思维导图UNIT1 READING 1.doc

Topic: Module 2 Unit1 Cultural Relics (Reading 1)
Teaching Aims:
1.Knowledge aims: To make students master key words and expressions: rare, survive, in search of, design, decorate, belong to, remove, doubt…
important sentences: It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.
However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it.
There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea.
After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.
2. Ability aims:
Enable students to talk about the history of the Amber Room.
3.Learning strategies aims: Enable the students to read the passage fast to get the main idea.
4.Cultural awareness and emotional attitude aims:
Learn about some cultural relics at home and abroad and have the sense of protecting them
Teaching key point: To make students know the history of the Amber Room .
Teaching difficult points: Talk about cultural relics and what can be done for them.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in (Brainstorming)
The teacher starts the lesson by asking a question: What are cultural relics? Can you list some of them? How about Chinese cultural relics?

The Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
The Potala Palace

Chinese cultural relics relics reli

The Dunhuang Mogao Cave
The Imperial Palace

……………..

T: What cultural relics do you know in the world?
Stonehenge
London Bridge

Cultural relics

The statue of liberty

…

Sydney Opera House
The pyramids

Are there any other forms of cultural relics?

vase

Mona Lisa

paintings

art works

Other Examples

art forms

Festivals

The Dragon boat Festival

设计意图：通过提问学生关于他们所知道的文化遗产，能够让其充分使用头脑风暴，同时通过使用思维导图，能够让学生利用大的范围自主理解，以便加深其印象，特别是第三个问题。
Step 2 Reading Strategy
1.Skimming
T: Do you know amber? Can you imagine a room made of amber? Now turn to Page 1, read the reading part quickly and then summarize the main idea of each para.
Para 1: Creation of the Amber Room

Para 2~3: History of the Amber Room

In search of the Amber Room

Para 4: Disappearance of the Amber Room

Para 5: Rebuilding of the Amber Room

设计意图：略读（skimming），作为一种阅读策略，可以培养学生在有限的时间内，通过快速阅读标题，文章开头第一段以及各部分的小标题，弄清楚文章的大体结构和主要内容的能力。通过思维导图清晰地将文章结构呈现出来。
2. Scanning
T: Read the text loudly for a second time and fin the characters, years, places and what they do.

Frederick I

Pass down

Frederick William I

Send a troop of his best soldiers in return

Give it as a gift

Peter the Great Czar

Pass down

stolen

Catherine II

设计意图：寻读（scanning）与思维导图相结合，一目了然地显示了该文章的大意，有利于学生复述文章。

Step 3 Discussion
1. What can we do to protect the cultural relics?
2. Now China has tens of thousands of cultural relics, should all be saved? Discuss and give your reasons.
设计意图：将常见问题通过讨论的方式呈现出来，在大家的共同合作下，更好地解决问题。
Step 4 Homework
Write a composition according to your discussion.
设计意图：课外作业的布置考虑到了学生的表达能力，通过把语言的东西书面表达出来，有助于提升学生以后的写作能力。