unit 2 Capital Cities 新世纪高职英语（第三版）第２册教材.ppt

Teaching Objective ;Teaching Objective ;U2;Lead In _main;Text Study _main;Language Application-main;Drills for PRETCO Test-main;Lead In –Beijing 1; As the ancient capital of several dynasties in China’s history, Beijing , also known as Peking by the Western world before 1949, first served as the capital city for Yan Kingdom over 3,000 years ago. On October 1st, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed in Tian’anmen Square the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital. Situated in the northeastern part of China as an independently administered municipal district, Beijing has a whole area of 16,808 sq km, with 18 districts and counties. Population in Beijing is more than 13 million. The climate in Beijing is of the continental type, with cold and dry winters and hot summers. It is not only a political but also a cultural, commercial, economic and financial center. ;London1;London 2;Washington D. C.;Paris1;Paris2;Topic-related Words and Phrases 1;Questions and Answers1;Questions and Answers2;Questions and Answers3;Questions and Answers4;Questions and Answers4;Text Analysis 1;Detailed Reading1;Detailed Reading2;Detailed Reading3;Detailed Reading4; As with men, so with cities: they have their own peculiar qualities, their characteristics, which are sometimes those of the people who live in them. Paris is gay, and we think of it as a city of pleasure and gaiety, though at many times in the past it has been the very opposite of this. London, thanks to the English climate, has gained the reputation of being foggy, in spite of the fact that really thick fogs are by no means frequent. New York is spoken of as a city of skyscrapers. With Vienna we associate good music. But something of the sort might be said about every city, whether a capital or not: as it grows and develops we come to recognize its peculiar characteristics.;ambitious, and these, by their efforts in various directions — in the arts, in the professi