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Have fun!Enjoy your class. 1. One student only can answer three questions at most. Before class. 2.Six students belong to a small group for discussion. 3. Big group to compete: (Boys VS. Girls). 4.Just stand up, you don’t need to put up your hands. Module 6 Old and New.
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Have fun!Enjoy your class 1. One student only can answer three questions at most. Before class 2.Six students belong to a small group for discussion. 3. Big group to compete: (Boys VS. Girls) 4.Just stand up, you don’t need to put up your hands
Module 6 Old and New
Today we’ll learn: 1. Some new words and expressions. 2. Some information about the Three gorges Dam. 3. Know how to describe a construction.
dam( 坝) reservoir (水库)
generate v. 发(电) construction n.建筑,建造 harness vt.治理,利用 narrow adj. 狭窄的 Word bank relic n.(常作复数)历史遗迹 遗物
水调歌头·游泳——毛泽东 才饮长沙水, 又食武昌鱼。 万里长江横渡, 极目楚天舒。 不管风吹浪打, 胜似闲庭信步。 今日得宽馀, 子在川上曰: 逝者如斯夫! 风樯动, 龟蛇静, 起宏图。 一桥飞架南北, 天堑变通途。 更立西江石璧, 截断巫山云雨, 高峡出平湖。 神女应无恙, 当惊世界殊。 walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges 更立西江石璧, 截断巫山云雨, 高峡出平湖。
The Three Gorges Dam Fast-reading
Match the parts with paragraghs para. 1 para. 2 para. 3 para. 4 para. 5 Part 1 brief introduction Part 2 advantages Part 3 disadvantages
Task1: Read Part 1 (para1 & 2), then fill in the blanks Mao Zedong wrote a poem _______ he dreamed of “walls of stone to _________ clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”. Now his dream has _________. The Three Gorges Dam, _____ is the biggest construction project in China ____ the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, has been completed now. The dam is nearly 200 meters ____ and 1.5 kilometers ____. in which hold back come true which since high wide
Find out: • Why do we build the great dam ? Or what can it do? 1. Control flooding 2. Provide hydro-electric power for the central region of China
全球变暖 Task2: Read Part2, answer the questions • Who firstsuggested the idea of building a dam across the Yangtze River? • A. Sun Yat-sen B. Mao Zedong • C. Deng Xiaoping D. A great designer 孙中山 2. How many tons of coal was used for heating and generating electricity in 1993? A. 1.2 billion B. 20 billionC. 40 billion D. About 800billion 3. What does “global warming” mean?
Find out : • What are the dam’s advantages? 1. Generate electricity 2. Reduce air pollution
Task3: Read Part3 (para.4 & 5) Find out the disadvantages of the dam flooded two cities, 11 counties, 140 towns and more than 4,000 villages a million people … move flooded … historical sites and relics… submerged Disadvantages small group work
Language points 梦想着。。。 • dream of • hold back • Grand Canal • three quarters of… • equal to… 阻止,控制 大运河 四分之三的。。。 相当于 small group work
summary What is it like? Why should we build it? The three gorges dam wide high disadvantages advantages cities… electricity people historical sites pollution flood
They all disappeared… About 800 historical relics have been submerged…. 淹没
Discussion Is it worth(值得) building such a huge project ? Why? disadvantages PK advantages show your opinion
Tips: PK disadvantages advantages 1. a million people … move 2. flooded historical sites;3. affect nature;… • generateelectricity; • 2. reduce air pollution; • 3. control flooding; • 4. it’s good for shipping • …
new old
Role-play Find a partner, suppose(假设) one of you is a guide, the other act as a visitor. Make a dialogue like this: • Visitor: How wide and how high is the dam? • Guide: It’s…. • V: Who first suggested the idea of building such a project? • G: ….