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The Sky Railway
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Learning aims:
1.To understand the text.
2. To know the challenges met by the railway workers.
3. To show respect for the efforts of railway workers , and to be proud of our country and our people.
Read and think
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
1.To prove that humans can conquer nature.
2. To highlight the amount of work required to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
3. To praise the workers' efforts in building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Because they overcame the most difficult engineering challenges to build the Sky Railway, and at the same time, they protect the nature.
What is your reason
Read and understand
Read the passage carefully, and finish the questions in your learning paper.
challenges
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The structure
What's the author's feeling when he was on the Sky Railway
proud
excited
unbelievale
Why did the author have such feelings
Because he traveled across “the roof of the world” and many foreign experts claimed it was impossible.
Why the railway is particularly special to the author
Because he was one of the people who came from all parts of China to work on this railway. Taking years to complete, it is a record of all of their efforts to overcome the most difficult engineering challenges.
How to protect wild animals.
Thirty-three passages have been built under the railway to make the animals to move safely and freely in their natural habitat.
Solution:.
Challenge:.
How to prevent damage to wetlands and grasslands.
1. 675 bridges with a total length of about 160 kilometres were built between Golmud and Lhasa.
2. 140,000 square metres of wetland were moved to
a new area in order to protect its distinct ecosystem.
Challenge:.
Solution:.
How to make sure the workers stayed healthy.
1.Several oxygen-making stations were constructed.
2.The workers also enjoyed regular breaks in lower areas.
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Solution:.
Challenge:
The thin air, changeable weather and high levels of UV radiation.
How to protect Cuona Lake.
Thousands and thousands of sandbags were used to build a twenty-kilometre wall along the lake to protect it from construction waste.
Challenge:.
Solution:.
What are the benefits of building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway according to this paragraph
Many passengers from all over the country have been enjoying these magical landscapes.
What changes do you think the Sky Railway has brought to the people living along the Railway
tourism
traffic
Further thinking
employment
It only takes 44 hours from Beijing to Lasha.
Attract more turists.
Provide more jobs for people living in the area.
Help the local economy.
economy
If you are a reporter, you are interviewing some of the passengers who travel by the Sky Railway.
Role play
where
what for
feeling
who deserves
Questions for you:
1.Where are you from
What are you coming for
(study, business, travel, visit relatives, go home, etc.)
2.What's your feeling about the Sky Railway
3.Who deserves our thanks
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It's the thousands of railway workers who make The Sky Railway come true. They devote themselves, even their lives to building the railway and make great contributions to our country.
Remember:
We should show respect to them, and learn from them to make our country better and stronger.
We are ordinary, but millions of ordinary people can do extraordinary things!
I believe all of you can make a miracle!
So, fighting, boys and girls! Just do it!
Do some research to find out what other challenges were met and overcome by the railway workers.
Homework
Thank you for listening!