河北加拿大版初中英语读物--Unit 1

Unit 1

[00:36.39]Spring is Coming!

[00:39.86]Postcards!Dear Jenny,

[00:45.11]Today's date is March first.Spring has arrived in Shijiazhuang.

[00:51.88]When I walked to school this morning,

[00:55.72]the temperature was already fifteen degrees.

[01:00.68]This afternoon it was nineteen degrees.

[01:06.04]I didn't need my jacket!The days are getting longer.

[01:12.20]The sun rises earlier in the morning.Today's sunrise was at 6:51.

[01:19.36]Every morning I see many people in the park exercising.

[01:25.42]It is now 6:00 in the evening.

[01:29.78]The sun will set in about fifteen minutes.

[01:34.33]What's your weather like?Is it spring in Canada?

[01:39.60]Is it snowing?Your friend,

[01:44.05]Li MingJenny Smith 522 Park Road Edmonton,Alberta,

[01:53.19]CanadaT8B 9K2Dear Li Ming,Thank you for the postcard.

[02:05.02]It is beautiful!I love the picture of the flowers in the park.

[02:12.18]It isn't snowing today,but there is still some snow on the grass.

[02:18.74]In Canada,it often snows in March.

[02:24.09]Sometimes it snows in April and May, too!

[02:29.73]We won't see any flowers until May.After school today,

[02:37.18]we played "snow" soccer.We needed our jackets and boots,

[02:43.66]but it was fun.Danny fell in the snow!Next month,

[02:50.92]maybe we will play in our shorts and T-shirts!

[02:55.67]JennyLi Ming Apartment 12,69 Zhonghua Nan Street Shijiazhuang,

[03:03.82]China 050051A Season of New LifeHow do we know that spring has arrived?

[03:21.38]Smells.Open the window and the wind blows the smells of spring inside.

[03:30.44]The rain makes the air smell fresh and clean.

[03:35.69]The spring flowers smell beautiful!

[03:39.95]Danny:You "smell"with your nose!Sounds.

[03:46.61]Listen to the birds sing!

[03:50.37]They have returned north from a winter in the warm south.

[03:56.83]Sometimes,you can hear thunder from a storm.

[04:02.10]There are never thunderstorms in winter!Sights.

[04:08.45]Look at the world.It's turning green!

[04:13.28]The land is full of new life:new leaves, new grass and new animals.

[04:21.33]Baby animals!Farm animals are born in spring.

[04:28.59]On farms,farmers have a lot to do!

[04:33.55]What do sheep have? Sheep have lambs.

[04:38.83]What do cows have? Cows have calves 1.

[04:43.98]What do horses have? Horses have foals.

[04:49.75]What do chickens have? Chickens have chicks.

[04:55.08]What do pigs have? Pigs have piglets.

[05:00.72]Wild animals have their babies in spring,too.

[05:05.97]Bears have cubs 2. Wolves have cubs, too.

[05:11.90]Do you remember what a wolf is?

[05:16.47]A wolf is a wild animal. A wolf looks like a dog.

[05:23.55]Now do you remember?Wake up!

[05:30.81]Animals enjoy the warm weather of spring after a long,cold winter.

[05:37.76]Spring is the time when animals end their winter hibernation 3.

[05:44.14]What's hibernation? Some animals sleep through winter.

[05:51.19]They sleep in caves or under the ground.

[05:55.66]They "hibernate 4."Hibernation is a deep sleep.

[06:01.90]When do the animals wake up?When spring arrives!

[06:07.86]What animals hibernate?

[06:11.62]Bears and bats sleep in caves.Bears sometimes dig 5 dens 7.

[06:18.78]Den 6 are like holes in the ground,with roofs.

[06:23.92]What do bears do before hibernating 8?In autumn,before winter comes,

[06:36.20]bears eat a lot of food.

[06:40.04]They become fat.The fat keeps them warm as they sleep through winter.

[06:47.61]What happens when a bear hibernates 9?The bear's body temperature goes down.

