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Unit 1 Cultural Heritage
Period 2 Reading and Thinking
From Problems to Solutions
Learning objectives
1. To understand how a problem was solved.
2. To understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.
Look at the title and the two photos , guess what the text is mainly about.
Title: From problems to solutions
Prediction
Keys:
The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the problems.
While reading
Fast Reading
Activity1 Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1: challenge
Paragraph 2: proposal led to protests
Paragraph 3: committee established
Paragraph 4: brought together
Paragraph 5: success
Paragraph 6: spirit
Activity2 Scan the text for numbers. Circle the numbers and guess what they mean.
1950s
1959
1960
1961
20years
22temples
50countries
$80 million
1980
time period
year
year
year
time period
number
number
year
The amount of money
The numbers tell us a timeline of what happened to the dam as well as other information about protecting the dam.
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Activity1 Read again and answer the following questions:
1.Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?
To benefit the area by control floods, producing electricity, and supplying water to more farmers in the area.
2.Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?
It will damage the cultural relics.
3.How did the government save the cultural relics?
By moving them to a safe place.
4.Which one can describe the project?
Successful. B. Negative. C. Useless. D. Doubtful.
5.What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?
The cooperation can solve difficult problems.
Careful Reading
Careful Reading
Activity2 Read more carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?
Problems: locals’ protests against building a new dam across the Nile.
Solutions: limit damage to the Eg