Unit1Culturalrelics学案

1、Unit 1 Cultural relics学案 左长政Part One: Teaching Design （ Period 1: A sample lesson plan for Reading (IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM) Aims：To read about cultural relics To learn about The Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause I. Warming up Warming up by presentingHi, everyone. Lets look at t

2、he screen. Ill present you some pictures. They all belong to cultural relics. Some of them are cultural sites. Some of them are natural sites. Please think these over： A. Can you name them out? B. Who have the right to confirm and classify them? Keys for reference: A. They are cultural sites: The Gr

3、eat wall; The Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang; The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors; The Mogao Cave. These are natural sites: The Jiu Zhai Gou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area; The Huang Long Scenic and Histioric Interest A

4、rea. The following are cultural and natural sites: Mount Taishan; Mount Huangshan; Mount WuYi. B. Only an international professional organization from UN has the authority to confirm and classify them. II. Pre-reading 1. Looking and saying Work in pairs. Look at the photos on the screen. All these r

5、elics are quite beautiful. But some of them were lost and ruined in history，such as Yuan MingYuan and the Amber Room. Please guess: A. What kinds of things can result in their disappearing? B. Why do they come into being once again? Keys for reference: A. Maybe wars, natural disasters, and time have

6、 damaged or destroyed them, getting them lost and changed. Many of them were even stolen and hidden while nobody knows who, where and how. B. People get to know these. If these relics could not be found again, they would be rebuilt by people. 2. Explaining and sharing Work in groups of four. Tell yo

7、ur group mates: A. What do you know about the substance of “amber”? B. What do you know about the cultural relics “the Amber Room”? Keys for reference: I am from group 2. From the knowledge we got from biology and chemistry, we know “amber” is a semi-precious stone used in jewelry and art world. Amb

8、er is really the fossil form of resin from trees. It has got its shape after a process that has taken millions of years to complete. Trees in very ancient forests produced this resin, which slowly dropped from trees and was buried. Trees use resin to protect themselves from disease and harm caused b

9、y insects and fungi. I am from group 6. From the information of history legends and news reports, we know the Amber Room is a room built by lots of ambers. It was a gift given to Peter the Great, the King of Russia, by the King of Prussia, Frederick William I. It was given the name because almost th

10、ousand tons of natural ambers were used to make it. But during the second world war in 1941, the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and sent boxes of the Amber Room on a train to a German city. After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. III. Reading 1. Reading

11、aloud to the recording Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too. 2. Skimming and identifying the gener

12、al idea of each paragraph Now please skim the text to get the key words and general idea of each paragraph. 1st paragraph the introduction about the Amber Room: design, colour, shape, material 2nd paragraph the present to the Czar: a part of winter palace in St. Petersburg, a reception hall for impo

13、rtant visitor 3rd Paragraph the relocating of the Amber Room in Catherir times: moved into Summer Palace, more added to its design 4th Paragraph the missing of the Amber Room: the two countries were at war, Nazi German army stole the Amber Room, 27 wooden boxes were trained to a German city, Nobody

14、knew it from then on 5th Paragraph the rebuilding of the Amber Room: a new one but the same as the old built by the two countries, for celebrating the 300th birthday of Peterburg 3.Scanning and analyzing the characteristics of the text. Since you have got to know the general ideas of each paragraph,

15、 can you tell me the characteristics of the passage, such as, the type of writing, the way of narrating, and the tense? Keys for reference: This piece of passage is a narrative prose or non-fiction article written in a narrating style. It tells the history of Amber Room in the order of time so that

16、we can clearly learn about what happened to it. The tense used in the text is past tense. 4.Reading and understanding Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from IN SEARCH OF THE A

17、MBER ROOM look into, be used to, make the design for the room, in fact, as a gift of, add more details to, remove from the search for,belong to, feel as hard as stone, the fancy style, be made for, in return, one of the great wonders, art objects, look much like, give the name, be made into any shap

18、e, be made with gold and jewels, be made to be a gift, serve as, at war, remain a mystery, be ready for 5. Reading and transferring information Read the text again to complete the table, which lists all the numbers in the text. NUMBER MEANING 1716 Frederic William gave the Amber Room to Peter the Gr

19、eat as a gift. 1770 Catherine had completed the adding to the Amber Room in this year. 1941 The Nazi German army stole the Amber Room in this year. 2003 The rebuilding of the Amber Room was completed in this year. 7000 Tons The total weight of the ambers used to make the room. 55 The number of soldi

20、ers given to the king of Russia in return. 600 The number of the candles lighting the Amber Room. 2 The two countries: German and Russia. 2 In two days the Amber Room was removed to a German city. 100,000 The Amber Room was dismantled into 100,000 pieces 27 27 wooden boxes were used to contain the piec