Learning about Language教学设计(第一课时)

Teaching goals 教学目标

1.Target language目标语言

a. Key words and phrases rare, survive, valuable, dynasty, vase, amaze, amazing, select, honey, design, fancy, style, decorate, jewel, artist, belong, troop, reception, remove, wooden, doubt, former, worth, local, apart, painting, castle, trail, evidence, explode, entrance, sailor, sink, maid, informal, debate think highly of b. Grammar: The attributive clauses, esp. non-restrictive attributive clauses 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Get students to review, reuse and consolidate the comprehensive knowledge learnt in the unit. 3. Learning ability goals学能目标 By doing exercises, reusing the reading skills and including and deducing, students will master the knowledge more systematically, use the reading skills more skillfully and understand the topic more profoundly. Teaching important points 教学重点

Intensify the reappearance to get the students to master the words and grammar by designing good-to-use exercises. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Extend the topic by generalizing and making summary. Teaching methods 教学方法

Team work learning Task-based learning Teaching aids 教具准备

A projector and some slides Teaching procedures and ways教学过程和方式

Step I lead-in jewels palace amber redecorated gave 300th Germany photos The room was called the Amber Room because beautifully colored 1. ______ was used to make it. It was also decorated with gold and 2. ________ and took ten years to make. It was made for King Frederick I of Prussia but the next king, Frederick William I, 3. ______ it to Czar Peter the Great of Russia in 1716. It was moved from the Czar’s winter palace in St.

Petersburg to a summer 4. ______ outside the city by Catherine I and 5. ___________ in 1770. In September 1941, when Germany and Russia were at war, Nazi soldiers stole the room. It was taken to pieces, put in wooden boxes and put on a train to 6. _________. What happened to it after that is a mystery. By studying 7. ________ of the old Amber Room, Russians and Germans built a new Amber Room, which was opened to the public in 2003 to celebrate St. Petersburg’s 8. _______ birthday.

Step 2. Write down what you have learned about cultural relics: There are tens of thousands of cultural relics both in and out of China, but some of them are being destroyed. That is to say, some are in danger. So it's our duty to take actions to protect them. 2. From this unit you have also learned: ★Useful verbs -- survive, remain, light, doubt, consider, prove, pretend survive 1) vi. to continue to live, esp. after coming close to death 幸存；生还

e.g. We survived, although others died in the accident. 2) vt. to continue to live after...幸存于

e.g. We survived the accident. 2. Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. 【分析】

本句是一个主从复合句。主句的主语是Frederick William I, the King of Prussia 作__________________的同位语, 谓语

是could never have imagined; that引导

_________。

【句意】 普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉一世绝不可能想到他送给俄罗斯人民的厚礼会有这样一段令人惊讶的历史。

【仿写】

我的朋友约翰绝不可能想到他的作品会影响到百万人。

My friend, John, could never have thought that his writings would have influenced the lives of millions. 3. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. 【分析】

本句是一个主从复合句。主句是This gift was the Amber Room, which 引导

非限制性定语从句, 对先行词______ ______作附加的说明。在which引导的 从句中含有because引导的_______________。

【句意】

这件礼物就是琥珀屋, 它之所以有这个名字, 是因为造这间房子用了好几吨的琥珀。

【仿写】

这就是那部电影, 它之所以很受欢迎, 是因为它是根据真实故事改编的。

This was the film, which was very popular because it was based on a true story. 4. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. 【归纳】design作名词时, 意为“_ __________”; 作动词时, 意为“____________”。

【句意】

琥珀屋的设计采用了当时流行的别致的建筑式样。

Step3 Find the word or expression for each of the following meanings from the text. 1. to choose carefully —select 2. not seen or found very often —rare 3. welcome area in a hotel —reception 4. to surprise somebody very much--amaze 5. no more than —less than 6. made of wood — wooden 7. trying to find something; looking carefully for something — in search of 8. to manage to live or continue in 9. to take something away---remove 10. person who creates things which can be considered works of art —artist 11. of an earlier period or time; happening before — former difficulties — survive 12. in a situation in which two sides fight each other—at war Step 4 :Practice

Complete the passage with the words below. rare designed decorated style doubt fancy dynasties amazing worth jewels 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 a 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. Step 5:Assignment 1. Review the words, expressions and sentences we have learned. 2. Finish the exercises page 42.