(1) to help the students know something about cultural relics.
(2) to talk about ways to protect cultural relics
(3) to train the students’ ability of listening and improve their spoken english.
teaching design
a. lead-in
as is known to us all, china is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. in the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites,many of them are world-famous.
have you heard of the world heritage list?
qs:
how many properties are on the list? ( 730 up to 29 june, )
how many chinese sites are included? ( 28)
can you name some familiar ones? and try to talk about some familiar ones in our hometown, jiangsu.
b warming-up
look at the three pictures on the book, these three sites are all on the world heritage list.
talk about them separately and answer the following questions
(1) where are the three sites?
(2) what can you see in these pictures?
(3) which one would you like to see most and want to travel there if a chance is given? and why?
these three cultural sites are called cultural relics and we should do our best to protect them.
step 1 warming-up
1. questions:
1) what are cultural relics?
the great wall in china; the pyramids in egypt; stonehenge in england
2) what do they have in common?
they are all very old and are all symbols of their countries and their cultures. they are
very important to their countries. they once had a practical importance (burial site,defence , magic / superstition). now people from all over the world go to visit these places.
3) what does the phrase cultural relics mean?
relic: something that has survived the passage of time, especially an object or a custom whose original culture has disappeared ;something cherished for its age or historic
interest.
4) do you know any other cultural relics in china or in the world?
2. some information about:
1) the pyramids in egypt
2) the great wall in chins
3) stonehenge in england
when they were built
what they were built for
stonehenge is a circle of large standing stones located near salisbury, in wiltshire, england. people began to build the site about 3,100 bc. it is not clear who built it.
focus: reading
teaching goals:
1. to train the ability of skimming and scanning.
2. to develop the students’ ability and skills of guessing words and reading comprehension.