新人教版高中英语必修2Unit 1 Cultural Heritage-Reading and Thinking教案二（最终版）

1. PredictionStep 1 Predicting the main idea of the passageLook at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.Q: What will be talked about?Step2: Fast reading tasksTask 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? 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 tasksRead 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?