高中英語必修二 Unit 1 Cultural HeritagePeriod 2 Reading and ThinkingFrom Problems to Solutions

1、Unit 1 Cultural HeritagePeriod 2 Reading and ThinkingFrom Problems to SolutionsLook at the two photos and the title, guess what the text is mainly about.Title: From problems to solutionsPredictionKeys: The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the problem

2、s.While readingFast ReadingRead quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.Paragraph 1: challenge Paragraph 2: proposal led to protestsParagraph 3: committee established Paragraph 4: brought togetherParagraph 5: success Paragraph 6: spiritRead again and answer the following questions:1.W

3、hy did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s? To benefit the area by controlfloods,producing electricity,andsupplying watertomorefarmersinthearea.2.Why did the building of the dam lead to protests? It will damage the cultural relics. 3.How did the government save the cultural

4、relics? By moving them to a safe place. 4.Which one can describe the project? Successful. B. Negative. C. Useless. D. Doubtful.5.What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project? The cooperation can solve difficult problems. Fast ReadingCareful ReadingRead more carefully and answer the following quest

5、ions.1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?Problems: locals protests against building a new dam across the Nile.Solutions: limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics.Careful Reading2. Find out the numbers in paragraph four and explain why

6、 the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like many.Numbers: 1961; 20; 22; fifty; 80Purpose: to make the information more concrete, and richer, and more importantly, to make it more persuasive and concise.Careful Reading3. What can you infer from “Over the next 20 years, thousands of eng

7、ineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”? The project is so hard that it takes 20 years to finish it.4. What can you infer from “Fifty countries donated nearly 80 million to the project”? The project cost a lot of money. Mary countries participated in the rescue and it is

8、 their team work that has saved the temples.Careful Reading5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile river bring to the Egyptians?Floods and droughts; not enough electricity.6. What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?Hard, tough, complicated, am

9、azing, excellent.Title: From problems to solutionsPart 1(paragraph 1)The introduction of the topicKeeping the right balance between progress and the (1)_ of cultural sites is a big challenge. protectionConsolidationDivide the passage into three parts and then fill in the blanks.Title: From problems

10、to solutionsPart 2(paragraphs 2-5)The process of (1)_ cultural relicsBig 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 aft

11、er 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(paragraph 6)The summary of the textThe global community can sometimes (8)_ a solution to a difficult problem for a single (9)_. savingso

12、lutionsdamageturned toproposaltaken downsuccessprovidenationPost readingI think although the construction is important, the government should also make an effort to protect the cultural relics. When they disappear, they wont come back and will lose their value. The government should keep the right b

13、alance between the construction and the protection of them.1. How to deal with the construction and the protection of cultural relics? Critical thinking and discussion2. As students, what should we do to protect our cultural relics?We should know more about cultural relics in our country and do some

14、thing we can to protect the cultural relics. For example, we can spread the knowledge of cultural relics and promote the awareness of the protection of them.A big challengethe balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites.The outline of the passageSummary Introduce the topic：List the evidence： ConclusionIn the 1950s the government wanted to build a new dam.In 1959, the government asked the UN for help .In 1960, the project started/began.In 1961 the first temple was mov