浙江省温州市啸秋中学高中英语必修2课件：Unit1Culturalrelics-Warmingup.ppt

Unit 1 Cultural Relics something about culture ? a dream about culture ! Warming Up;Gold;Let’s Explore!;Atlantis 亚特兰蒂斯 传说中沉没于大西洋的岛屿;Ming Dynasty Vase;Ming Dynasty Vase;Ivory Dragon Boat 象牙龙舟 清朝贡品;;传说中的 神农鼎 和 炼妖壶 啊~;轩辕剑 呐~;Taj Mahal 泰姬陵 伊斯兰教完美建筑 built in 1631 世界八大奇迹之一;Taj Mahal 泰姬陵 伊斯兰教完美建筑 built in 1631 世界八大奇迹之一;Mogao Caves 莫高窟 千佛洞 始于公元366年 世界文化遗产;Mogao Caves 莫高窟;It is something that was made in the past. It can be an object, a building or an item. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred; It may or may not be valuable; It may tell us something about how it was used and made, and about how the people lived at the time when it was made. ;Look at the following three groups of pictures and discuss these questions. 1. Do you know these places? 2. If you know, what do you know about them? 3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?;Group 1 The Pyramids in Egypt;Name: Place: Time: Importance: ;Group 2 The Great Wall/China; Name: Place: Time: Importance:;Group 3 Stonehenge / Britain Salisbury plain;Which one would you like to visit? Why?;Speaking;More cultural relics ~ As is known to all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites, many of which are world famous. Now look at the pictures and guess what heritage they are. ;Forbidden City;Potala Palace, Lhasa;Mount Huangshan (1990);Longmen Grottoes (2000);Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992);Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997); All these cultural relics are quite beautiful and significant （meaningful 有意义的）. But some of them were lost or ruined in history, such as Yuan Ming Yuan, The Great Wall, and The Pyramid, etc.;Yuan Ming Yuan (in China) A garden for the Emperor;;;;Maybe they were destroyed by natural disasters (wind and rain). 2. Maybe they were even burnt or stole