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选择性必修一 Unit 3 Conservation (7)
1. World Heritage Sites in China
2. Nature is Turning on Us
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1. World Heritage Sites in China
Lead in
1. Do you know about “World Heritage Sites”?
2. What “World Heritage Sites” do China have?
World Heritage Site is given by United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) committee to
places in the world that are outstanding examples of cultural or
natural history.
55 World Heritage Sites in China (up to 2019)
55 World Heritage Sites in China (up to 2019)
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic
and Historic Interest Area
the Old Town of Lijiang
the Temple and Mansion
of Confucius
There are more than 900 halls and rooms in the temple,
more than 1,000 stone tablets and 100,000 tombs outside
the temple.
1. Where is the site?
2. How huge is it?
In Qufu, Shandong Province.
3. For whom is the site built?
The site is a memorial to
Confucius, the great
philosopher, politician
and educator of the
6th–5th centuries B.C.
Built to commemorate him in 478 B.C., the temple has been
destroyed and reconstructed over the centuries; today it comprises
more than 100 buildings.
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The Qufu complex of monuments has retained its
outstanding artistic and historic character due to the devotion of
successive Chinese emperors over more than 2,000 years.
2. the Old Town of Lijiang
1. Where is the Old Town of Lijiang?
It is a few hours bus-ride away from the
ancient city of Dali in Yunnan Province.
Surrounded by fields, mountains
and rivers, it looks like a jade ink stone
in spring and summer.
2. Why does it look like a jade ink stone?
3. Why is the Old Town of Lijiang like “Venice in the
East” to foreigners?
alleys, streams, bridges and houses
“city on water”
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The three parts of the Old Town of Lijiang: Dayan Old Town
(including the Heilong Pool), Baisha housing cluster and Shuhe
housing cluster, fully reflect the social, economic and cultural
features of the different periods, following the natural topography
of mountains and water sources to form an outstanding
settlement combining the residential traditions of Naxi, Han, Bai
and Tibetan people.
Dayan Old Town was established in the Ming dynasty as a
commercial centre.
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The Old Town of Lijiang has integrated the
mountains, rivers, trees and architecture to
create a human habitat featuring the unity
between man and nature.
3. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic
Interest Area
location
natural beauty
protected
species
north of Sichuan Province
mountains, lakes, streams, trees,
underground springs and waterfalls
protected species of plants and
endangered animals
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Covering 72,000 hectares, Jiuzhaigou
preserves a series of important forest
ecosystems including old-growth forests
which provide important habitat for
numerous threatened species of plants and
animals, including the giant panda and
golden monkey.
Unfortunately, a 7.0-
magnitude earthquake struck
Jiuzhaigou County at 9:19 p.m. on
August 8, 2017.
Good news is that it
reopened on Sept. 27, two years
later.
Do you know what happened to Jiuzhaigou in 2017?
Summary
① The Temple and Mansion of Confucius is a memorial to
Confucius. The site is huge.
② The Old Town of Lijiang looks like a jade ink stone in
spring and summer.
③ Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area is a
unique natural wonder.
• Mogao Caves
• Mount Taishan
• Peking Man Site at
Zhoukoudian
• Mount Huangshan
• Ancient City of Ping Yao
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Other World Heritage Sites in China
• Summer Palace
• Temple of Heaven
• Mount Wuyi
• Longmen Grottoes
• Yungang Grottoes
• The Great Wall
• ...
2. Nature is Turning on Us
Lead in
What disasters have been threatening the lives on the earth?
Are they caused by people?
Are they made worse by people?
Are they natural?
Environmental disasters
drought
natural
/ made worse by people
earthquake
natural
Environmental disasters
Environmental disasters
flood
natural
/ made worse by people
Environmental disasters
forest fire
natural
/ caused by people
Environmental disasters
hurricane
natural
Environmental disasters
tsunami
natural
Environmental disasters
typhoon
natural
Environmental disasters
volcanic eruption
natural
landslide
natural
/ made worse by people
Environmental disasters
Nature is Turning on Us
suddenly attack
someone
Natural
disasters
Asia, Europe and
South America
Earthquakes
US, Central America
Hurricanes and typhoons
in Somalia and
Kenya, in 2017;
Canada in 2016
Reduced rainfall
Indonesia, in 2016
Mt Tambora in
Indonesia, 1815
Volcanic eruptions
Mocoa in Colombia,
in 2017
Landslides
Complete the diagram
General Understanding
1. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural disasters?
2. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts?
3. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now?
4. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future?
5. What effects might this threat have?
1. Who are most likely to be the victims of natural
disasters?
2. Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and
droughts?
Overpopulation and mismanagement of the world’s
resources.
3. Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous
now?
Because around half the world’s population live in cities,
more than 500 million people now live within the range of
volcanic eruption and an even greater number of people live
at risk from earthquakes.
4. What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the
future?
5. What effects might this threat have?
A volcanic eruption.
It might send the planet into winter for years.
According to the author, why is nature turning on us?
First, overpopulation results in heavy building using local
materials without proper planning which can contribute to
landslides or collapse during earthquakes.
Next, global warming caused by factories and vehicles, and
the destruction of forests cause climate change and extreme
weather conditions.
Critical thinking
1. Is the author's attitude positive or negative towards
the future? Find evidence from the text.
2. Do you agree with the author? Why? What is your
attitude towards the future?
1. Is the author's attitude positive or negative towards
the future? Find evidence from the text.
The author has a negative point of view.
He believes that environmental disasters will get worse, after
speaking to experts. He says "Experts are predicting worse to
come", "Most disaster experts believe that things could get a lot
worse. ", "He warns that the world has not seen the worst yet.”
and "There are about two of these events every 100,000 years."
2. Do you agree with the author? Why? What is your
attitude towards the future?
I agree with the author that things will get worse.
The writer presents a lot of facts of disasters in the text. In
recent years there have been more natural disasters than in
the past, so I think this will continue unless we can manage to
stop or reverse global warming.
Homework
Search online to find:
1. more World Heritage Sites;
2. more environmental disasters.
Thank you!
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