Unit 1 Cultural Heritage reading and thinking 教学设计 -2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

《Unit 1 Cultural Heritage》单元教案
Reading and Thinking:
From Problems to Solutions
【教学目标】
1. Enable students to understand the main information and text structure of the reading text;
2. Encourage students to use the reading strategy of "creating a timeline" based on appropriate text types;
3. Enable students to understand how problems are solved;
4. Enable students to understand the value of teamwork and global community protection of cultural heritage;
【教学重难点】
1. Guide students to pay attention to reading strategies such as prediction, self questioning, and scanning.
2. Help students clarify the theme language of cultural relic protection and understand the narrative characteristics of "time events"
3. Guide students to understand the value of teamwork and global community protection of cultural heritage;
【教学过程】
Prediction
Step 1: Predict the main idea of the article
Look at the title and images, and then predict the theme of the article.
Q：What will be discussed
Step 2: Quick Reading Task
First speed reading task:
Read quickly and find the keywords for each paragraph.
Paragraph 1: Challenge
Paragraph 2: Proposal triggers protests
Paragraph 3: Establish a committee
Paragraph 4: Gather together
Paragraph 5: Success
Paragraph 6: Spirit
Task of the second fast reading:
Why did the Egyptian government build a new dam in the 1950s
Why does the construction of dams trigger protests
How does the government protect cultural relics
Which one can describe this project
A. Successful. B. Negative. C. Useless. D. Doubtful.
5. What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project
Step 3: Careful reading tasks
Read more carefully and answer the following questions.
What does "problem" refer to, and what does "solution" refer to
2. Identify the numbers in the fourth paragraph and explain why the author used precise numbers instead of expressions like 'many'
What can you infer from the statement 'Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers saved 22 temples and countless cultural relics'
What can you infer from "50 countries donating nearly $80 million to this project"
5.What problems did the Nile River bring to the Egyptians before the construction of the dam
6.What words can you think of to describe the working process of a project
Step 4: Consolidation
Divide the passage into three parts and get the main idea of each part.
Part 1 (Paragraph 1)
The introduction of the topic
Maintaining an appropriate balance between progress and the protection of cultural heritage sites is a huge challenge.
Part 2 (Paragraphs 2-5)
The process of saving cultural relics
Great challenges sometimes lead to great solutions.
The Egyptian government wants to build a new dam, which will destroy many cultural relics.
The government seeks assistance from the United Nations.
After multiple efforts, experts have put forward suggestions on how to protect cultural relics, and the work has begun.
Cultural relics are dismantled and transferred to a safe place.
Saved countless cultural relics.
The project has achieved success.
Part 3 (Paragraph 6)
The summary of the text
The international community can sometimes provide solutions to a country's problems.
Step 5: Critical thinking:
1.如何处理文物的建设和保护？
2.作为学生，我们应该做些什么来保护我们的文物？
Step 6: summary
The outline of the passage
Introduce the topic: A huge challenge - striking a balance between progress and protecting cultural heritage sites.
List the evidence: In the 1950s, the government wanted to build a new dam. In 1959, the government sought assistance from the United Nations. In 1960, this project began. In 1961, the first temple was relocated. In the following twenty years, temples and cultural relics were rescued. In 1980, the project was completed/concluded.
Conclusion The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is still alive today.
Step 7 Homework:
Review the knowledge we have learned and identify the key language points in the text.