1、Unit 1(1)Have you ever heard of Aswan Dam in Egypt?What is it used for?(2)Do you know there is a similar project being carried out in China?Task 1:Leading-inNow Listen to Part A and find out whathappened when a dam was built in Egypt.Number the key words as you hear them.A swan Hing Dam River NileAb
2、u Simbel electricity covered by water floods engineers UNESCO1546327Listen to Part B and number the key words as you hear them.Move the temple 1900 workersStone by stone worthmore than$70,000,000rebuild in 1966four years15463278Abu Simbel needed to be moved and rebuilt because otherwise it would hav
3、e been covered by the water when the dam was completed.Part A The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is one of the biggest dams in the world.The dam was completed in 1970.It provides half of Egypts electricity.However,it caused problems while is it was being built.There were many temples along the Nile River.L
4、istening TextIt was clear that when the dam was finished many of them would be curved by water,One of the most important of these temples is Abu Simbel,which as built in the 13th century BC.I was made of rock and at the entrance there are four large stone persons,each twenty metres high.Nobody wante
5、d the beautiful temple of Abu Simbel to disappear but they needed the dam.Finally,the engineers of UNESCO studied the problem and found a way to rescue the temple.Part BThe engineers agreed to moveAbu Simbel temple stone by stone and build it again above the waters if ht edam.I t took 1900 workers f
6、our years to rebuild the temple in the 1960s.It cost more than seventy million US dollars.However,it was worth it.The Aswan Hign Dam was finished in 1966.Even since then Abu Simbel has been one of the most beautiful temples in Egypt.I t is still in a quiet and beautiful place which visitors are glad
7、 to visit.Read the text quickly and decide which summary on page 45 describes it best.Then explain why the others are wrong.He thinks that saving cultural relics is more important than writing his novels.He asks the local government to protect things of cultural interest.He works very hard to save all the old buildings of his hometown,Tianjin.Homework
