外研版高中英语中国之旅（学生用书）Unit10RememberingtheSilkRoad.ppt

Unit 10 Remembering the Silk Road 1 SPEAKING（1） Pair work Discuss which of the Smiths, in your opinion, had the best day. Use the following expressions. Expressing opinions and preferences ·In my opinion, … ·It seems to me that… ·I think I believe/prefer… 2 SPEAKING（2） Pair work Explain to a tourist how you learnt to write Chinese and how many characters you know. Group work Discuss the importance of the Silk Road in Chinese history. Think about these questions: ·What was transported from China to the west? ·What was transported from the west to China? ·Which ideas and items of China changed the west? Example: gunpowder VOCABULARY 1. Complete this passage with words from the unit. The travellers were silk m_____. Their brother kept silkworms, feeding them m_____ leaves and then getting silk from their cocoons. They would then bring it to this o_____ in the desert, which had become a c_____ with people from many distant places. They stopped for a moment to look at some s_____ of the Buddha someone had placed there, and then hurried on to the market. 2. Write the English names of the various Chinese dialects. Example: Cantonese 3 CULTURAL CORNER French, ltalian, Portuguese and Spanish are sister languages, and speakers of these languages can sometimes understand each other. English belongs to the German, Dutch, Swedish family, but has a lot of words coming from French. All the languages mentioned are written in the Roman alphabet, which is a set of 26 letters. Greek and Russian have their own different alphabets. The numerals 1, 2, 3 and so on are Arabic numerals, which replaced the Roman ones, e.g. I, Il, Ill, which were difficult to use centuries ago. THE END