(共18张PPT)
Period 2: Read, think and speak
the Sky railway
Unit 6 Nurturing nature
学习目标任务
学习阅读理解基本技巧:略读、扫读、跳读等,获取文章内容;
学习文章introduction → main body → coherence展开文章写作思路;
了解修建天路时困难和建成后的好处,学习用英语表达相关话题;
培养“金山银山不如青山”的环保意识。
What is the Sky Way
What is the name of this song
What is the song about
那是一条神奇的天路哎…
把人间的温暖送到边疆
从此山不再高路不再漫长
各族儿女欢聚一堂
What is the Sky Way
What is the Sky Way
the Sky Railway
the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
What is the name of this song
What is the song about
Task 1: Read the first paragraph and circle the words that you think is the key words about the sky railway.
Read for main idea
para 1: _________________________________ of taking the train.
para 2: Our efforts to overcome _____________________________.
para 3:The Bridge is to protect ____________________________.
para 4:Bridges were to prevent ______________________________.
para 5:Ooxygen-making stations were for us to ________________.
para 6:A wall is to protect __________________________________.
Para 7:It attracts __________________________________________.
The proud feeling
difficult engineering challenges
the animals
damage to wetlands and grasslands
stayed healthy
Cuona Lake
people’s admiration for centuries
P 2
P 1
P 3
Task 2: Read fast and draw the mind map
Read for main idea
A. To prove that humans can conquer nature.
B. To highlight the amount of work required to build the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
C. To praise the worker’s efforts in building the Qinghai-
Tibet Railway.
Task 3: Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
Read for main idea
Read for detailed information
Challenges Solutions
To protect wild animals. 1. ___________________ have been built under the railway to allow the animals to
2. _________________________________
_______.
Thirty-three passages
move safely and freely in their natural
habitat
Read for detailed information
Task 4: Organise information and complete the table.
Challenges Solutions
To 3. _____________ _________________ __________. 675 bridges with 4. _____________
___________________ were built
between Golmud and Lhasa.
140,000 square metres of wetland were 5. _________________ in order to protect its district ecosystem.
a total length of
about 160 kilometres
moved to a new area
prevent damage
to wetlands and grasslands
Read for detailed information
Task 4: Organise information and complete the table.
Challenges Solutions
To make sure the workers stayed healthy. 6. ____________________________ were constructed.
The workers also enjoyed
7. ____________ in lower areas.
Several oxygen-making stations
regular breaks
Read for detailed information
Task 4: Organise information and complete the table.
Challenges Solutions
To 8. _______ ___________. Thousands and thousands of sandbags were used to
9. _________________________ along the
lake to
10. ______________________________.
protect
Cuona Lake
build a twenty-kilometer wall
protect it from construction waste
Read for detailed information
Task 4: Organise information and complete the table.
Sitting back in my seat, I can’t quite believe that I’m about to travel along the railway that many foreign experts claimed was “impossible”. The train has been racing along steadily since it left Xining. All this time, the song “Sky Railway” has been playing inside my head. The words “railways like massive dragons are winding among the mountains” seem particularly vivid as I travel across the “roof of the world”.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been attracting people’s admiration for centuries. Now, thanks to our efforts, passengers from all over the country have been enjoying these magical landscapes. I am proud that we built our “impossible” railway, and did so with the care that the environment deserves. It truly is an extraordinary “Sky Railway”.
Read for self improvement
Task 5: Read for the coherence between the beginning and ending .
Read for thinking
Task 6: I am proud that we built our “impossible” railway, and did so with the care that the environment deserves.
In locations such as this, the thin air, changeable weather and high levels of UV radiation presented perhaps the greatest challenge for railway workers.
A group of Tibetan antelopes is moving under the bridge, with some stopping to eat grass at their leisure. The passages allow the animals to move safely and freely in their natural habitat so that They seem totally unaware that we are speeding past at over 100 kilometres an hour.
Task 6: I am proud that we built our “impossible” railway, and did so with the care that the environment deserves.
Read for thinking
Task 6: I am proud that we built our “impossible” railway, and did so with the care that the environment deserves.
Share your understanding.
Cuona Lake is so close to the railway that I want to reach out and touch its pale blue mirror-like surface. Water birds playing in the lake, and cattle and sheep wandering the grasslands bring the scenery to life.
Read for thinking
作业安排
课前预习和课后巩固任务;
预习课文,勾划出重点词块;