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Unit 3 FASCHNATING PARKS
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: 圣殿;庇护所
Michael Frome:美国环境新闻学教授
01 Reading
SAREK NATIONAL PARK
---EUROPE’S HIDDEN NATURAL TREASURE
Lead-in Activity: Look at the opening page.
1. Do you happen to konw the place in the picture?
The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone
Let’s watch a video together to enjoy the beautiful scene.
2. What words can you think of to descirbe it?
Pre-reading Activity 1: Discuss these questions.
1. What kind of parks have you been to? What are they like?
2. When you think of national parks, what comes to your mind first?
A national park is an area of all land that is protected by the govement for people to visit because of its natural beauty and historical or scientific interest.
Pre-reading Activity 2: Look at the picture.
1. Where would you most likely read this passage?
In a travel journal.
2. What would you think will be talked about in the text.
Sarek National Park and the people who live there.
Reading Activity 1: Skim the text. Match the subheadings with the paragraph.
A Land of Mountains and Ice
Man at Peace with Nature
A Land of Adventure
A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleep
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
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Reading Activity 2: Find out the structure of the passage.
Title Part Para. Subheading
Sarek National Park-Europe’s Hidden Natural Treasure 1 A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
2 A Land of Mountains and Ice
3 Man at Peace with Nature
4 A Land of Adventure
Experience
History and traditions
Experience
Reading Activity 3: Read and answer these questions
1. How many hours a day does the sun shine in summer in Sarek?
24 hours a day.
2. What steps has the Swedish government taken to keep Sarek in its natural state?
It was made a national park. No one beside