BOOK2 Unit1 Cultural Relics ---- Vocabulary李娜娜新疆生产建设兵团第二师华山中学Learning objectivesBy the end of this lesson, students will be able to:1. Pronounce the words, know the meaning of the words and expressions and use them properlyWords: cultural, rare, valuable, survive, amaze, design, paint, entrance.Expressions: in search of, belong to, at war, less than, remove from, the former…,think highly of, there is no doubt that…, be worth doing2. Master some learning methods of vocabulary3. Get some information about Xinjiang and XianStep I: lead-inEnjoy a short piece of videoStepII: Read the following letter and finish the tasks below. (设计意图：让学生在语篇中进一步感知目标单词的词义和词性)Dear friends in Xi’an,We know our teacher, Miss Li, will give you a lesson. We all feel excited, because we think it a good chance to introduce our hometown. Maybe our introduction will become the entrance for you to know about Xinjiang.Xinjiang is a good place with many cultural relics, and 43 ethnic minorities(少数民族) enrich cultures here. If you have a chance to enter Xinjiang, you will be amazed at the amazing places of interest. Among them, Bayinbuluke Grassland(巴音布鲁克大草原), the most beautiful painting painted by nature, is well worth visiting. There you can take a close look at wild swans, which are rarely seen. The reason why swans become rare was that people didn’t value them and killed them. So only a small number of them survived. These survivors are valuable to us. Nature is a great designer and he designs a wonderful picture in Xinjiang. Welcome to Xinjiang.What kind of city is your hometown? Would you please introduce your city to us? Let’s keep in close touch.Best wishes!Yours,The students in Xinjiang Task1:Fill in the form with the words in the passage above.（设计意图:培养学生按word-formation 学习词汇的意识）Adv. Adj. N. V.entercultureamazementpaintrarelyvaluesurvivordesignerTask2: Please fill in the following blanks with the words in the form above. （设计意图：强化学生对目标单词的应用）1. John wants to be a _________ when he grows up. He likes to ____________ fashionable clothes very much.2. The dictionary is of great ________in our study. So it is ___________ for us.3. After the traffic accident, all the people on the bus died except that a girl __________. -----she was the only__________.4. We can r_________ see this kind of bird in Xi’an because it is a _______ one.5. She ________ the cinema alone, because she didn’t see her friend at the _________6. To my____________，the ___________scenery of Xinjiang amazes us. All of us are __________.StepIII: Learn about the target expressions.Task3: Read the following passage, fill in the blanks with right words, and try to get the meaning of the underlined expressions. (设计意图：让学生在语境中感知目标短语的意义与用法）(the former, think highly of, less than, at war)Terra Cotta Warriors(兵马俑) belongs to Qin Dynasty（秦朝）. It is a collection of more than 8000 large Chinese figures, and they haven’t been removed from pits（坑）now, but among them, General guards（将军俑）are only __________ 10, and people are in search of others.Huaqing Palace Heritage Site（华清池）is famous for its natural hot springs（温泉）, 45℃ all the year round. It’s said that Princess Yang once had a bath there.Of the two sites, _________ _ shows a scene , while the latter a royal(皇家的) life in peace.People hold different opinions towards them. Some_____________ _ them. They say they stand for the intelligence of ancient people while others think badly of them, saying that it is a waste of money and energy. There is no doubt that they are both right, just in different aspects, and in my opinion both of them are worth visiting.Task4: Replace the following underlined parts with the expressions in bold(黑体) above. （设计意图：培养学生在语境中用英语思考的能力并进一步强化对目标短语意义的理解）1. The boy is missing for two days. His parents are extremely worried about him. Many people have joined them in lookingfor the missing boy.2. Lions and tigers are the members of the cat family.3. The football match is over in one minute, now the score is 8:0 . It is quite certain that we will win the game.4. He told me that I should study cultural relics, because they are useful and helpful..5. He is a well-behaved boy, so the teachers have a very good opinion about him.Step IV: Consolidation.Write a letter back to the students in Xinjiang mainly to describe Xi’an City Wall, and try to use as many words, phrases and sentence structures as possible.根据提示完成作文，可适当增减(设计意图：主动创新思维，充分发挥想象力，学以致用。
