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Teaching Plan for Unit 1 Cultural Relics

楚雄第一中学

何晓精

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电子邮箱：hxj1396448163@.com Background information: Students:senior high school students ,Grade One Teaching Materials:New Senior English for China Students’Book 2,Unit One Cultural Relics

Lesson duration:40 minutes Teaching Aims Knowledge aims: 1.

Usefulwords:rare,valuable,survive,vase,dynasty,amaze,select,honey, design,fancy,style,decorate,jewel,artist,belong,troop,reception,remove, wooden,doubt,former,worth,local,apart,painting,castle,trial,evidence, explode,entrance,sailor,sink,maid,informa,debate. 2.

key phrases:in search of,belong to,in return,at war,less than,take apart,think highly of

3.

other phrases:be used to,be decorated with,be designed for,serve as,add…to..,happen to,remain a mystery,look like,rather than,decide not to do,to one’s surprise,the entrance to. 4.

useful expressions: Do/Don’t you think that…?

Would you consider…? Do you have any idea about…? Why /Why not…? How do you know that? What do you think? Are you sure that he /she was telling the truth? What do you think of …? What’s your idea/opinion of…? What would you say…? How do you feel about…? What do you think was…? What are your reasons for saying that? I think /don’t think that….

Sorry,I agree/don’t agree with you. In my opinion…

It can be proved.

That can’t be true. I don’t believe …because…

I think…is telling the truth because…

5.Talk about cultural relics and learn more about the Amber Room Ability aims: 1.

To improve students’ ability of reading,speaking,listening and writing. 2.

The students can talk about the Amber Room using the words of the text. Emotional aims:

This unit mainly talks about cultural relics.There are a lot of cultural relics in the world.However,many of them are endangered.So I will cultivate the students to have the awareness of loving and protecting cultural relics.

Teaching key points: 1.

Let the students read the text and understand the history of the Amber Room. 2.

Let the students learn different reading skills,such as predicting ,scanning and skimming. Teaching difficult points: 1.

To improve students’

reading abilities through different reading strategies. 2.

To understand some difficult long sentences:

(1)

Fredrick William I,the King of Prussia,could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. (2)

This gift was the Amber Room,which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. (3)

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. Teaching methods:

1.

Task-based language teaching is adopted in the passage.The task is to get the structure of the text.So the students will be encouraged to get the main idea of each part.By means of BTLT,students are involved and engaged in the task and classroom activities,and therefore they can learn more about the text.

2.

Teaching aids:a tape recorder,a blackbord,chalk,a multicomputer. Teaching strategies:

1.

Reading strategy:students need to develop some reading strategies such as skimming,scanning and summarizing information etc.In this lesson,students are instructed to develop the above mentioned reading strategies. 2.

Resource strategy:Since the text is about the story of the Amber Room,it’s necessary for students to search some background information about it.In addition,students should get more information about cultural relics and write a brief introduction about cultural relics in their hometown. Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up 1.

Talking about cultural relics. Show students some pictures of cultural relics,such as the Great Wall,the Summer Palace,Stone Henge the Pyramid.Then ask students to talk about them in small groups.At last ask several students to report in front of the class. e.g.What are they and where are they? Have you ever been to these places? Why are they famous?etc.

2．The definition of cultural relics. Next ask students the following questions and define cultural relics.

(1)

What kind of old things are cultural relics? (2)

Are all the old things cultural relics? (3)

Does a cultural relics always have to be rare and valuable? (4)

Do you know what a cultural relics is? Then let the students discuss them and give the suggested answers to students. 3.

Ask students what the similarities of these cultural relics are.

Let students discuss the question in groups and then ask some of them to give their answers. Suggested answers:famous,natural/man-made,a long history,symbols of their countries and cultures,very rare and valuable Step 2 Pre-reading 1.

Ask students how much they know about amber. 2.

Ask students to predict what the passage is about according to the title and the picture. Step 3 Reading 1.

Let students skim the passage and then find out the main idea of each paragraph. Ssggested answers: Paragraph 1

The introduction of the Amber Room

Paragraph 2

The gift to the Czar Paragraph 3

The relocating of the Amber Room in the

Catherine 2 times Paragraph 4

The missing of the Amber Room Paragraph 5

The rebuilding of the Amber Room 2.

Let students scan the passage for detailed information. Ask students to read the passage carefully to find out the detailed information. (1)

Do Ex.1 and Ex.2 in Comprehending on page 2. (2)

Ask some questions about the passage What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William 1,the King of Prussia? Why it is called the Amber Room? What did Catherine 2 do with the Amber Room? What happened to the Amber Room during World War 2? (3)

Ask students to translate the following three difficult sentences: (A) Fredrick William 1,the King of Prussia,could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing histoy. (B) This gift was the Amber Room,which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.

(C)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. (4)

Let students read the passage again and complete the timetable,which

lists the numbers in the passage. Number

Meaning 1716

Fredrick William 1 gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great as a gift. 1770

Catherine 2 had completed the adding to the Amber Room. 1941

2003

600

2

The Nazi German army stole the Amber Room. The rebuilding of the Amber Room was completed. The number of the candles lighting the Amber Room. The two countries:German and Russia 100,000

The Amber Room was dismantled into 100,000 pieces. 27

27 wooden boxes were used to contain the pieces of the Amber Room. The 300th

The newly rebuilt Amber Room was ready for the 300th birthday of St Petersburg. Step 4 Discussing Now give students several minutes to discuss the passage in pairs,such as what kind of writing it is and the tense in the passage. Step 5 Retelling Let students retell the story of the Amber Room in their own words. Step 6 Discussion Ask students the question and then let some of them to give their reasons:

Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Step 7 Homework 1.

Read the passage aloud after the tape. 2.

Retell the story of the Amber Room and write a short passage. Self introduction:

My name is He Xiao-jing,I was born in 1974 and graduated from Xi Hua Teaching University Nanchong Sichuan

in 1996.After graduating ,I

taught English in Ying Xi Middle School Nanchong Sichuan .During these years ,I worked hard and wrote some articles and got some awards .In 2012 I moved to Chuxiong City Yunnan and worked in Chuxiong I No.1 Middle school .Now I teach Senior high school English .I love teaching and I love my teaching career,and I love the city and the peole here,I work happily every day.