpa. He is a stamp collector, and he owns thousands of stamps. Some of them are valuable, so he always handles them with great care. He even wears white gloves to protect his stamps! Every Sunday my grandpa adds new ones to his collection, and I sometimes help him take old stamps from envelopes and postcards. He likes to tell me interesting stories about the different stamps. It is almost like a history lesson. Let me show you an absolutely wonderful stamp of the Palace Museum. It is my favourite because it was my first one. My grandpa bought it for me. They built these buildings hundreds of years ago. It may seem impossible, but they built them without using a single nail!" he explained. My grandpa also shared many other interesting bits of history about the old palace. Thanks to this stamp, I became interested in traditional Chinese buildings, and I started to collect similar stamps. Now I have over a hundred of them, and I am learning more and more about Chinese history and culture. Thank you for listening! Any questions? 邮票背后的故事 亲爱的同学们： 今天，我要讲讲我的爱好。有些人喜欢运动，有些人喜欢制作模型，但我的爱好是集邮。我喜爱邮票，因为它们非常美丽。它们还能让我了解不同国家的历史和文化。 我养成这个爱好多亏了我的爷爷。他是个集邮者，拥有数千张邮票。其中一些很珍贵，所以他总是非常小心地对待它们。他甚至会戴上白色手套来保护他的邮票！每个星期天，爷爷都会给藏品中增添新的邮票，我有时会帮他从信封和明信片上取下旧邮票。他喜欢给我讲不同邮票背后有趣的故事。这几乎就像一堂历史课。 让我给你们展示一张非常棒的故宫博物院的邮票。这是我的最爱，因为它是我拥有的第一张邮票，是爷爷给我买的。“这些建筑是几百年前建造的。这可能看起来不可思议，但他们建造的时候一颗钉子都没用！”他解释道。爷爷还分享了许多关于这座古老宫殿的其他有趣的历史知识。多亏了这张邮票，我开始对中国传统建筑感兴趣，并且开始收集类似的邮票。现在我已经有一百多张了，也正在学习越来越多的中国历史和文化知识。 感谢聆听！有什么问题吗？

Listening Things we collect Page 120

Section 3 Expressing and communicating ideas Speaking Doing a survey about your classmates' collections Page 123 Work in groups. Ask your classmates about their collections and complete the table below. Then share the results with the class. You may add more columns to the table. S1: Do you collect things? S2: Yes. I collect pens. S3: How many pens do you have? S2: About twenty. S4: Why do you collect them? S2: Because I like pens with different colours.

Section 4 Extending and developing competencies Focusing on cultures Page 126 Collecting can be a personal hobby. We can also find collections in museums. Let's learn about some interesting museum collections. 1. Read the article about two famous places in the UK and find out what is interesting about their collections. Interesting collections The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK The Eden Project has an amazing collection of plants. These plants are from different parts of the world. There is a collection of food plants, and the Eden Project also has a collection of other useful plants, like bamboo. If you visit, you can also see their collection of exotic plants. The plant in the picture on the left is from the rainforests of Indonesia. The plant can grow up to 3 metres tall and about 1 metre across. When it flowers, it produces a strong smell to attract insects. It's a very special plant! The plant in the picture on the right is from Borneo and Sumatra. It has special cups. When insects fall in the cups the plant eats the insect. It is a meat-eating plant. The British Museum, London, UK The British Museum has a collection of things from different parts of the world: China, Greece, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, etc. The Rosetta Stone is a must-see object in the museum. It's a big, flat stone with ancient writing on it. It says the same things written in two languages—Egyptian and Greek. This stone helps us understand Egyptian hieroglyphics and learn about ancient cultures. It's like a treasure that unlocked a secret code！ You can see animals at the British Museum too. For example, there are mummies of real cats. They are part of the mummy collection in the ancient Egypt room. Some of them are from the 1st century BCE. 有趣的收藏 英国康沃尔郡的伊甸园项目 伊甸园项目有令人惊叹的植物收藏。这些植物来自世界不同地区。有食用植物的收藏，伊甸园项目也有其他有用植物（如竹子）的收藏。如果你去参观，还能看到他们收藏的外来植物。 左图中的植物来自印度尼西亚的热带雨林。这种植物能长到高达3米，直径约1米。开花时，它会散发出强烈的气味来吸引昆虫。这是一种非常特别的植物！ 右图中的植物来自婆罗洲和苏门答腊。它有特殊的杯状结构。当昆虫掉进杯状结构里时，这种植物就会吃掉昆虫。这是一种食虫植物。 英国伦敦大英博物馆 大英博物馆收藏有来自世界不同地区（中国、希腊、埃及、墨西哥、意大利等）的物品。 罗塞塔石碑是博物馆里必看的展品。它是一块又大又平的石头，上面有古代文字。这些文字用两种语言——埃及语和希腊语写着相同的内容。这块石碑帮助我们理解埃及象形文字，了解古代文化。它就像解开密码的宝藏！ 你也能在大英博物馆看到动物。例如，有真猫的木乃伊。它们是古埃及展厅木乃伊收藏的一部分。其中一些来自公元前1世纪。

Cross-curricular connection: History Page 128 Some people like collecting shells, coins and paper money. These are all money in different forms. Some types of money are still being used for trading today. 1.Read the article about the history of money. Money in different forms Over the years, people have used different forms of money as a way to trade or save. Seashells Generally, people think the first form of money was seashells. Shells were used about 3, 000 years ago in some East Asian countries like China and some countries in Africa. Shells were considered a good choice because they were easy to carry, similar in size and lasted a long time. Coins Then, people developed skills for making metal things, and metal coins appeared. Metal coins were made of bronze, iron, gold or silver. The earliest metal coins were gold coins from Lydia. which were used around 600 BCE. Coins had different shapes. For example, in ancient China, people had daobi (knife coins) ，fangkongqian (round coins with a square hole in the centre), etc. Paper money The first known paper money appeared in China during the Song dynasty, which is called jiaozi. The paper was a promise to pay a certain amount of money. Six centuries later (in the 1600s), banks in Europe started to give out paper money. Paper money became common in almost all currencies, and it is still widely used. Digital money These days, people are used to paying for things electronically. Now many countries are developing digital currencies. Money is used in a new form. 不同形式的货币 多年来，人们使用不同形式的货币进行交易或储蓄。 贝壳 一般来说，人们认为贝壳是最早的货币形式。大约3000年前，贝壳被用于一些东亚国家（如中国）以及一些非洲国家。贝壳被视为不错的选择，因为它们便于携带、大小相似且能保存很长时间。 硬币 后来，人们发展了制造金属物品的技能，金属硬币便出现了。金属硬币由青铜、铁、金或银制成。最早的金属硬币是吕底亚（Lydia）的金币，大约在公元前600年被使用。硬币有不同的形状。例如，在中国古代，人们有刀币、方孔钱（中间有方形孔的圆形钱币）等。 纸币 已知最早的纸币出现在中国宋朝，被称为交子。这种纸是一种支付一定金额的承诺。六个世纪后（17世纪），欧洲的银行开始发行纸币。纸币在几乎所有货币中变得常见，并且至今仍被广泛使用。 数字货币 如今，人们习惯电子支付。现在许多国家正在发展数字货币。货币以一种新的形式被使用。