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At one with nature
Period 1-2
Starting out & Understanding ideas
Unit 6
与某物融为一体
in harmony with
Lead in
Venice
Q2. What is this city known as?
Q1.Which city is it?
The Floating City.
float v. (to stay on or near the surface of a liquid and not sink )漂浮
Activity 1: Watch & Answer
Wacth the video entitled "The Floating City" and answer the question.
Q1.What are the problems faced by Venice?
Q2.What is the solution to the problems?
Activity 1: Watch & Answer
Wacth the video entitled "The Floating City" and answer the question.
Q1.What are the problems faced by Venice?
Venice is faced with the problems caused by .
____ is slowly damaging the of Venice’s buildings, making the city gradually .
also hit the city each winter, causing more problems.
water
Saltwater
bases
sink
Floods
Q2.What is the solution to the problems?
A new flood __ __ project ;
______ of gates have been built to _____________the sea.
prevention
dozens
hold back
Activity 1: Watch & Answer
Wacth the video entitled "The Floating City" and answer the question.
Q1.What are the problems faced by Venice?
Venice is faced with the problems caused by .
____ is slowly damaging the of Venice’s buildings, making the city gradually .
also hit the city each winter, causing more problems.
water
Saltwater
bases
sink
Floods
Q2.What is the solution to the problems?
A new flood __ __ project ;
_______ of gates have been built to _____________the sea.
prevention
dozens
hold back
_____________ greatly influences the lives of the local people in Venice.
Natural environment
Q1. How does the natural environment influence the lives of the local people in each picture?
Acticity 2: Observe & Talk
Q1. How does the natural environment influence the lives of the local people in each picture?
Acticity 2: Observe & Talk
In north-west China, the ____________is thick and compacted, so people build ____________ as their place of residence.
cave dwellings
(窑洞)
yellow earth
In the UK , the ______ climate and parks in towns and cities provide a pleasant natural environment in which people can relax and enjoy life.
mild
=where
Acticity 2: Observe & Talk
Q1. How does the natural environment influence the lives of the local people in each picture?
In Russia, it can get very cold with heavy_____ in winter, so people live in houses with _______roofs and wear thick clothes for outdoor activities.
snow
inclined
In Myanmar/ˈmjɑːnmɑːr/(缅甸), the climate is hot and humid and there are many rivers. Many people live in ________houses on stilts (桩子) , which keep them above the water.
bamboo
Undertanding ideas
--Longji Rice Terraces
Q1. Which ethnic group do they belong to?
Lead in
Q2. What do you know about them?
living area?
main crops?
mountain areas
rice
How do they grow rice in mountain areas?
The scenery
The history
The reasons
The working principle
People's attitudes
Activity 3: Read and Match
Activity 3: Read for main idea
Activity 3: Read and Match
Read the passage and match the main idea with each paragraph
Para. 1 The reasons why Longji Rice Terraces were built
Para. 2 The working principle of the Longji Rice Terraces
Para. 3 The scenery in different seasons
Para. 4 The history of the Longji Rice Terraces
Para. 5 People's attitudes towards the terraces
Activity 4: Read and Answer
Q1.What does the author descibe in para. 1?
The colours
spring
summer
autumn
winter
wrapped in silver water, shining
turn bright green
are gold
covered in sheets of white frost
n. a wide flat area of sth.一大片
The colours of Longji Rice Terraces
Q2.Why does the author descibe the beautiful scenery?
The reasons
firstly
secondly
Building terraces could help increase the areas in which the local people could grow rice.
The terraces can catch the rainwater and prevent the soil from being washed away.
There are few large, flat areas of land.
The mountains are steep and the soil is shallow.
Activity 4: Read and Answer
Q3.Why did the local people built the Longji Rice Terraces?
Problems brought by the natural environment
were solved by people working with nature
Activity 4: Read and Answer
Q4.How does the Longji Rice Terraces works ?
1. _________ moves down the mountain and into terraces.
2. The sun ______ the water and turns it into ________.
3.This forms ________ from which rain falls down onto the mountain terraces ________.
Rainwater
heats
vapour
clouds
once again
________________ + ____________________=work_____________ nature
in harmony with
natural conditions
human's reconstruction
Q5.What are the people's attitudes towards the terraces?
Activity 4: Read and Answer
As for the local people, despite the development of modern technology, they value these terraces because they think that traditions are really important to them.
As for the visitors, they are attracted to admire this wonder.
Q6.Why do the local people still keep their traditional way of growing rice?
