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Lesson 56
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Lesson 56
Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises
Phonetics: Homonyms
1.a.it's b. its
2.a.through b. threw
3.a.sail b. sale
4. a. sum b. some
5. a. knew b. new
6.a.tail b. tale
7.a.flu b. flew
8.a.by b. buy
9.a.plane b. plain
10.a.whether b. weather
11.a.reel b. real
12.a.Wales b. whales
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Part Ⅱ Sea Or Air
Exercises:
1.____Julia is taking a trip to Canada with her husband.
2.____Julia's husband insists on flying but Julia prefers to travel by sea.
3.____Julia doesn't like flying because there are too many air crashes every year.
4.____Susan thinks that air transport is safer than road transport.
5.____Julia prefers to go by sea because she can relax on a ship.
6.____Julia has never travelled far in a rough sea.
7.____Julia once sailed down the River Thames on a sightseeing tour and she enjoyed very much her trip on the luxury liner the Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ.
Part Ⅲ Trains，Trains, Trains
Exercises:
Ⅰ.1.For more than two hundred years people have been using trains. There are trains to carry ____,trains to carry ____and trains to carry ____.There are ____trains, ____trains, trains that go ____the ground, trains that go ____mountains.
2.The train that runs on tracks through huge tunnels under the noise and traffic of the city is called ____.
3.The train that hangs from a rail high above the streets is called ____.
Ⅱ.1.How does a train go through mountains?
2.How does a train travel over water?
3.How many miles does a train cover going across the Australian continent?
4.What were the trains like which were used to carry important people years ago?
5.What are some of the functions of freight trains?
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