Unit7 Cultural Relics
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.
step2 fast reading:
t: do you want to know more about the amber room? read the passage first and try to answer the questions:
1、why it is called the amber room?
2、what else were used to make the room besides amber?
3、why was the amber room first built?
4、when and why did frederick william i give the amber room to peter the great?
5、what did catherine ii do with the amber room?
6、when and how was the amber room supposed to have been lost?
five minutes later, ask some ss to give their answers.
answers:
1、it was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of ambers were used to make it.
2、the amber room was also made with gold and jewels.
3、it was made for the palace of frederick i.
4、1716，frederick william i gave it to peter the great, as a gift of friendship.
5、catherine ii had the amber room moved to the palace outside st petersburg where she spent her summers
6、in 1941, those two countries were at war. german army stole it.
step3 comprehending
after finishing all the questions, ask the ss to listen to the tape and try to get the main idea of the passage, then read the passage again by themselves and do the comprehending exercises.
t: now read the passage again and finish the exercises of comprehending.
the ss begin to do the exercises. after a while, teacher begin to collect the answers. later, teacher gives the answers.
step 4 post-reading
1. read the passage again to get important information about the text in search of the amber room. then fill in the blanks. (page73 best english )
step 4 speaking or reading aloud
play the tape for the students to listen and follow in order to let them know how to read the text.
step 5 homework
1. read the text several times.
2. do exercise 3 on page 4.
3. do exercise 1 on page 42 (ss’ book)
record after teaching:
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