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

Topic:

B2 Unit 1 Reading and Thinking：From Problems To Solutions

Grade:

Senior 2

Analyses of teaching materials

The passage titled From Problems to Solutionsmainly discusses how a problem was solved based on cultural heritage protection, that is to say, how to find a balance between promoting economic development and protecting cultural heritage is an urgent problem to be solved. 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 paragraph tells the story of the Egyptian government’s desire to build a dam on the Nile to control floods, hydropower and  farms, but this may do 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 including governments, environmentalists and scientists finally moved the cultural heritage and cultural relics successfully to a safe place for preservation. Paragraph 5 and 6 describe the results of problem solving and the great significance of this cultural heritage protection project respectively.

Analysis of Students

This article is taught to the students who study in the first year of high school with a medium level of English and eager to accept new knowledge. After listening class, most students have a certain understanding and language accumulation of the cultural heritage and its protection. Beside, the students can read articles which have clear structure. Therefore, it is not difficult for students to sort out the development process of events according to the timeline.

Teaching Objectives

After learning this lesson, students are expected to:

1. Master the main information and structure of the reading text.

2. Use the reading strategy to make a timeline according to the appropriate text description.

3. Identify how a problem was solved and express views about cultural heritage protection.

4. Understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.

Important ＆Difficult Points:

1. Guide students to pay attention to reading skills, such as prediction, self-questioning and scanning.

2. Help students sort out the topic language about protecting cultural relics and understand the narrative characteristics of “time-event” in illustrative style.

3. Lead students to understand the value of protecting cultural heritage y teamwork and global community.

Teaching   Method

PWP Teaching Methods

Teaching aids:

Multi-media, blackboard

Type

Reading

Period:

40mins

Teaching Procedures