高中英語module 2教學unit1m2 listening nd reading

1、編輯pptListening編輯pptDiscuss with your partner the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam.Listening (P41)Task 1: Lead-in編輯ppt1 to make electricity for everyone2 to encourage industry3 to make the country less dependent on outside oil supplies編輯pptSome cultural relics may be lost.Loss of local

2、villages and communities under the waters of the reservoirs.Loss of beautiful scenery.Commercialism of the area編輯pptAbu Simbel is a set of two temples near the border of Egypt with Sudan. It was constructed for the pharaoh Ramesses II (拉美西斯二世拉美西斯二世 )who reigned for 67 years during the 13th century B

3、C (19th Dynasty). 編輯pptThe temples were cut from the rock and shifted to higher ground in the 1960s as the waters of Lake Nasser began to rise following completion of the Aswan High Dam. 編輯pptRead the exercises and look at the picture. Predict what the listening will be about.Then listen to the Part

4、 A and B and see if you are right.ab編輯ppt Aswan High Dam Abu Simbel covered by water engineers River Nile electricity floods UNESCO7642531Listen to Part A again and find out what happened when a dam was built in Egypt. Number the key words as you hear them.編輯ppt move the temple stone by stone worth

5、in 1966 1,900 workers more than $70,000,000 rebuild four years4576231Now listen to Part B again and number the key words as you hear them.8編輯ppt Why did Abu Simbel need to be moved and rebuilt? Abu Simbel needed to be moved and rebuilt because otherwise it would have been covered by the water when t

6、he dam was completed.Listen to Part A and Part B again and then answer the questions.ab編輯ppt2. How did the engineers solve the problem? Was it successful? How do you know? They solved this problem by moving the statues. They marked every stone with a number and took the statues apart. Then they reas

7、sembled them in another site. It was very successful because many tourists come to visit Abu Simbel which looks as impressive as it did in its original site.編輯pptListening task編輯pptTask 1: Lead-inWhat do you know about the Forbidden City in Beijing?(2) When was it built? What was it used for?編輯pptTh

8、e Forbidden City has a history of 600 years. The large scale construction of the palace extended from 1406 to 1420. Its totally 24 emperors of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty rule here, and was off-limits for the common people. 編輯pptListen to the dialogue and summarize the main idea in one sentenc

9、e._The listening text is a discussion/ conversation about the forbidden city.編輯pptListen to Part A and fill in the chart with details.Information about the Forbidden CityPart AReasons for its nameNumber of roomsIt was because ordinary people were never allowed into the palace while the emperors rule

10、d China.9,999.編輯pptReasons for the number2. It shows respect to the Emperor of Heaven who has 10,000 rooms in his palace.1. Nine is a special number in Chinese culture.編輯pptPart BHow old is it?How many Emperors lived there?What is it used for now?Nearly 600 years old.A national museum.Fourteen Emper

11、ors from the Ming Dynasty and ten from the Qing Dynasty.編輯pptTask 1: Fast reading-main idea.編輯pptRead the text quickly and decide which summary describes it best. Then explain why the others are wrong.A It tells us about Big Feng and his interests.B It tells us that Big Feng put his career on hold t

12、o save the old buildings of his hometown.C It tells us that Big Feng has saved all the old buildings in Tianjin.編輯pptTask 2: Careful reading details.Read the text again carefully and discuss the questions on Page 45 in groups.編輯ppt1. What does Big Feng think about cultural relics? He thinks that sav

13、ing cultural relics is more important than writing his novels.編輯ppt2. What does he do to protect the cultural relics of his hometown? He asks the local government to protect things of cultural interest. He works very hard to save all the old building of his hometown, Tianjin.編輯ppt3. What are his two

14、 successful projects? His successful projects are: protecting the oldest street in Tianjin; persuading the city government to buy some land in the centre of the city so it could not be sold for businesses.4. Why does he think it is more important to do this than to write novels? He thinks that people will forget their great past if they do not preserve it.編輯ppt5. It is very time-consuming (耗時的耗時的)and expensive for Feng Jicai to take care of cultural relics. Try to think of two other wa