1、必修二 Unit1 Cultural relics Period1 Warming up and Reading Knowledge:Learn some new phrases and some new sentence patterns.Ability:1. Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room.2. Improve the students reading ability.3. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening.4. T
2、rain the students speaking ability.Emotion:1. Train the students ability to cooperate with others.2. Enable the Ss to talk about the story of the Amber RoomTeaching important points:1 .The new words and expressions;2. Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room;3. Train the students ability
3、 to cooperate with others;4. Train the students speaking ability.Teaching difficult points:1. Words: ton, stone, heat, design, fancy, style, jewel, king, reception, light, mirror, wonder;2. Phrases: look into, belong to, in search of, in return, at war, take apart, think highly of;3. Sentence patter
4、ns:(1) There is no doubt that. (2) This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it4. Improve the students reading ability.5. Train the students ability to grasp key information while listening.Teaching methods:1. Listening to t
5、he tape.2. Learning and practicing.Teaching procedures:Step 1 Greetings and lead-inT: We learned some cultural relics yesterday. Do you still remember them? Give me some examples, please.Students give their answers.T: Very good. Today were going to learn another cultural relic. Look at the two pictu
6、res on pages12; do you know what it is called?Ss: The Amber Room.T: Yes, Its called the Amber Room.Step2 Fast reading:T: Do you want to know more about the Amber Room? Read the passage first and try to answer the questions:1、Why it is called the Amber Room?2、What else were used to make the room besi
7、des amber?3、Why was the Amber Room first built?4、When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?5、What did Catherine II do with the Amber Room?6、When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?Five minutes later, ask some Ss to give their answers.Answers:1、It
8、was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of ambers were used to make it.2、The Amber Room was also made with gold and jewels.3、It was made for the palace of Frederick I.4、1716，Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great, as a gift of friendship.5、Catherine II had the Amber Room moved
9、to the palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers 6、In 1941, those two countries were at war. German army stole it.Step3 ComprehendingAfter finishing all the questions, ask the Ss to listen to the tape and try to get the main idea of the passage, then read the passage again by themselv
10、es and do the comprehending exercises.T: Now read the passage again and finish the exercises of comprehending.The Ss begin to do the exercises. After a while, Teacher begin to collect the answers. Later, teacher gives the answers.Step 4 Post-reading1. Read the passage again to get important informat
11、ion about the text In Search of the Amber Room. Then fill in the blanks. (Page73 Best English )Step 4 Speaking or Reading aloudPlay the tape for the students to listen and follow in order to let them know how to read the text.Step 5 Homework 1. Read the text several times.2. Do exercise 3 on Page 4.3. Do exercise 1 on Page 42 (Ss Book)Record after teaching:_
