Learning about Language教学设计第二课时

Learning about language Learning aims: Knowledge aim: Students will learn something about cultural relics and history of the Amber Room.

Ability aim: Students will improve their abilities of fast reading and careful reading through some reading activities. Emotion aim: Students will be cultivated to love cultural relics better and have better civilized behavior. Learning important points:

How to improve the students’

reading abilities of fast reading and careful reading. Learning difficult point:

How to cultivate the students’

love for cultural relics and civilized behavior. Learning procedure: Step One: Greetings and leading-in Step Two: Explaining aims Step Three: Feedback of pre-viewing plan Step Four: Fast reading(读法指导：略读文章标题、每段主题句以及看文中插图，获取每段,全文主题.)

I .Read the passage quickly and find out the main idea of each paragraph Para.1

a. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world.. Para.2

b. How was a new Amber Room built? Para.3

c. How did the Amber Room get lost? Para.4

d. How was the Amber Room built? Para.5

e. How did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift? II. Main idea of the passage:.(请从括号里选出正确的词) The passage tells the_________ (history/ style) of the Amber Room in order of _________(time/ place)

Step Five: Careful reading(读法指导：细读课文，多注意人名、时间、地点以及相关的事件) I.

Read the text carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences together.

1, Frederick I

A, stole the Amber Room. 2, Frederick William I

B, sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia. 3, Peter the Great

C, had the Amber Room made. 4, Catherine II

D, had it moved outside St Petersburg. 5, The Nazi army

E, gave it to the Czar as a gift. 6, The Russians and Germans

F, built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one. II.

Read the text carefully and choose the best answer. 1) Why was it called the Amber Room?

A. Because several tons of amber were used to make it.

B. Because it was decorated with gold and jewels.

C. Because the room looked like a piece of amber.

D. Because the color of the room is yellow. 2) The Amber Room was designed for the palace of

A. Catherine II

B. Frederick I

C. Peter the Great

D. Frederick William I

3) When was the Amber Room completed the way Catherine II wanted?

A, in 1716

B, in 1770

C, in 1941

D, in 2003 4) In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in

A. German

B. Russia

C. Sweden

D. France 5) The new Amber Room looks much like the old one because

A. the Russians and Germans are good at building the Amber Room. B. it was rebuilt by studying old photos of the former Amber Room. C. they found the old Amber Room. D. Catherine’s artists gave detailed advice. Step Six: Listening and retelling

Listen to the tape and retell the passage by filling in the chart below. Please pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation while listening. ( A,B层学生在复述课文时在表格的基础上可适当增加细节内容，C层完成表格即可)

Year Person What happened to the Amber Room the Amber Room was

for the

Frederick I palace of Frederick I gave the Amber Room

as a 1716

gift had the Amber Room

1770 Catherine II

[来1941

the Amber Room 源:21世纪教育网]

200321The Russians and

the Amber Room 世纪教Germans 育网

Step Seven: Discussion

Discuss the following two questions in groups of six. 1).Why should we protect the cultural relics?

2). As middle school students, what should we do to protect cultural relics? Homework: AB层学生任选两段背诵，并分析以下长难句,C层学生背诵以下长难句，注意黑体字部分

1). It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. 2). However, the next king of Russia, Frederick William I,

to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. 3). Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers.

4).There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea.