高中英语新人教版必修第二册 Unit 1 Cultural heritage Period2 Reading and Thinking 课件.pptxVIP

Unit 1 Cultural heritage Period2 Reading and Thinking;To predict the content of a passage from its title and pictures in the passage. To learn about the problem of building the Aswan Dam and solutions to it. To think about the reason of other countries offering help to the Egyptian project. To think about the value of the protection of cultural heritage.;You must heard of Three Gorges?Dam (三峡大坝) of China. However, have you heard about the Aswan Dam of Egypt?;Aswan?Dam(水坝；拦河坝) project On July 21, 1970, engineers completed the? Aswan?Dam?in southern?Egypt. The?Aswan?Dam? was an extremely large project, lasting more than 10 years and costing more than a billion dollars.? The Aswan?Dam?controls the flow (泛滥) of the Nile River. The?dam?protects people living near the banks of the?Nile?from both floods and drought. It also provides electricity used in homes, schools, businesses, and hospitals? throughout?Egypt.?; The Aswan?Dam?created a huge?reservoir (水库), called Lake Nasser. The creation of?Lake? Nasser?and the widening of the Nile behind the dam?forced more than 50,000 people in?Egypt? and?Sudan?to move.;Look at the two pictures. What are they telling us? Which country do you think the images in the pictures can be found? What comes to you when you look at the pictures?;What else can you associate (联想) the pictures with?;Read the title and look at the pictures. What do you think the text is about?;Scan the text for numbers. Circle the numbers and guess what they mean.;What can you learn from these numbers? Why does the author use exact numbers instead of expressions like “a lot of〞?;Read the passage and figure out the structure of the passage.;Fill in the following blanks according to the text.;dam?;1. What was the problem the Egyptian government facing with?;3. Why did protesters protest the proposal?;4. What were the solutions to the problem of building the Aswan Dam? The Egyptian government asked the United Nations for help, and a proposal was work