高中英语 Unit 2 The United Kingdom Reading课件 新人教版必修5

Ifwewanttodescribeacountry,whatdoweneedtowriteabout?location/size/population/people/language/weather/flower/resource/history/culturePossibleanswers:Geography:Literature:Sports:population:About6omillionclimate:mildarea:About240,000sqkmLocation:WesternEuropeLanguage:Ethnicgroups:English,Welsh,ScottishEnglish81.5%,Scottish9.6%,Irish2.4%,Welsh1.9%,Ulster1.8%,WestIndian,Indian,Pakistanis,andother2.8%Scotland,England,Wales,NorthernIreland…Shakespeare,Shelly,CharlesDickens…ManchesterUnited,Beckham,Owen…Task1Accordingtothetext,joinlinestotherightanswer.Para.1.ExplainsthejoiningofEnglandandWales.Para.2.Statestopictobeexaminedinthereading.Para.3.ExplainstheimportanceofLondonasaculturalandpoliticalcentreintheUK.Para.4.Explainswhattheterm“GreatBritain”meansandhowitcameabout.Para.5.Explainsdifferencesinthefourcountries.Para.6.ExplainshowEnglandisdividedintothreezones.Task2Answerthefollowingquestions:1.WhendidWaleslinktoEngland?2.Whathappenedin1603?3.WhatarethenamesoftheflagsofEngland,Scotland,IrelandandtheUK?Inthe13thcenturyADGreatBritainwasthenamegivenwhenEnglandandWaleswerejoinedtoScotland.SeeundertheFlag.LookatFlagofUnitedKingdomFlagofUnitedKingdomCrossofStGeorge聖喬治旗(England)CrossofStAndrew聖安德魯旗(Scotland)第一面米字旗WhydoyouknowtheflagcalledtheUnionJack?CrossofSt.Patrick's(Ireland)現在的米字旗「UnionJack」or「UnionFlag」Task31FinishComprehending1and2Answerthequestions1.TheUnionJackflagunitesthethreeflagsofthreecountriesintheUnitedKingdom.Whichcountryisleftout?Why?_______________________________________________________________________ThecountryleftoutisWales.ItisusuallyassumedtobepartofEngland.2.WhatthreecountriesdoesBritishAirwaysrepresent?1.______2.________3.__________3.WhichgroupofinvadersdidnotinfluenceLondon?EnglandScotlandNorthernIrelandTheVikings.TheyonlyinfluencedthevocabularyandtheplacenamesoftheNorth.•North:•Midlands:•South:Leeds,York,Sheffield,ManchesterCoventry,BirminghamReading,London,Brighton,PlymouthDoesEngland,BritainortheGreatBritainmeanthesameastheUK?Ifnot,tellthedifferencebetweenthem?Task4.MindMapPart1:AbouttheUKPart2:AboutEnglandPart2:AboutLondonParagraph1-4Paragraph5Paragraph6Paragraph1PartsofUKParagraph2HowdoEnglandandWalescomeParagraph3HowdoBritainandUKcomeParagraph4AdministrationofUKParagraph5ThegeographicaldivisionofEngland,thesimilaritiesanddifferencesParagraph6TheculturalofLondonTask5.What’sthewritingstyle?Thetextiswritteninnarrativestyle,whichintroducestothelearnershowtheUKwasformedgeographicallyandhistorically,mainlydealingwithEnglandandtheotherthreecountries,whichnotonlyworktogetherasaunioninmanyaspectsbutalsodeveloptheirownadministrative(行政的)systems.ItalsointroducesthefourinvaderswhoinfluencedtheUKlanguage,place-names,vocabularyandsystemofgovernment.Task6.Usetheinformationtowriteashortsummaryofthepassage:ThewriterexamineshowtheUKdevelopedasanadministrativeunit.ItshowshowEnglandisalsodividedintothreezones.ItexplainswhyLondonbecametheculturalcapitalofEngland.Doexercise1&2onpage11.