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课件网) B1U6 At one with nature Understanding ideas Look at the pictures and talk about what you know about the ethnic groups Do they wear the same clothes as us They wear special clothes 2. Do they speak Mandarin (普通话)？ They speak their own languages 3. Are they good at music They are good at dancing and singing. Is their population as large as Han people Their population is small Longji Rice Terraces Read for structure Read the passage again and finish the following two tasks Task 2 Find the topic sentence of each paragraph. Task 1 The type of this passage is _____. A. narration(记叙文) B. exposition(说明文) C. argumentation (议论文) 龙脊梯田 A topic sentence tells the reader the main idea of a paragraph. It is usually at the beginning of a paragraph, but it may also be in the middle or at the end of a paragraph. Read for structure para.1: These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces. para.2: These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home. para.3: So why did these people go to so much trouble to turn the entire mountains into terraces para.4: But perhaps what is most significant is the way in which people have worked in harmony with nature to make these terraces and grow rice. para.5: Although modern technology could help produce more crops, these terraces still mean a lot to the local people for whom traditions hold much value. Summarize the main idea of each paragraph. para.1: The _____of the Longji Rice Terraces. colors para.2: The _____of the Longji Rice Terraces. history para.3: The _____why the Longji Rice Terraces were built. reasons para.4: The _____in which people have worked in harmony.. way para.5: The _____ of Longji Rice terraces today. value Colour history The reasons way Value today 本文是说明文(Exposition) 。 An exposition is a writing whose purpose is to give information. 1. Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun. Summer sees the mountains turn bright green with growing rice. During autumn, these same mountains are gold, and in winter they are covered in sheets of white frost. These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces. What colors are mentioned in different seasons Silver Green Gold White Guilin Mountains in Guangxi Warm up How do people grow rice there Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 2. These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home. Starting in the Yuan Dynasty, work on the terraces took hundreds of years, until its completion in the early Qing Dynasty. Reaching as far as the eye can see, these terraces cover tall mountains, often from the bottom to the very top. 1. Who built the terraces 2. Where are the terraces 3. How long did it take to build them Local Zhuang and Yao people. In Guangxi (From the Yuan Dynasty to the early of Qing Dynasty.) It took nearly hundreds of years to build them. 3. So why did these people go to so much trouble to turn ... ...
