unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Period 1 Listening and Speaking &Listeningand Talking

【教材分析】

Listening and Speaking introduces the topic of“Takepart in a youth project".

The listening text is an interview about aninternational youth cultural heritage protection project.More than 20 high school students from seven countriesparticipated in the project.The reporter interviewed twoparticipants Stephanie and Liu Bin.By listening to the text,students can understand the significance of culturalheritage protection,and teenagers can use theirknowledge,combine their own interests and advantages,

etc.to participate in the action of cultural heritageprotection.

Listening and Talking introduces the theme of “Talkabout history and culture”.

The listening text is a dialogue between two touristsand tour guides when they visit the Kremlin,Red Squareand surrounding buildings.The dialogue focuses on thefunctional items of“starting a conversation”,which isused to politely and appropriately attract the attention ofthe others,so as to smoothly start a conversation or starta new topic.The purpose of this section is to guidestudents to understand the history and current situationof Chinese and foreign cultural heritage in their owntourism experiences or from other people's tourismexperiences,explore the historical and cultural values,and be able to express accurately and appropriately inoral communication.

【教学目标】

1.Guide students to understand the content oflistening texts in terms of the whole and key details;

2.Cultivate students'ability to guess the meaning ofwords in listening;discuss with their peers how toparticipate in cultural heritage protection activities.

3.Instruct students to use functional sentences ofthe dialogue such as“I beg your pardon,but...”“Forgiveme for asking,but.."and so on to start the conversationmore politely and appropriately.

【教学重难点】

1.Guide students to understand the content oflistening texts in terms of the whole and key details;

2.Cultivate students'ability to guess the meaning ofwords in listening;discuss with their peers how toparticipate in cultural heritage protection activities.

3.Enable students to use the functional items of“starting a conversation”,which is used to smoothly starta conversation or start a new topic.

(教学过程】

Part 1:Listening and Speaking

Step 1:Lead in

The teacher is advised to talk about the meaning ofthe word “Heritage”。

Boys and girls,before our listening,let's work in pairsand discuss the meaning of the word“Heritage”.

What does the word “heritage”mean?Share yourideas about your understanding of it and you can useexamples to illustrate your meaning.

Heritage means the traditional beliefs,values,customs,etc.of a family,country or society.

For example,the Great Wall is the heritage of China.

Step 2:Prediction

After their small talk,the teacher can ask students topredict what the listening text is about by looking at thepictures.

The listening text is probably about how to protect afamous heritage site by some students.

Step 3:Summary of the main idea

Then play the radio which is about an interviewabout an international youth cultural heritage protectionproject.And after finishing listening for the first time,thestudents need to solve the following tasks.

1.Listen to the conversation and sum up the mainidea.

Youths from seven countries are working together toprotect cultural relics on Mount Tai.

2.Listen again and help the reporter to complete theinterview notes.

International youth project,23 high school studentsfrom 7 countries

Mount Tai,one of the most famous mountains inChina

It has been protected for more than 3,000 years.

22 temples,around 1,800 stones with writing onthem

Dai Temple on Mount Tai;over 6,000 steps

Listening tip:Use context to guess wordsTo guess the meaning of new words,look at the other words and use what you know about the topic.

Step 4:Guessing the meaning of the unknown wordsListen to the conversation again and use the contextto guess the meaning of the words below.Tell thereasons why you guess sO.

Preserve:to protect

Reason:the word means the same of a word I knowPromote:to help sth to happen or developReason:The word is explained by the speaker

Step 5:Speaking Project

Work in pairs or groups and role play a conversation.Suppose you are a reporter and interviewing thestudents who devote their time to protecting the heritage.

Reporter:It is said that you are one of the volunteersto preserve the pine trees on Mount Huang.What are youguys doing?

Volunteer:We are making some signs which aredesigned to educate people to protect the pine trees.

Volunteer:Besides,we took a lot of pictures of pinetrees and create an app which aims to promote people'sawareness of protecting the precious trees.

Reporter:Sounds great and anything else?

Volunteer:We often wear volunteer clothes and sendsome brochures in the park to call on more people toprotect the trees.

Reporter:Does your hard work pay off?

Volunteer:Definitely.More and more tourists arenow stopping carving names on the trees or climbing thetrees.

Part 2:Listening and Talking

Step1:Listen to the tape,which is about a dialoguebetween two tourists and a tour guide when they visit theKremlin,Red Square and surrounding buildings for thefirst time,and then ask the students to solve the following tasks.

1.Listen to the conversation and answer

(1).Where are the speakers?On a street.

(2).What are they doing?Sightseeing.

2.What do you know about the Kremlin and RedSquare?Listen again and complete the fact sheet.

Step 2:Speaking ProjectActivity 3 on page 7.

Work in groups.Choose a cultural site that you likeand role-play a conversation between some tourists andtheir tour guide.Take turns to play the different roles.Step 3 Homework

According to Activity 3,write down a conversationbetween the tourist and his/her guide.

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