英语口语看图对话练习.ppt

the tenth the eleventh the twelfth * * Questions: True or false: ( )1 Mount Qomolangma is the tallest mountain in the world. ( )2 George Mallory is an worker. ( )3 Mallory had tried four times to teach the top of the mountain. ( )4 In 1921 he tried to climb the mountain for the first time. ( )5 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were thought to be the first men to reach the top of the mountain. ( )6 Edmund Hillary found Mallory’s body in 1999. BEACAUSE IT’S THERE George Mallory was an English school teacher who loved climbing.In 1924, Mallory and a team of British climbers tried to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma ,the tallest Mountain in the world. No one had ever done it before. Mallory had already tried to reach the top of mount Qomolangma in 1921 and 1922,but he had failed both times.In 1924,he tried again.On June 8,1924,he and another climber,Andrew Irvine were only a few hundred meters from the top of the mountain. The other members of their climbing team watched as Mallory and Irvine climbed slowly up towards the top. However,the weather was very misty, and soon the two men disappeared into the mist. They could never return. In 1953, Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal finally Climbing team 登山队 Adj.misty n.mist Fail v.1.fail to do sth.不能、没能 2、fail the exam in the exam 失败、落榜、不及格 Climb v.—climber n. reached the top of Mount Qomolangma. Most people thought that they were the first men to do this,but some people wondered whether Mallory and Irvine had got there first. Many years later,in 1999, Mallory’s body was found on Qomolangma. About six hundred meters from the top of it.However, it is still not know whether he and Irvine ever reach the top of the mountain. Someone had once asked Mal