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UNIT 3 FASCINATING PARKS
Reading and Thinking
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Learning objectives
At the end of this lesson, I will be able to:
skim the passage and read for gist with the subheadings;
experience Sarek National Park and learn about the Sami people;
learn to use different senses to describe a park or a place;
express personal opinions on national parks.
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Text
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Have you ever been to a fascinating park?
Do you happen to know the place in the picture? What words can you think of to describe it?
Lead-in Activity:Look at the opening page.
the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone
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A national park is not a playground. It’s a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature’s own terms.
— Michael Frome
sanctuary/ˈsæŋktʃuəri/: a place where something or someone is protected and can find refuge/ˈrefjuːdʒ/.
Look at the quote.
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1. What kinds of parks have you been to? What were they like?
2. When you think of national parks, what comes to mind first?
Discuss these questions.
A national park is an area of land that is protected by the government for people to visit because of its natural beauty and historical or scientific interest.
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1. Where would you most likely read this passage?
In a travel journal.
2. What do you think will be talked about in the text?
Sarek National Park and the people who live there.
Look at the picture.
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( )1.Paragraph 1
( )2.Paragraph 2
( )3.Paragraph 3
( )4.Paragraph 4 A.A land of adventure.
B.A summer where the sun never sleeps.
C.A land of mountains and ice.
D.Man at peace with nature.
B
C
D
A
Skim the text. Match the subheadings with the paragraphs.
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True or False
( )1.The sun can tell whether it is morning or night in the Arctic Circle.
( )2.Sarek’s mountains are still covered by vast sheets of ice now.
( )3.Now no one can be allowed to live in Sarek National Park.
( )4.Today most Sami have houses in villages near Sarek.
( )5.The writer enjoys this great adventure.
F
F
F
T
T
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Multiple chioces
( )1.What is the tex