高中英语人教版必修2《unit1 Listening》课件

Number oቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ rooms
9, 999
Reasons for the number
1. Nine is a special number in Chinese culture.
2. It shows respect to the Emperor of Heaven who has 10, 000 rooms in his palace.
Part B
How old is it? Nearly 600 years old.
How many Fourteen Emperors from Emperors the Ming Dynasty and ten lived there? from the Qing Dynasty. What is it used for now? A national museum.
Listen to the dialogue and summarize the main idea in one sentence. T_h_e__li_s_te_n_in_g__te_x_t_i_s_a__d_is_c_u_s_s_io_n_/_ta_lk_/ c_o_n_v_ersation about the Forbidden City. _____________________________ ____
谢谢大家
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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 about 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 offlimits for the common people.
Listen to Part A and Part B, then fill in the chart with details.
Information about the Forbidden City
Part A It was because ordinary Reasons for people were never allowed its name into the palace while the emperors ruled China.
Read the exercises and look at the picture. Predict what the listening will be about. Then listen to the Part A and Part B, see if you are right.
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).
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Unit 1
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Discuss with your partner the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam.
to make electricity for everyone to encourage industry to make the country less dependent on outside oil supplies
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.
□5 Abu Simbel
□2 electricity
□4 covered by water □ floods
□6 engineers
□7 UNESCO
Now listen to Part B again and number the key words as you hear them.
□1 move the temple □3 1,900 workers
□2 stone by
□6 more than
stone □7 worth
$70,000,000
□8 in 1966
□4 four years
Listen to Part A and Part B again and then answer the questions.
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.
2. How did the engineers solve the problem? Was it successful? How do you know? They 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.
loss of local villages and communities under the waters of the reservoirs loss of some cultural relics loss of beautiful scenery Commercialisation of the area
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.
□1 Aswan High Dam □3 River Nile