Learning about Language教学目标

Unit 1 cultural relics

Learning about Language Teaching Goals:

1. To review how to use some useful words and expressions. 2. To review how to use some useful structures 3. To review

the attributive clause

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Review about the words The Amber Room 1. Time spent: A ____ of artists spent ___ years making it. 2. Material: 7,000 tons of ______ were used for making it, with ____ and ______. 3. Purpose: It was made ___ to be a gift, ___ for the Palace of Frederick I. 4. Results: It was _________ to Russia people. After Frederick William I succeeded his father and ______ the king of Prussia; soon it became part of the Czar’s winter palace; it was one of the great _______ of the world; in 1941, it was _____ by the Nazis. Now a new Amber Room ____________ in Russia and it ______________ the old one, ________ the old photos. Suggested answers:

1. team, ten

2.amber, gold, jewels

3.

not, but 4. sent/given, became, wonders,

stolen, has been built, looks much like, following

Step 2. Word guessing game 1. to choose carefully-- 2. not seen or found very often-- 3. welcome area in a hotel --- 4. to surprise somebody very much--- 5. no more than-- 6. made of wood-- 7. trying to find something; looking carefully for something --- 8. to manage to live or continue in difficulties-- 9. to take something away -- 10. person who creates things which can be considered works of art

-- 11. of an earlier period or time; happening before -- 12. in a situation in which two sides fight each other --- Suggested answers:

1. select

2.

rare

3. reception

4. amaze

5. less than

6. wooden

7.

in search of

8. survive 9. remove

10. artist

11. former

12. at war

Step 3. Complete the passage Chen Lei studied art history and the early ________ of China in a university. He was able to recognize the ______ of different cultural relics from former times, especially the Tang and Song dynasties. One day he was looking in second-hand furniture shop when he saw an ________ object among the many different vases and _______. It was a mirror ________ in the Song Dynasty and ________ in the _______ style of that time. He recognized that it was ______ a cultural relic, but at a price he could afford, so he bought it at once. Later he gave it to his local museum. The people there were very happy and without ______ consider it one of the treasures of their collection. To them, it was ______ much more than Chen Lei paid. Suggested answers: Dynasties, style, amazing, jewels, designed,

decorated, fancy, rare, doubt, worth

Step 4. Discovering useful structures Grammar: Attributive Clause 1. Task 1: Ex. 3 (P4) (1). Here are the farmers who discovered the underground city last month. (2). Hangzhou is a famous city in China, where many people come to buy tea. (3). I don’t know the reason why she got so angry.

(4). You are talking to the old man who saw some Germans taking apart the Amber Room and removing it. (5). The woman remembered the day when she saw Nazis burying something near her home.

(6). St Petersburg is a very beautiful city, which was once called Leningrad. (7). I remember the soldier who told me not to tell anyone what I had seen.

(8). The soldiers moved the boxes to a mine, where they wanted to hide them.

(9). Xi’an is one of the few cities whose city walls remain as good as before.

(10). Shaanxi Province is a place whose/where cultural relics are well looked after.

2.

Task 2: Fill in the blanks using which, as, when, who, whom, where, when, why, that. (1) St Petersburg is a very beautiful city, _____ was once called Leningrad. (2) In Xi’an, I met a teacher, ____ has a strong love for cultural relics and took me to visit the history museum. (3) I don’t remember the soldier, ____ told me not to tell anyone what I had seen.

(4) My grandfather was a child then, ____ people didn’t pay much attention to cultural relics in the old days.

(5) They moved the boxes to a mine, _____ they wanted to hide them.

Suggested answers: (1). which

(2). who

(3).who

(4). when

(5).where

3. Task 3: Practice. (1) What surprised me was not what he said but the way _____________ he said it. (2) We’re just trying to reach a point _____ both sides will sit down together and talk.

(3) ___ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan. (4) This is the very house _____ he lived. (5) Next winter, _____ you will spend in Harbin, I’m sure, will be another exciting holiday. (6) That’s the reason ____ he was late.

(7) The pictures brought the days back to the old _____ they swam in the river. (8) Robert and his songs ___ were famous in the U. S. are also popular in China. (9) They are always smoking, _____ of course, will do harm to their health. (10) The situation _____ you use the

words is very clear in fact. Suggested answers: (1). That/in which

(2). where

(3).As

(4). where

(5).which

(6). why

(7).when

(8). that

(9).which

(10). where

4. Correct the mistakes (1) The reason why he explained at the meeting surprised us. (2) I can remember the days when we spent together. (3) The way in which you talked about is very important for us. (4) Put the book in which you can find it easily. (5) Where does the book belong to? (6)

Do you remember the day which I first met you? (7)

Great changes have taken place in the village that he once worked. (8)

I don’t know the man with him you quarreled last night.

Suggested answers: (1). why—(that)

(2). when—(that /which) (3).

in which –(which /that)

(4). in which--where (5).

去掉to / where→who

(6).

which→when或which前加on (7).

that→where

(8). him→whom

5. Translation (1). I’m sure I know the person who served us.

Suggested answers:

我确信我认识招待我们的那个人。

(2). Tom, who served us, is the owner of the restaurant. Suggested answers:

汤姆是饭店的老板，他招待我们。

(3). The woman who lives next door is a doctor. Suggested answers:

住在隔壁的那个妇女是个医生。

(4). My sister Mary, who lives in London, is a doctor.

Suggested answers:

我姐姐玛丽是个医生，她住在伦敦。

(5). 她有两个在政府工作的儿子。

Suggested answers:

She has two sons who work in the government.

(6). 她有两个儿子，他们在政府工作。

Suggested answers:

She has two sons, who work in the government.

(7). 我在1988年来到上海，

那年我五岁。

Suggested answers:

I came to Shanghai in 1988, when I was only 5.

(8). 我们搬到上海，那时我还很小。

Suggested answers:

We moved to Shanghai, when I was still very young.

(9). 我建议他在当地的报纸上登则广告。

(local) Suggested answers:

I suggest that he put an advertisement in the local paper.

(10). 男孩把玩具汽车拆开了, 可怎么也拼凑不起来。(take apart) Suggested answers:

The boy took apart the toy car, but couldn’t put it together again.

(11). 我决定给妈妈买份生日礼物，她一个人住在农村。(非限制性定语从句) Suggested answers: I decided to buy a birthday present for my mother, who lives alone in the countryside. (12). 我要飞往昆明，在这个季节那里很暖和。(非限制性定语从句) Suggested answers:

I will fly to Kunming, where it is very warm in this season.

Step 4. Homework 1. Finish the related exercises on the Workbook. 2. Prepare for the next lesson.