Unit 2 A life's work Developing ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Unit 2 A life’s work 感谢您下载平台上提供的PPT作品，为了您和以及原创作者的利益，请勿复制、传播、销售，否则将承担法律责任！将对作品进行维权，按照传播下载次数进行十倍的索取赔偿！ 1 Where is this? Have you ever been to the Forbidden City? What do you know about it? Watch the video. Learn more about the Forbidden City and answer the questions. 1 Who was the Forbidden City built for? 2 When did it become home to the Palace Museum? 3 How many works of art are there in the Palace Museum? 4 What do you think makes the Palace Museum unique in the world? The Forbidden City was built for emperors, their families and servants in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It became home to the Palace Museum in 1925. There are around 1.8 million works of art. Look at the title and the pictures. Predict what the passage is about. Read the passage, and then match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers. 5 3 4 1 6 2 Read the passage again and search for more detailed information. Who is Wang Jin and where does he work? What was special about Wang Jin and his students Qi Haonan? He is a clock restoration master, working in Xi San Suo in the Forbidden City. They used to be the only two timepiece restorers in the Palace Museum. Read the passage again and search for more detailed information. Why the Palace Museum has one of the most significant collections of timepieces in the world? What was special about Wang Jin and his students Qi Haonan? Because repairing such a large and important collection of timepieces involves complex work, unique methods of restoration and sourcing difficult-to-find materials, which take a lot of time, care and attention to detail. Because Qing emperors were very fond of clocks. Therefore , in order to please them, foreign envoys presented these emperors with the most intricate and splendid timepieces. Read the passage again and search for more detailed information. What has been done to the clocks that date back to the time of Emperor Qianlong? Why is Wang Jin optimistic about the future of the timepieces in the Palace