Because the knowledge is passed down through generations of families, and it suits the natural environment.
Activity 5: Read and Correct
Activity 6: Think and Choose
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage:
To praise the wisdom of the ethnic groups living in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
To explain how people worked in harmony with nature to create the Longji Rice Terraces.
To describe the beauty of the Longji Rice Terraces and to attract visitors to this scenic spot.
Activity 7: Think and Share
Q1.How do you understand "work in harmony with nature"?
People respect nature and ________from nature by making_______of it without causing ________to the natural environment.
benefit
the most
harm
Q2.In what other ways do people work in harmony with nature?Give examples.
Work in groups and discuss the following questions.
The Dujiangyan Irrigation system
The Three Gorges Dam
Solar power generation
Cave Dwellings
Language points
Describe scenery.
Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining…
Summer sees the mountains turn bright green.
These same mountains are gold.
They are covered in sheets of white frost.
(过去分词短语做后置定语)
(现在分词做伴随状语)
Describe scenery.
Translate the first sentence into Chinese.
想象一下:在春日里,被银白色的水田包裹着的群山,在阳光下闪闪发光。
译:
想象一下,春日里被翠绿色的树和多彩的花包裹着的海子,在阳光下闪闪发光.
Imagine lakes wrapped in green trees and colorful flowers, shining in the spring sun.
Describe scenery.
see (在某个时间或地点发生了某事)
If a time or place has seen a particular event or situation, it happened or existed in that time or place.
译:夏天,九寨沟的树呈现出不同层次的绿。
Summer ________ the trees take on various layers of green.
sees
Describe scenery.
Imitate the passage and describe the scenery of Jiuzhaigou.
Imagine lakes wrapped in green trees and colorful flowers, shining in the spring sun.
Summer sees the mountains take on various layers of green, reflected in still lakes.
During autumn, the same mountains are_____________.
And in winter they are covered in sheets of__________________.
colorful
white snow
Write about history.
These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home.
Starting in the Yuan Dynasty, work on the terraces took hundreds of years, until its completion in the early years .
be home to… 是…的所在地,是…的家园
sth takes some time 某事花了多长时间才完成
It takes sb. some time to do sth. 做某事花了某人多少时间
Write about history.
译:
都江堰水利工程是由来自秦国的李冰父子建造起来的。
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built by Lin Bing and his son Erlang, ________________the Qin State is home.
都江堰的修建工作始于战国时期,大约公元前280年左右,持续了20多年时间,直到公元前256年左右才修建完工。
___________in the Warring States, around the year 280BC, work on the Dujiangyan Irrigation System took more than two decades, until its completion in the year 256.
to whom
Starting
State reasons (problem-solution)
go to trouble to do sth. 不辞辛劳做某事
=spare no efforts to do sth.
turn sth. into sth. 把…转化成…
译:
为什么人们或不辞辛劳地修建水利工程呢/把河流变成水利工程呢?
Why did people go to so much trouble to build the irrigation system?
Why did people spare no efforts to turn the natural river into an irrigation system?
State reasons (problem-solution)
译:
因此修建都江堰水利工程就意味着人们在雨季能够免于洪水的侵袭。
Building the system therefore meant that people could be _________________________floods in rainy seasons.
kept away from
State reasons (problem-solution)
plenty of 很多,大量地 (后面可以接可数名词和不可数名词)
译:
尽管成都平原降雨量充沛,但降雨季节分配不均。
Although Chengdu Plain has__________________, the rainfall distributes unevenly.
多雨季节往往洪水泛滥,干旱季节又缺乏基本生活用水。
Therefore, floods __________the area in rainy seasons while people suffer from ________________________________in dry seasons.
plenty of rain
struck
lack of basic water supply
State reasons (problem-solution)
译:
都江堰水利系统成功地防止了成都平原被水淹。
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System ___________________________Chengdu Plain from__________________.
succeeded in preventing
being flooded
Explain the principle
What is most significant is the way in which people have worked in harmony with nature to make these terraces and grow rice.
主语从句
Analyze the value
都江堰水利工程对于生活在成都平原的人们意义重大。
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System _____________________the people ____________________in Chengdu Plain.
means a lot to
living
/who live
Language points
Activity 4: Read and Answer
Q2.Who built the Longji Rice Terrace? And when?
The local _______ and _______ people built the Longji Rice Terrace whose construction was started in the ___________ and completed in the early____________.
Zhuang
Yao
Yuan Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
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