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课件网) Let’s enjoy a song clip. Can you guess what we are to talk about today Activity 1 Lead-in Understanding ideas The Sky Railway 1 Which is the highest railway in the world a The Trans –Siberian Railway. b The Qinghai-Tibet Railway. c The Chengdu-Kunming Railway. Quiz The Qinghai-Tibet Railway The Trans –Siberian Railway The Chengdu-Kunming Railway. 2. In which year was the completed Qinghai-Tibet Railway put into operation a 1984 b 2001 c 2006 Quiz Quiz 3 Which of these stations is not on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway a Lhasa. b Golmud c. Lanzhou. 4 Which of these natural World Heritage Sites does the Qinghai-Tibet Railway pass by a Xingjiang Tianshan. b Qinghai Hoh Xil. c South China Karst Xingjiang Tianshan Qinghai Hoh Xil South China Karst Why is the Qinghai-Tibet Railway called "the Sky Railway" Predict sitting back 现在分词作状语与主语 I为主动关系 be about to do 即将做某事 claim 断言 have/has been doing 一直在做某事 inside my head 在我的脑海中 wind 蜿蜒盘旋 travel across 旅行横穿 roof of the world 世界屋脊 be about to do sth. when... 即将做某事，这时... Para. 1 Sitting back in my seat, I can’t quite believe that I’m about to travel along the railway that many foreign experts claimed was “impossible”. The train has been racing along steadily since it left Xining. All this time, the song “Sky Railway” has been playing inside my head. The words “railways like massive dragons are winding among the mountains” seem particularly vivid as I travel across the “roof of the world”. that引导的定语从句，修饰railway 现在完成进行时 巨大的 / wa nd / v.蜿蜒 The author felt excited to start his journey on the “Sky Railway”. Match the main idea to its corresponding paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Para 7 A twenty-kilometre sandbag wall along the Cuona Lake was built to protect it from construction waste. People completed the Qinghai-Tibet Railway by overcoming the most difficult engineering challenges. To make sure the railway workers stayed healthy, several oxygen-making stations were constructed. Passages have been built under the railway to allow animals to move safely and freely in their natural habitat. Effective measures were taken to prevent damage to wetlands and grasslands. The author felt excited to start his journey on the “Sky Railway”. We built our “impossible” railway with the care the environment deserves. 1. Many foreign experts claimed the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was . impossible Read for details Activity 1 Read para.1 carefully and fill in the blanks. Para. 1 Sitting back in my seat, I can’t quite believe that I’m about to travel along the railway that many foreign experts claimed was “impossible”. The train has been racing along steadily since it left Xining. All this time, the song “Sky Railway” has been playing inside my head. The words “railways like massive dragons are winding among the mountains” seem particularly vivid as I travel ac ... ...
