高中英语人教版 (2019)必修 第二册Unit 1 Cultural Heritage学案及答案

Unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Period 2 Reading and Thinking:

From Problems to Solutions导学案

1. To understand how a problem was solved.
2. To understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.

1. To understand the main information and text structure of the reading text
2. To use the reading strategy "make a timeline" according to the appropriate text genre
3. To clearly summarize the methods and processes of problem solving, and appreciate the necessity and significance of cultural relics protection

1. Prediction

Step 1 Predicting the main idea of the passage

 Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.

Q: What will be talked about?

Step2: Fast reading tasks

Task of the first fast reading:

Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.

Task of the second fast reading:

1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?

2. Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?

3. How did the government save the cultural relics?

4. Which one can describe the project?

A. Successful.     B. Negative.      C. Useless.     D. Doubtful.

5. What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?

Step3: Careful reading tasks

Read more carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?

2. Find out the numbers in paragraph four and explain why the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like many?

3. What can you infer from "Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”?

4. What can you infer from "Fifty counties donated nearly 80 million to the project”?

The project cost a lot of money.

5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile River bring to the Egyptian?

6. What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?

Step 4: Consolidation

Divide the passage into three parts and then fill in the blanks.

Part 1 (               )

The introduction of the topic

Keeping the right balance between progress and the (1)_________ of cultural sites is a big challenge.

Part 2 (                )

The process of (1)______ cultural relics  

•Big challenges can sometimes lead to great (2)________.

•The Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam, which would (3)_______ many cultural relics.

•The government (4) ________the UN for help.

•Experts made a (5)________ for how to save cultural relics after a lot of efforts and the work began.

•Cultural relics were (6) __________and moved to a safe place.

•Countless cultural relics were rescued.

•The project was a (7)_______.

Part 3 (                   )

The summary of the text  The global community can sometimes (8)_______ a solution to a difficult problem for a single (9)______.

Step 5: Critical thinking:

1. How to deal with the construction and the protection of cultural relics?

3. As students, what should we do to protect our cultural relics?

Step 6: summary

The outline of the passage

 Step 7 Homework:

 Review what we have learned and find out the key language points in the text.

【答案】

1. Prediction

Step 1 Predicting the main idea of the passage

Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.

Q: What will be talked about?

The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the problems.

Step2: Fast reading tasks

Task of the first fast reading:

Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.

•          Paragraph 1: challenge

•          Paragraph 2: proposal led to protests

•          Paragraph 3: committee established 

•          Paragraph 4: brought together

•          Paragraph 5: success 

•          Paragraph 6: spirit

Task of the second fast reading:

1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?

 To benefit the area by control floods, producing electricity, and supplying water to more farmers in the area.

2. Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?

 It will damage the cultural relics.

3.How did the government save the cultural relics?

 By moving them to a safe place.

4.Which one can describe the project?

1. Successful.     B. Negative.      C. Useless.     D. Doubtful.

A

5.What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?

The cooperation can solve difficult problems.

Step3: Careful reading tasks

Read more carefully and answer the following questions.

1.what do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?

Problems: locals' protests against building a new dam across the Nile.

Solutions: limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics.

2.Find out the numbers in paragraph four and explain why the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like many?

Numbers: 1961; 20; 22; fifty; 80

Purpose: to make the information more concrete,  and richer, and more importantly, to make it more persuasive and concise.

3.What can you infer from "Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”?

The project is so hard that it takes 20 years to finish it.

4.What can you infer from "Fifty counties donated nearly 80 million to the project”?

The project cost a lot of money.

Mary countries participated in the rescue and it is their team work that has saved the temples.

5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile River bring to the Egyptian?

floods and droughts; not enough electricity.

6.What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?

Hard, tough, complicated, amazing, excellent.

Step 4: Consolidation

Divide the passage into three parts and then fill in the blanks.

Part 1(paragraph 1)

The introduction of the topic

Keeping the right balance between progress and the (1)_________ of cultural sites is a big challenge.

protection

Part 2   (paragraphs 2-5)

The process of (1)______ cultural relics  

•Big challenges can sometimes lead to great (2)________.

•The Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam, which would (3)_______ many cultural relics.

•The government (4) ________the UN for help.

•Experts made a (5)________ for how to save cultural relics after a lot of efforts and the work began.

•Cultural relics were (6) __________and moved to a safe place.

•Countless cultural relics were rescued.

•The project was a (7)_______.

Part 3 (paragraph 6)

The summary of the text  The global community can sometimes (8)_______ a solution to a difficult problem for a single (9)______.

1.saving   2. Solutions   3.damage  4. turned to  5.proposal   6.taken down  7.success

Step 5: Critical thinking:

1.How to deal with the construction and the protection of cultural relics?

I think although the construction is important, the government should also make an effort to protect the cultural relics. When they disappear, they won’t come back and will lose its value. The government should keep the right balance between the construction and the protection of them.

2.As students, what should we do to protect our cultural relics?

We should know more about cultural relics in our country and do something we can to protect the cultural relics.

For example, we can spread the knowledge of cultural relics and promote the awareness of the protection of them.

Step 6: summary

The outline of the passage

Step 7 Homework:

 Review what we have learned and find out the key language points in the text.