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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
在大自然中,一切事物过犹不及。
Reading
Unit 5
Natural Wonders in the World
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To elicit information and know about three natural wonders.
To make promotional posters to recommend natural wonders to tourists.
To cherish the natural wonders and protect the nature.
Knowledge objectives
Ability objectives
Emotional objectives
Learning objectives
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Contents
目录
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
在大自然中,一切事物过犹不及。
01.warming up
02.Culture Understanding
03.Group Work
04.Homework
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Part 1
warming up
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
在大自然中,一切事物过犹不及。
Beautiful
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warming up
Chaka Salt Lake
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warming up
Great Barrier Reef
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Part 2
Culture Understanding
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
在大自然中,一切事物过犹不及。
Beautiful
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Cultural Understanding
Our wonderful planet is home to some amazing natural wonders, and there are plenty of them all over the world worth discovering.
Chaka Salt Lake (or Caka Salt Lake) is located in Ulan county of Qinghai Province. It is regarded as the eastern gateway to Qaidam Basin(柴达木盆地), which has the largest salt mine in the world. Lying at a height of 3,059 meters, the lake is oval shape and covers an area of 105 square kilometers, ten times larger than the West Lake of Hangzhou. The lake is very shallow — at places, it is only ankle-deep — which allows visitors to walk over the lake. At times. When the sky looks brilliant, the lake’s blue water reflects the sky as if a giant mirror is resting on the ground. This has earned Chaka Salt Lake the nickname of “Mirror of the Sky”.
Chaka Salt Lake(茶卡盐湖)
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Cultural Understanding
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral
reef(珊瑚礁) system with over 2,900 individual reefs
and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometers
over an area of about 344,400 square kilometers. The
reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland,
Australia. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from space and is the world’s biggest single str