Unit 1 Cultural Heritage Reading and Thinking 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

新人教版必修二Unit 1 Reading and Thinking 主题语境：人与社会——文化遗产保护 语篇类型：说明文 授课时长：一课时（每课时40分钟） Analysis of the text： What: The reading passage titled From Problems to Solutions briefly discusses how a problem was solved based on the topic of “cultural heritage protection”, that is, how to find a balance between promoting economic development and protecting cultural heritage. The article describes the process of emerging and resolving the problem in chronological order. The first paragraph raises the question: Finding and keeping the right balance between progress and protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. The second analysis tells the story of the Egyptian government’s desire to build a dam on the Nile to control floods, hydropower and irrigate farmland, but this will cause damage to precious cultural heritage such as the Temple of Abu Simbel. Therefore, the Egyptian government turned to United Nations for help and started the big project of heritage protection. The third and fourth paragraphs narrate the process of solving the problem. After more than 20 years of efforts, a special committee composed of governments, environmentalists and scientists finally moved the cultural heritage and cultural relics to a safe place for preservation. Paragraphs 5 and 6 describe the results of problem solving and the great significance of this cultural heritage protection project respectively. Why：Through the article, the readers could understand the complexity and difficulty of the problems in the process of cultural heritage protection, and recognize the key role of international cooperation in the problem-solving process, so that they can think about how to participate in the protection of cultural heritage. How: The author describes the process of emerging and solving the problem in chronological order. The beginning and end of the article echoes and the structure is well-organized. The author clearly shows the problem emergence, problem solving and results by means of