高中英语_Unit3 Fascinating Parks教学课件设计.ppt

* * * * Unit 3 Fascinating Parks Sarek National Park ---Europe’s Hidden Natural Treasure Reading and Thinking By Liu Xiaoyao By the end of this period, you can: 1. read about Sarek National Park through skimming and scanning； 2. experience the beauty of a national park; 3. think critically about the worth of establishing a national park. Lead-in: Theme park City park National park Lead-in: Lead-in: Zhangye Danxia What did you see in the video? Fast Reading 1. What’s the writing purpose of the text? To introduce/tell us the beauty of the Sarek National Park. 2. What does the text probably come from? An encyclopedia A travel magazine A science fiction An advertisement 3.Skim the text and match the subheadings with the paragraphs. Para. Para. Para. Para. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps A land of Mountains and Ice Man at Peace with Nature A Land of Adventure Fast Reading 2 3 4 1 ________________________________ I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent. Even though the sun is brightly shining, telling whether it is morning or night is impossible. Im above the Arctic Circle, where in summer the sun never sets. Checking my watch, I see that it is 7: 30 a.m. I leave my tent and walk over to the mountain edge. Spreading out before me, branches of the Rapa River flow through the valley below. Im in the remote far north of Sweden in Sarek National Park, a place with no roads or towns. Where was the author and what did he see? A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps The author was in the remote far north of Sweden in Sarek National Park above the Arctic Circle; he saw beautiful scenery there, like the shining sun, the rivers and the valley. Careful Reading—Task1 2. ___________________________________ Sareks mountains used to be covered by vast sheets of ice. Around 9,000 years ago, this ice melted, leaving behind about 100 glacier. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive. Following the reindeer were