Unit 1 Cultural relics.doc

Unit 1 Cultural relics遵义县第三中学 杨德梅Teaching aims:Knowledge aim:1. Get the students to learn and grasp the important useful words and expressions in this part: rare, valuable, survive, vase, dynasty, amaze, select, honey, design, fancy, style, decorate, jewel, artist, belong, troop, reception, remove, wooden, doubt, former, worth, in search of, belong to, in return, at war, less than2. let the students learn the following important and useful sentence patterns:1) This gift was the amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.2) Catherine had the Amber Room moved to the place outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers.3) In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.4) There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for KonigsbergAbility aim:1. Enable students to use some useful new words and expressions correctly.2. Get the students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns.Emotional aim:1. Stimulate students interest in learning English.2. Develop students spirits of cooperation and teamwork.Teaching important points:1. Enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as survive, belong, doubt, belong to, in search of, etc.2. Get students to master the patterns: “Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing.” and “There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg”Teaching difficult points:1. Let students learn the usages of the words “belong” and “doubt” and the expression “belong to”.2. Get students to understand some difficult and long sentences.Teaching methods:1. Task-based teaching and learning2. Cooperative learning3. DiscussionTeaching procedure:Step1 Revision1. Check the homework exercises.2. Ask some students to tell the history of the Amber Room.Step 2 Reading and findingGet the students to read through Warming Up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending to underline all the new words and useful expressions or collocations in the parts. Collocations: a cultural relic, be rare and valuable, survive for a long time, whetherornot, an amazing history, be used to do, the design of the room, the fancy style, popular in those days, give the name, decorated with gold and jewels, in fact Read them aloud and copy them down in the exercise book after class.Step 3 Practice for useful words and expressions1. Turn to page 3. Go through the exercises in Discovering useful words and expressions with students and make sure they know what to do.2. Give them several minutes to finish the excises. They first do them individually, and then discuss and check them with their patterns.3. Check the answers with the whole class and explain the problems they meet where necessary.Step 4 Vocabulary study1.survive vt.& vi.1) vi. Continue to live or exist 继续生存或存在Few survived after the flood.洪水后生还者极少。2) vt. continue to live exist in spite of nearly being killed or destroyed幸存；幸免于He survived the shipwreck.在这次船只沉没事件中他幸免于难3) vt. remain alive after sb.比某人长命He survived his wife for many years.他比妻子多活好多年。拓展：Survivor n. person or thing that has survived 幸存者；逃生者；残存物Survival n. 1）state of continuing to live or exist 幸存；残存；生存 2）person, thing, custome, belief, etc. that has survived from an earlier time遗老；遗习；旧风俗；旧思想2belong to: be the property of; be a member of 属于；是的成员The land belongs to the government.该地属政府所有。They belonged to a younger generation.他们属于年青一代。注意：Belong to 不用于被动语态，也不用于进行时态。例如：正：This book belongs to me.误：This book is belonged to me.误：This book is belonging to me.3.in return: as payment or a reward for sth.作为对某事的酬谢或回报I bought him a drink in return for his help.我请他喝酒以酬谢他的帮助。4. doubt n.& v.1) n. uncertainty or disbelief; reason for not believing sth.怀疑；不确定；不信任；不相信There is not much doubt about it.这没什么可怀疑的。2）v. feel uncertain; question the truth of 无把握；有怀疑I do not doubt of your success.我不怀疑你的成功。I doubt whether /if he is at home. 我看他不一定在家。5remain vi. (usually not used the continuous tenses 通常不用于进行时态)1）be left or still present after other parts have been removed or used or dealt with 剩下；剩余；After the fire, very little remained of my house.火灾过后，寒舍所剩无几。2）be left to be seen, done, said, etc.留待以后去看，去做，去说等It remains to be seen whether you are right.你是否正确，以后可见分晓。3）stay in the same place; stay behind停留；逗留；留下I remained in London until May. 我在伦敦一直待到五月。4）continue to be; stay in the same condition仍然是；保持不变We should remain modest and prudent.我们应该保持谦虚谨慎。辨析 remain& stay两者都指“继续停留”或“继续保持某种状态，关系或行动”，二者常可互换。remain 强调“继续停留于一处或保持原状态，情况性质不改变”。例如：This place remains cool all summer.这个地方整个夏天都凉爽。stay 强调“某人或某物继续留在原地而不离开”。例如：He stayed to see the end of the game.他一直带到比赛结束。Step 5 Sentence focus1This gift was the amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.这件礼物就是琥珀屋，他之所以有这个名字，是因为造这间屋子用了好几吨琥珀。这是一个复合句，句中划线部分为非限制性定语从句，从句中又含有原因状语从句because several tons of amber were used to make it.*非限制性定语从句，修饰物时用which，whose; 修饰人时用who, whom, whose。非限制性定语从句和它的先行词之间只是松散的关系，往往是对先行词做补充说明，这种从句在朗读时有停顿，在文字中常逗号与主句隔开。例如；The chairman, who spoke first, sat on my right.主席坐在我的右边，他最先发言。*关系副词where和when也能引导非限制性定语从句。例如：On April 1 they flew to Beijing, where they stayed several days.4月1日它们飞到北京，在那儿呆了几天。*另外，由which引导的非限制性定语从句，有时候修饰整个句子或句子中的某个成分。例如：They have invited us to visit their country, which is very kind of them.他们非常友好的邀请我们去访问他们的国家。2The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.屋子的设计是当时流行的极富艺术表现力的建筑样式。这是一个“主系表”结构的句子，in the fancy style 在句子中用作表语，注意介词in的用法，此处表示“以方式，以样式，以风格”。类似用法有in a different way等。*popular in those days 是形容词短语修饰the fancy style。形容词词组作定语时，通常都作后置定语。例如：They have a house larger than yours.*这类后置定语在意义上相当于定语从句。例如：a house larger than yours= a house which is larger than yours3. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.1770年，这间琥珀屋按照她的要求完成了。句子中划线部分作状语，表示方式。此句实际为the room was completed the way she wanted it to be completed。the way表示“方式，方法”，在定语从句中做状语时，后面的从句的引导词常常用that或in which或省略。例如：I was never allowed to do things the way I wanted.我从来就不被允许按照自己的想法去做事情。4. 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. 毫无疑问，这些箱子后来被装上火车运往哥尼斯堡，当时他是波罗的海边的一个德国城市。这是一个复合句，hat the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg是同位语从句，表示与之同位的doubt的实际内容，which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea是Konigsberg的非限制性定语从句，先行词为Konigsberg。同位语从句用that来引导，但是随着与其同位的名词的不同，也可由when, where, whether, how 等来引导。例如：They had to face the fact that the nearest fil