Unit 7 Cultural Relics 朱建华

Teaching aims:  Talk about cultural relics all around the world. . Improve the students’ listening ability by listening and doing relative questions. . Help the students learn and master the way of expressing oneself in asking for and making suggestions.

Big Ben

Eiffel Tower

Golden Bridge

The Statue of Liberty

1. Where does it stand? In Egypt 2.What was it built for? Tombs of Egyptian kings Over these tombs they built pyramids. They thought their bodies would be well kept in these until they could came back to life. They also hoped the world would look on the pyramids as monuments( 纪念碑） to them and remember than for ever.

1.When did people begin to build it? Spring and Autumn Period 2.Who united all the separated walls? Qin Shihuang 3.What was it used for in the past and what about now? To defend their countries in the past and now to be a place for people to visit

Stonehenge Which country is it in? In Britain How did it form? Some said it was built by the people in outer space, some said it formed naturally. Today, it’s still a secret. People don’t how it formed and what it was used for.

Listening Name:_____________ The Winter Palace It is important because it tells us ___________ Tell true or false: 1)Visitors are allowed to go inside. ( ) 2)People can only walk around and look at the park behind the house. ( ) 3) On the left, there is a large stone elephant. On the right, there is a statue of a horse. ( ) how people lived in the past F T F

Name:____________________ The Sunshine Temple  Many _____ have been written about the temple.  In order to save the temple by building a _____ between the lake and the temple.  We will move some of the things in the temple to the ____ _____. Tell true or false:  The temple is an important part of our history and many important things happened here. ( )  A new museum is being built between the lake and the village. ( ) poems wall new museum T F

Name:____________ Mt Lu Shan 1.People come here to look at the beautiful mountain and ________. 2.Between the lake and the village is the __________, where people can go look at the moon and the stars at night. 3.There are too many ____ here and the air is becoming ______. 4.We are trying to _____ the numbers of cars on the mountain and try to use more ____. waterfalls Moon Tower cars polluted limit buses

Speaking Your job is to make a culture capsule. This capsule is a large box(2 by 2 meters).It will be sent into space so that anyone who finds it will understand who we are. Work in pairs to prepare a “Chinese culture capsule”. You can select five things that represent Chinese culture, but you can not put any living things in the capsule. Useful expressions Asking for suggestions Making suggestions What shall we put in? Let’s put in… What about…? Can’t we put in…? Maybe we could put in… Should we put in…? I’d like to choose… Why not…? Why don’t you….?

Things you want to put in Reasons flag of China a model of the Great Wall four great inventions china old metal coins It’s the symbol of China. It’s Chinese people who build it Chinese people invented them first. It was first made by Chinese people. Chinese people used it to buy things in the past.

Summary This class we’ve talked about some cultural relics all around the world and also the useful expression on how to ask for suggestions and how to make suggestions. Since the culture relics are so important to the world, we should try our best to protect them and never do damages to them. Homework: Try to remember the new words and expressions we have learnt today and preview the text.