The World’s Cultural Heritage教案

第六課時：task, module file
iv.教學步驟
period 1 introduction, reading and writing
teaching goals:
1. to arouse ss’ interest in learning about the world’s cultural heritage;
2. to get ss to know about the world heritage list;
3. to get ss to know the difference between tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage;
4. to enable ss to write a paragraph about an intangible human heritage.
teaching procedures:
step 1. introduction
1. ask ss to look at the title of this module and answer the following questions:
q1. how much do you know about the world’s cultural heritage?
    q2. which items are a country’s cultural heritage?
  q3. can you give some examples of china’s cultural heritage?
suggested answers:
a1. open
a2. open
a3. the great wall, mt taishan, the forbidden city, the temple of heaven, the imperial palace, temple of heaven, classical gardens in suzhou…
2. show ss two pictures about suzhou and ask them to discuss the following questions in pairs.
                      
q1. where is suzhou?
q2. how many people live there?
q3. what is it famous for?
q4. what happened in suzhou in june ?
3. ask ss to read through the words in activity 2 and then answer the questions.
4. ask ss to read the passage the world heritage list and then finish activities 3 and 4 on page 71.
step 2. reading and writing
1. leading-in
(1) at the suzhou conference in june , one of the delegates praised china’s work on heritage sites, do you know what he say?
suggested answer:
“china has done excellent work in protecting world heritage, both tangible and intangible”.
(2) ask ss to look at the pictures to guess which cultural heritage they belong to, tangible or intangible? (they belong to intangible cultural heritage.)
      
      kunqu opera                          the mid-autumn festival
2. reading
(1) ask ss to read the first paragraph of the text to find the answers to the questions:
① what is tangible cultural heritage?
② what is intangible cultural heritage?
suggested answers:
① tangible (=touchable) cultural heritage consists of buildings and objects such as painting; ② intangible (= untouchable) cultural heritage means traditional songs and poems, people who can perform traditional works, languages and music.