Unit1 Cultural Heritage Reading and Thinking 课件-2025-2026学年英语人教版必修第二册

Unit 1 Reading and thinking Cultural Heritage From Problems to Solutions Lead in Let’s guess! It is an African country; It boasts one of the most ancient and greatest civilizations It has the longest river in the world and the Pyramids;/ˈpɪrəmɪd/ Egypt Lead in what do you know about Egypt? The Sphinx （狮身人面像） The Nile River （尼罗河） Abu Simbel Temples （阿布辛贝神庙） The Aswan Dam （阿斯旺水坝） The Sphinx is a colossal limestone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. 狮身人面像是一尊巨大的石灰岩雕像，身体像狮子，头部像法老。 The longest river in the world and it is the cradle of the most fascinating and mysterious Egyptian civilization. 尼罗河是世界上最长的河流，也是最迷人、最神秘的埃及文明的摇篮。 Built by Ramses Ⅱ, they are known for colossal statues and impressive archaeological significance. 由拉美西斯二世建造，以巨大的雕像和令人印象深刻的考古意义而闻名。 It is a major engineering feat which provides irrigation, flood control and electricity. 这是一项重大的工程壮举，提供灌溉、防洪和电力。 Prediction Look at the photos and the title. What do you think the text is about? Probably the text is about A.The government turned to the UN for help. B.The project of Aswan Dam damaged relics. C.It introduces cultural relics in Egypt. D.How the Egyptian government successfully solved the problem of building Aswan project. Careful reading: Listen to the text and match the topic sentence. A. How to balance progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge. C. The proposal leads to protests. B. A committee was established to limit damage. 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. para1 para2 para3 para4 para5 para6 Problems (para.1-2) Solutions (para.3-4) Inspiration (para.5-6) Para 1-2: Raise a problem How to ________________ between __________development and the _________ of cultural sites. economic protection Careful reading keep the balance The Egyptian government wanted to... Read para 2 and find out the questions. Part one 1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam? 2. Why did the Egyptian people protest the government’s decision? 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 Egypt’s heritage. 3. What did the government do? The government turned to the United Nations for help in 1959. 8 Read para 3 and find out the answers. Part two How did the UN deal with problems of building Aswan Dam? Committee established asked for __________ from different ___________. _____________ within the international community. ____________ the issue. ___________ several tests made a ____________. signed a ______________. Governments & environmentalists contributions departments raised funds investigated conducted proposal document Careful reading Read para 4 and find out the answers. How were the temples and other cultural sites saved? Part two __________ piece by piece _______to other places ________ together taken down moved put back Circle the numbers in para 5 and find out the answers. Inferring from these numbers, what words can we use to describe the working process? Time-consuming tough expensive complicated backbreaking 费力的 Part three 11 Read para 5 and find out the answers. Why is the Aswan Dam a great success? The countries found a new way to balance _________________ and protection of _______________, which could be possibly done through _____________________. Not only had the countries found a path to the future that did not run over the relics of the past, but they had also learnt that it was possible for countries to work together to build a better tomorrow. Part three economic development cultural relics international cooperation Read for the spirit How do you understand “The spirit of the Aswan Dam project” is still alive today? What is the spirit? Read para 6 and find out the answers. Part three persistence cooperation determination creation Spirit Reading 1950s 1959 1960 1961 20years 22temples 50countries ＄80 million 1980 time period year year year time period number number year The amount of money Complete the timeline with the information from the text. 1959 1961 over the next 20 years 1980 The government asks the UN for help The first temple is moved The temples and cultural relics are being rescued. The project is completed. Summary Complete the timeline with the information from the text. Problems Solutions Spirit hard to keep balance build a new dam vs. damage temples & cultural relics turn to UN help cooperate with other countries take down piece by piece, then move and put back together Global community Team spirit Post-reading Complete the news report with the correct forms of the words in the box. Then suggest a suitable title. development progress proposal preserve temple damage heritage establish prevent Cario, 17 March, 1956 In a speech today, a scientist gave her view on the new ________. She said that ________ is important and our areas needs economic ____________ as well. But she added, “We should not accept the project if 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 development heritage temples damage establish preserve prevent Scientist Says Progress Shouldn’t Damage Cultural Heritage 标题是报道内容的浓缩， 一般需要包含who和what等信息。 Work in groups A lot of money was spent to protect the temples. Do you think it was worthwhile? They are priceless and unique treasures. They attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, which boosts the country’s tourism industry. They are irreplaceable pieces of world history. They witnessed the development of the world. The high costs cause huge economic pressure to the Egyptians. The priority must be placed on the development of economy instead of preserving something relatively useless from ancient times. Homework Required: Write a passage about protecting the Great Wall by using what you have learned in this lesson. Optional: Make a poster calling on people to protect cultural relics. Thank You 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 Lavf58.29.100 Codec by Bilibili XCode Worker v4.6.27(fixed_gap:False) $