Learning about Language第二课时教案

Unit1 Cultural relics

---ⅡIn Search of The Amber Room

By Zhang Wanqing ⅠTeaching aims: 1.

Knowledge aims:

⑴Key words:rare, survive, valuable, dynasty, vase, amaze, amazing, select, honey, design, fancy, style, decorate, jewel, artist, belong, troop, reception, remove, wooden, doubt, former, worth ⑵Important sentences:

①This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it．

②Later, CatherineⅡ

had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St.Petersburg where she spent her summers.

③There 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. 2.

Ability aims:

⑴Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room. ⑵Enable students to get the main idea of each paragraph and retell the text using their own words.

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Emotional aims:

⑴Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others. ⑵Enable the students to talk about the story of the Amber Room.

ⅡTeaching important points:

1 .Learn some new words and expressions. 2. Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room.

ⅢTeaching difficult points: 1.

Words: search, design, fancy, style, jewel, decorate, reception, light, remove, wonder,doubt etc. 2.

Phrases: look into, belong to, in search of, in return, at war, take apart, think highly of 3. Sentence patterns:

⑴There is no doubt that….

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This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several

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tons of amber were used to make it．

4. Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening. 5.Improve the students’ ability to retell the text.

ⅣTeaching methods: 1.

Listening to the tape. 2.

Learning and practicing.

ⅤTeaching aids: 1.multimedia

2.a tape recorder

3.a blackboard

ⅥTeaching procedures:

Step 1:Greetings: Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2:Words guessing game I’ll ask the students to guess the word or expression for each of the following meanings from the text. 1. looking for---in search of

2. to take something away---remove

3. something given to a person ---gift

4. very special and hard to find---rare

5. a hard yellow-brown substance---amber

Read each of the words twice. Step3:Lead-in: 1.

What’s amber? 2.

Can you imagine a house made of amber? Show some pictures about amber and the Amber Room on the screen. Step 4:Listening：（book based）

Listen to the tape and answer the following questions: 1.

How many characters in this text?

Four 2.

Who are they? They are FrederickⅠ、Frederick WilliamⅠ、Peter the Great、CatherineⅡ

Step 5:Fast reading: Read the text as quickly as possible and get the main idea of each paragraph. Paragraph 1: An _introduction_of the Amber Room. Paragraph 2-3: _History_______ of the Amber Room. Paragraph 4: _Disappearance__of the Amber Room. Paragraph 5: __Rebuilding_____of the Amber Room. Step 6:Paragraph1

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Listen to Para.1 again.Pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation. Fill in the blanks. Color yellow-brown Birthplace Style Prussia fancy style Material

amber(several tons)

gold

jewels Time

of

building it 10 years 2.

Ask a student to read Para.1.

At the same time the other students should underline the Attributive Clause. 3.

Key Points: ⑴in search of 寻找

eg.:I looked everywhere in search of my lost pen.

【易混辨析】

search/search for/search...for/in search of search

表示“搜索；搜寻；调查”。search sb.意为“搜某人身”；search sp.意为“在某地搜查”（意图找到某东西）。

search for

意为“寻找”，指搜寻某个特定的目标，相当于look for。

search...for

意为“搜查某人或某地以寻找某物”。

in search of

介词短语，意为“寻找”，后接寻找的目标或对象。

【用法拓展】

in honour of

in praise of

in memory of

in favour of

in place of

in charge of

in control of

in possession of

in need of

Ask the students to look up these phrases using a dictionary.

【即学即练】

①警察搜索那栋房屋，寻找被偷的宝石。

The police _searched_____ the house _for_____ the stolen jewel.

②他们在门口搜查了那个士兵。

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They _search_____ the guard at the gate. ★⑵could never have imagined could never have done“过去不可能做过

”表示对过去事情的一种否定推测。其中could 可用can来替换，never可用not来替换

eg.:He couldn’t have been at home last night,for the lights were out all night. 注：↗could have done 用于对过去情况的推测

（否定句，疑问句）

↘could have done 还表示“本能够做某事而实际未做” （肯定句）

【用法拓展】

①.must have done 表示对过去事情的一种肯定推测“过去一定”

②.may/might have done 表示对过去事情的一种可能性的猜测。“或许已经；也许”

③.should have done “本该做某事而实际未做”

④.shouldn’t have done “做了不该做的事”

【即学即练】

①He _couldn’t have gone___(go)abroad.I saw him just now. ②He __could have passed_____(pass)the exam,but he was too careless.

Step 7:Summary

Emphasize the key points. 1.

in search of 2.

could have done 3.

Grammar item:The Attributive Clause Step 8:Homework 1.Preview Para.2-Para.5 2.Look at your learning plan and fill in the blanks The Amber Room was made ____.Frederick WilliamⅠ________. It soon became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St. Petersburg. Later, CatherineⅡ

_______and she told her artists to ________. In September, 1941the Nazi Germany army secretly ________. After that, what happened to the Amber Room ________. Now Russians and Germans have ________ much like the old one.

ⅦBlackboard design：

Unit 1Cultural relics

---ⅡReading Ⅰ

1.in search of

2.remove

3.gift

4.rare

5.amber

ⅡKey Points:

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1.in search of/search/search for/search

…for 【用法拓展】

in honour of

in praise of

in memory of

in favour of

in place of

in charge of

in possession of

in control of

★2.could have done↗“过去一定…”（否定句，疑问句）

↘“本能够做某事而实际未做”

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