高中英语Unit 1 Cultural Heritage教学设计

Period 1  Reading

The General Idea of This Period：

This period includes Warming up，Reading and Comprehending of Unit 1.It introduces the story of the Amber Room，which can help the students learn how to talk about cultural relics and realize that we should protect cultural relics and what should be done with the cultural relics.The students also can learn how to talk about cultural relics and learn some reading strategies such as skimming and scanning.

Teaching Aims：

1.Learn the following useful words and phrases：fancy，style，jewel，in return，reception，light，mirror，wonder，at war，remove，furniture，secretly，wooden，doubt，remain，mystery，apart，take apart

2.Help the students understand the structure of the following sentences：

In return，the Czar gave the King of Prussia 55 of his best soldiers.P2

This was a time when the two countries were at war.P2

There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for....P2

After that，what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.P2

I think highly of those who are searching for the Amber Room.P2

3.Help the students learn to talk about the story of the Amber Room.

4.Help the students learn how to talk about cultural relics and have the sense of protecting cultural relics.

Teaching Important Point：

How to tell the story about the Amber Room and talk about cultural relics

Teaching Difficult Point：

Help the students understand the cultural relics and realize what should be done with the cultural relics.

Teaching Methods：

1.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.

2.Careful reading to understand the passage better.

3.Explanation to help the students master some language points.

4.Discussion to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to use the knowledge they’ve learned in this period.

Teaching Aids：

1.A tape recorder.

2.A multimedia.

Teaching Procedures：

Step 1 Warming up

T：Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss these questions.

1.Do you know these places?

2.If you know，what do you know about the places?

3.Which one would you like to visit?Why?

Group 1 The Pyramids in Egypt

Group 2 The Great Wall/China

Group 3 Stonehenge/Britain Salisbury plain

T：Please tell the reasons for their importance.

S1：Symbols of their countries.

S2：A concrete annotation of their cultures.

S3：Have a memorable significance.

S4：Bring in money from tourism.

The warming-up exercise helps the students realize that there are some well-known cultural relics both at home and abroad.Ask the students to try their best to think of the cultural relics that they know.

T：Now，class，look at the title of this unit.Tell me what the topic of this unit is.

Ss：The topic of this unit is cultural relics.

T：Do you know what cultural relics are?

Ss：Cultural relics are something that has survived for a long time，often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed；it tells people about the past.

T：Very good，also we can say：Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.Just like what you said，they represent the culture of a place and some periods of history.Of course，some of them are in danger because they are being destroyed.Then can you give some examples of the cultural relics that are in the need of being protected?

S1：The Great Wall.

S2：The Big Ben.

Ss：...

T：Yes.You are right.Now do you want to know more about these cultural relics?

Ss：Yes.

Step 2 Pre-reading

T：What is your favorite city?Why?What makes a city great?

S1：a long history

S2：cultural relics

S3：many great people

S4：important events taking place there

T：All of you have done a good job.Now let’s come to the text “In Search Of the Amber Room”.

Listen to the tape and finish the comprehending exercises.

1.The suggested answers to the comprehending exercise 1：

1）B  2）D  3）B  4）A  5）C

2.The suggested answers to the comprehending Exercise 2：

1）The Amber Room was not easy to make.（NS）

2）Catherine Ⅱ didn’t like everything about the Amber Room when she first saw it.（S）

3）The Amber Room was take to Konigsberg and hidden there in 1941.（S）

4）The Russians didn’t care about the Amber Room.（NS）

5）The Russians don’t think the Amber Room will ever be found.（NS）

Step 3 Detailed Reading

T：Read the text again and answer the following questions：

1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William Ⅰ，the king of Prussia?

2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?

3.What did Catherine the great do with the Amber Room?The great Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king.

4.What happened to the Amber Room?The great Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king.Because it was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber，which has a beautiful yellow brown color.

S3：She had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg and transformed it.

S4：It was taken apart and missing in the second world war，and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace.

Step 4 Intensive Reading

T：Please read the text again and try to catch the main idea of each paragragh.

（After four minutes）

T：Now everyone.Have you got the main idea of each paragraph?

Ss：Yes.

T：OK，who would like to tell me the main idea of the first paragraph?

S1：The first paragraph tells us that the Amber Room has a strange history and something about its design and building.

T：Excellent.What about the second paragraph?

S2：From this paragraph，we can know the history of the Amber Room and its functions in Russia—the Czar’s winter palace and a small reception hall for important visitors.

T：Very good.Then how about Paragraph 3?

S3：This paragraph tells us that Catherine Ⅱ had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers and she told her artists to add more details to its design.Thus the Amber Room was one of the great wonders of the world.

T：Very good.What about the fourth paragraph?

S4：From this paragraph，we know that the Nazi German army stole the Amber Room in September，1941.After that，what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

T：Well done.Then，how about the fifth paragraph?

S5：This paragraph tells us that the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace，following the old photos.

T：All of you have done a good job.Let’s come into the next part.

Step 5 Discussion

T：Now please discuss this question in groups：What should we do to protect our cultural relics?I’ll give you three minutes to prepare.

（After three minutes.）

T：Now time is up，any group would like to tell us your ideas.

Students show their ideas.

Step 6 Homework

1.To finish the exercises on Workbook.

2.Prepare for the next class.

Step 7 The Design of the Writing on the

Blackboard

Step 8 Record after Teaching