Unit 1 Cultural Heritage Reading and Thinking(课件)-2024-2025学年英语人教版(2019)必修第二册

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名称 Unit 1 Cultural Heritage Reading and Thinking(课件)-2024-2025学年英语人教版(2019)必修第二册
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Unit 1
Reading and thinking
Cultural Heritage
Lead in
Let’s guess!
It is an African country;
It boasts one of the most ancient and greatest civilizations
It has the longest river in the world and the Pyramids;
Egypt
The Sphinx
(狮身人面像)
The Nile River
(尼罗河)
Abu Simbel Temples
(阿布辛贝神庙)
The Aswan Dam
(阿斯旺水坝)
The Sphinx is a colossal limestone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.(法老)
The longest river in the world and it is the cradle of the most fascinating and mysterious Egyptian civilization.
Built by Ramses Ⅱ, they are known for colossal statues and impressive archaeological significance.
It is a major engineering feat which provides irrigation, flood control and electricity.
Lead in
Important as the Aswan Dam is, its construction is full of twists and turns. Let’s read and further explore!
Prediction
Look at the photos and the title. What do you think the text is about
Probably the text is about ____________________________ related to cultural heritage _________ .
how people have solved the problems
Egypt
Read for the main idea
Skim the text and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
A. A committee was established to limit damage.
B. How to balance progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge.
C. The project was completed and successful.
D. The proposal leads to protests.
E. The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is still alive today.
F. The project brought governments and environmentalists together.
Read for the structure
Scan the text and analyze the structure of the text.
Problems
Solutions
Spirit
Part one: ____________
Part two: ____________
Part three: ___________
para 1-para2
para 3-para4
para 5-para6
Read for the problems
Read para 1-2 and find out the questions.
Part one
1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam
2. Why did the Egyptian people protest the government’s decision
To control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area.
Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt’s heritage.
3. What did the government do
The government turned to the United Nations for help in 1959.
Read for the problems
Progress
Protection
How to _________________ between
keep the balance
Read for the solutions
Read para 3 and find out the answers.
Part two
How did the UN deal with problems of building Aswan Dam
Committee
established
asked for __________ from different ___________.
_____________ within the international community.
____________ the issue.
___________ several tests
made a ____________.
signed a ______________.
Governments & environmentalists
contributions
departments
raised funds
investigated
conducted
proposal
document
Read for the solutions
Read para 4 and find out the answers.
How were the temples and other cultural sites saved
Part two
__________
piece by piece
_______to other places
________
together
taken down
moved
put back
The original site of Abu Simbel Temple
The new site of
Abu Simbel Temple
Read for the solutions
Circle the numbers in para 5 and find out the answers.
Inferring from these numbers, what words can we use to describe the working process
Time-consuming
tough
expensive
complicated
backbreaking
Part three
Read for the spirit
Read para 5 and find out the answers.
Why is the Aswan Dam a great success
The countries found a new way to balance _________________ and protection of _______________, which could be possibly done through _____________________.
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 countries to work together to build a better tomorrow.
Part three
economic development
cultural relics
international cooperation
Read for the spirit
How do you understand “The spirit of the Aswan Dam project” is still alive today What is the spirit
Read para 6 and find out the answers.
Part three
persistence
cooperation
determination
creation

Read for the timeline
Making a timeline that shows when different events happened can help you understand how the events are connected to each other.
Make a timeline
Make a timeline
Make a timeline
Read for the timeline
Complete the timeline with the information from the text.
1959
The government asks the UN for help.
1960
The project starts.
1961
The first temple is moved.
next 20 yeas
The temples and cultural relics are being rescued.
1980
The project is completed.
Summary
Complete the timeline with the information from the text.
Problems
Solutions
Spirit
hard to keep balance
build a new dam vs. damage temples & cultural relics
turn to UN help
cooperate with other countries
take down piece by piece, then move and put back together
Global community
Team spirit
Post-reading
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
Cario, 17 March, 1956
In a speech today, a scientist gave her view on the new ________. She said that ________ is important and our areas 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 Shouldn’t Damage Cultural Heritage
标题是报道内容的浓缩, 一般需要包含who和what等信息。
Work in groups
Discuss one or more of the questions below in groups.
What were the solutions to the problem of building the Aswan Dam
Why do you think so many countries contributed funds and offered help to the Egyptian project
A lot of money was spent to protect the temples. Do you think it was worthwhile
Work in groups
What were the solutions to the problem of building the Aswan Dam
The solutions to the problem of building the Aswan Dam were to ask for contributions from different departments and call for experts to investigate and conduct tests leading to an approach to saving the ancient buildings.
Work in groups
②Why do you think so many countries contributed funds and offered help to the Egyptian project
I think that many countries offered help because Egyptian history and relics are world-famous and are highly valued around the world as part of our shared cultural history.
Work in groups
③A lot of money was spent to protect the temples. Do you think it was worthwhile
They are priceless and unique treasures.
They attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, which boosts the country’s tourism industry.
They are irreplaceable pieces of world history.
They witnessed the development of the world.
The high costs cause huge economic pressure to the Egyptians.
The priority must be placed on the development of economy instead of preserving something relatively useless from ancient times.
Homework
Retell the passage according to the timeline;
Make a poster about cultural heritage protection;
Thank
You