泛读3-unit-9-Cities.ppt

Unit 9Cities Warm-Up ActivitieslWhich Chinese cities have you been to and which one do you like best?lHave you ever been to Hong Kong?  lWhat do you know about the city?lDo you like this city? Why? Part One: Reading skills PracticeText I: The Unforgettable Hong KonglLetter PerceptionlWord PerceptionlWord pretestl1-3 BAAl4-6 BCAl7-9 CCBl10-12 ABClScanning ExerciseslYou are required to finish reading the text and the comprehension questions within 10 minutes.l1.C   2.A   3.C   l4.C   5.B   6.B  l 7.B   8.B   9.B   l10.A   11.C   12.B       The Star Ferry 天星小轮天星小轮     Victoria Peak 太平山顶太平山顶 Stanley Market 赤柱市场赤柱市场 Repulse Bay 浅水湾浅水湾       Avenue of Stars 星光大道星光大道double-decker tramthree-piece suits•Three-piece suits are traditional suits with classic appeal. Made up of trousers, a jacket, and a vest or waistcoat, three-piece suits can up your style points instantly and add a completely different air to your professional dress.Cheung Chau Bun Festival長洲太平清醮長洲太平清醮 会lCheung Chau's Bun Festival, which draws tens of thousands of local and overseas tourists every year, is staged to mark the Eighth day of the Fourth Moon, in the Chinese calendar (this is usually in early May). It coincides with the local celebration of Buddha's Birthday.lAt midnight tonight, teams of contestants will scramble up 5 story tall towers, literally covered with steamed, bean-filled buns. Whoever collects the most buns from the tower walls, wins.lThe Cheung Chau Bun Festival began as a fun and exciting ritual for fishing communities to pray for safety from pirates. Today this religious origin has largely been forgotten, and the festival has mainly become a showcase of traditional Chinese culture.The Bun Festival on Cheung Chaulit has been a hundred years historyleveryyear in May all people on the island must kept vegetarian diet for three days, at the last day the procession held. When midnight came hundreds young men hurried up to the three bun towers, torn off all the buns, put them in bag or spread them over the crowd. l This activity of bun-snatching was ceased after an accident in 1978, the bamboo structure of the bun tower bent in the middle and half fall. lThe modern style bun-snatching came back at 2005 , it changed to mountaineering equipped climbers and steel structure tower.lThe festival itself is an combination of praying to gods, ganged together, and to navigate the lost spirits.A mountain of buns to be climbed for the festivalThe old-style "Bun Mountain" made up of bamboo polesThe new "Bun Mountain" used for bun-snatching competitionslSteamed buns for the "Bun Mountain", being stamped the crimson characters of the respective district (北社, "Northern Society" shown in a combined way) on the island Dancers in the Flying Colors ParadelThe parade is a major part of the annual Bun Festival held on the island of Cheung Chau. The festival is scheduled to coincide with Buddha's BirthdaySection BlSpend 5 minutes scanning the first material of Section B while bearing the questions of 1-5 on Page 140 in mind.l1.F 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.TBostonAtlantalSpend 3 minutes scanning the second material of Section B while bearing the questions of 6-8 on Page 141 in mind.l6.C 7.C 8.BlSpend 3 minutes scanning the third material of Section B while bearing the questions of 9-11 on Page 141 in mind.l9.B 10.C 11.BlSpend 3 minutes scanning the fourth material of Section B while bearing the questions of 12-14 on Page 142 in mind.l12.A 13.A 14.ClSpend 3 minutes scanning the fifth material of Section B while bearing the questions of 15-17 on Page 60 in mind.l15.C 16.A 17.C                Section C: Text II1. B  2. A  3. A 4. C  5. A  6. B  7. C  8. C  9. C  10. CWashington MonumentLincoln MemorialJefferson MemorialBritish MuseumElgin MarblesBuckingham PalaceRoyal Greenwich ObservatoryHouse of ParliamentMadam Tussaud’s杜莎蜡像馆St Paul CathedralTower of London Westminster AbbeyPoet’s Corner Topics DiscussionlWhich city in the world would you like to visit most?。