1. 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

2. Module 6
Old and New

3. 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.

4. dam( 坝)
reservoir
（水库）

5. harness vt.治理，利用 narrow adj. 狭窄的 relic n.(常作复数)历史遗迹 遗物
Word
bank
relic n.(常作复数)历史遗迹 遗物
generate v. 发（电）
construction n.建筑，建造

6. Wu Gorge

7. Qutang Gorge

8. Xiling Gorge

23. the Qu Yuan Temple

24. the Moya Cliff Carvings(摩崖石刻)

25. Zhang Fei Temple

26. 巫峡神女峰

29. 更立西江石璧， 截断巫山云雨， 高峡出平湖。
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。

30. Dam

31. The Three Gorges Dam
Fast-reading

32. Match the parts with paragraghs
Part 1 brief introduction
Part advantages
Part 3 disadvantages

33. Careful-reading

34. 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

35. 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

36. Read Part2, answer the questions
Task2:
Read Part2, answer the questions
Who first suggested 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 billion C. 40 billion D. About 800billion
3. What does “global warming” mean?
全球变暖

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

38. Task3: Read Part3 (para.4 & 5) Find out the disadvantages of the dam1. 2. 3.
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

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

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

41. Is it perfect ?

42. the Qu Yuan Temple

43. the Moya Cliff Carvings(摩崖石刻)

44. Zhang Fei Temple

45. 巫峡神女峰

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

47. PK Discussion Is it worth(值得) building such a huge project ? Why?
disadvantages PK
advantages
show your opinion

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

49. old
new

50. 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: ….

51. 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?
V: What are the disadvantages?
V: Do you think the advantages are more important than the disadvantages?

52. The winner group is?

53. Congratulations

54. Assessment
Learn to assess
课堂评价量规

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

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