新外研版必修第一册Unit6 At one with nature课本知识点注释PDF电子书版

At one with nature
Starting out◆
1 Watch the video and answer the questions.
What are the problems faced by Venice
Are there any similar cities or towns in China
Introduce one to the class.
Russia
2 Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
1 How does the natural environment influence
the lives of the local people in each picture
2 What is the natural environment of your home
town like How is your life influenced by it
United Kingdom
China
Myanmar
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Understanding ideas
wrap:
wrap in:
be wrapped in:
Look at the pictures and talk about what
you know about the Zhuang and Yao
1
Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water,
ethnic groups.
sheet:
shining in the spring sun.Summer sees the
mountains turn bright green with growing
adj
rice.During autumn,these same mountains
frost:
are gold,and in winter they are covered in
sheets of white frost.These are the colours
of the Longji Rice Terraces.
These terraces were buitl by the
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These terraces were built by the local
local Zhuang and Yao people.
Zhuang and Yao people,to whom Guangxi
to
Zhuang people
Guangxi is home to the local
is home.Starting in the Yuan Dynasty,work
Zhuang and Yao people.
on the terraces took hundreds of years,until
its completion in the early Qing Dynasty.
reach:
Reaching as far as the eye can see,these
terraces cover tall mountains,often from the
bottom
bottom to the very top.
very:adj.
So why did these people go to so much
trouble to turn the entire mountains into
terraces Firstly,there are few large,flat
areas of land in the region.Building the
t the bottom
at the bottom of
terraces therefore meant that they could
from top to bottom
go to the trouble
flat:adj.
region
Read the passage and find out what
problems the local people solved by
working with nature.
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UNIT 6