内容正文:
Unit 2
A Life’ s Work
Using Language
Which of the following crafts do you know better?
How many kinds of traditional crafts are mentioned in the radio?
What problems do they face?
Listening
Activity 5 + 6
Choose its purpose.
1 To introduce famous traditional crafts to the audience.
2 To raise the audience's awareness of preserving traditional crafts.
3 To replace traditional crafts with modern technology.
4 To tell the stories of some famous craftworkers.
Complete the table.
Listen to the radio programme.
1 Basket making with oak
2 The demand for these crafts
3 mass-produced with modern technology
4 the materials involved
5 not interested in learning traditional skills
4
How does the traditional crafts disappear? Why?
the reasons coming from its own development
the reasons coming from the developmen of society
With time going by, some traditional crafts are disappearing.
Now work in pairs. Talk about how to keep traditional crafts from dying out.
Traditional crafts can be kept alive by keeping practicing and performing them. And they should not only be practiced, but taught to children. Passing them on from generation to generation is the most important part of human nature.
Are there any traditional crafts that are becoming increasingly popular?
Discussion
Why do you think people start to engage more with traditional crafts?
Activity 8
Read the passage and answer the questions.
Traditional crafts have long been disappearing from countries across the world. With many crafts have being, or about to be, lost forever, people have realized the importance of preserving those that remain.
Such objects are produced through a combination of skill, respect for mater