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1. You should praise him __________
( 介词短语 ) scold him.
2. A fact is anything that can be ______
( 动词 ).
3. A lot of ________ (evident) show
that he had stolen many things from
the house.
rather than
proved
evidence
4. The answer __ the question is very
easy to find.
5. ___________ (consider) his young
age, he did a good job.
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Considering
Discuss with your partner the
advantages and disadvantages of
building a dam.
Listening (P41)
Task 1: Lead-in
1 to make electricity for everyone
2 to encourage industry
3 to make the country less dependent
on outside oil supplies
1. loss of local villages and communities under the waters of the reservoirs
2. loss of some cultural sides
3. loss of beautiful scenery
4. commercialisation of the area
Abu Simbel is a set of two temples
near the border of Egypt with Sudan.
It was constructed for the pharaoh
Ramesses II ( 拉美西斯二世 )who
reigned for 67 years during the 13th
century BC (19th Dynasty).
The temples were cut from the rock
and shifted to higher ground in the
1960s as the waters of Lake Nasser
began to rise following completion of
the Aswan High Dam.
Read the exercises and look at the
picture. Predict what the listening will
be about.
Then listen to the Part A and B and
see if you are right.
□ Aswan High Dam
□ Abu Simbel
□ covered by water
□ engineers
□ River Nile
□ electricity
□ floods
□ UNESCO76
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Listen to Part A again and find out
what happened when a dam was built
in Egypt. Number the key words as
you hear them.
□ move the temple
□ stone by stone
□ worth
□ in 1966
□ 1,900 workers
□ more than $70,000,000
□ rebuild
□ four years4
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Now listen to Part B again and number
the key words as you hear them.
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1. Why did Abu Simbel need to be
moved and rebuilt?
Abu Simbel needed to be moved and
rebuilt because otherwise it would
have been covered by the water when
the dam was completed.
1. Why did Abu Simbel need to be
moved and rebuilt?
Abu Simbel needed to be moved and
rebuilt because otherwise it would
have been covered by the water when
the dam was completed.
Listen to Part A and Part B again and
then answer the questions.
2. How did the engineers solve the problem? Was it successful? How do you know?
The solved this problem by moving the statues. They marked every stone with a number and took the statues apart. Then they reassembled them in another site. It was very successful because many tourists come to visit Abu Simbel which looks as impressive as it did in its original site.
2. How did the engineers solve the problem? Was it successful? How do you know?
The solved this problem by moving the statues. They marked every stone with a number and took the statues apart. Then they reassembled them in another site. It was very successful because many tourists come to visit Abu Simbel which looks as impressive as it did in its original site.
Listening taskListening task
Task 1: Lead-in
(1) What do you know about
the Forbidden City in
Beijing?
(2) When was it built? What
was it used for?
The Forbidden City has a history of
600 years. The large scale construction
of the palace extended from 1406 to
1420. It’s totally 24 emperors of the
Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty rule
here, and was off-limits for the
common people.
Listen to the dialogue and
summarize the main idea in one
sentence.
The listening text is a discussion/
conversation about the forbidden
city.
Listen to Part A and fill in the chart with details.
Information about the Forbidden City
Part A
Reasons for its name
Number of rooms
It was because ordinary people were never allowed into the palace while the emperors ruled China.
9,999.
Reasons for
the number2. It shows respect to the
Emperor of Heaven who
has 10,000 rooms in his
place.
1. Nine is a special number
in Chinese culture.
Part B
How old is it?
How many
Emperors
lived there?
What is it
used for now?
Nearly 600 years odl.
A national museum or
The Palace Museum.
Fourteen Emperors from
the Ming Dynasty and ten
from the Qing Dynasty.
Prepare for next period.
Homework
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