Unit 7 Cultural RelicsThe Third Period (Reading)A City of Heroes Ⅰ. Teaching aims 1. To develop the Ss reading ability through reading the passage 2. To enable the Ss to learn how cultural relics and sites can be successfully restored and rebuilt. 3. To instruct the Ss to understand that cultural relics are important part of a city’s and people’s culture II. Important points 1. How to improve the students’ ability to read an article.2. How to get the Ss to master the useful expressions in the text.3. Knowing about how the people of St Petersburg protected the history and culture and how they rebuilt the city. III. Difficult points 1. How to grasp the main idea of a paragraph.2. Knowing about the spirit of a city is more important than its buildings IV. Teaching methods 1. Discussion method to make the students understand what they have learnt in class. 2. Pair work and group work. V. Teaching Aidstape recorder /slide show/ computer /multimedia education software VI. Teaching procedures:Step 1 Warming-up1. Greetings.2. Go over the ways of giving advice or making suggestions.Step 2 Pre-reading:Throughout the world, there're many well-known cities, and quite a few of them are particularly great. Some of the cities are well received by the people, and some others have in or around them a number of famous cultural relics. Now let's look at some pictures in some great cities and arouse the interest in this class.1.What are cultural relics? --- Places and things that survive from the past. They usually represent a country or a country’s culture, such as: buildings, paintings, statues, everyday objects2 Are they important?Why?--- help to develop the tourism / tell how people lived in the ...
