高中英語module2教學unit1m2listeningndreading

1、Listening,Discuss with your partner the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam.,Listening (P41),Task 1: Lead-in,1 to make electricity for everyone 2 to encourage industry 3 to make the country less dependent on outside oil supplies,advantages,Some cultural relics may be lost. Loss of local v

2、illages and communities under the waters of the reservoirs. Loss of beautiful scenery. Commercialism of the area,disadvantages,Abu 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 )who reigned for 67 years during the 13th cent

3、ury BC (19th Dynasty).,The 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.,Read the exercises and look at the picture. Predict what the listening will be about. Then listen to the Part A a

4、nd B and see if you are right.,a,b, Aswan High Dam, Abu Simbel, covered by water, engineers, River Nile, electricity, floods, UNESCO,7,6,4,2,5,3,1,Listen to Part A again and find out what happened when a dam was built in Egypt. Number the key words as you hear them., move the temple, stone by stone,

5、 worth, in 1966, 1,900 workers, more than $70,000,000, rebuild, four years,4,5,7,6,2,3,1,Now listen to Part B again and number the key words as you hear them.,8,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

6、the water when the dam was completed.,Listen to Part A and Part B again and then answer the questions.,a,b,2. 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.

7、 Then they reassembled 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.,Listening task,Task 1: Lead-in,What do you know about the Forbidden City in Beijing? (2) When was it built? What was it used fo

8、r?,The 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.,Listen to the dialogue and summarize the main idea in one sentenc

9、e. _ _,The listening text is a discussion/ conversation about the forbidden city.,Listen to Part A and fill in the chart with details.,It was because ordinary people were never allowed into the palace while the emperors ruled China.,9,999.,1. Nine is a special number in Chinese culture.,Nearly 600 y

10、ears old.,A national museum.,Fourteen Emperors from the Ming Dynasty and ten from the Qing Dynasty.,Reading task (P45),Task 1: Fast reading-main idea.,Read 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 interes

11、ts. B It tells us that Big Feng put his career on hold to save the old buildings of his hometown. C It tells us that Big Feng has saved all the old buildings in Tianjin.,Task 2: Careful reading details. Read the text again carefully and discuss the questions on Page 45 in groups.,1. What does Big Fe

12、ng think about cultural relics? He thinks that saving cultural relics is more important than writing his novels.,2. 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

13、his hometown, Tianjin.,3. What are his two 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.,5. It is very time-consuming (耗時的)and expensive for Feng Jicai to take care of cultural relics. Try to think of two other ways to help him with h