1 One student only can answer three questions

1. One student only can answer three questions at most. 2. Six students belong to a small group for discussion. Before class 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）

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 generate v. 发（电） construction n. 建筑，建造

Wu Gorge

Qutang Gorge

Xiling Gorge

the Qu Yuan Temple

the Moya Cliff Carvings(摩崖石刻)

Zhang Fei Temple

Dam

Fast-reading

Match the parts with paragraghs Part 1 brief introduction para. 1 para. 2 Part 3 advantages disadvantages para. 3 para. 4 para. 5

Careful-reading

Task 1: Read Part 1 (para 1 & 2), then fill in the blanks in which he Mao Zedong wrote a poem _______ dreamed of “walls of stone to _____ hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”. Now his dream has _____. come true Three Gorges Dam, _____ which is the biggest construction project in China ____ the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, since has been completed now. The dam is nearly 200 meters ____. high and 1. 5 kilometers 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

Task 2: 1. Who first suggested the idea of building a dam across the Yangtze River ? 2. A. Sun Yat-sen B. Mao Zedong 孙中山 C. Deng Xiaoping D. A great designer 2. How many tons of coal was used for heating and generating electricity in 1993? B. 20 billion C. 40 billion A. 1. 2 billion D. About 800 billion 3. What does “global warming” mean? 全球变暖

Find out : • What are the dam’s advantages? 1. Generate electricity 2. Reduce air pollution

Task 3: Read Part 3 (para. 4 & 5) Find out the disadvantages of the dam 1. flooded two cities, 11 counties, 140 towns and more than 4, 000 villages Disadvantages 2. a million people … move 3. flooded … historical sites and relics… submerged ll k a r o sm p w u o r g

Language points • dream of 梦想着。。。 • hold back 阻止，控制 • Grand Canal 大运河 • three quarters of… 四分之三的。。。 • equal to… 相当于 small group work

What is it like? high wide summary Why should we build it? The three gorges dam disadvantages electricity flood pollution cities… people historical sites

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the Qu Yuan Temple

the Moya Cliff Carvings(摩崖石刻)

Zhang Fei Temple

They all disappeared… About 800 historical relics have been submerged…. 淹没

Is it worth(值得) building such a huge project ? Why? advantages disadvantages PK

Tips: advantages PK disadvantages 1. generate electricity; 1. a million people … move 2. 2. reduce air 2. flooded historical pollution; sites ; 3. 3. control flooding； 3. affect nature; 4. 4. it’s good for … shipping …

old new

Role-play Find a partner, suppose(假设) one of you is a guide, 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: ….

• Visitor: How wide and how high is the dam? • Guide: It’s…. • V: Who first suggested the idea of building such a project? • G: …. • V: What are the advantages of the Three Gorges Dams? • G: …. • V: What are the disadvantages? • G: …. • V: Do you think the advantages are more important than the disadvantages? • G: ….

1. Rewrite the passage in your own language, show your opinion in the end. 2. Do the exercises.

Show respect to our great project. May the world be better and better.