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Reading for writing
Unit 02
Travelling Around
新人教必修一
B.
Get a passport
Apply for a visa
Buy a guidebook
Book a ticket
Pack some clothes
Book a hotel room
Research the local weather
If you go to Xi’an, what do you need to prepare?
Lead-in
B.
Xi'an
西安
(陕西)
Look and say
B.
the ancient capital of 13 dynasties
(朝代)
Look and say
B.
大雁塔Greater Wild Goose Pagoda
Look and say
B.
大唐芙蓉园Tang Paradise
Look and say
B.
The Terracotta Army
Look and say
B.
TERRACOTTA ARMY
Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than 8,000 statues were made in the third century BCE to guard the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face, leading researchers to believe that each one is copy of a real soldier.
size
history
feature(特点,特征)
Cultural note
B.
The statues fill only one part of the emperor's huge tomb , which still has not been completely unearthed. More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb. However,
no one in modern times knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974, when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were digging a well!
length of time
and labor
Cultural note
What do you learn from the short passage?
be discovered by accident
B.
Pre-reading
Read Richard's email to his friend and the brochure that he found.
Do you think his plan sounds interesting? Why?
B.
Read for the structure
main purpose for the trip
other plans for the trip
Transport
Final thoughts
B.
Paragraph Main idea Detail
1 main purpose for the trip
2 other plans for the trip
3 transport
4 final thoughts
Terrocotta Army
by train
write again and send photos
Xi'an City Wall and a few other famous sights
Read for the structure
Shaanxi History Museum
Summarise the email in the table.
B.
Study language features
Underline the words and phrases used to express emotion in the email.
Then complete the sentences below.
It is amazing sight.
It is ____________
I am amazed.
…………almost unbelievable.
I can’t believe it
It's hard_