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1、Unit 2 Witnessing timewelcome to the unit Thoughts on the design:这是本单元的第一课时，主要是利用直观图片激发学生对本单元有关文化遗址这一话题的兴趣。本节课是以提高口头表达能力为主的教学课。通过创设各种情景引导学生对本单元话题进行操练。并通过本节课的学习，拓宽视野，不仅了解国内的，也了解更多有关世界其他国家文化遗产的知识，从而提高保护遗产的意识。Teaching aims and demands:认知目标：1. 了解世界著名的几个历史遗迹。2. 了解历史遗迹的保护情况。能力目标：1. 能说出世界著名的历史遗迹的基本情况。2. 能对
2、历史遗迹及其保护的话题进行对话。情感目标：通过本节课的学习，拓宽视野，不仅了解国内的，也了解更多有关世界其他国家文化遗产的知识，从而提高保护遗产的意识。Teaching procedures:Step 1 Leading in and brainstorming 1. Lead in by asking the question: What can witness time? Possible answers: 1) the precious antiques; 2) the historical Documents (历史文献); 3) the historic sites Show stu
3、dents an example: the picture of Qin Shi Huang s Mausoleum and Terra-cotta Army. 2. Have them try to think of some more famous Chinese historic sites with the following question: Can you name some famous Chinese historic sites you are familiar with? Possible answers: The Great wall; The Palace Museu
4、m; Zhoukoudian: Home of the Peking Man; The Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang; The Huangshan Mountain; Huanglong; Qufu, Confucius Mansion, Temple and Cemetery; Ancient Buildings on the Wudang Mountain; Potala Palace ) (ppt7-ppt9)Step 2 Reading and exchanging information Lead in by asking: Do you know some
5、historic sites in other countries? Have you heard of them before? Divide the students into four groups. Give one group a paper which has the information about two world heritage sites, getting them to know some background information about them. Each group has different sites. When reading, try to a
6、nswer the following questions: 1. What is the Chinese name?2. When and where was built?3. What was it used for?4. Can you tell us more about it? After reading, get them to exchange the information about the heritage sites according one or two of the questions. Before exchanging information, give the
7、m an example about the Colosseum. 1. Whats the Chinese name?2. When and where was the Colosseum built? In the 1st century. In Rome,Italy.3. What was it used for? It was an amphitheatre or arena that was used for displays of combat and wild-beast shows.4. Can you tell us more about it?/ Can you tell
8、me the other information?It was designed to hold 50,000 spectators.Appendix: The information about more heritage sites:1. The Colosseum The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, inaugurated by Titus in the 1st century and completed by Domitian. Located on marshy land between the
9、Esquiline and Caelian Hills, it was the first permanent amphitheater to be built in Rome, Italy. Its monumental size and grandeur as well as its practical and efficient organization for producing spectacles and controlling the large crowds make it one of the great architectural monuments achieved by
10、 the ancient Romans. The amphitheater is a vast ellipse with tiers of seating for 50,000 spectators around a central elliptical arena. Below the wooden arena floor, there was a complex set of rooms and passageways for wild beasts and other provisions for staging the spectacles. Eighty walls radiate
11、from the arena and support vaults for passageways, stairways and the tiers of seats. At the outer edge circumferential arcades link each level and the stairways between levels.2. Suzhou GardensSuzhou in Jiangsu Province is a famous historic and cultural city that is more than 2,500 years old. Suzhou
12、 features more than 200 ancient gardens. The small private gardens are especially famous nationwide and reflect architectural styles of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.3. The Angkor WatAngkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2,
13、including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO h
14、as set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings. There are two great complexes of ancient temples in Southeast Asia, one at Bagan in Burma, the other at Angkor in Cambodia. The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, represe
15、nt one of humankinds most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remains of a gra
16、nd religious, social and administrative metropolis whose other buildingspalaces, public buildings, and houseswere built of wood and are long since decayed and gone.2. The Colosseum The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, inaugurated by Titus in the 1st century and completed by Domitian. Located on marshy land between the Esquiline and Cae
