1、Lesson 46Home to Many Cultures1.How many cultures does China have?2.What are they?Warming upWhat are some interesting things in your country?percent centralimmigrant according toofficial custom New words1.The rest are from every part of the world:Asia,Africa,Central America,South America and other E
2、uropean countries.rest 为名词，表示“剩余部分”，常用 the rest，可以指人，也可以指物，常用搭配结构为“the rest of the+名词”，其中的名词可以是复数名词，也可以是不可数名词。当 the rest 或“the rest of the+名词”作主语时，谓语动词的数要与 the rest 所表示的名词的数保持一致。e.g.This e-mail is for me,and the rest of e-mails are for you.2.Now more than half of Canadians have British or French blo
3、od.如今一半多的加拿大人有英国和法国血统。half of 意为“一半的”，后接名词，以这类短语作主语时，如果后面的名词是不可数名词，谓语动词用单数；如果后面的谓语动词是可数名词复数，谓语动词用复数。e.g.Half of the water in this river is polluted.3.According to a survey,the number of European immigrants dropped from 90 percent to 25 percent,and the number of Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants ro
4、se from 3 percent to 48 percent.句中的according to意为“根据”，后加名词或代词后用作状语，多用于句首。e.g.According to this map,that city is far from here.句中的the number of意为“数量”，后加名词，以这类短语作主语时，谓语动词多使用单数形式。类似短语a number of意为“一些”，后加名词复数，以这类短语作主语时，谓语动词多使用复数形式。e.g.The number of the students in our class is fifty.1.The rest of his li
5、fe _(be)spent in the United States.The rest of students in our class _(pass)the exam already.2.He _(respect)by everyone for his honesty.3.Our teacher told us that the earth _(go)around the sun.4.Mike invited me _(see)a film this evening.用所给词的适当形式填空。ishas passedis respectedgoesto seeExercise1.Write a passage about this unit.2.2.Preview next lesson.