[06:56.44]Its heart beats slower.The bear survives on the fat in its body.

[07:04.62]It does not eat or drink.This is a heart.

[07:10.58]Your heart is inside your body.

[07:15.12]Hearts "beat."Your heart beats fast when you exercise.

[07:21.78]It beats slowly when you rest.How long do bears hibernate?

[07:28.55]Bears hibernate for four to seven months.

[07:33.51]They begin to hibernate in October or November.

[07:39.15]What happens when the bears wake up?The bears are very hungry.

[07:46.42]They leave their cave or den.They begin looking for food.

[07:52.66]FASCINATING FACT

[07:56.13]A bear eats a lot in autumn.

[08:00.39]How much?If you were a bear,

[08:05.15]you would eat forty hamburgersand forty ice cream cones 10 every day!

[08:12.90]Danny Has a Job!Danny:I have my first babysitting 12 job!

[08:20.27]Tomorrow evening,I am going to babysit 11 my little cousin,Debbie!

[08:27.22]Jenny:That's great,Danny!Are you nervous?

[08:32.08]Danny:I am a little nervous,but I like Debbie a lot.

[08:38.35]She's very nice.I know I will be a good babysitter 13 for her.

[08:45.79]She will listen to me.Brian:What are you going to do with her?

[08:51.54]Danny:I don't know. How about watching television?

[08:57.70]Everyone likes to babysitters play with the children!

[09:06.95]Danny:Then I will play basketball with her!

[09:11.52]I love basketball!Brian:How old is Debbie?

[09:17.58]Danny:She's three years old.Brian:How tall is she?

[09:23.15]Danny:She's less than one metre tall.

[09:27.90]Maybe she's too short to play with me.Jenny:I think you're right,

[09:35.27]Danny.Brian:What did you like to do when you were three,Danny?

[09:39.81]Was there a special place where you loved to play?

[09:44.39]I always loved going there!

[09:50.55]said that it will be sunny tomorrow. with you,Danny? I'm a good babysitter.

[10:00.22]I can help you and give you advice!

[10:08.16]Jenny:What does "less" mean?

[10:13.20]Look it up in the dictionary at the end of your Student Book!

[10:19.13]Outdoor Artist!My name is Kay.

[10:24.90]I'm going to be nine years old on my next birthday.

[10:30.65]I am in Grade Three. I do lots of fun things in spring.What do I do?Well,

[10:41.12]I like to play with sidewalk chalk.Sidewalk chalk makes your hands dirty.

[10:48.88]I like to draw flowers and animals.

[10:53.43]Sometimes I lie on the sidewalk and a friend draws around me.

[11:00.27]Then my shape is on the sidewalk. I draw hair on the head.

[11:06.80]I put a face where the face goes.I put shoes on the feet.

[11:13.46]I put pants on the legs and a shirt on the body.

[11:19.73]I try to make it look like me.I like to go to the playground with my friends.

[11:27.99]We ride our bikes there.

[11:31.64]I always ride on the sidewalkbecause my mum says

[11:37.91]I'm too young to ride on the road.

[11:42.17]At the playground,my friends and I climb on the equipment.

[11:48.52]We play games,too.

[11:51.99]Sometimes I play marbles 15 with my friends.How do you play marbles?

[11:59.15]You and your friends put all your marbles inside a circle on the sidewalk.

[12:05.92]You can draw the circle with some chalk.

[12:10.28]Then you try to hit the marbles out of the circle with a big marble 14.

[12:16.84]Everyone tries,one by one.Who wins?The person with the most marbles!

[12:25.20]Lots of students in my class play soccer in spring,

[12:30.45]but soccer isn't my favourite sport.This spring,I am playing baseball.

[12:39.59]I have played baseball for three years.

[12:44.32]I have a really good team this year.I think my team will win all its games!

[12:52.65]What does "most" mean?

[12:56.12]Look it up in the dictionary at the end of your Student Book!

[13:02.18]What's a marble? It's a small ball made of glass.

[13:08.14]What else is made of glass?Windows are made of glass.