人教版 (2019)必修 第二册Unit 1 Cultural Heritage学案

Unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Period 2 Reading and Thinking:

From Problems to Solutions

【学习目标】

1. To understand how a problem was solved.

2. To understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.

【学习重难点】

1. To understand the main information and text structure of the reading text.

2. To use the reading strategy “make a timeline” according to the appropriate text genre,

3. To clearly summarize the methods and processes of problem solving, and appreciate the necessity and significance of cultural relics protection,

【学习过程】

1. Prediction

Step 1 Predicting the main idea of the passage

Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.

Q: What will be talked about?

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Step2: Fast reading tasks

Task of the first fast reading:

Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.

Task of the second fast reading:

1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?

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2. Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?

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3. How did the government save the cultural relics?

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4. Which one can describe the project? (      )

A. Successful.     B. Negative.      C. Useless.     D. Doubtful.

5. What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?

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Step3: Careful reading tasks

Read more carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?

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2. Find out the numbers in paragraph four and explain why the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like many.

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3. What can you infer from “Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”?

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4. What can you infer from “Fifty countries donated nearly 80 million to the project”?

The project cost a lot of money.

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5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile River bring to the Egyptian?

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6. What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?

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Step 4: Consolidation

Divide the passage into three parts and then fill in the blanks.

Part 1 (               )

The introduction of the topic

Keeping the right balance between progress and the (1) _________ of cultural sites is a big challenge.

Part 2 (                )

The process of (1) ______ cultural relics  

•Big challenges can sometimes lead to great (2) ________.

•The Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam, which would (3)_______ many cultural relics.

•The government (4) ________the UN for help.

•Experts made a (5)________ for how to save cultural relics after a lot of efforts and the work began.

•Cultural relics were (6) __________and moved to a safe place.

•Countless cultural relics were rescued.

•The project was a (7)_______.

Part 3 (                   )

The summary of the text

The global community can sometimes (8)_______ a solution to a difficult problem for a single (9)______.

Step 5: Critical thinking:

1. How to deal with the construction and the protection of cultural relics?

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2. As students, what should we do to protect our cultural relics?

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Step 6: summary

The outline of the passage

Step 7 Homework:

Review what we have learned and find out the key language points in the text.