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Unit 1 Cultural relics The Fourth Period

using language Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Ability goals能力目标

Master the sentence patterns that can be used to describe cultural relic. Have the ability of talking cultural relics and ways to protect them. 2. Learning ability goals学能目标

Enable students to express opinions on moving a cultural relic. Enable students to talk about cultural relics protection.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Watch some videos about the cultural relics. (individuals) Have a discussion. (group work ) Teaching aids 教学设备

A computer, a projector and some slides Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式

Step I Homework checking T: Well, class, at the beginning of this class, I want to know whether you have collected some information of the cultural relics that are in danger? Ss: Yes. T: OK, tell me what you collected. S1: The Great Wall in China is in danger. Some of the walls have been destroyed by the wind, air and rain. Thus it is dangerous for people to climb parts of the Great Wall. And there is also some rubbish on the Great Wall, which destroyed the beauty of the Great Wall. S2: The pyramids in Egypt are also destroyed by the wind, air and rain. Some of them need to be repaired. S3: Some buildings of Angkor Wat are falling down. ...

Step II Lead-in

T: OK, class, all of you did a very good job. Now watch videos on the big screen that are from OUTLOOK ENGLISH MAGZINE that are about the world cultural relics. Ss watch the videos to learn about some cultural relics that are in danger. T: Have you found that some of them are in danger? Ss: Yes. T: Maybe one day, they will not exist. Then what should we do with them? Now let's go to the next part, Speaking Task. Step III Speaking Task

T: China has tens of thousands of cultural relics. Perhaps it is not possible or necessary to save all of them. For example, Beijing is famous for its hutongs or traditional houses and yards. Is there any cultural relic worth protecting in your hometown? What is it? Write it down and give a reason. S1: There are some old temples and towels in our hometown and in the temples there are some sculpture Buddha. All these statues are very solemn. It is called Chongshan temple. It is said the temples were built in Ming Dynasty. A Prince built it to honor his mother. Now many monks are living there, and many people go there. The government has made it a cultural relic, and I agree with it.

S2: In my hometown there are also many temples, and some of them are in ruins. T: What do you think you can do to protect it? S2: I think I can give a speech to the city leaders and the public. T: Good! Although not all of us know the cultural relics in our hometown, we know the importance of protecting them. Now, please look at Exercise 3: Here are some suggestions. Discuss them in pairs and add your own idea. More ideas: 1 Make a list to tell people the importance of protecting the cultural relics. 2 Try to persuade the government to develop eco-travel to protect the cultural relic and also develop local economy.

Step III Writing Task T:

Now choose one cultural relic in your hometown that you think is worth saving.

You want to inform people that it is already in danger, so write a letter to your schoolmates to encourage them to join you and protect it. You can use the following model as a guide. A sample: （date）

Dear Classmates，

Do you know our local Buddhist temple Chongshansi？It is built of clay bricks which are falling down. It needs to be repaired immediately. As the wheels of time move forward, modern generations can only get a glimpse (瞥) of their ancestors'(祖先的) life from the cultural relics of a people. Every cultural relic is just like a cord(绳子) which makes connections among blood ties as well as different regions（地区）. Cultural relics, like cultures themselves, vary (不同) from nation to nation. They are the embodiment of a nation’s history and culture, and serve as the evidence of its civilization. As Professor Zhou Xiaolu who’s from Beijing Normal University once commented, “Keeping the national cultural relics in its original(原来的) sites can create a favorable environment for the preservation(保存) and protection, and their value can be better reflected.”

But now the temple is in danger, and the government does give much attention to it. So we’d better do something to protect the beauty of the temple. We can write letters to inform the situation and prevent further damage, at the same time to encourage repairs. All of us are looking forward to the day when the temple reappear its beauty. It is not a long way to go.

Step IV Talking

Deal with TALKING on page 41. T: The cost of moving Abu Simbel was more than seventy million US dollars. That is a great deal of money. Do you think it was worth spending so much money to move a cultural relic such as Abu Simbel? Discuss with your partner and give your

reasons. Sample opinions: I think so because

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After the project is finished, it will receive 600,000 person-time tourists per year. Yearly income will reach 6.25 million USD, including ticket, food & drink, entertainment, souvenir, experiencing games.

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The relic theme park will promote economic development of the local place. Taking land value increment as an example, it’s estimated that the land value will increase 10-15 times in five years. I don’t think so because 

There are too many cultural relics in our country to be protected. Thus, we'll have to spend a lot of money.

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Maybe this will be a waste of money. After all, some cultural relics are not so valuable and useful. So we should spend the money that is used to protect some unimportant cultural relics on the important things. In my opinion, we should just protect the best ones.

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After all, our country is still a developing country and bas not enough money to protect all the cultural relics. As long as we can keep the culture that the cultural relics stand for; that's enough.