高中英语必修二 1 2 Reading&Thinking 课件.pptxVIP

人教版必修第二册Unit 1 Cultural HeritagePeriod 2 Reading and ThinkingFrom Problems to Solutions Look at the two photos and the title, guess what the text is mainly about?Title： From problems to solutionsPrediction Keys: The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the problems. While reading Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.Paragraph 1: challenge Paragraph 2: proposal led to protestsParagraph 3: committee established Paragraph 4: brought togetherParagraph 5: success Paragraph 6: spiritFast Reading Read again and answer the following questions: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? Successful. 　　　　B. Negative. C. Useless. D. Doubtful.5.What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project? The cooperation can solve difficult problems. Fast Reading Careful ReadingRead 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. Careful Reading2.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; 80Purpose: 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 count