高二英语人教版必修5课件Unit2Reading

人教课标高二必修5Unit2AbriefintroductiontotheUKTheUnitedKingdomisagreatcountry.Ithasalonghistory.ItconsistsofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.GreatBritainismadeupofthreecountries,thatis,England,ScotlandandWales.SotheUnitedKingdomisactuallycomposedoffourcountries:England,Scotland,WalesandNorthernIreland.Londonisitscapital.The2012OlympicGameswasheldinthecity.ThisisthefamousHeathrowAirport.Ifyouwanttovisitthecountry,youcangotoLondonbyair.Ifyouleaveat11:15BeijingtimefromBeijingairport,youwillgettoLondonHeathrowAirportatabout15:10Londontime.BeijingissevenhoursearlierthanLondon.ThiswasthePrimeMinisteroftheUK.AndthiswastheQueen.Thequeenistheheadofstate,butit’sinnameonly.ThemostpowerfuloneisthePrimeMinister,whocontrolseverythingintheUK.Thereare23provincesinChina.ButinEngland,peopledon’tusetheword“province”.Instead,theyusetheword“county”.TherearemorethaneightycountiesintheUK.TheRiverThamesisthelongestriver.1.HowmanycountriesdoestheUKconsistof?A.twoB.threeC.four2.HowlongdoesittaketoflyfromBeijingairporttoLondonHeathrowAirport?A.about6hoursB.about11hoursC.about16hours3.WhorulestheUK:thePrimeMinisterortheQueen?A.theQueenB.thePrimeMinisterC.both4.WhataretheprovincescalledinEngland?A.countiesB.departmentsC.states5.WhichisthelongestriverinEngland?A.theRiverAvonB.theRiverThamesC.theRiverSevern1.CanyounamethecapitalcitiesofthecountriesoftheUK?WhatdoyouknowaboutanyothercitiesortownsintheUK?2.Englandcanbedividedintothreemainareas.Doyouknowwhattheyare?3.Lookatthetitleandpicturesinthereadingpassageandpredictwhatitisabout.Thenskimittoseeifyouwereright.1.Matchthemainideaofeachparagraph.Para1Para2Para3B.Statesthetopicofthepassage.C.Explainsdifferencesinthefourcountries.A.Explainswhattheterm“GreatBritain”meansandhowitcameabout.Para4Para5Para6D.ExplainstheimportanceofLondonasaculturalandpoliticalcenterintheUK.E.TheevidenceoftheinvaderscanbefoundintheBritishcountryside.F.ExplainshowEnglandisdividedintothreezones.2.Whatisthemainideaofthetext?A.HowmanycountriesmakeuptheUnitedKingdom.B.ExplainhowEnglandisdividedintothreezones.C.ThereasonwhyLondonbecametheculturalcapitalofEngland.D.AbriefintroductiontotheUKaboutitsfoundationanddevelopmentbasedongeography,historyandculture,etc.WhichcountriesmakeuptheUK?England,Wales,Scotland,NorthernIreland.1.WhichcountriesformGreatBritain?England,Wales,Scotland.2.WhenwasWaleslinkedtoEngland?Inthethirteenthcentury.3.WhenwereEnglandandWalesjoinedtoScotland?Intheseventeenthcentury.4.WhendidSouthernIrelandbreakawayandNorthernIrelandjoinwithEnglandScotlandandWalestoformtheUK?Intheearlytwentiethcentury.Inthe13thCentury______waslinkedtoEngland.Inthe17thCenturyEnglandandWaleswerejoinedto__________.Intheearly20thCentury_________Irelandbrokeawayand_________Irelandjoinedwith_________,Walesand_________tobecome____________________.ScotlandWalesSouthernNorthernEnglandScotlandtheUnitedKingdomReadPara2,completetheform.CrossofStGeorge(England)CrossofAndrew(Scotland)CrossofStPatrick(Ireland)UnionJackWales1.Whichareasdothefourcountriesworktogether?Inthecurrencyandinternationalrelations.2.Whatarethefourcountries’differences?TheyhavedevelopeddifferenteducationalandlegalsystemsaswellasdifferentfootballteamsforcompetitionsliketheWorldCup.1.Englandcanbedividedinto_____parts.Theyare:__________________________________________________threeNorthofEnglandMidlandsSouthofEngland2.WhatarethefeaturesoftheSouth?MostofthepopulationsettledintheSouth.3.WhatarethefeaturesoftheMidlandsandNorthofEngland?MostofthelargeindustrialcitiesareintheMidlandsandNorthofEngland.4.WherecanyoufindmoreaboutBritishhistoryandculture?InolderbutsmallertownsfirstbuiltbytheRomans.1.Para5mainlytellsus______.A.museumsB.invadersC.governmentD.theVikings2.InthehistoryofEngland,therehasbeenfoursetsofinvaders.Theyare:__________________,__________________,__________________,__________________.theRomanstheAnglo-SaxonstheVikingstheNormans2.WhatdidtheFourInvadersleaveforEngland?theRomanstheAnglo-SaxonstheVikingstheNormanslefttheirtownsandroadslefttheirlanguageandtheirgovernmentinfluencedthevocabularyandplace–namesoftheNorthleftcastlesandwordsforfood1.Dividethetextintothreepartsaccordingtothemainideasgiven.Part1(Para_____)Part2(Para____)Part3(Para_____)HowtheUKcameintobeing?Englandisdividedinto3zones.TheculturalimportanceofLondon.1-345-62.Readthetextagainandchoosethebestanswer.(1)EnglandandWaleswerejoinedtoScotlandinthe______century.A.thirteenthB.seventeenthC.earlytwentiethcenturyD.1060s(2)FromPara.4,weknowthat____________________________.A.England,WalesandScotlandformGreatBritain.B.mostofthepopulationsettleinthenorth.C.thecitiesareaslargeasthoseinChina.D.Britishpeoplelovefootballverymuch.(3)Wecandrawaconclusionthat______.A.noneofthecitiesinEnglandareasbigasthoseinChina.B.thefourcountriesworktogetherinthecurrencyandlegalsystem.C.everycityinEnglandhashistoricalarchitecturebuiltbyRomans.D.evidenceofdifferentinvaderscanbefoundallovertheUK.ThefullnameofEnglandisthe_______________ofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.Itconsistsoffourparts,theyare________,_________,______and________________.Peopl