教学目标
1). To learn the knowledge of the cultural relics.
2). Discuss how to protect our cultural relics.
3).Reading and understanding， catching the history and information of the Amber Room.
4). Functional item， how to tell the story about the Amber Room
5). Finish the comprehending exercises after the reading passage.
6). Use scanning; skimming and careful reading to learn the story of the Amber Room.
教学重难点
Key points
To understand cultural relics.
How to tell the story about the Amber Room
Difficulties
Talk about cultural relics at home and abroad in English freely.
To learn the story of the amber room.
教学工具
教学过程
导入
1). Guessing:
Teacher present some pictures and statements ，let the students guess whtat or where it is.
The Great Wall; The Pyramid ; Taj Mahal
2)Teacher show some pictures. They are all very famous places in China or in the world. Ask the students to think these over:
A. Can you name them out?
Who have the right to own and confirm them?
(The shown pictures: Group 1;①Yuanmingyuan; ②Forbidden City
Group 2: ③Ming Dynasty vase ;④Taj Mahal; ⑤ivory dragon boat
and Mogao Caves)
Step I: Pre-reading
1).Ok， you have know something about cultural relics， have you ever seen a piece of amber?And what do you know about it?
Show some pictures of amber. Let students know what the amber is and its value.
color yellow- brown
feel like feel as hard as stone
Amber is the fossil(化石) form of resin(树脂) from trees.
It takes millions of years to form.
2). Can you imagine a house made of amber?Please preview “In search of the amber room.”
Step II: Fsat reading and thinking about the title:
1). Teacher give students the following questions to think:
When you see this title， what do you want to know?
What is the Amber Room?
Why was it called the Amber Room?
What was it made for?
What happened to it?
Why to search for it?
(Ask the students just remember these questions in their mind not find the answers.)
2). Fast reading to get the main idea:
The Amber Room ， which _________________sent to the Russian people as a _____， was ____by the _____________ soldiers .
(Students read the passage quickly and fill in the blans)
3). Now， let the students try to answer the questions in part 1). (PPT 7)
(Teacher may give some necessary help)
Step III: Scanning
Ask the students to scan all the names of the person appeared in the text and find out what did they do to the amber room. Join the correct parts of the sentences together. (exercise 1 on page 2)
After do the above exercise ，teacher give students a picture of the people in the text and let the students try to tell theclue of the story according to the persons. (PPT 9)
Step IV: Skimming
Ask students to skim the passage and complete exercise 2 on page2.
( 3 ) How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world?
( 5 ) How was a new Amber Room built?
( 4 ) How did the Amber Room get lost?
( 1 ) How was the Amber Room made?
( 2 ) Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?
Step V: Careful reading
Let the students read the text carefully and try to find some details to complete the form on PPT 11.
Step VI: Role play
Just now you have learnt the story of The Amber Room， now suppose you are a guide of The Amber Room， how will you intrduce the amber room to the visitors?
( Give students about 3 minutes to have a discussion in group of four ，then ask some of groups to make a role play before all the class.)
Homework
1. Read the story of The Amber Room again after class.
2. Write the introduction of the Amber Room you have discussed in class.
3. Prepare for next period by underline the difficult points in the text.
板书
Blackboard Design
Unit 1 Cultural relics
Warming up & pre-reading
What is cultural relics?
A.a cultural relic is sth. that survived for a long time
B.a cultural relic may be a part of old thing has remained when the rest of it had been destroyed
C. a cultural relic is something rather rare
教案【二】
教学准备
教学目标
Knowledge and ability: To help the Ss know about the history of the Amber room and develop their reading skills.
Process and method: Ss acquire knowledge and improve ability through discussion and competition.
Emotion， attitude and values: to arouse Ss's awareness of protecting the cultural relics. Understand cultural relics belong to the whole world and the human beings.
教学重难点
important point: Understand the content of the whole passage and master the different reading skills，such as ，skimming， scanning and so on.
difficult point : how to solve the questions and find the useful information using the reading skills.
教学工具
教学过程
Lead in
1. show some pictures .
2. show the pictures and a short video of amber room.
purpose: motive Ss's interest.
Hi， everyone. Let’s look at the screen. I’ll present you some pictures. They are all about cultural relics. Some of them are cultural sites. Some of them are natural sites. Only an international professional organization from UN has the right to decide on and name them.
Presentation
Look at the photos here. What do you know about the substance of “amber”? What do know
about the cultural relics “the Amber Room”?
discussion:
Now， boys and girls， I met a “moral dilemma”. That means I must make a choice between the interests of the family and the interests of the society. Things are like this: My old granny happened to find an ancient vase under a tree in the earth of our garden. It’s so beautiful and special. Now， my family fell into a moral dilemma. Can you help us to make a decision?
A: What should we do?
B: Can we keep it for ourselves or report it to the government?
C: Have you come across such a situation — to make a difficult choice?
listen and answer the questions:
Play tape. Ss get the main idea of the passage.
Reading
pre-reading:
1. Have you ever seen a piece of amber?
What do you know about it?
2. look at the title and the picture. predict what it is about. Then skim it quickly and see if you were right.
Reading:
1st time:
read by yourself as quickly as you can.
join the correct parts of the sentences together.
2nd time:choices and T/F
compete between boys and girls.
3rd time:
answer some question. Ask ss to think over and discuss.
purpose: understand the text better and arouse Ss's awareness of competition. Grasp the main information.
Discussion and report
Think over of what we discuss in the part of warming up: I find myself falling into the dilemma.
you discuss together ，and write down the outline of a report.
work in group
Consolidation
fill in the blanks (summary).
Homework
make a report .
use the useful information in the passage.
