武進區奔牛高級中學

Period One Warming-up & Listening

Aims: (1) To help the students know something about cultural relics.

(2) To talk about ways to protect cultural relics

(3) To train the students’ ability of listening and improve their spoken English.

Teaching Design

A. Lead-in

As is known to us all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites,many of them are world-famous.

Have you heard of the world heritage list?

Qs:

How many properties are on the list? ( 730 up to 29 June, 2000)

How many Chinese sites are included? ( 28)

Can you name some familiar ones? And try to talk about some familiar ones in our hometown, Jiangsu.

B Warming-up

Look at the three pictures on the book, these three sites are all on the world heritage list.

Talk about them separately and answer the following questions

(1) Where are the three sites?

(2) What can you see in these pictures?

(3) Which one would you like to see most and want to travel there if a chance is given? And why?

These three cultural sites are called cultural relics and we should do our best to protect them.

C Listening

We all know it is necessary for us to protect the cultural relics. Then ,why? And what do you think we can do to protect our cultural relics?

Listen to the tape and try to fill in the blanks.

1. Listen to the tape and write down the name of site and the importance

in the form below.

2. Listen to the tape again and write down “What’s being done to protect it”

Listen to the tape again and put the status, the temple, the museum, Moon Tower and the Blue Waterfall in the right place.

Discussion What will you do to protect the cultural relics in our country?

1. Great Wall

2. Classical Gardens of Suzhou

3. Mogao Caves

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and Terro cotta Warriors ( 4 groups to discuss)

Period Two 　Speaking

Aims: To develop the students’ ability of speaking

To help arouse the students’ wide imagination and creative thinking

To master the new words and phrases.

1) Brainstorming

Have you remembered the emblem of Beijing Olympic Games?

It is red seal ,it has Chinese tradition. It can show the long history of china.

What do you think can represent Chinese culture?

2) Speaking

Everybody is now asked to make a culture capsule which can be sent into space so that anyone who finds it will understand who we are.. You can select objects that represent Chinese culture, but do remember that you cannot put any living things in it. Also you may include in the capsule a short message of about two sentences in any language, but remember that those who find it may not understand the language. Meanwhile please give the reasons for your choices. The following expressions may be helpful to you.

( Form on page 44)

Divide the class into groups, each group discuss the project, trying to agree on the same five things. Each group elects one student to finish a report and then ask some groups to report in front of the class.

Ways of giving advice or making suggestions Ways of replying to others’ advice or suggestions

Acceptance Refuse

Shall we/I…? All right./ Ok I’m afraid that…

Let’s, shall we…? That’s all right. I’m sorry, but…

Why not…? Certainly./Sure I’d like (love) to, but…

Why don’t you…? That sounds great. It (That) sounds nice,but…

You’d better… That sounds (like) a good idea.

I think it’s better (for you/us) to… I’d like (love) to…

Would you like to…?

What/how about…?

I suggest (that) you (should)…

I advise you (not) to..

I wonder if you should..

Have you considered..?

3) Activity

Suppose your foreign teacher Mike is going to go home next week. You and your partner are preparing three gifts for him. Make a short dialogue, talk about your ideas and explain the reasons.

Period Three　 Reading

Focus: reading

Teaching goals:

1. To train the ability of skimming and scanning.

2. To develop the students’ ability and skills of guessing words and reading comprehension.

3. To help the students get into a good habit of reading.

Teaching aids: a recorder, a multi-media computer, etc.

Teaching procedures:

Step1: warming up

1. Greetings

2. Comment on the students’ report about the culture capsule.

3. Go over the ways of giving advice or making suggestions.

Step2. Pre-reading

Language input: throughout the world, there are many well-known cities, and quite a few of them are particularly great. Some of the cities are well received by the people, and some others have in or around them a number of famous cultural relics .Now let’s have a free discussion about the following questions:

1. Some cities, like Paris and Beijing, are called great cities of the world .In your opinion, what makes a city great?

2. What cultural relics are there in the place where you live? How important are they?

Step3Reading

Task1.Fast reading.

1. What’s the name of the city? Which river flows through the center of it? Who built it?

2. Why is it called a city of heroes?

3. True or false questions:

1) The city of St Petersburg was built and rebuilt by peter the Great.

2) Many great palaces in the city, which were large and beautiful, were built after Peter’s death.

3) The Germans attacked St. Petersburg a hundreds ago.

4) When the palaces and buildings were rebuilt, people changed their old beauty.

5) The Germans destroyed a portrait of the great.

6) It was difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces.

7) Workers and painters used paragraphs to help them rebuild the city.

8) St Petersburg will never be as beautiful as it was before.

Task 2. Intensive reading

Reading the passage carefully and answer the following questions.

1. Why was the city important in the past?

2. Why did it seem impossible for people to restore the city and its cultural relics after the German left?

3. Why was it so difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces?

4. What did people do before the Germans came? Why?

5. What did people use to help them rebuild the city?

Step 4. Interview

Ask the students to work in Paris, play the role of a newspaper reporter and a citizen of Petersburg and finally invite some pairs to act out their interview in the front.

Period 4　 Language Points

Focus: Language Points

Step1.warming up

1. Greetings

2. Check the homework, giving some explanation if necessary.

Step2.Lead-in

Ask the students to find out the sentences from the passage that they think most beautiful or sound sweetest.

Step3.Reading

1. Ask the students to read on page 124 and finish the following exercises shown on the screen.

①The word, which has similar meaning to “finish”, is___.

②___means to go or run quickly.

③The word ____means to save.

④A _______is a place where people worship the god

⑤To ____large areas means that water covers large areas.

⑥If something is needed ,it is _____.

⑦When you are seriously ill , your life could be________.

2. Ask the students to find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Paragraph 1.the build of the city.

Paragraph 2.the decline of the city.

Pragraph3.the rebuild of the city.

Paragraph 4.the present of situation of the city.

Step4.Further discussion

As we know, the British and the French coalition destroyed the winter palace in 1806. Here we have two topics to discuss:

1. Do you think it is possible to for Chinese people to rebuild it?

2. Do you think it is necessary to rebuild it? How can people rebuild it?

Step5.Explain some new words.

1. Words

under attack: being surrounded and assaulted by enemies’ military action

rebuild: build again

replace: to put back in a former position or place

represent: to stand for, symbolize

recreate: create something past again

restore: to bring back to the original condition

in ruins: being destroyed completely

in pieces: broken and damaged

revolution: to overthrow of one government and its replacement with another

portrait: a likeness of a person, especially one showing the face

destroy: to ruin completely; spoil; todo away with; put on the end to

2. Practice:

The city is built in the _____of the Neva River ___though its center. After the Russian_____, the palaces there were _____as museum. The city was___ _____for three months during the Second World War, but people there didn’t____ _____. The Germans _____the buildings and everywhere you could see paintings and _______in_______and the whole city was ____ _____. After the war, Russian people began to ___the city. They wanted to ____the city_____to life. Now, many ______pieces have been ___, old portraits have been____, and the city has been ___. Dreams can ___ ____.

Step6.Homework

1. Retell the story in your own words.

2. Find more information about peter the great.