Teaching Plan for New Senior English for China

Unit 1 Cultural relics (the 1st period )（Book 2）

Teaching Goals:

Ⅰ.New words and expressions

Ⅱ.Talk about cultural relics

Ⅲ.SS can understand the text totally and talk about the story of the Amber Room.

Ⅳ.Help the SS have the sense of protecting cultural relics.

Teaching Important Point:

Make sure SS can understand the text

Teaching Difficult Point:

Talk about cultural relics and what should be done with it

Teaching Methods: listening, reading, cooperative learning

Teaching Aids: a recorder, and computer

Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ. Revision

Review words and expressions in this unit

Step Ⅱ. Warming up

Raise SS’ awareness that there are some well-known cultural relics both at home and abroad. Ask the Ss to name some cultural relics. After a short discussion, show the following cultural relics: (pictures in PowerPoint)

Mount Taishan

Mount Huangshan

The Great Wall

The Imperial Palace of the Ming and Ding Dynasties in Beijing and Shenzhen

The Mogao Caves

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors

The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian

The Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area

Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace,Lhasa

The Classical Gardens of Suzhou

The old Town of Lijang

The Summer Palace

The pyramids in Egypt

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Amber Room

Step Ⅲ. Pre-reading

Leading-in

T: OK, class, do you think these cultural relics beautiful?

SS: yes.

T: suppose one of them got lost , how would you feel and what will you do with it?

(Have a short discussion)

T: (show the picture of the Amber Room again) Mow, I’m sorry to tell you that the Amber Room is now missing. And how did it get lost? Now read the text quickly and let’s get more details.

Step Ⅳ. Reading

Ⅰ. Fast reading

Play the tape for the Ss, they can read after it or just listen to it, then finish exercise I in comprehending.(SB. Page 2)

Ⅱ. Careful reading (intensive reading)

Before reading, show the following questions:

How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?

What else were used to make the room besides amber?

How long did it take to make the Amber Room?

When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?

What did Peter the Great give in return?

What did Catherine Ⅱ do with the Amber Room?

When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?

True or False:

The Amber Room has a strange history.

The Amber Room was first built to be a gift.

100,000 pieces of the room were put inside twenty-seven golden boxes.

What really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

Nowadays, a new “Amber Room” has been made.

Step Ⅴ. Homework

Find out the language points in the text.

Finish exercise 1 on Page 3.

教后記：這是一節閱讀理解課，目的在于通過對課文的理解（尋找琥珀屋），使學生展開討論：如何保護世界文化遺產。這一節課的設計能根據學生的實際，從熱身，讀前，到讀中。閱讀理解問題的設計能幫助學生充分地，而且較容易地理解課文。不足的地方是指導學生展開討論部分。只給出兩個問題，學生就此討論難度太大，以致討論不夠熱烈，也沒達到目的。應多給出具體情景。