Learning about Language教案3

Book 2

Unit 1

In search of the amber room The Second Period(Reading and comprehending) 江西省吉安三中

胡冬清

Teaching aims 1.

Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room. 2.

Improve the students’ reading ability by scanning, careful reading. 3.

Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.

4.

Train the students’ speaking ability by retelling the story.. Teaching difficult points: 1.

Words: Frederick I

Frederick William I ……

2.

Phrases:

in search of, in return, at war, take apart, think highly of; 3. Sentence patterns:

what happened to the amber room remains a mystery.

4. Improve the students’ reading ability.

5.

Train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.

Teaching methods:

multi-media teaching Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greetings and lead-in Show the students the pictures and answer the questions. What do you think amber can be made into? Can you imagine a house made of amber? Step2 Fast reading: 1. Scan the passage and pick out the characters and years in the passage and then answer the questions.

1、Why it is called the Amber Room? 2、What was the amber room first made for? 3、Who had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg? 4、Who have rebuilt a new Amber Room? Five minutes later, ask some Ss to give their answers. 2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions.

1. Read the para1 and fill the blank.

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Careful readingColourBirthplaceyellow-brownPrussiain the fancy style popular in those daysseven thousand tons of amber; gold and jewels It took a team of thecountry’s best artists tenyears to make it.The Amber RoomPurposegiftIt was made not to be a ___________, but for the ___________ of Frederick I.palaceFrederick WilliamⅠgave the Amber Room1716____________________________________.toPeter the Great as a gift.DesignMaterialTime to complete itWhatCatherine Ⅱhad completed the Amber 1770____________________________________.happened room as she wantedtothe Amber The Nazi German army stole the1941____________________________________.Room. Amber RoomThe rebuildingof the Amber Room was2003____________________________________.ready.

2. Read the para2-5 and fill the blank. 3. Show the students the video and let students know the history of the amber room. 通过填表让学生学会根据时间、人物等关键词快速确定主要信息；通过仔细阅读和分析课文重点内容培养学生的分析能力，同时也使他们进一步理解琥珀屋作为文化遗产的理由。

Step3 Comprehending After finishing all the questions and try to get the main idea of the passage ConsolidationWhat’s the main idea of this passage?It mainly talks about the amazing historyof the Amber Room.The characteristics(特点) of the textthe type of writingan explanation(说明文) ?a narration(叙事文) ?an argumentation(议论文)?in the order of place?in the order of time ?the way of narrating

五个问题分别概括了每段的段意，考虑到高一学生概括能力较弱，采取给出各段段意让他们分别找出与其匹配的段落的方式降低了难度

T: Now read the passage again and finish the exercises of comprehending. The Ss begin to do the exercises. After a while, Teacher begins to collect the answers. Later, teacher gives the answers. Step 4.

Activity

1. Suppose you are the guide of the Amber Room! You are going to introduce the Amber Room to us. What are you going to introduce?

And you can follow the examples.

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Hello, everyone! I’m glad to introduce …

First the

Amber

Room

was designed for…

However

Frederick WilliamⅠ…

It soon became part of the Czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg .

Later, CatherineⅡ

…

and she told her artists to …

Sadly ，the

Nazis Germany army secretly …

After that, what happened to the

Amber

Room …

Now Russians and Germans have …

2. Ask the students to present their answers

3. Show the students the answers by pictures. 4. Review the passage by a video. (summary) 设计意图：通过复述检查学生对文章大意的了解程度，并检测学生归纳总结和口语表达能力。

1. The Amber Room: the best and biggest work of art ever made.

2. In 1716, the Amber Room was given to the Czar as a gift.

3. In 1770: the Amber Room was redecorated by Cath German army.

4. 1941: The Amber Room was stolen by the Nazi German army. 5. The old missing Amber Room is being searched for; a new one has been built. Step 6 Homework

1.

Read the text loudly. 2.

Recite the new words by heart. 3.

Deal with the language points in the text.

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