Learning about Language教学设计和教学实录

Cultural Relics Teaching aims 1. Knowledge aim: know about cultural relics;

2. Ability aim: to summarize the text in their own words, reading ability (skimming, careful reading, summarizing.)

3. Emotional aim: have the sense of the importance or significance of cultural relics protection. Teaching important points 1.The new words and expressions;

2.

Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room;

3.

Train the students’

reading ability.

Teaching difficult points

To help the students understand the cultural relics and realize what should be done with the cultural relics. Teaching Methods 1. Skimming to get the general idea of the text;

2. Careful reading to understand the passage better; 3. Summary to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to use the knowledge they’ve learned in this class. Teaching Aids 1. Blackboard; 2. A multimedia.

Teaching Procedures Step 1 Greeting and Lead-in

Greet students as usual. Show them some pictures about amber and the Amber Room by the PPT to lead in the topic —

IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM. Step 2 Start from the title Ask students what they can infer from the title, focusing on IN SEARCH OF (寻找). Step 3 Skimming By listening to the radio to have a skimming of the text, and find out two main ideas: the main idea of the text; the main idea of each paragraph. Step 4 Careful reading By asking students themselves to read the 5 paragraphs one by one, and then doing exercises. Para. 1 Fill in the table Colour Birthplace Style Material Time to complete it Yellow-brown Prussia Fancy style Amber(several tons); gold; jewels Ten years Para. 2 Answer questions

Q1: What was the Amber Room first made for? Q2: What happened to Amber Room in 1716? Para. 3 Answer questions Q1: What did CatherineⅡdo to the Amber Room? Q2：How splendid (华丽的，豪华的) was it decorated? Q3: What happened to it then? Para. 4 Tell “T” or “F”

1. In 1941, the two countries Germany and France were at war.

2. The Russians didn’t remove the Amber Room but only the furniture and small art objects. 3. The Nazis secretly stole the Amber Room. 4. 10,000 pieces of the room were put inside 7 wooden boxes and then put on a train for Konisgberg. 5.After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. Para. 5 Find out three “W” and one “H”

Who rebuilt the Amber Room? When did it finish?

Why did

they rebuild the Amber Room?

How did they rebuild the Amber Room? Step 5 Summary

Summarize the text by asking students to fill in the blank. The King of ________, Frederick I, had the_____________ built in 1709, and in 1716, the next king, Frederick William I gave it to the Russian Czar, Peter the

Great ,as a _______ in St Petersburg. In _______, Peter the Great sent him _______________ best soldiers. After Peter the Great, Catherine II ________ the Amber Room outside St Petersburg and told her artists to____________________. In 1770, the room ________________ in the way she wanted. In 1941, ________ stole the Amber Room and took

pieces of the room to _______________. After that, the Amber Room got ________. Recently, the Russians and Germans have ________ the Amber Room by ____________________ of the former one. Step 6 Homework

Review the text and finish the part of Comprehending on page 2.