Loading... Please wait...Teaching goals:
1. Target language
a. Vocabulary
trial, consider, prove, tell the truth, pretend, think highly of, besides
b. Structures
I think highly of those who are searching for the Amber Room.
Besides, my father once told me that any person who finds something could keep it.
I must say that I agree with you.
I must say that I don’t agree with you.
2. Ability goals
Enable the students to make judgments and to write a short reply to a letter, then give their own opinions.
3. Learning ability goals
Help the students learn how to make judgments and give their opinions.
Teaching important points
The attributive clauses with that/which/who/where/when
Teaching difficult points
How to tell the attributive clauses with that/which/who/ where/when/ from other clauses
Teaching methods
Learning and practicing
Teaching aids
Multimedia computer
Teaching procedures and ways
I. Reading, listening and writing
1. Fast Reading (Pre-listening)
Find out the differences between a fact and an opinion.
2. Listening
Students take notes and fill in the form while listening to what the three people say about the missing Amber Room.
3. Post-listening
a. Discussion
Students share their forms with others. Then discuss which person gave the best evidence using some useful expressions given.
b. Writing and speaking
Students write down a short list of reasons for their choice.
II. Reading and writing
Read the letter on page 7 from a German newspaper. Then write a reply to the letter
III. Homework
1. Review the 11 key sentences in the Reading. Remember the words and sentences that we learnt this class.
2. Preview the new words and phrases in the next class.
The third Period Listening
Teaching Goals
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 词汇
man-made projects, the Nile River, The Aswan Dam, Abu Simbel, rock-n-roll music
b. 重点句型
Do you think it was worth spending so much money to move Abu Simbel?
2. Ability goals
Master the patterns that can be used to describe cultural relics by listening.
3. Learning ability goals
Help the Ss learn how to grasp the key words that can help students to answer questions while listening to the tape.
Teaching important points
Learn the patterns used to describe cultural relics.
Teaching difficult points
How to grasp the key words that can help the students to answer questions
Teaching methods
1. Listen to the tape. (Individuals)
2. Check the answers, (cooperative learning)
Teaching aids 教具设备
A recorder, a tape, a projector and some slides.
Step 1 Homework checking
T: Let’s check our homework each other. We will have a dictation of the 11 dey sentences in the reading.
1. Frederick William I, the king of Prussia could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian People would have such a strange history.
2. Once it is heated, the amber can be made into any shape P.1
3. it was made for the palace of Frederick I. P1
4. in 1716, Fredrick William I gave it to Peter the Great, as a gift of friendship from the Prussian to the Russian People. P1
5. In return, the Czar gave the king of Prussia 55 of the best soldiers. P1
6. The Amber Room soon became part of the Czar’s Palace in St. Petersburg. P1.
7. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. P2
8. This was a time when the two countries were at war. P2
9. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. P2
10. After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. P2
11.1 think highly of those who are searching for the Amber Room. P2
Step II Listening (P41)
1. Listen to the tape for the first time to get the main idea.
2. Listen again to the tape that talks about a temple in Egypt, and then answer the questions on page 41.
First, students check their answers each other. Later, the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector.
T: As we know，the Aswan Dam is one of the ancient cultural relics made by the people in the, old times. Now, there are also some well一designed buildings that may become cultural relics in the future. For example, The Bank of China Building in Hong Kong designed by I M Pei. Do you want to know the story of the designers? Next, we'll listen to a tape about I M Pei, a famous architect.
Step 1B Listening Task (P44)
T: Please listen to the tape, you have three times. At first time, try to get the main idea. At second time, try to spell the missing words as you hear them. At the last time, make some notes about 1 M Pei's life. After listening, work in pairs. Each pair writes a short dialogue according to the notes.
Let students read and act out the dialogue and compete with each pair to see which pair is the best.
Step IV Homework
1. Collect some information about the cultural relics that are in danger.
2. Write your opinions on how to protect the cultural relics.