Unit 1 Cultural relics Period One: Warming up and Reading Step 1 Warming up 1. Cooperative learning:2. Do you know what cultural relics are? Are all the old things are cultural relics?(They are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them; they present the culture of a place and some periods of history)3. Do you know these famous places? (show some pictures of the cultural relics in the world) If you know, what do you know about them?4. Which one would you like to visit most? Why?5. What makes a city great and famous?(a long history; cultural relics; many great people; important events taking place there)5. Can you tell us some famous cultural relics?(Mount Taishan, The Mogao Caves, Longmen Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, The Summer Palace, Mount Emei, Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace…)2. Show some pictures of some famous cultural relics.(1) The Great Wall (2)The Pyramids in Egypt(3)The Tai Mahal (In India)(4) The Sydney Opera (In Australia)(5) The Great Barrier Reef (In Australia) (6)The Big Ben (In England) Step 2 Pre-reading1. What do you think of the cultural relics? (by describing the pictures)2. Suppose one of them got lost, how would you feel and what will you do with it?(Try our best to find it; Protect the others in order that they will not get lost; Rebuild a new one if we really can’t find it; Learn more about how to protect relics)Task 1: Fast reading—Main idea1) Why is it called the Amber Room?(It was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it)2) What happened to the Amber Room?(The Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king)Task 2: Careful reading—Detailed i...
