Unit 1 Cultural Relics
we have nothing else to eat, you have to do with some bread.
i cannot do with loud noise.
what to do with the problem?
how to deal with the problem?
homework
1.preview the reading
2.do the comprehending exercises
3. write down the main idea of each paragraph
4.ask the ss to look for more cultural relics. the students can go to the library or use the internet to search for information.
record after teaching:
the third period
(reading and comprehending)
knowledge:
learn some new phrases and some new sentence patterns.
ability:
1. learn some detailed information about the amber room.
2. improve the students’ reading ability.
3. train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.
4. train the students’ speaking ability.
emotion:
1. train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.
2. enable the ss to talk about the story of the amber room
teaching important points:
1 .the new words and expressions;
2. learn some detailed information about the amber room;
3. train the students’ ability to cooperate with others;
4. train the students’ speaking ability.
teaching difficult points:
1. words: ton, stone, heat, design, fancy, style, jewel, king, reception, light, mirror, wonder;
2. phrases: look into, belong to, in search of, in return, at war, take apart, think highly of;
3. sentence patterns:
(1) there is no doubt that…..
(2) this gift was the amber room, which was given this name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it.
4. improve the students’ reading ability.
5. train the students’ ability to grasp key information while listening.
teaching methods:
1. listening to the tape.
2. learning and practicing.
teaching procedures:
step 1 greetings and lead-in
t: we learned some cultural relics yesterday. do you still remember them? give me some examples, please.
students give their answers.
t: very good. today we’re going to learn another cultural relic. look at the two pictures on pages1—2; do you know what it is called?
ss: the amber room.
t: yes, it’s called the amber room.
what do you know about the cultural relic“the amber room”?
t shows the ss some pictures of “the amber room”
step 2 fast reading:
t: do you want to know more about the amber room? what does the text tell about the amber room? read the passage first and try to answer the questions:
it tells us the strange history of the amber room, a cultural relic of two countries: germany and russia.
t:why is it called the amber room?(it was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it)