Unit 2 Bridging Cultures Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 2 Bridging Cultures Reading and Thinking Warming-up Look at the theme picture and discuss the following questions. (1) What does Bridging Cultures mean? (2) What do you think this unit is about? (3) What are the young people doing in the picture? (4) How is the girl on the left different from others？ (5) How do you think her life differs from that in her home country? Warming-up Appreciate and understand the quote on the theme picture. 在世界的另一端看过月光闪耀，我就不会是同样的自己了。 I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. —Mary Anne Radmacher To experience a different culture from one’s own Warming-up Try to answer the following questions. 1. Why do you think people are not the same after seeing the moon shining on the other side of the world? 2. Do you have such an experience? If not, what kind of people may feel this way？ 3. Have you ever dreamed of going abroad for further education? If so, can you list some of your dream universities? 4 Warming-up Look at some pictures of highly reputable universities. Oxford University Warming-up Princeton University 6 Warming-up Cambridge University 7 Warming-up Harvard University 8 Warming-up Yale University 9 Warming-up Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 10 Pre-reading Predict what the text will talk about by looking at the title and picture. (1) Who is Xie Lei？ (4) Where is the article from and what is it about？ (2) Who do you think is saying “Welcome, Xie Lei!”? (3) Who is the business student building bridges? How do you think she is building bridges? 11 While-reading Listen to get the main idea of each paragraph and fill in the blanks. Paragraph Main idea 1 Xie Lei boarded a plane for_________ six months ago, feeling _____________. 2 In order to _________________________________________, Xie Lei chose the year-long exchange program. 3 Xie Lei had to adapt to the new life there, so she had to learn ______________