Unit7 Cultural Relics

unit7 cultural relics
the first period (warming up and pre-reading)
teaching goals:
1. target language
    cultural, survive, remain, state, rare, dynasty, vase, belong to
2.  learning ability goals
help the students learn how to talk about cultural relics and have the sense of protecting cultural relics. 
teaching important points
talk about cultural relics and what should be done with them.
teaching difficult points:
how to talk about cultural relics.
teaching methods:
group discussion and presentation.(cooperative learning) 
teaching procedures:
step1 warming-up
t talks about some famous world heritages to the students. raise the ss’ awareness that there are some well-known cultural relics both at home and abroad. ask the ss to try their best to think of the cultural relics that they know.
t: boys and girls, look at the title of this unit, tell me what the topic of this unit is.
ss: the topic of this unit is cultural relics.
t: do you know what cultural relics are?
(ss can find the answer from the warming up.)
t: ok, very good. now let me tell you some details about cultural relics. cultural relics are traces of features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them. they represent the culture of a place and some periods of history. can you give me some examples of the cultural relics?
s1: the great wall.
s2: the pyramids in egypt.
s3: the imperial palace. ……
t: well done. (t can give more examples) unfortunately, some of them are in danger because they are destroyed, and some of them were lost because someone stole them. now imagine that you work for the state office of cultural relics. you are sent to a small town where you find a relic that was stolen from a palace. it is a rare ming dynasty vase. the man who has it insists that it belongs to his family. what will you say to him? work in pairs to discuss this question, and then i’ll ask some ss to tell me your answers.
3 minutes later, ask some ss to give their answers.

step 2 pre-reading
t: ok, class, do you think these cultural relics are beautiful?
ss: yes, very beautiful.
t: suppose one of them got lost, how would you feel and what will you do with it?
s1: try our best to find it.
s2: protect the others in order that they will not lost.  ……
 t: thanks for your good suggestions. if you find a cultural relic, what will you do with it? you can make a dialogue with your partner on this question.
t can practice it with a student to give an example.
sample dialogue