盾面上有五组图案；四颗五角星代表南十字星.pptxVIP

unit18ReadingNew zealand国旗：呈横长方形，长与宽之比为2∶1。旗地为深蓝色，左上方为英国国旗红、白色的“米”字图案，右边有四颗镶白边的红色五角星，四颗星排列均不对称。新西兰是英联邦成员国，红、白“米”字图案表明同英国的传统关系；四颗星表示南十字星座，表明该国位于南半球，同时还象征独立和希望。Southern Hemisphere国徽：中心图案为盾徽。盾面上有五组图案；四颗五角星代表南十字星座，象征新西兰；麦捆代表农业；羊代表该国发达的畜牧业；交叉的斧头象征该国的工业和矿业；三只扬帆的船表示该国海上贸易的重要性。盾徽右侧为手持武器的毛利人，左侧是持有国旗的欧洲移民妇女；上方有一顶英国伊丽莎白女王二世加冕典礼时用的王冠，象征英国女王也是新西兰的国家元首；下方为新西兰蕨类植物，绶带上用英文写着“新西兰”。节日 新年 1月1日- 2日 威坦哲日（怀唐伊日，国庆） 2月6日 复活节 3-4月，连续4天 澳新军团日 4月25日 女王生日 6月第一个星期一 劳动节 10月最后一个星期一 圣诞节 12月25日 节礼日 12月26日 Task 1: Read quickly to find the answers1.Where is it?2.What’s the capital?3.What’s the weather of New Zealand like?4.What’s the North Island famous for? 5.What’s the most famous animal?6.Who are the earliest people to come to this country?Task2:Listen and get the idea of each paragraph:Para1:Para2:Para3:Para4:Geography: location/ size/ capital /citiesClimate:mild sea/ rainfall/ seasonsNatural beauty: seas/ cities, beaches, mountains, hot spring/ natural birdHistory: earliest settlers/ discovery/ later settlersRead the 1st Para and fill the right name of the placeGeographyAucklandNorth IslandTASMAN SEAWellingtonSouth IslandChristchurchQueenstown PACIFIC OCEANClimateQuestion:What’s the weather like in New Zealand?What coat do you think New Zealanders wear most according to the climate?Natural beauty Read and underlineocean and seasbeacheshills and mountainsKiwi hot springsplantsHistoryRead and fill in the tableabout 1000 years ago around 1421in 1642in 1769by 1840The first people (the Maori) came to New Zealand.Chinese sailors discovered the islands.The Dutchman Abel Tasman named the islands New Zealand.Captain James Cook took possession of the islands.The Maori signed an agreement with the European settlers.What do the words in bold refer to?It ----2. which------3. this heat-----4. These settlers -----5. it------New Zealandgeographyclimatenatural beautyhistorymild seamade up ofocean/seasbeaches hills/mountainhot springsplantsanimals Kiwi1000 years agoaround 1421 in 1642in 1769by 1840subtropic