Unit 7 Culture relics

Teaching Aims and Demands

Words and Phrases

cultural represent ruin burn unite period stone damage ancient project official population breath limit sincerely Pyramid include restore rebuild beauty photograph portrait recreate artist vase brick cave carbon

Spoken English:

1. Giving advice & Make suggestions

What shall we …? Maybe we could …

Shall we …? I’d like to …

Can’t we …? What/how about …?

Should we …? Why don’t you …?

Let’s … Why not …?

Grammar: The passive Voice

1. 描述事物已經受到某種影響或某種處理--使用現在完成時被動語態。例如：

Now, after years of hard work, parts of statues have been put back together and missing pieces have been replaced.

2. 描述人物已經被動地接受某種行為或某種處理--使用現在完成時被動語態。例如：

The sick woman has been sent to hospital, and now you can’t visit her.

Jack has been told about it, so you needn’t call him up.

Use of Language:

1. Master the function use of language as defined above.

2. Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise book through using what the students have learned. Learn the text about cultural relics and finish the relative exercises and writing tasks, like write a report on the world’s cultural relics, write a brief introduction of my hometown.

Important points: The use of the Passive Voice

The cultural differences

Difficult points: Use of the Passive Voice

Teaching aids: Computer, tape-recorder

Way of Teaching: Communication way of teaching, discussion and group work.

Lesson 1

Step 1 Warming-Up

Get the students to look at the pictures in their books: a pyramid in Egypt, the Great Wall in China, and Stonehenge in England. Ask the students to name more sites like these and ask what they have in common.

The answers may be: The pyramids, the Great Wall, the Stonehenge are not only the great places of interest but also the symbols of their countries and their cultures.

Step 2 Listening

First go through the listening part together with the students. Get the students to know what they are going to do.

Name of the site Why is it important? What is being done to protect it?

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Step 3 Speaking

First get the students to know what they are going to do. Then explain that a “culture capsule” – an imaginary large box – will be sent into space. Ask the students to decide what objects to put in the box. The object should help whoever finds the box understand what and who human beings are. Students can work in pairs or groups. They have to decide what to put in the box and explain why they have chosen them. I.e. how the objects will help explain who we are and how we live.

Help the students to decide they want to put in the box and list the reason .

Step 4 Home work

Fish the exercise in the talking part in their workbooks.

Lesson 2

Step 1Revision and Introduction

Go over the homework.

List some cities like Beijing, Paris, Chang’an, Rome, then ask the students to discuss these questions with their partners.

1. Some cities, like Paris and Beijing, are called great cities of the world. In your opinion, what makes a city great?

2. What are your favourite cities? Why?

3. What cultural relics are there in the place where you live? How important are they?

Step 2 Fast-reading

First give a brief introduction of the text A City of Heroes.

Read the text fast and tell the following sentences true of false:

1. ( ) The city of St Petersburg was rebuilt by Peter the great.

2. ( ) The Germans attacked St Petersburg a hundred years ago.

3. ( ) A portrait of Peter the Great was destroyed by the Germans.

4. ( ) It was difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces.

5. ( ) Workers and painters used old photographs to help them rebuild the city.

6. ( ) St Petersburg will never be as beautiful as it was before.

The answers are: True: 3 4 5. False: 1 2 6.

Step 3 Carefully-reading

First tell the main idea of each paragraph.

Paragraph 1 St Petersburg lies on the banks of the river Lena in Russia. More than three hundred years ago, The Russian Czar, Peter the Great, built a new capital here. Peter the Great was a strong and proud man, and the city reflects his personality.

Paragraph 2 St Petersburg has been the center of many important historical events. These events are the reason why the city has become such an important part of Russian culture and history. The people of St Petersburg fought hard against the Nazis during World War II and were determined to rebuild the city when the Nazis had left it in ruins.

Paragraph 3 Rebuilding the great city was difficult, but the people of St Petersburg succeeded. Using old photographs and rescued pieces of the old city, they managed to restore St Petersburg to its former glory.

Paragraph 4 The people of St Petersburg are heroes because they managed to rebuild the city, proving that they are at least as great as Czar Peter.

Step 4 Retelling

Retell the text according to the above main ideas.

Step 5 Homework

Finish the exercise in the Post-reading Part on p46.

Find the sentences using the Present perfect passive Voice.

Lesson 3

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework..

Step 2 Word-study

Fill in the blanks with the proper words or phrases.

Step 3 Grammar

First list some sentences that are used in the Present Perfect Passive Voice.

1. It is true that many of the world’s greatest cities have been built on the banks of a river.

2. Many great palaces were built during his lifetime.

3. Building were destroyed, and paintings and …

4. Pieces of the palaces that had been hidden before the Nazis came could now be used to rebuild the city and its culture.

5. now, after years of hard work, parts of statues have been put back together and missing pieces have been replaced.

6. Old paintings, including a portrait of Peter the Great which was found in the snow outside St Petersburg, have been carefully recreated, and the old palaces have been made as wonderful as in the past.

Then ask the students to find the formation of the Present Perfect Passive Voice:

Be + pp → have/has been + pp

Step 4 Consolidation

Ask the students to finish the exercises 1-2 in part 1.

Step 5 Homework

Finish the exercise 2 in their workbooks.

Lesson 4

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework.

Step 2 Reading

Ask the students to read the passage in the Integrating Skills part. And they should find the way of a passage formation ---

That is how the passage is structured. The tips in their books may be used as a guide when they are reading.

Step 3 Writing

Ask the students to try to make their writing first orally. In the same while, ask several students to read their passage out and find the place where it may be written in other better way. Then show the students a sample writing and analysis the good of the passage.

Step 4 Homework

Leave the exercise of writing in their workbooks as the homework.