Unit 1 Cultural Heritage Reading and Thinking 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

Cultural Heritage B2U1 Reading & Thinking It is an African country. It has one of the most ancient and greatest civilisations. The longest river in the world flows through this country. Millions of people around the world have been fascinated by the mystery of the emperor’s tombs. Guessing Game The Great Pyramid Big Challenges Egypt The Aswan Dam the Nile Do you know other tourist attractions in Egypt? Sphinx[sfiŋks] Prediction Now look at the pictures, what happened to the statues? They were cut and taken down piece by piece. Read the title and look at the photos. What do you think the text is about? The text might be about how to solve problems related to the statues（雕像）in Egypt. 【Pre-reading】 Read the title and look at the photos. What do you think the text is about? The text is about how people have solved problems. From problems to solutions 【while-reading】 Explore the contents of text 1. Listen to the text and match the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 A. How to balance progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. B. A committee was established to limit damage. C. The proposal leads to protests. D. The project brought governments and environmentalists together. E. The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is still alive today. F. The project was completed and successful. 2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions. (1) Why did the Egyptian government want to attempt the building of the dam? (2) How were the temples and other cultural sites saved? (3) How long did it take to complete the project? They wanted to control floods and bring electricity and water to more farmers in the area to help economic development. They were taken down piece by piece and moved to other places where they would be safe from the water. The project took 20 years to complete. 【while-reading】 7 【while-reading】 Draw a timeline Complete the timeline with the information from the text. Economic development is necessary if we want to improve society. There comes a time when the old time must give way to the new, and it is not possible to preserve everything from our past as we move towards the future. Finding and keeping the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great solutions. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area. But the proposal led to protests. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt’s cultural heritage. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam the government turned to the Untied States for help in 1959. What is the problem? (How is the problem introduced?) Economic development is necessary if we want to improve society. There comes a time when the old time must give way to the new, and it is not possible to preserve everything from our past as we move towards the future. Finding and keeping the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great solutions. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area. But the proposal led to protests. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt’s cultural heritage. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam the government turned to the Untied States for help in 1959. What is the problem? What is the problem? (How is the problem introduced?) Economic development is necessary if we want to improve society. There comes a time when the old time must give way to the new, and it is not possible to preserve everything from our past as we move towards the future. Finding and keeping the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great solutions. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area. But the proposal led to protests. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt’s cultural heritage. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam the government turned to the Untied States for help in 1959. What is the problem? General Specific introduction description/ identification What is the problem? (How is the problem introduced?) While-reading Why did the Egyptian government want to build the Aswan Dam? Why did the proposal lead to protests? Read para. 2 and answer the question. To control floods, produce electricity and supply water to more farmers in the area. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egyt’s cultural heritage. ②Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great solutions. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area. But the proposal led to protests. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt's cultural heritage. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam, the government turned to the United Nations for help in 1959. 1959 1960 1961 Over the next 20 years 1980 The government asks the UN for help. The project starts. Para.3-4 Solution: how to solve? What help did the UN offer? 1. established a committee to limit... and prevent... 2. asked for contributions from different departments 3. raised funds within the international community 4. experts investigated the issue 5. conducted several tests 6. made a proposal for how buildings could be saved 7. signed a document 14 ③A committee was established to limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics. The group asked for contributions from different departments and raised funds within the international community. Experts investigated the issue, conducted several tests, and then made a proposal for how the buildings could be saved. Finally, a document was signed, and the work began in 1960. 一个委员会得以成立，以限制对埃及建筑的破坏，防止文物的损失。该组织要求不同部门提供捐助，并在国际社会筹集资金。专家们调查了这个问题，进行了几次测试，然后就如何拯救这些建筑提出了建议。最后，签署了一份文件，这项工作于1960年开始。 Reading A. They aimed to help create more job opportunities. B. They wanted to control floods and bring electricity and water tomore farmers in the area to help economic development. C. They intended to make the dam a tourist attraction. D. They'd like to move the temples and cultural relics. Reading A.They were taken down piece by piece and moved to otherplaces where they would be safe from the water. B.Germans helped Egyptians rebuild new temples and othercultural sites that looked like the original ones in other places. C.The Egyptian government gave up the plan of building the dam. D.They were left in the original places with the help of thescientists. Reading A. About two years. B. About twenty years. C. About twenty - three years. D. About twenty - five years. Reading ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ 1959 1961 1961-1980 1980 ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ Complete the news report with the correct forms of the words in the box.Then suggest a suitable title. Post-reading ______________________________ Cairo, 16 March, 1956 In a speech today, a scientist gave her view on the new _______. She said that ____________ is important and our area needs economic __________ as well. But she added, “We should not accept the project as it puts our cultural ________ in danger. We must protect the_______ and make sure that no ______ is done.”Before she ended her speech, the scientist suggested that we need to _________ a committee of experts to _________ the cultural heritage and ________ it from being harmed. proposal progress heritage temples damage establish preserve prevent Development: Economic Development development Problems & Solutions Problems Solutions - _______ a new dam - ______ temples - ______ cultural relics - _____ UN for help - cooperate with _________ - take _____ /_____/ _______ together build damage destroy turn to other countries down move put back Lesson? 18 Find out the sentences showing the lessons this project gives us. 2. If a problem seems too difficult for a single nation, the global community can sometimes provide a solution. global community Countries in the world can _____________ to solve a difficult problem. work together Union is strength. Para.5-6 Spirit Read for the details 18 Discovering Useful structures From Problems to Solutions progress protection balance big challenge great solutions makes impossible __________. possible So now let’s look at the title again. Do you have new understandings of the problem and solution? We know that a country need to develop, that is, we need to make progress. But at the same time, we also need to protect our own environment & cultural sites,right? So if we want to keep the balance between progress and protection, do you think is it a Yes. We need to make progress, but we also need to protect our home, so finding and keeping balance with progress and protetcion can be a big challenge. But big challenge can lead to great solutions. Which makes impossible possible, 23 Debate A lot of money and time were spent in protecting cultural heritage all around the world. Do you think it worthwhile or not? What can we do to protect cultural heritage? It is worthwhile to protect cultural heritage because... It is not worthwhile to protect cultural heritage because... I think it was worthwhile to spend money on protecting the temples, because their value is priceless in terms of cultural heritage. There are a lot of things we can do to protect cultural heritages, such as checking cultural heritages regularly, limiting the number of visitors and spreading the awareness of protecting... Post-reading 24 Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. — World Heritage Centre 文化遗产是过去人类所创造，由现代人类继承并传至后世。 —— 世界遗产中心 Thanks! 人民教育电子音像出版社 普通高中教科书 英语 第二册 2019 192272.17 $$