1、亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Reading and Thinking 必修二必修二(Unit 1) All Rights Reserved! 第第2页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 dam a structure that is built across a river in order to stop the water from flowing, used especially to make a reservoir(a lake for storing water) or to produce electricity. dam (n.)大坝；堤坝大坝；堤坝 reservoir (n.)水库水库
2、All Rights Reserved! 第第3页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 dam a structure across a river to stop the water from flowing to produce electricity Three Gorges Dam All Rights Reserved! 第第4页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Lets have a trip to a remote country together! All Rights Reserved! 第第5页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Pyramids All Rights Reserved! 第第6页
3、页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Sphinx All Rights Reserved! 第第7页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Abu Simbel Temple 阿布辛贝神庙（埃及）阿布辛贝神庙（埃及） All Rights Reserved! 第第8页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Egypt Nile the Aswan Dam The Aswan Dam Project From Problems to Solutions Problems ? Solutions ? All Rights Reserved! 第第9页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 1. Find out the main idea
4、of each paragraph. Para.1 AHow to balance progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. Para.2 BA committee was established to limit damage. Para.3 CThe proposal leads to protests. Para.4 DThe project brought government and environmentalists together. Para.5 EThe spirit of th
5、e Aswan Dam project is still alive today. Para.6 FThe project was completed and successful. A) Problems B) Solutions C) Inspirations All Rights Reserved! 第第10页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 (Part A - Problems) 2. Read Part A(para1 & para2) and complete the following. 1. Read the first part and judge the statements.
6、It is possible to preserve everything from our past. ( ) Keeping the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites is hard. ( ) 2. Read the first part and answer the question: Why did the proposal lead to protests? _ T F It may damage temples and destroy cultural relics. Proble
7、ms? To protect the temples and the cultural relics To build a new dam to develop its economy What did the government do with the problem? The government turned to the United Nations for help in 1959. All Rights Reserved! 第第11页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 (Part B - Solutions) 3. Read Part B(paras3,4 & 5) and comple
8、te the following. 3. How did UN deal with this problem of building Aswan Dam? 4. How were the temples and other cultural sites saved? 5. Why was the project considered a great success? All Rights Reserved! 第第12页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 (Part B - Solutions) 3. How did UN deal with this problem of building Aswan
9、 Dam? A committee was established to limit the damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics. 01 02 03 department contributions raise funds internationally investigate the issue conduct several tests make a proposal sign a document All Rights Reserved! 第第13页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 (
10、Part B - Solutions) 4. How were the temples and other cultural sites saved? _ piece by piece _ to other places _ together taken down moved put back All Rights Reserved! 第第14页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 The River Nile The Aswan Dam Following Egypts example, the countries found a new way to develop economy and prot
11、ect cultural relics, which could be possibly done through cooperation. (Part B - Solutions) 5. Why was the project considered a great success? Not only had the countries found a path to the future that did not run over the relics of the past, but they had also learnt that it was possible for countri
12、es to work together to build a better tomorrow. All Rights Reserved! 第第15页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 All Rights Reserved! 第第16页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 (Part C - Inspirations) 4. Read part C (para 6) and complete the following. 6. Does the writer mainly want to introduce the case of Aswan Dam with this passage? Read Paragr
13、aphs 1, 2 and 6, and figure out what the writer wants to tell with this passage ? Big challenges can sometimes lead to great solutions. If a problem seems too difficult for a single nation, the global community can sometimes provide a solution. Keep the right balance between progress and the protect
14、ion of cultural sites. All Rights Reserved! 第第17页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Complete the timeline with the information from the text. Make a timeline Making a timeline that shows when different events happened can help you understand how the events are connected to each other. 1960 The government asked the UN fo
15、r help. The project starts. The first temple is moved. The relics are being rescued. The project is completed. 1959 1961 20 years 1980 All Rights Reserved! 第第18页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Abu Simpel Temple Aswan Dam All Rights Reserved! 第第19页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Complete the following passage. In the 1950s, the Egyptia
16、n government would like to build a new dam across the Nile, but the proposal led to 1._ (protest). This was because the new dam would 2. _ (like) destroy many cultural relics. Then the government 3. _ (establish) a committee to find a solution to the 4. _ (protect) of Egypts cultural heritage. After
17、 a proposal for how the relics could 5. _ (save) was made, the project began in 1960 and ended in 1980. During those years,22 temples 6. _ countless cultural relics were taken down piece by piece, moved and put back together again in a place where they were safe 7. _ the water. The project was consi
18、dered 8. _ great success. It was believed that it was possible for different countries 9. _ (work) together to build a better tomorrow. The spirit of the As-wan Dam project is still alive today. If a problem seems too difficult for a single country, the 10. _ (globe) community can sometimes provide
19、a solution. protests likely established protection be saved and from a to work global All Rights Reserved! 第第20页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Discuss the following questions below in groups. 1. A lot of money was spent to protect the temples. Do you think it was worthwhile? Why or why not? 2. Why do you think so ma
20、ny countries contributed funds and offered help to the Egyptian project? 3. From the perspective of individuals, what will you do to protect the cultural relics? All Rights Reserved! 第第21页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Discuss the following questions below in groups. 1. A lot of money was spent to protect the temple
21、s. Do you think it was worthwhile? Why or why not? I think it was worthwhile to spend money on I think it was worthwhile to spend money on protecting the temples protecting the temples because their value is because their value is priceless in terms of cultural heritagepriceless in terms of cultural
22、 heritage. . All Rights Reserved! 第第22页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Discuss the following questions below in groups. 2. Why do you think so many countries contributed funds and offered help to the Egyptian project? I think that many countries helped because to help Egypt protect the cultural heritage was to leave
23、Precious wealth for the whole human society, which was of great significance to the historical and cultural research of future generations. A community of shared future for mankind All Rights Reserved! 第第23页页 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Discuss the following questions below in groups. 3. From the perspective of ind
24、ividuals, what will you do to protect the cultural relics? Start from ourselves, take good care of cultural relics, propagandize them and let more people know their value. Protect the relics with your actions and fight against those who may do damage to cultural relics. All Rights Reserved! 第第24页页 亮
25、亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈 Complete the news report with the correct forms of the words in the box. Then suggest a suitable title. development progress proposal preserve temple damage heritage establish prevent Cairo, 16 March, 1956 In a speech today, a scientist gave her view on the new_. She said that _ is import
26、ant and our area needs economic _ as well. But she added, “We should not accept the project if it puts our cultural _ in danger. We must protect the _ and make sure that no _ is done.” Before she ended her speech, the scientist suggested that we need to _ a committee of experts to _ the cultural heritage and _ it from being harmed. proposal progress development heritage temples damage establish preserve prevent Scientist Says Progress Shouldnt Damage Cultural Heritage 亮亮 洪洪 印印 戈戈
