Unit 1 Cultural relics (人教新课标)

1. Practise listening and do the listening exercises, and talk about the cultural relics protection.

2. Practice using the words, expressions and structures in the text by doing the exercises.

3. Do the vocabulary exercises in WB.

Main points

Task  Revise some of the words and language points in the text.

Step 2 Listening

Introduction: This listening text is about the building of Aswan dam in Egypt and the effect it had on one particular monument. The temple at Abu Simbel is rightly regarded as a historical masterpiece. The dam would have covered it, so UNESCO decided to remove it stone by stone to another safer spot.

Teacher reads the description on P22 in TB to the Ss.

Task 1 Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam before listening.

Task 2 Listen to Part A once or twice to number the key words, do the exercises and check answers.

Task 3 Listen to the Part A and Part B again to answer the questions.

Answers:

Exercise 1: Advantages: 1) to make electricity for every one; 2) to encourage industry; 3) to make the country less dependent on outside oil supplies. Disadvantages: 1) loss of local villages; 2) loss of some cultural relics; 3) loss of beautiful scenery.

Exercise 2:

1. Aswan High Dam  2. electricity  3. River Nile  4. covered by water  5. Abu Simbel

6. engineers     7. UNESCO

Exercise 3:

1. move the temple  2.stone by stone  3. 1,900 workers  4. four years  5. rebuild

6. more than $70,000,000  7. worth   8. in 1996

1.Abu Simbel needed to be moved and rebuilt because otherwise it would have been covered by the water when the dam was complete.

2. They solved this problem by moving the statues. They marked every stone with a number and took the statues apart. Then they reassembled them in another site. It was very successful because many tourists come to visit Abu Simbel which looks as impressive as it did in its original sites.

Step 3 Talking

Task 1 Ss work in pairs to brainstorm their ideas for agreeing and disagreeing.

Task 2 Ss work in groups to tell the rest their point of view and their reasons.

Task 3 Ss report their views and reasons and teacher writes the key words on the Bb, and at last to have a vote on whether they think it is worth spending so much money to move a cultural relic.

Step 4 Discovering useful words and expressions

Task 1 Write down the words or expressions according to the giving explanations and then check the answers.

Answers: 1. select       2. rare     3. reception  4. amaze  5. less than  6. wooden

7. in search of  8. survive  9. remove   10. artist  11. former   12. at war

Task 2 Ss complete the passage with the given words and then check the answers and read the short passage.

Answers: dynasties, style, amazing, jewels, designed, decorated, fancy, rare, doubt, worth

New word: local adj. 地方的, 当地的, 局部的, 乡土的n.当地居民, 本地新闻, 慢车, 局部

Task 3 Study the explanations to the phrase “belong to” and introduce some basic knowledge in English dictionary and teach the Ss how to use dictionary. At last match the meanings with the sentences with the sentences in the right box.

Answers: A 3  B 2  C 3  D 1

Task  Ask the Ss to do the vocabulary exercises and then check the answer and give necessary explanations. (If time is enough.)

1. Review and preview the grammar, Attributive Clause. (P85-87)

2. Finish off the vocabulary exercises on P42 in WB.

3. Remember the useful words and expressions.